poor Grangers

[sbursztynski]

No: HPFGUIDX 130574

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "monika_zaboklicka"
<monzaba at p...> wrote:
> > d> 
> 
> > 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?

Sue here:

Chuckle! Well, they did learn about toothflossing stringmints,
anyway. 

It's strange, really, but everybody except certain scary kids (at the
school Harry was 
supposed to attend before Hogwarts turned up) seems to go to boarding
school in the HP 
universe, so they wouldn't see much of her anyway. She does seem to
spend some time at 
home, from which she sends Harry healthy snacks, and she went to
France with her 
parents during one set of holidays and skiing over Christmas another
time (in PS).

The Grangers seem to be a pleasant, peaceful couple. I imagine them,
from the few scenes 
in which they appear or are mentioned, as slightly bemused by all
that magic, but quite 
proud of their accomplished daughter. I'm not sure how they'd feel,
mind, if they were 
aware of all the danger she was getting into in the wizarding world,
and I wonder what 
they'd do if they found out what happened to her in the MoM goings-on?