Hermione's Hermeneutics

Fourth year. Hermione Granger realises that their life is a narrative. Not as a metaphor, not as a theory — literally: someone is writing their story, and it obeys the laws of plot. The defences around the Stone happen to be exactly the trials the three of them can overcome. Voldemort is defeated right on cue, by June. Every single year. After that, Hermione does the only thing she knows how to do: she begins to read it. A deconstruction of fourth year as meta-fiction. Hermione, Harry, the narrative — and a question with no answer: can you step outside the plot, or is that part of the text as well?