"Officious and overbearing"... that's a nice way to say stubbornly arrogant and selfish.
Yes, her behavior is selfish. She demands for other people to let her know what they know, to know their secrets, to read stuff that's personal to them but refuses to do the reverse for them. I was just the previous year she kept secrets (how she got to all the classes via a time-turner) from the boys until Dumbledore gave the okay.

She knows her parents, her extended family. Harry doesn't. These journals & grimoire were the first real way he has learned about his family. And here comes Hermione demanding to see these books that Harry just found and started to read. He hasn't finished reading them, he just started to learn of family history!

I imagine the journals similar to things like a family bible or family book that gathers info on said family. I don't know if Brits in the 89s/90s had family bibles or not, but it used to be a thing in the USA. It's a big one with extra blank pages at front or back for info on family and genealogy, and the book is passed down through generations. Before the internet, it was a big way to research family lineage.

I don't know any other way to describe the family book except that. As a child of divorced parents, I grew up not knowing my father's side of the family. After finding them and got in touch with a relative that told me that someone already did research on the family history and bundled it into a paperback book. Once I got a copy, I treasured that thing and no, if I was in Harry's position, I wouldn't want anyone else to take that book. So, I understand on issue of the Potter Journals.

I have long stories about Harry finding his grand parents and living there...always enjoyed them.

WOW REALLY GOOD!

Good to see that he now has a way to learn without being punished for doing better!

don't you just hate it when you try to save Wizarding world, even if by unethical methods, only to be one-upped by the literal manifestation of Death itself?

Never come across this idea before x x

This is fantastic

Nice ending, but Hermione was let off far too easily. A week of being ignored would have driven home the idea that she wasn't omniscient and had overstepped the boundaries of friendship.

This could be expanded, Dumbledore's reaction, the other students, etc. Perhaps a second chapter or a short multi-chapter story. Thank you

I agree with you

love, love, loved this chapter

Poor Ronald. Sharing a room with a grown man is horrible. I hope he gets an owl as a pet replacement to make him feel better.

Damn…. This story doesn’t deserve to be a OneShot with how it was written but deserves at least a couple more chapters. Regardless I still say bravo on this OneShot

great work and thank you

thank you for the story