Hermione and the Grangers (some OOP)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 66077

Snip Scott's excellent analysis:


> I don't pretend to know much about the psyche of a typical British 
> Boarding school child, but I find it odd that they never seem to get 
> homesick (especially Hermione and other muggle-borns and esp. during 
> the first year or two). I know Harry isn't going to miss the 
> Dursley's but for someone like Hermione, coming from what one hopes 
> is a loving and supportive household and going into a whole new 
> world (literally), this can't be that easy. And at eleven? I don't 
> think I would've felt comfortable departing from my family at this 
> age; can anyone who lived in a boarding school speak of their own 
> experiences?


I'd also like to add that Hermione has been to the hospital wing four times 
since the series started, twice for potentially life-threatening injuries.

She was turned into a cat in CoS, petrified in CoS, attacked by Dementors in 
PoA and hit with a tooth-enlarging spell in GoF.

In all but one of the cases - the tooth-enlarging thing - she was in the hospital 
for an extended period of time.  

Wouldn't the Grangers have gotten a letter? 

It just seems bizarre how hands-off they are. 

Darrin