Ghosts / Hermione & parents /

[jelly92784]

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Jo Serenadust:
> In light of all this, I found her remark about wanting to tell them 
> she had been made a prefect because "--I mean, prefect is something 
> they can understand--", to be a little, well, cold.  Maybe not 
cold, 
> but certainly condescending.  I just can't reconcile Hermione's 
very 
> limited interaction with her parents with a "normal", loving, 
parent-
> child relationship.


I see this in the opposite light.  Hermione is someone who loves to 
be recognized for her hard work and her achievements.  Parents are 
who children usually want this recognition from the most, but seeing 
as Hermione's parents are muggle's they're not really going to 
understand exactly how impressive some of the things that she's done 
are.  So I think that by saying that prefect is something they can 
understand Hermione is expressing that she finally has something that 
she can share with her parents and get that recognition that she 
craves and make her parents proud of her.

Janelle