Wizarding kids and their parents WAS: Draco's Hand of Glory

[wildirishrose01us]

No: HPFGUIDX 183951

> Carol responds:
> The difference is that we're *told* what little we know about
> Hermione's parents. (We don't even know their real first names.)
they
> appear in only two scenes, at Diagon Alley in CoS and at King's
Cross
> in OoP, and they don't have even one line in either scene.
>
> Lynda now:
> That's because Hermione's parents aren't part of the WW that
Hermione is
> becoming more and more a part of throughout the series. Yes, its
sad to see
> a girl who loves her parents distancing herself so much from them,
but even
> in real life, this happens.
>
><SNIP>

For a while, I've been thinking about how Hermione had slowly
distanced herself from her parents as the books progressed.

I thought it odd that Hermione's parents didn't object that Hermione
eventually distanced herself away from parents  all year and spent
all her time with the Weasleys or Hogwarts in the WW.  But the WW is
far different than the muggle world.  Perhaps her parents realized
that she was more a part of the WW than muggle world and accepted
it.  They probably knew that when she was with the Weasleys or at
Hogwarts she was safe, well as safe as one could be as the books got
darker and darker, and they would be less worried about her.

I've found it interesting that the kids at Hogwarts seem to have very
little adult supervision, with the exception of classes. There are
rules to follow, yet the kid go running amuck, unless something
drastic happenes.  I've came to the conclusion that the kids
pratically raise themselves from the age of 11 on up.  Maybe I'm
wrong.

And when it comes to the boy/girl relationships it seems like the
kids do their own thing.  Very little interference.  With the
exception of Ginny.  Ron, and I think Fred and George, has a lot to
say about that.  Protective, maybe?  I'm sure the students have the
same feelings about the opposite sex as the kids in the muggle
world.  I wonder if there could have been instances of very young
marriages and having children very young in the WW.

One last observation.  I'd never thought the adult Malfoys,
especially Draco's father, capable of showing affection or love until
Narcissa begged Snape to protect Draco.  It never occurred to me that
they had that side to them.  Altough I'm ashamed to admit it, I
didn't think of them as parents, and love their child as much as any
other parents would.  I'd always had the impression of them as being
cold and cruel.  But Bellatrix fits the cold, non-loving sort of
parent perfectly.  She seems to not have a problem with putting Draco
in LV's service and in harms way.

I've been wondering about these things for a long time.  I've finally
found a list where I can get other's opinions.

Marianne