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Dropping a twelve year old girl off a roof is generally recognized as a bad idea in this world, but we don't have magic spells.
Hermione was enthusiastic about the war, and had asked to be dropped.
Since I might be a weird person myself, I've set up a poll about the plausibility of MOR Hermione.
Meanwhile, I recommend Jo Walton's Among Others, a fantasy novel with autobiographical elements about the coming of age of an intelligent, stubborn young woman. It won't be out till January, but I'll lend you my advance reading copy if you'll PM me your snail address.
Tentative theory: MOR Hermione is shaped by a combination of feminism and PUA, and the result is extremely odd. In any case, I find Harry, Draco, and McGonigle quite plausible, and I wonder if you've used different methods for creating them than you used for Hermione.
Early returns on the poll suggest that I was generalizing from one example. More people find Hermione plausible than not. Admittedly, it's a small sample, but I'm not expecting the results to reverse.