Hagrid had easily and graciously listened to Hermione during her third and fourth years. Their camaraderie began when Harry and Ron refused to speak to her; she believed Harry's broomstick might've been sent by Sirius Black. The tension then thickened between the trio when Harry and Ron assumed Crookshanks had eaten Ron's rat, and again when Rita Skeeter stirred up their lives with her stupid, false stories in The Daily Prophet. Hermione had never asked the paper to speculate on her love life.