Hermione's Summer

[Eustace_Scrubb]

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tallulah wrote:
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> Hermione- why is she even at Grimmauld place? I can't see any reason
>the order would want/need her around and I can't understand what she
>has to give that she must be there?
> 
> Also there's the issue of her parents-why would they want their only
>daughter in danger if she didn't have to be and why wouldn't they
>want to see her after her having been away from home since the  World
>Cup, last summer? 


Eustace_Scrubb:
I should re-read that part of OOTP but my general feeling would be
that DD and the Order feel she would be in _more_ danger at home (or
off on a trip) with her parents.  Harry has the protection of Privet
Drive (although that proves to be imperfect that particular summer). 
We don't know of anyone else who has that sort of protection from
Voldemort.

I wish we knew more about how much Hermione (or perhaps Dumbledore or
McGonnagall) have informed the Grangers about the Wizarding World and
their daughter's role in it.  But I am guessing that they have come to
understand that, for better or worse, Hermione's fate is closely tied
to that of Harry Potter and that there are those who would be quite
happy to use Harry's close friends to get to him.  Therefore, they
accept that she'll be safer at Grimmauld Place than with them.  

Of course we know so little about the Grangers that this is rank
speculation.  Their perspective on the whole epic might be most
interesting, in a sort of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead-type
of way (Of course, had Tom Stoppard and Shakespeare not lived several
centuries apart, R&G Are Dead would have been "Shakespeare fan
fiction" and unpublishable anywhere but on a few web sites!)

I'll leave it there before I veer too far OT.

Regards,

Eustace_Scrubb