Wizarding Top Ten

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 188060


> 
> Kemper now:
> It would be out of character for Hermione to get permission from her
> parents.  She assumes she knows best.  She deliberately takes away the choice of people and other sentient beings.
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Pippin:
I agree in the past she might have done something like that, and still might when it comes to people she doesn't know or trust. Harry, after all, has his reasons for not trusting her with the Elder Wand. 

But Hermione trusts her parents, or she wouldn't have told them so much about Harry in the first place. It isn't about her doubting their loyalty. And after PoA, she seems to restrain herself when she's dealing with people she values. She doesn't try to hex Sirius into freeing Kreacher or zap Harry to keep him from going to the MoM, even though she thinks they're terrible wrong.

You're assuming that the Grangers would be able to maintain changed identities without magical help and woud have preferred to do so. But what if they're no better than Hermione when it comes to lying convincingly under stress? She's  not much of an actress...why should her parents be any better?

Can they love and hope and pray for their daughter and not give themselves away? The DE's don't have to take Hermione hostage -- they just need to convince the Grangers they have and it will be the MOM all over again. They could use the Muggle media for that without even finding out where the Grangers have gone.

Actually, I think it's a bit of wizard chauvinism to assume it was all Hermione's idea. Why wouldn't the Grangers discuss their safety with their daughter?  They're not supposed to be stupid -- they may not be able to understand much of what Hermione tells them, but  attacks on Muggles have been going on since the end of OOP. The Grangers would guess, unlike the Dursleys, that the natural disasters and accidents that have been in the news aren't natural or accidental. They saw the way Lucius Malfoy looked at them in Diagon Alley. I don't think they'd be eager to meet up with him again. 

It seems to me if Hermione is capable of putting together false identities that won't arouse suspicion, she's equally capable of making sure that the Grangers will be able to re-assume their old ones without too much trouble. But surely their daughter's life is more important to them than their house or their careers.

Pippin