Hermione Granger's father

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Mr. Granger is a Muggle dentist and the father of Hermione Granger, a Gryffindor student in the same year as Harry Potter at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is the father-in-law of Ron Weasley and the grandfather of Rose and Hugo Weasley. He was once bitten by a boy on whom he was working and had to receive several stitches. ^[1]

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Life before discovery 1.1.1 1979-1990 1.2 Life after discovery 1.2.1 1990-1991 1.2.2 1992-1996 1.2.3 1997-1998 2 Behind the scenes 3 Appearances 4 Notes and references

[edit] Biography

[edit] Life before discovery

[edit] 1979-1990

Mr. Granger was a well-qualified individual who held a career in dentistry. He eventually married Mrs. Granger and on September 19, 1979 had a daughter, Hermione Granger, who attended a Muggle school and was rather bright for her age. Sometime in her early life Hermione would go camping in the Forest of Dean with her parents. ^[2]A memory of Hermione's of her parents workplace is that one time whilst at work, her father was bitten by a boy and he was required to be taken to hospital to receive several stitches.

[edit] Life after discovery

[edit] 1990-1991

At some point before September 1st, 1991, Mr. Granger and his wife received a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their daughter, Hermione. This letter revealed their daughter to be a Muggle-born witch, something that apparently came as quite a surprise. Hermione, however, was very pleased, and her parents were supportive of their child.

[edit] 1992-1996

In 1992, Mr. Granger and his wife accompanied their daughter to Diagon Alley to purchase school supplies, and met her friends Harry and Ron Weasley, as well as Ron's family. Arthur Weasley was delighted to meet them, as he has a fascination for the Muggle world, and took the Grangers out for a drink.^[3] Proud of their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Granger correspond with Hermione by owl post while she is at school^[4], and took her for a holiday in France^[5]. Mr. and Mrs. Granger planned to take her skiing during the Christmas Holidays of 1995, but Hermione cancelled and instead ended up going to 12 Grimmauld Place to cheer up Harry, who had been refusing to speak to any of the house's occupants^[4] and spend Christmas with the Weasley family.

[edit] 1997-1998

In 1997, Hermione modified her father's memory so that he believed he was Wendell Wilkins, who didn't have a daughter and who wanted to live in Australia, and did the same to her mother so that she believed she was Monica Wilkins. This was to protect her parents from Death Eaters during the worst of the Second Wizarding War, as their daughter was very close friends with Harry Potter and she was a Muggle-born. Also if the event ever occured where her parents were identified and tortured for information, they would not be able to give any memory of their daughter.^[6]

Sometime after the war ended in 1998, Hermione found her parents and restored their memories back to their original state. Later on in his life he would become a grandfather to Rose and Hugo Weasley and the father-in-law of Ron Weasley.

[edit] Behind the scenes

• Mr. Granger was portrayed by Tom Knight in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but in the upcoming two-part film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, he will be portrayed by Ian Kelly.^[7]
• In the earliest draft of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone the Potters lived on an island and the Grangers lived on the shore and when Voldemort killed James and Lily it was Mr. Granger that noticed an explosion and he was supposed to get his boat and ride out to the island to see what had happened and then collect Harry. ^[8]
• In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hermione tells Slughorn at the Slug Club that a little boy called Robby Fenwick bit her father and he had to get stitches.

[edit] Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (film)

[edit] Notes and references