Without Hermione
by
sweety_hermione
"Ok… without Hermione, Harry would be absolutely hosed! I mean… seriously… she's the one who figures everything out. He always wakes up, you know, after fainting, and Hermione's their, breathless, saying 'that was a close call, Harry'…that's like…all of book 7."
-The Mugglecasters, episode #102
Without Hermione, Harry and Ron wouldn't have noticed that Fluffy was guarding a trap door.
Without Hermione, Harry and Ron would not have found the book telling them who Nicholas Flammel is, or what the Philosopher's Stone is.
Without Hermione, Harry might not have solved the potions logic enchantment guarding the Philosopher's Stone.
Without Hermione, Harry and Ron might not have eliminated Malfoy as the Heir of Slytherin and focused on other clues.
Without Hermione, Harry and Ron would not have known about Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, realised the Chamber of Secrets was in there, or discovered Tom Riddles diary.
Without Hermione, Harry and Ron would not have known about, or had someone to brew, the Polyjuice potion.
Without Hermione, Harry and Ron might not ever have learned that the Chamber of Secrets contained a basilisk.
Without Hermione, Harry and Ron might not have realised the Baslisk was using pipes to get around the school.
Without Hermione, Crookshanks would not have been there to help Sirius.
Without Hermione, Harry would not have had a time turner and the opportunity to rescue Buckbeak and Sirius.
Without Hermione, Harry would not have perfected the Summoning charm he used in the first task.
Without Hermione, Harry would never have been able to have his version of "the story" written by Rita Skeeter and printed in The Quibbler.
Without Hermione, there wouldn't have been a Dumbledore's Army, since she came up with the idea.
Without Hermione, Harry would've probably been tortured by Umbridge, since Hermione came up with "the secret weapon is the the forest" story to get them out of there.
Without Hermione, Harry would've been killed by Nagini in Godric's Hollow.
Without Hermione, Harry and Ron wouldn't have had the invisibility cloak, polyjuice potion, or any of the other items that Hermione thought to pack in her little beaded bag.
Without Hermione, Harry and Ron would never have understood about house-elves, and probably would never have heard the truth about Regulus from Kreacher.
Without Hermione, Lavender Brown would've been attacked by Fenrir Greyback.
Without Hermione, Ron would be ever so lonely ;)
