poor Grangers

[monika_zaboklicka]

No: HPFGUIDX 130554

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Gregory Lynn 
<Gregory.Lynn at g...> wrote:
> On 6/12/05, monika_zaboklicka <monzaba at p...> wrote:
> > Don't you think that Mrs and Mr Granger are the most wronged 
characters
> > in entire series? 
> 
> Not even remotely.  They're getting a bit of a raw deal, I'd agree,
> but they are her parents and they could say no to all this stuff. 

Interesting point. Could they? One wonders how much they actually 
know what's going on and what arguments had been used to persuade 
normal parents to send their child to a high school that officially 
does not even exist?

> But
> aside from that, I'd say that Harry who has lost everything 
resembling
> a parent he's ever had, and the Diggorys who lost their son have 
been
> wronged far more.  In addition, the Weasleys have had one become
> estranged, two sons quit school, a daughter kidnapped and almost
> killed, and a third son embarrass the family by being seen by 
muggles
> in a flying car.

That's beside the point. Harry, Cedric - and, of course Neville - 
liked their parents or revered their memory. Cedric at a point felt 
embarassed by what his father was saying, and Neville was obviously 
afraid of his grandmother, but still they were spending their free 
time with their families. Weasleys are another matter - Arthur was 
breakig the Ministry rules himself, and Molly was not willing to earn 
a knut, yet she felt free to prohibit her children to earn their own 
money. They as well as invited most of their problems. The thing 
about Ginny is the only exception.

> > Can we really blame wizard-born kids for disliking Muggles, if
> > exemplary Muggle-borns (Harry and Hermione) do their best to avoid
> > their Muggle families? 
 
> Harry isn't muggle born.

OK, he's brought up by Muggles, but that's again beside the point. 
His only surviving family are Muggles, and he doesn't like them. The 
question was rised in CoS, and I doubt whether Harry's answer had 
been considered satisfying.

> And I don't think there's any evidence to
> suggest that Hermione is doing her best to avoid her parents.  It's
> basically just during Order of the Phoenix that she skips out on her
> parents, before the year starts and during the Christmas holidays. 
> And, during the holidays one of her best friends has a parent who
> might be dying.

No. How may Christmas holidays Hermione spent with her parents? Why 
every time when Harry goes to the Weasleys for the second half of his 
holidays, he always and without failure finds out that Hermione was 
there before him? Hermione is seeing Mrs Weasley more often than her 
own mother and that's a fact. In OoP she's just provided with a 
better excuse.

I'm not telling that Hermione is heartless and am not suggesting that 
her parents are terrible abductors behind the kind facade - all 
evidence suggests that the Grangers are kind people who love their 
girl well. Isn't it a little unfair that the brightness of wizarding 
world lured their only child away from them?