Harry and Friends on expedition (was Re: A Message?)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 179019

> Amontillada: 
> The three comrades all have very different backgrounds in their
> experiences of home life and home comforts--most obviously 
different,
> of course, that between the Weasleys' domestic life and Harry's
> experiences in the Dursleys' home. 
> 
> How do their different responses to the period they spend on their
> own, in a tent (and, because of magic, more comfortably than humans
> camping)?

a_svirn:
I must say that was one of those things in the book that just didn't 
make sense to me. However different their backgrounds might be, 
fundamentally they are modern kids who had perfectly modern 
upbringing (even if Harry was mistreated as a child). Yet they 
certainly did not behave as their peers would. Unless those peers 
were complete jerks that is, and Ron and Harry aren't supposed to be 
jerks. And I don't mean Ron's jealousy and grumbling or Harry's 
sulking – that's understandable enough. But what about Hermione being 
in charge of all the cooking and housekeeping? Whoever heard of males 
being excused from such mundane chores while camping? And why would 
the normally bossy Hermione accept such an arrangement, however 
grudgingly? It doesn't make sense, and it doesn't have anything to do 
with upbringing. Ron's been always expected to do his share of chores 
at home (to say nothing of Harry), and Hermione could always be 
counted on whipping them both into shape.