Why was Hermione at Grimmauld?

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No: HPFGUIDX 70197

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy" <xpectopatronum at y...>
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "stormbringer43"
> <stormbringer43 at y...> wrote:
> > This may be an old question, but I can't find it addressed in the 
> > archives, so here goes:  Why, in OOP, was Hermione at Grimmald
place 
> > with all of the Weasleys during the Summer?
> > 
> > Was it to keep her safe, since LV and the Death Eaters must know
who 
> > Harry's closest companions are?  JKR ddoesn't really address
this.  
> > Same question goes for Ickle Ronnykins; except he may have been
along 
> > with his parents, in helping to establish the OOP headquarters.
> > 
> > 
> > Stormbringer
> 
> Now me (Cindy):
> I think that they were trying to keep anybody who is close to Harry
> safe, so that the DE's would not be able to use them as bait to lure
> Harry out of hiding(out of the Dursley's). Because if Harry thought
> that his friends were in danger, his 'hero complex' (as mentioned in
> ootp) would kick-in and he'd probably leave the Dursley's and go on
> his own battle quest, resulting in negative consequences.
> -Cindy

Me:  Hummm Harry asks her this very question and she said.  "Skiing
isn't really my thing." Hermione doesn't like sports.  Her parents
were going skiing. 
Rememrber she told Harry "Don't tell Ron, I told him it was great
because he was making fun of it."  I also think that she is becoming
more magical and she must be finding it hard to be around her parents.
 Here she is this goody-goody smarty pants and *really* knows all
these great spells, but she can't talk to her parents about it. As
they are Muggles and there are things she *can't* share.  She has
joined a secret order and she must be having a really hard time
talking to her parents about anything.  It's like teen misunderstood
times 10.

In that way she is kind of like Harry no parents to turn to re: the
Wizarding World.

I'm not saying that Cindy isn't right that DD just wants all of
Harry's friends close by, because he is upset, feeling violated,
feeling alone... on and on.  This is just a different thought.

Tj