The Malfoys WAS: Wizarding kids and their parents

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 183964

Magpie wrote:
> Hermione doubts the Order's ability to protect people but thinks her
plan is so much better? That's certainly in character for Hermione, 
but not so much because she's shown to be so worried about her 
parents. She has a history of not asking people about stuff like this
and doesn't say that she and her parents talked about anything and I 
don't at all think it's a "no brainer" that her parents would find 
having their entire identity stolen so that they don't even know who
they are so much more appealing than having to be under protection. 
> 
> Not that any of this is necessary anyway because there is no story 
about the Grangers being in danger. In canon it seems like the only 
point to it is to drum up sympathy for Hermione's "sacrifice" showing
how hard this war is on her. The Granger's situation is just kind of 
funny--oh, they think they're a random couple with a dream to move to
Australia! Poor Hermione has to deal with she will never get a chance
to undo the spell if she dies so they won't mourn her. <snip>

> The Dursleys, meanwhile, get protected by the Order and do just
fine. <snip>

Carol responds:

I'm not sure that we learn in canon that the Dursleys do just fine,
but since we hear nothing of Dedalus Diggle and Hestia Jones, their
protectors, being killed, we can probably assume it. Certainly, if her
parents were in any danger (and they probably would have been once it
was learned that Hermione was traveling with Harry), it would have
been more sensible to ask the Order to protect them as it did the
Dursleys. 

Instead, we're left to wonder what the Grangers, with their new names
and identities, did for jobs and money. Did Hermione somehow magically
transfer all their assets to their new name? What about their house
and belongings? (The Dursleys' house, BTW, was left unlocked. We can
guess what happened to *their* possessions when the enraged DEs got
hold of them. And with no mortgage payments coming in, the house
probably went into foreclosure. Something similar must have happened
to the Grangers' house if it wasn't protected by a Fidelius Charm.)
And they're just supposed to find new jobs in a land so far from
Britain that it's in two different hemispheres? Let's hope that they
remember that they're dentists and that they brought their equipment
(aside from dentist's chairs) with them. And, assuming that they
establish themselves in their new identitites, what's going to happen
when they find out who they really are and have to uproot themselves
yet again? I suppose they can reestablish their old practice, but
they'll have to recruit a whole new set of patients since the old one
will have found a new dentist by now. And, as I mentioned, they'll
probably have to find a new home as well (with their credit ruined by
the foreclosure unless such things are done differently in Britain
than they are in the U.S.).

We're also left to wonder what sort of charm Hermione performed on
them. It wasn't a Memory Charm since she states in "A Place to Hide"
that she's never performed one before. If it was a Confundus Charm, it
must have been an extraordinarily long-lasting one, and if there's
such a thing as a Confundus Charm that powerful, who needs the
Imperius Curse? They performed Hermione's will just as effectively as
if she had manipulated them like puppets from afar. And all of this
without, apparently, consulting her parents at all, just taking what
she considers to be their well-being into her own hands. 

Don't get me wrong. I'm well aware of Hermione's importance as Harry's
friend. He and Ron would have died without her help, and not just in
DH. But you don't take it upon yourself to control your parents' lives
and fates and rob them of their identity. That's utterly presumptuous
and unnecessary. There has to be a better way.

Carol, hoping that Hermione's parents find it in their hearts to
forgive her when they learn what she's done and that they find a way
to reestablish their lives after all her tampering