10 Things Hermione Granger Could Do Instead Of Marrying Ron

Many fans are arguing that she shouldn't have married at all. Besides, the cleverest witch of her age has shittons to do first.

1. Follow through on her wish to not join Magical Law Enforcement and instead start #OccupyMoM.

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"“Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour.

“No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!”"

― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

2. Be a companion for Doctor Who - or, better yet, be a Time Lord herself.

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After all, she did have a Time-Turner and a bag that was bigger on the inside.

3. Be a crazy cat lady.

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One Kneazle at a time.

4. Learn more about intersectionality to make S.P.E.W. less of a case of Wizard Savior Syndrome.

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"The problem isn't that Hermione wants to help. She has an amazing heart, and she is only trying to correct what she sees as a terrible injustice. But being Muggle born, there is an enormous cultural chasm that she hadn't yet figured out how to navigate. By trying to apply Muggle values of right and wrong to a magical perspective, she misses the nuances that makes certain values different or irrelevant in a magical context. Never once does she extend her knowledge of house elf's desires beyond the elves she interacts with directly, and she makes the fatal mistake of extrapolating their individual desires as the desires of the entire group."

- Cate (BattyMamzelle), Hermione Granger Was Not Intersectional OR What S.P.E.W. Teaches Us About Feminism

5. Embrace her inner FEMME SHARK via a magical radical burlesque performance troupe.

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"WE BELIEVE IN THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE SYSTEM AS WE KNOW IT

TO MAKE SOMETHING MUCH MO BETTA

AND WE BELIEVE IN MAKING OUR OWN WAYS TO FIGHT AND RESIST

ON THE DAILY.

A FEMME SHARK IS ANY GIRL

WHO IS TOUGH, HUNGRY, FIGHTS FOR HERSELF AND HER FAM

AND IS WORKING ON BECOMCING THE KIND OF GIRL

WHO FINDS GOD IN HERSELF

AND LOVES HER FIERCELY

WE’RE YOUR BEST GIRLFRIEND AND YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE"

- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, FEMME SHARK MANIFESTO

6. Become partners (in crime or otherwise) with Mafalda Prewett, the Weasley cousin J.K. Rowling orginally planned to be her rival in Slytherin.

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"Mafalda was supposed to convey certain information about the Death Eaters to Harry, Ron and Hermione, because as a nosy, eavesdropping Slytherin who likes to impress, she does not keep her mouth shut when she overhears their sons and daughters talking. Unfortunately, however bright I made her, there were obvious limitations to what an eleven year old closeted at school could discover, whereas Rita Skeeter, whom I subsequently built up to fulfil Mafalda's function, was much more flexible.

The best thing about Mafalda was that she was a match for Hermione. To the latter's horror, Mafalda was highly gifted and a real show-off, so that Hermione was torn between deploring the rule-breaking and longing to join in and beat her."

- J.K. Rowling

7. Catch up on lost time and party hard.

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Everyone could use a change.

8. Advocate for better Muggle/Magical relations, including revisiting the International Statute for Secrecy.

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Muggle-borns used to be considered more gifted than pure-blood wizards but Muggle persecution of wizardkind led to the enactment of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy - and, consequently, anti-Muggle prejudice and maltreatment. Hermione is in the perfect position to rebuild diplomacy between mugglekind and wizardkind - and perhaps even clean up the Muggle Studies curriculum.

9. Drop all relationships and be quirkyalone for a while.

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"Quirkyalone is not anti-love. It is pro-love. It is not anti-dating. It is anti-compulsory dating. We tend to be romantics. We prefer to be single rather than settle. In fact, the core of quirkyalone is the inability to settle. We spend a significant chunk of our lives single because we hold our relationships to a high standard; we actually enjoy single life too."

- Sasha Cagen, author of Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics

10. Take over the world.

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She'd probably do a better job than Tom Marvolo Riddle.