Hermione's parents (was Re: A Sense of Betrayal / Unforgiveables)

[Lisa]

No: HPFGUIDX 174265

 
> Magpie:
> And yet every single person reading the book is a Muggle and can 
> understand. Muggles actually aren't that stupid, and Hermione's 
> parents have been nothing but supportive of her being a witch. To 
me 
> this comes across just the way it does in canon--that Muggles are 
> like children so Wizards can make decisions for them. Hermione has 
> been treating her parents this way for a while now, and it's not 
> surprising that she'd prefer to just zap them for her own 
> convenience than want to explain anything to them. She's long since 
> decided that they just "won't understand" so it's not worth the 
> effort. But that doesn't make what she's doing right or not worth 
> thinking about. 

Lisa:

Heavens!  That's not the scenario I imagine at all!

"Mom, Dad, as you know, Harry Potter is a close friend of mine.  He's 
being hunted by a very evil wizard -- you can't even imagine how evil 
he is!  Harry has been marked -- he HAS to defeat this wizard.  He's 
my friend, I can't let him do it alone, I just can't!  I know you 
have objections and you're afraid for me, and rightly so -- this is 
going to be a very dangerous quest.  But it's something I have to 
do.  And in doing so, I'm going to be placing you in extreme danger --
 and in return, because you know so much about Harry and you know 
I'll be with him, you may place me in extreme danger.  But I can hide 
you -- I can hide you as though it'll be you never existed.  You'll 
think you're someone else, and you'll live somewhere else -- and when 
it's all over, I'll come get you and reverse the spell, I promise.  
But you've got to trust me.  I'd never forgive myself if you were 
killed by Death Eaters -- YES, DEATH EATERS, isn't that awful?! -- 
because of me, please, you've GOT to let me do this.  I have complete 
faith in Harry, Ron and I, I'm very confident that we'll come out of 
this all right.  But ... but ... if we don't ... you'll still be 
safe, and we'll be together again someday, won't be?  Please, if you 
love and trust me, you'll let me do this, so that I won't be mad with 
worry over you while I should be concentrating all my efforts on 
helping Harry defeat this horrible wizard."

Lisa