The Malfoys WAS: Wizarding kids and their parents

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 183966

> Mike:
> I'm sorry to say that I find the treatment of the Grangers convenient 
> for the exact plot purposes that Magpie describes. And as she said 
> (and I snipped <veg>), the Grangers have always been cardboard cutout 
> Muggle parents. We don't need to know what they think, how they fared 
> in their new identities, or if they were upset when they discovered 
> what their daughter did to them. They are non-entities, only slightly 
> more important than all the nameless and faceless because of who 
> their daughter is. That's the way I think JKR treated them, not my 
> opinion of the Grangers, my opinion of their treatment.

Montavilla47:
Which makes me wonder how she could ever have handled that
situation satisfactorily.  I got the feeling (having been in the fandom
since slightly before HBP came out), that she was aware of the 
fan interest in the Grangers (an interest which appears to exceed
her own), and wanted to give *some* kind of answer about them.

But yuck.

I think the only solution would have been to either say that the 
Order was protecting Hermione's parents--come to think of it,
that wouldn't have been hard, would it?--or, you would have to 
build in the leaving the Muggle world from the beginning--and 
just have Hermione leave her family completely at age 11.  That
would really make a lot more sense as a world system, wouldn't 
it?

It would make even more sense, since the wizards know when
magical muggleborn are born, to spirit them away at that point.
But then, that would ruin the whole Harry-must-endure-the-
Dursleys subplot.

Of course, he might still have to return to the muggle world
for that blood protection.  Which would make him just the 
saddest wizard boy in the world, wouldn't it?  He'd be the 
*only* kid at Hogwarts who had to spend time with muggles.

But that's all getting away from the point was I vaguely
heading toward.  Which is that, at a certain point, it simply
became inconvenient for the Trio to have families at all.