Neville visiting his parents

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No: HPFGUIDX 35925

Someone asked, "Any thoughts on why he [Neville] is taken to visit 
his parents?"

And Kimberly answered, "He visits his parents because they're his 
parents, it's what one does." 

I agree.  It doesn't matter that they can't recognize him; they are 
still his parents and it isn't strange that he visits them 
occasionally.  Similarly, in CoS, Harry and Ron want to go visit 
Hermione in the hospital wing even though she has been petrified and 
won't know that they are there.  No, I'm not talking about the time 
they lie and tell McGonagall that they want to see Hermione (to cover 
up for snooping near Myrtle's bathroom) but before that when she is 
newly petrified.  The 1st page of ch. 15, "Harry and Ron had tried to 
visit Hermione, but visitors were now barred from the hospital 
wing."  They had already seen her immediatley after she was 
petrified, so they knew she wouldn't be aware of their presence, but 
they wanted to visit her anyway.