The Malfoys WAS: Wizarding kids and their parents

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 183960


> 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." 

Pippin:
It's only magic she doesn't talk to them about. They probably don't
talk to her much about dentistry, either. She does talk to them. She
tells them quite a bit about Harry, enough so that she's concerned for
Harry himself if they're caught.   She knows that Voldemort can do a
great deal with seemingly trivial personal information. 


Hermione has reason enough to be doubtful of the Order's ability to
protect people -- and even if she didn't, if  the Grangers went into
hiding as themselves, they would still have had to give up their jobs,
leave their home, and stop seeing their friends, plus they'd be living
under what amounts to house arrest and in constant fear for a daughter
whom they would be unable to help. I doubt they would enjoy that any
more than Sirius did. It's not a no-brainer, which is why I don't
think it's at all obvious that Hermione couldn't have asked for their
consent.

 Anyway, since she's planning to restore her parents' memories once
the danger is past, it wouldn't make much sense for her to do anything
that would make them loathe her once they found out about it. 

Pippin