Another angle on Hermione's parents

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No: HPFGUIDX 175200

Carol:

> So has she changed or would end-of-the-book Hermione 
> still take charge of her helpless Muggle parents without 
> giving them any say in the matter? (We can't know how 
> her parents feel about the matter; would they feel that 
> her action was "gallant" or inexcusably manipulative?

houyhnhnm:

I don't think I'll ever like Hermione. I'm not at all sure 
that she changed, but I thought it was kind of interesting 
that Ron had taken a Muggle driving test right before seeing 
his daughter off on the Hogwarts Express.  Why would a 
wizard need a driver's license?  It kind of suggested 
that Ron and Hermione might be living half in the Muggle 
world, half in the WW.  It's a small leap of the imagination 
to picture a Hermione guilty about the cavalier treatment 
of her parents over the years and determined to make it up to them.

Or it could just be, now that the Minister of Magic is 
someone who has worked for the Other Minister, that wizards 
are required by the MoM to obey Muggle traffic laws.