Hermione and her parents redux WAS:Re: Wizarding Top Ten

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> > Alla:
> > I do not know about you, but no matter how much I will be pretending that I am someone else, I will run as fast as I can to save a child in my family, pretended indentities be damned. But if I will not remember that I know this child, **then** I will stay put.
> 
> Kemper now:
> The Weasley's know Ron is out risking his life in a war.  So do many parents in RL whose children are various conflicts throughout the world.  As much as parents might want their child to live, those parents and the Weasley's honor their children's choice.  Why wouldn't the Grangers?  
>

Alla:

It is two very different things IMO knowing that your child is out there risking their life and honoring their choice AND what I believe Hermione was trying to protect her parents from, the situation where parents know that their child is ALREADY caught and may die at any second.

Sadly we hear way too often in this world when hostages are caught, right? And relatives ARE pleading and begging to save their lifes, and I think this has nothing to do with honoring or dishonoring choices, it is just impossibility IMO to keep silent knowing that your loved one can die at any time and you did not do anything possible to save them.

It is not about a loved one dying on battlefield even, it is about dying slowly, tortured, humiliated, etc, etc. I do not see how Grangers will be able to stay away and think oh yes, we will honor her choice and let her die. IMO of course.

Montavilla argued that it makes no difference if Grangers simply pretend that they are different people and to me, it does, because I know I won't be able to stay away. I can only speak for myself of course.

And just to be clear, I am speaking here about Hermione may or may not being caught for real, this story may be a fake, just a way to lure her parents out of hiding and IMO it will be much harder to do for DE if Grangers do not remember for real who Hermione is.

JMO,

Alla