Hermione's Parents

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 174331

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Freeman, Louise Margaret" 
<lfreeman at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> It occurred to me that Hermione's tears were at the thought of her 
parent's not knowing her; in 
> that  aspect she had set herself up to be in a situaion similar to 
Neville's. As the child of an 
> Alzheimer's patient, I can tell you that that first occasion your 
parent doesn't know you is one of 
> the saddest.
> 
> Louise

Leah:

Yes, I felt Hermione's tears were for herself, because she was no 
longer loved/known by her parents.  What she doesn't see (and I 
don't think JKR does either) is that she has done to her parents 
something very similar to what Bellatrix Leatrange did to the 
Longbottoms.  The fact that they are not in St Mungo's but in 
Australia is irrelevant, because it is not the Grangers who are 
enjoying that life. We are made the people we are by our experiences 
and by the love we have for family and friends.  That has been taken 
from Hermione's parents.  At least poor Alice had some vague thought 
that Neville mattered to her.

Leah