Wizarding Top Ten

[ceridwennight]

No: HPFGUIDX 188039

Melissa: 
> But it wouldn't be because she thought so little of you.  It would  be 
> because she thought the world of you.

Ceridwen:
It wouldn't matter why she did it.  I wouldn't like it.  I would never trust her again.

Melissa: 
> Hermione doesn't want her parents to end up dead like the Potters  or to be 
> tortured into insanity like the Longbottoms.  As Pippen  pointed out they 
> can't stay with the "biggest family of blood traitors" (to  paraphrase Bill) 
> in the WW. Even Auntie Muriel wouldn't be an option.

Ceridwen:
Pippin also said something about the Dursleys and the PM being protected by the OotP.  Why not the Grangers when everyone knows Hermione is part of Harry's group and her parents might be targeted?  They would be the logical people to protect, along with the Dursleys.  Why didn't Hermione allow more competent witches and wizards help her with this decision?  Canon doesn't even mention her consulting with anyone before she jumped in and decided.

It was extremely arrogant of the daughter to assume that she knew better than her parents, IMO.  Remember, she had a wand, she was armed, while they weren't.  Even if she discussed it with them, they know she has a wand, a weapon, and that she can use it against them.  Even if she discussed it with them, did they really have a choice?

Melissa:
> Better to be in Australia 

Ceridwen:
Only if I intend never to regain my memory and come back to my ruined dental practice and the house that went back to the mortgage company because I thought I was someone else for a year and didn't make the payments.  By doing this, Hermione effectively ruined her parents' lives and livelihoods.  They probably lost patients, their practice, their home and everything they had collected through their lives.  Families have been torn apart for less.

Ceridwen.