The Malfoys WAS: Wizarding kids and their parents

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 183958

> Emily here (boy, it's been a loooong time!)

 I think at the same time DD is protecting Harry, the Order
> is also sheltering Ron and Hermione.  Ron would be there anyway, but
> could they really send Hermione back to her Muggle parents and let
> Voldemort just pick her off?  Additionally, there is the matter of
> protecting her parents.  

Magpie:
There's no canon to indicate that Hermione's parents are going to 
picked off, and if Voldemort was after them Hermione herself being 
safe at the burrow (not that the burrow is particularly safe if 
Voldemort decided to show up) would not protect them. 

Hermione stays because she wants to be involved with what's going on 
with her friends. And her estrangement from her parents is not just 
physical. She's not telling them things that are going on in her life 
because they "wouldn't understand." (That she's planning to go skiing 
with them means little when she lies to them to blow them off once 
something happens with Harry that she wants to be involved in.) So 
yeah, I think her relationship with her parents just comes naturally 
out of the Muggle/Wizard divide and that her attitude about them 
reflects the attitudes Wizards have towards Muggles in general.

Emily:
> I think we see some of the great, unselfish love that Hermione has 
for
> her parents when she reveals the measures she has taken to protect
> them in DH.  She truly just wants them to be safe, and happy, so 
much
> so that she's willing to remove her memory from them and send them
> away so that hopefully they will be out of LV's reach.

Magpie:
Oh god, that's a bad example if you're trying to win over those of us 
who think she's estranged from them. For a lot of us, that's the 
ultimate example of her attitude. Nobody doubts that Hermione loves 
her parents. She just doesn't respect them as equals or parents. 
They're lucky she didn't turn them into dogs and kennel them for the 
duration. 

-m