The Malfoys WAS: Wizarding kids and their parents

[justcorbly]

No: HPFGUIDX 183968

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> Carol responds:
> 
> 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.

I dunno. It seems in character for a frightened teenage girl who's aware of her powerful 
skills and talents. I didn't question it when I read that passage. 

Placing her parents in the hands of the Order would have entailed telling her parents 
precisely what was going on and how much she was at risk.  It also might have entailed 
telling her parents of the things she had already done and might be called upon to do in 
the future. (Hermione's, Harry's and Ron's extracurricular adventures were not the things 
most children would be happy to write home about.  Hermione is the only member of the 
trio with parents who are essentially clueless Muggles.)*

In short, I really wouldn't expect Hermione to tell her parents that she and her two friends 
were dropping out of school to go chasing after the World's Most Evil Wizard, someone 
prepared to kill her on sight. Not, I'm sure, what they had in mind when they agreed to 
send her to Hogwarts.

So, Hermione's approach leaves a number of questions unanswered, like how did she 
manage it.  But it did work.


*JKR tells us nothing about how, or if, Hogwarts deals with Muggle parents. Do they offer 
counseling session explaining such things as "Here Is What Your Child Really Is" and "Here 
Is What The World of Wizards and Witches Is All About." 
justcorbly (making a newbie's first post.  Hi all!)