Hermione Granger

(Spoilers for Harry Potter)
My apologies in immense amounts. I haven't written for you guys in eternity. The last two posts I did were birthday posts on the twenty-third of July. So the last real post I did was posted on the thirteenth of July. I am so sorry! I hope you have missed me because I certainly love you guys!
So, fandomeers, today we have come to discuss Hermione Granger, or more specifically why she was placed in Gryffindors. Have any of you fandomeers heard of hatstalls? A hatstall happens when the sorting hat is torn between two houses for a specific student. Notice that some of the sortings take a long time while sometimes they don't. Hermione had a hatstall between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. In the end, Hermione was placed in Gryffindor. And honestly, look at Hermione. She would've been okay in Ravenclaw I guess, but really it was good that she was placed in Gryffindor. Just think about all of the quests they went on in school. Hermione was always willing to help her friends and fight crazy Death Eaters and things like that. And all the things that happened in Deathly Hallows, when they were escaping from the Ministry and she had to randomly switch locations mid-Apparition, when Ron left and she still kept going like she was totally okay, when she was tortured by Bellatrix, all of that. And then I think about how Hermione always stood up to her teachers. How she walked out of the Divination class when she didn't agree with it or in her first lesson with Professor Umbridge when she wouldn't back down from asking about using magic! In that way Hermione's a great example to us because if she believed in something she wouldn't let go of that thing when people tried to ignore it.
But then I think about in Sorcerer's Stone, when the students were on the train to Hogwarts and Harry and Ron were talking to Hermione and Hermione was doing that thing where she rambles a lot. She was talking about what houses they wanted to be in and she mentioned how she thought that Gryffindor sounded really good and Ravenclaw sounded pretty good too. The way she said it kind of made it sound like she really liked both... but in the end Gryffindor was the favorite. You know that thing Dumbledore says about choices? How those define who we truly are far more than our abilities, as he put it? I think that it was Hermione's choice of Gryffindor over Ravenclaw that also put her there, like Harry's choice of Gryffindor over Slytherin.