[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione flinching at LV's name

[Julie Hurdman]

No: HPFGUIDX 94323


--- meriaugust <meriaugust at yahoo.com> wrote:

<snip, snip, snip>

> The flinching is probably
> just a learned 
> behavior, adopted from her dorm mates and from
> countless readings 
> about the horrors inflicted by LV. Although, that
> said, her exposure 
> to the WW is by no means as complete as the
> flinching implies: she 
> has no idea what Mudblood means in CoS when Malfoy
> refers to her 
> using that term. But I always figured that she
> memorized so many 
> books that she just picked up the habit to blend in
> a bit more at 
> school. And Hermione's parents I think are very
> firmly rooted in the 
> mundane, being dentists and all. Barely a sickles
> worth of thought, 
> but there we are.  
> Meri - who wonders what on earth Hermione tells her
> mother and 
> father about what happens while she's away at school
> (and a little 
> bit about what a wedding party consisting of the
> Muggle Grangers and 
> the wizarding Weasleys would look like ;-) )

JuHu jumps in after *finally* catching up on her
HPforGrownups mail:

I have to defend the Grangers here, whom I like a lot
for whatever reason. Trevor the Toad gets more
screentime than they do, but I hold an Arthur-like
fondness for them. Being a dentist doesn't
automatically equate to being mundane, although the
passing references to the Grangers paint the
profession as such. But being a dentist requires a lot
of schooling, study and competence. I'm sure all of us
know those really smart people with a great sense of
(sometimes sarcastic) humor because of their
intelligence. <Nods to Snape, McGonagall and Kneasy
*g*> Not at all mundane. I see the Grangers as
intelligent people being very proud of their
intelligent daughter and interested in the magical
world to which she belongs, even if they often get
shunted to the side.

As for the Grangers at a wizarding wedding party, I
imagine them being willing to celebrate and being
quite amused at Arthur's, hem, *expertise* concerning
their world. (We all laughed in the theatre when he
asked Harry about rubber ducks...) 

JuHu, with a big "Amen!" to Kneasy's feeling of loss
when the movies' actors replaced how we first
envisioned the characters.

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