[HPforGrownups] Re: Ghosts / Hermione & parents /

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 102631

On 23 Jun 2004 at 12:37, Phil Boswell wrote:

> I went to a Public School, of the type upon which Hogwarts is
> modelled, and I can assure you that I would have had no clue that most
> of my fellow pupils even *had* parents were it not for the tall people
> dropping them off and picking them up at the beginning/end of term.
> 
> Visiting parents during term-time was strictly optional, as was
> telephooning or writing to them. I was not the best correspondent ;-)

The difference is though, that in Hermione's case, it's not just 
*term* time. It's her holidays as well.

I'm using the Lexicon's dates here.

Hermione arrives at the Burrow on the 23rd August, 1994 so she can 
go to the Quidditch World Cup. She doesn't return home after the 
World Cup. She stays at the school for the holidays that year. 
She'll finally return home on July 3rd, 1995.

We don't know precisely when Hermione goes to Grimmauld Place - but  
the absolute latest possible date is the 2nd August 1995, and the 
impression I get reading OotP is she has been there much longer - 
since about a week after she got back from school - say July 10th, 
1995.

Hermione spends less than a day with her parents (term ends on the 
20th, she is at Grimmauld Place that evening - considering how long 
the trip from Hogwarts to London is, she can't have spent more than 
a very short amount of time with) at Christmas.

We don't have the exact date the school year ends but with the 
exception of 4th year (possibly non-standard because of the 
Triwizard Tournament) it's been around 20th June - so using that 
date.

The evidence is that between the 23rd August 1994 and the 20th June 
1996 - a period of 1 year, 8 months, 28 days - or 666 days, 
Hermione has spent *at most* 30 days with her parents, and more 
likely something like 7 days.

A week in over one and a half years looks about right.

Theoretically allowing for normal school holidays, she could have 
spent 105 days with them.

The amount of time Hermione has spent with her parents in recent 
times is *miniscule*.


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