Natasha

Biodata

Background / History

First Contact with Hermione

Natasha approached Hermione in a café while investigating unnatural deaths connected to her. She and Agent Jason posed as a couple, supported by twelve field agents, a rooftop sniper equipped with tranquilizer rounds, and a signal jammer. The operation could seal off the café within thirty seconds if negotiations failed 13.

Hermione recognized Natasha from her previous life but claimed that wizards could sense people watching them. Natasha initially dismissed the girl’s claims of witchcraft as fantasies about unusual powers. Her skepticism ended when Hermione transformed a cup and spoon into writing materials, levitated another cup, and repaired it after breaking it 13 14.

Natasha explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. had identified Hermione through footage of her working at Elvin’s shop, evidence of altered perceptions surrounding her employment, facial-recognition searches, and her hotel registration—not by seeing through her Disillusionment Charm. When Hermione again threatened to erase her memories, Natasha proposed a secret partnership against evildoers. They sealed the agreement with a pinky swear 15.

Natasha advised Nick Fury against forcibly detaining Hermione, citing her value as their only contact with wizarding society, the potential applications of magic, and the danger of making her an enemy. She also acknowledged genuine fondness for the child. Shortly afterward, surveillance footage revealed that Hermione had openly departed and waved goodbye to Natasha, despite Natasha remembering none of it 16.

Injury and Magical Recovery

After failing to reconnect with Hermione, Natasha accepted an assignment against an arms smuggler. She successfully subdued the target but suffered injuries that temporarily prevented fieldwork, prompting Coulson to take over the next meeting with Hermione 18.

At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Hermione visited Natasha before meeting Fury. Natasha’s stitched flank wound was deep enough to expose bone and was expected to require two or three months to heal. Hermione removed the stitches with a Levitation Charm and closed the wound with Episkey, restoring Natasha’s mobility immediately 19.

Hermione also removed an older bullet scar left by Bucky, the Winter Soldier, using a weak Diffindo followed by a Healing Charm. Natasha embraced her in gratitude, then accompanied her and Coulson to Fury’s office 19.

The Stark Investigation and Continued Contact

When Hermione offered to examine the future of someone close to the missing Tony Stark, Natasha suggested Pepper Potts. She witnessed Hermione’s supposed prophecy and later helped support her when she pretended to suffer harmful aftereffects 21 22 23.

Natasha subsequently called Hermione to report that Stark had been found and invited her back to S.H.I.E.L.D. By then, she recognized that Hermione was considerably shrewder than her childish behavior suggested and remained guarded about her private life 27.

Following Hermione’s defeat of Iron Monger, Fury ordered Natasha recalled once her current mission ended. During Fury’s later visit to Stark, Natasha was still away on assignment, and he realized that Pepper had become Hermione’s closer companion 37 39.

Appearance

Natasha appears to be in her twenties, with an attractive face and a curvaceous figure 13.

• Hair: Slightly wavy, wine-red 13.
• Clothing: Tight-fitting clothes during the café operation 13.
• Former scars: A bullet scar near her waist and a stitched flank wound; Hermione removes both without leaving visible marks 19.

Personality

Natasha maintains professional composure under unfamiliar threats. Even when Hermione’s raised wand triggers an overwhelming sense of danger, she suppresses her instinct to draw her gun and keeps negotiating. She adapts her approach after witnessing magic, using praise, reassurance, and appeals to partnership to preserve contact 13 14 15.

Her affection for Hermione is genuine, but inseparable from her assignment. She opposes unnecessary coercion, emphasizes that Hermione is still a child, and believes Fury should build rapport before asking sensitive questions. However, she initially overestimates her understanding of Hermione, mistaking a calculated performance for childish innocence. Hermione later identifies this mixture of kindness and intelligence-gathering as a barrier to trusting her fully 15 16 20 27.

Abilities & Skills

Combat and Threat Awareness

Natasha is a battle-hardened agent with exceptional combat skills, but remains physically human 15 18.

• Detects the danger of Hermione’s wand before understanding the spell being prepared 13.
• Successfully takes down an arms smuggler despite sustaining injuries 18.
• Has no demonstrated supernatural healing; her recovery requires medical treatment or Hermione’s intervention 19.

Undercover Operations and Coordination

Natasha combines undercover work with coordinated surveillance and containment planning 13.

• Poses as a café patron in a romantic relationship with Agent Jason 13.
• Coordinates field agents, sniper support, and communications interference around the meeting site 13.
• Orders surveillance footage reviewed when Hermione disappears without an agent reporting her departure 16.

Negotiation and Intelligence Assessment

Natasha serves as S.H.I.E.L.D.’s first negotiator with Hermione and helps interpret the implications of her magic 14 16.

• Deduces that magical schooling and a Ministry of Magic imply an organized wizarding society 14.
• Persuades Hermione to preserve their partnership rather than immediately erase her memories 15.
• Recommends cooperation over detention, balancing intelligence value, potential magical research, and the risks of hostility 16.
• Remains vulnerable to Hermione’s deception and memory manipulation 15 16 23.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Earpiece — Maintains contact with Fury and supporting agents during the café operation 14 15 16.
• Gun — Her instinctive response to Hermione’s threatening wand is to draw it, though she restrains herself 13.

Relationships

• Hermione Granger — Investigative target turned partner. Their pinky-swear agreement and Hermione’s healing deepen Natasha’s affection, but her continuing intelligence role limits Hermione’s trust 15 19 27.
• Nick Fury — Director and superior. He solicits her assessment of Hermione and accepts her recommendation to cultivate a cooperative relationship 16.
• Phil Coulson — Fellow agent who replaces her while she is injured; both escort Hermione to Fury after her recovery 18 19.
• Agent Jason — Undercover partner during the initial café encounter 13.
• Pepper Potts — Fellow witness to Hermione’s supposed prophecy. Pepper’s affection for Hermione leaves Natasha feeling an unexpected sense of rivalry 21 23.
• Bucky / Winter Soldier — Responsible for an older bullet wound whose scar Hermione removes 19.

Notable Quotes

“Absolutely not. We need to maintain a good relationship with her and gradually win her over.” 16

“And... she’s still just a child.” 16

Trivia

• Natasha had previously urged Fury to shorten the agency’s cumbersome name. After Hermione coined “S.H.I.E.L.D.,” Natasha recommended adopting it, and Fury agreed 14 16.
• Fury excludes Natasha from Hermione’s initial mystical-knowledge class because she can approach Hermione privately and has other missions to complete; no magical training or advancement for Natasha is documented 50.