Hermione's parents

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 129311

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tamara" <buffyeton at y...> wrote:
> I've just had a bit of a realization, Hermione's parents aren't very 
> good ones. In GoF, Hermonie says that her parents don't get the Daily 
> Prophet. I'm not a parent myself, but if I were, and I had sent my 
> child off to a boarding school in a new world filled with wizards and 
> magic that I didn't know, I would at least subscirbe to the main 
> (only?) newspaper! Try and keep myself informed of what was going on, 
> as Hogwarts doesn't seem to have a newsletter or school magazine. I 
> wonder if the parents of muggle-born students even know about 
> Voldemort?

I've had the idea for a while now that Hermione has been (perhaps with
McGonagall's collusion) carefully managing the information that gets
to her parents.

If so, I wonder how well her Potemkin con will survive her coming home
from school injured.

Amiable Dorsai