How to Create a Hermione Granger Costume

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Create a Hermione Granger Costume

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So you want to dress like the goody-two-shoes, know-it-all Hermione Granger? Harry Potter's sweet, well-intentioned friend at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a favorite of these J.K. Rowling books. Follow these steps to put together your own magical outfit.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Wigs
Judge's Robe
Styrofoam
Wizard Attrire
Gold Chains
Aluminum Foil
Cardboard boxes
Book Bags

Step1

Style your hair. Hermione has long, sandy-blonde, flyaway hair.

Step2

Dress in robes. Standard issue for a first-year school witch includes a plain black robe, hat and gloves. A heavier winter cloak is often worn as well - black with silver fastenings.

Step3

Grab an old book bag. Remember, Hermione loves nothing more than her studies, which (if you ask Harry and Ron) she takes all too seriously.

Step4

Stuff the book bag almost full with book-sized objects ' real books would be too heavy. Try small, empty cardboard boxes or square chunks of Styrofoam.

Step5

Pick a large, thin book to lie on top of (and hide) the bag's contents, and make a cover for it out of brown paper. Title it something like "Muggle Studies," "Divination" or "Potions."

Step6

Choose a huge tome of a book to carry around, and make a cover for it as well. "Arithmancy" or "Transfiguration" would be a good title.

Step7

Find a tiny hourglass and place it on a gold chain around your neck. This will be the "Time-Turner" that Hermione used to get to all her classes in "The Prisoner of Azkaban."

Step8

Place a silver badge on your black robe. Aluminum foil stretched over cardboard works well, or just use silver-colored paper. On the badge, write "S.P.E.W." Remember book four, "Goblet of Fire?" Hermione was up in arms over the exploitation and slavery of house elves, and formed the Society for Promotion of Elfish Welfare.

Tips & Warnings

Every so often during your costume night, pull out your huge study book, plop down at a table and pore over it. If anyone asks what you're doing, look up frantically and say, "I've got an EXAM to study for!" That's quintessential Hermione.
Remember, if you've forgotten, that Hermione's name is pronounced "her-my-oh-nee."

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Anonymous said

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on 8/21/2006 Hermione's hair is not always bushy, in fact it is only really bushy in the first movie. Then it becomes wavy and then curly! So try to make it a little nice.

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on 8/8/2006 If you have straight hair, like I do, don't bother buying a crimper. Just get your hair wet at night, braid it, roll it up in half-cut pipe cleaners, and let it go over through the night. In the morning, take it out and it will be as curly as can be! :)

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on 8/8/2006 If you want to dress like Hermione from the Goblet of Fire, you can either where a Yule Ball dress or her usual uniform.

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on 7/15/2006 Get a pink shirt, a pink sweater, blue jeans and a pink belt.
Find an hourglass and attach it to a chain, now you'll have the Time Turner.

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on 6/30/2006 You can use a flowing, lady's black dress as Hermione's robe. Purchase a red tie from a uniform shop and wear black boots on your feet. To give the impression that you are not a muggle, you might want to paint your fingernails black and add glow-in-the-dark nail stickers (moons, stars). You can also curl your hair using pipe cleaners overnight.

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