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Hermione is brave and loyal, has a fierce political conscience, but sometimes has problems when faced with crises: one might note her problems in facing the Devils Snare in the first book (when told to light a fire, she memorably responds “There’s no wood!”), the unlikely lie she tells Professor Umbridge to save Harry in OotP (she claims that there is a weapon in the forest, created upon Dumbledore’s orders), and her failure to adequately subdue a Death Eater in the Department of Mysteries (she silences rather than stuns him, suggesting that she did not know – or had forgotten about – non-verbal spell casting, despite evidence in the same book that James Potter did know of that in his Fifth Year at Hogwarts).

Indeed, Hermione's intellect is strongest when it comes to memory and objective analysis, and is less impressive when it comes to thinking on her feet. Though generally compassionate, she can at times be naïve and even insensitive when dealing with people; for example, her ham-handed attempt to comfort Lavender Brown over the death of her rabbit. Screenwriter Steve Kloves has said that Hermione often shows "a complete lack of understanding of how she affects other people." According to Rowling, Hermione is deeply insecure and feels utterly inadequate underneath. She makes up for this by trying to be the best at everything at school and projects a false confidence that is, at times, "very irritating to people."

Rowling has admitted that Hermione is in many ways based upon herself. Hermione's Patronus is an otter, which is Rowling's favourite animal. Hermione's middle name, Jane, (never mentioned in the books, only on Rowling's official site) is a feminine form of "John", as is "Joanne", Rowling's first name. Of all the given birthdays of the students in her year, Hermione's is the only one in 1979, making her the oldest.

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