Hermione and her parents

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 156859

> Eric Oppen <technomad@> wrote:
> > I've had a theory for a long time that Hermione is able to
> > spend so many holidays at the Burrow because her parents
> > are doing other things themselves.  I know that there's
> > organizations for doctors that go overseas into hellish
> > Third World countries to try to save lives---_Medicins sans
> > Frontieres,_ or something like that---so there might well be
> > something analogous for dentists.
> 
> Ryan:
> 
> That does seem like something they might do with their vacation
> time, doesn't it?
> 

Tonks:
Doctors without Borders is a favorite charity of JKR. And I think 
that Dentist would be part of it.  However, do we know if the 
Granger's are Christian? Maybe they are Jewish. They could celebrate 
Hanukah as a family and then they go do whatever and Hermione visits 
her friends who do observe Christmas and she gives and receives 
Christmas presents. That is not so unusual. Many Jewish people that I 
know even give their children presents from Santa and have a tree too.

Tonks_op