Hermione's parents

[Meredith]

No: HPFGUIDX 102782

Dreadnaught wrote:
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> 
> Mr and Mrs Granger have sent their daughter off into a very alien 
> world, and by her fourth year at the school, she's stopped coming 
> home for more than a week at a time. She's blown off a skiing trip 
> with her parents to stay with a Wizarding family. And in all 
> probability, the reasons she's given them for this are very 
> innocuous - nowhere near important enough to justify what she is 
> doing to them. It's likely it looks to them like excuses.
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Luckie:

I'm not denying Mr. and Mrs. Granger are probably hurt by the loss 
of their daughter (although, according to JKR, they supposedly have 
another daughter at home. :-P), but as you said, this has happened 
gradually. Hermione went home for Christmas and the summer in her 
first year. In second year she stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas, but 
when home for summer vacation, and brought her parents to Diagon 
Alley. It isn't until befire her fifth year she spends most of her 
breaks with her friends. 

Because Ron grew up in the Wizarding World, I'm sure Mr. and Mrs. 
Granger understand HE cannot come and stay with them. But more 
importantly, breaking away from your parents is a part of growing 
up, especially when you go to boarding school. When I went away to 
college I came home for every break my first year. My second year I 
stayed at school for fall and Spring break. And I got a job and 
stayed in school for the whole summer between my junior and senior 
year, only seeing my parents for a total of about 3 weeks for the 
whole calendar year. Granted, I was older the Hermione (late 
teens/early 20s), but I simply think children gain independence 
sooner the earlier they are forced into it. 


~ Luckie, who, if I was Hermione's mother, would definitely think 
there was "something going on" between Ron and Hermione!