Hermione's parents
Eric Oppen
technomad at intergate.com
Thu Jun 24 01:08:10 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 102644
We're _assuming_ a great deal about Hermione's relationship with her folks,
I think. It could well be that, although she loves them and they her,
they're so wrapped up with something or other---a cause, their careers, the
needs of other family members, or even their social lives---that as long as
Hermione seems to be happy and isn't coming home all dinged-up, they pretty
much accept it.
You know, I just mentioned "the needs of other family members" more or less
in passing, but now that I think on it, the more I like that as an
explanation for Hermione's parents' apparent willingness to just let
Hermione get on with whatever she is doing at the time. If, say, she has a
sibling with what they now call "special needs," particularly one with very
demanding special needs, that alone could eat up a lot of her parents' time
and energy.
Or it could just be that she's so different from what her parents are like
that they're _used_ to her wanting to go her own way, and have given up
fussing about it. If, say, they wanted a popular, athletic Captain-of-Games
type instead of a studious, intellectual idealist, the ski trip might have
been yet another thing that they loved but that Hermione herself didn't care
for---"skiing's not really my thing," she says, when she turns up at 12
Grimmauld Place.
Until Herself chooses to enlighten us, I will remain agnostic about
Hermione's parents, other than to say that their daughter is shaping
uncommonly well, and will (if she lives!) become a fine human being.
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