Hermione and parents

[Derek Thorburn]

No: HPFGUIDX 130681

I have read with great interest the discussions about Hermione and her 
parents.  As I read the Harry Potter books, I can sympathize with the way 
her parents must have felt, hardly seeing their daughter whilst she was at 
Hogwarts.  I am a blind person and spent all my scholastic years at boarding 
schools, so I know what it's like to leave home for long periods.  We only 
get short glimpses of Hermione's parents, but I think that, with her being 
an only child they would have been delighted that she had friends of their 
own.  Mum and Dad always wanted me to have a brother or sister, but were 
advised not to try for another child, in case he or she turned out to be 
blind and I know that when I finally got over the homesickness period, they 
were delighted I had my own friends.  As the schools I attended were a great 
distance from home, I personally had no friends in my locality.  Again, if 
Hermione had that bossy know-it-all attitude before Hogwarts, we have to ask 
ourselves whether or not she had friends in her locality.

Derek