The first couple of months at Hogwarts were a marvellous time for Hermione. Her parents were ecstatic to hear in a letter sent with one of the school owls that she’d made five friends – the boys she’d sat with on the train, and her roommate Millicent Bulstrode. Perhaps she didn’t get along terribly well with most of the students in her House, but five friends was an abundance of congeniality she was both unused to and very grateful for.