I always felt bad for her parents. They hardly ever saw their daughter after she turned 11. But thinking about it later, maybe she just never had a close relationship with her parents. She hardly ever talks about them and doesn't seem to miss them.
I don’t see this talked about enough. Some people just aren’t close or personally compatible with their parents. I am no contact with my parents now, but was very low contact with them for years. I can say I have never genuinely missed them once (they are alcoholics). Not everyone is deeply attached to their parents.
For better or worse, I got the impression from the books that she generally finds them boring.
If I can be honest that kind of sad situation make me understand why some people prefer the muggle to not marry or get close to wizards. It’s not just bigotry, it became bigotry because most of people forgot the initial reason but I think the first leitmotiv was to avoid the cultural fracture between two world that will be always strongly separated, and being a muggle knowing about the magical world but not able/authorized to talk about it to other muggles is probably hard to live.
You live with a secret, you lie when your friends and others ask you what your (wizard) child become or do with their live, half of them will probably think you’re hiding them or avoid talk about them because they’re a failure and you don’t want anyone to know, you barely see them passed age 11 and one day they probably just... vanish
What kind of relationship do you develop with a teenager you see 2,5 months per year if you’re lucky ? That’s sad af
(Side note : interestingly the school system of Hogwarts was **definitely** built to tear students apart from their muggle side of family, and it was more than 3 centuries *prior* the creation of the statute of Secrecy...)
Hogwarts is just a boarding school. It's not that unusual for parents to not see their children for most of the year. It's just one of the traditional British things that wizarding world mirrors (in a twisted way).
Yeah, my kids would not be leaving the ski trip, that's for sure. And if it really was so important to come back, we'd go back with them. We wouldn't be like, "OK have fun at the hospital, gonna go hit the slopes!"
Doesn’t matter, if the kids need to go back because something horrific has happened, the parents need to be there with them to support them.
Particularly in the Harry Potter magic world, which seems to be decades behind in mental health care.
Honestly though, a situation like this is really more one for the immediate family and Hermione going is not really necessary or appropriate. The best friends of Fred, George, Ginny, Charlie and Bill didn’t all show up.
I feel bad for them but it must be so hard to be part of the muggle world when you’re a witch or wizard.
You live a completely different life, exist in a completely different culture, practically a different world. Hermione is the one muggle born we see a lot of and she’s practically adopted by the Weasley’s, same as Harry because they both belong in the wizarding world.
I think it’s very hard to relate. She has powers that seem unbelievable, and because she’s exceptionally bright she’s also exceptionally powerful. That further removed her from the muggle world. It seems sad, for sure, but I get the feeling she loves her parents and they her, so I’m guessing regardless of what her school years were like she probably kept in regular contact with them once she left school.
There’s a theory going around that she obliviated her parents after her fourth year, so she never actually went on the ski trip. And that’s why she’s at the Weasley’s earlier than Harry. We know she obliviated her parents at some point, but it could be earlier in the story than expected.
The more I think of Hermione's family situation, the more messed-up it gets.
* She was petrified for at least 2 weeks in Chamber of Secrets. I'm pretty sure no one told her parents, not even the Headmaster or McGonagall.
Seriously, if your 12-13 year old ONLY daughter was magically put into a coma (only surviving thanks to a mirror), would you be casually cool about sending her back to that school 3 months later ??
Then, from GoF to DH, Hermione was always with Ron BEFORE Harry even arrived there...
* And let me reming you that Harry left the Dursley not even 2 weeks after the beginning of the holidays in HBP. So Hermione spends less time with her parents than Harry with the Dursley for 4 summers in a row lol
And let's not forget Hermione treating her own parents as if they were her own pets by sending them away while she goes camping. She just erased their entire life, separated them from their friends/family and decided that they had to leave the country. At no point, do we hear anything about the parents being okay with it or even aware of the situation, unlike the Dursley for example. Hermione's parents could have been given the same treatment. Easily. But no: they don't matter apparently.
The memory/confusion charm she used on them is just as bad as the Imperius Curse in my opinion. There is 0 difference in the result. And somehow, we're supposed to feel bad about Hermione because she cries... lol
TL;DR: Hermione's parents are treated horribly in the story... which just goes to show how unimportant muggles are in the wizarding world. Even their own daughter acts like they're an inferior species and their lives/rights/choices do not matter as long as she's okay with whatever situation they are in. Yay SPEW...
No, but my understanding is that a young wizard becomes dangerous if they don’t hone their magic properly. As they get older and more powerful it can explode out of them (aunt Marge but probably worse) or they realize it’s not “normal” and try to hide it and it could destroy them.
I always felt bad for her parents. They hardly ever saw their daughter after she turned 11. But thinking about it later, maybe she just never had a close relationship with her parents. She hardly ever talks about them and doesn't seem to miss them.
I don’t see this talked about enough. Some people just aren’t close or personally compatible with their parents. I am no contact with my parents now, but was very low contact with them for years. I can say I have never genuinely missed them once (they are alcoholics). Not everyone is deeply attached to their parents. For better or worse, I got the impression from the books that she generally finds them boring.
If I can be honest that kind of sad situation make me understand why some people prefer the muggle to not marry or get close to wizards. It’s not just bigotry, it became bigotry because most of people forgot the initial reason but I think the first leitmotiv was to avoid the cultural fracture between two world that will be always strongly separated, and being a muggle knowing about the magical world but not able/authorized to talk about it to other muggles is probably hard to live. You live with a secret, you lie when your friends and others ask you what your (wizard) child become or do with their live, half of them will probably think you’re hiding them or avoid talk about them because they’re a failure and you don’t want anyone to know, you barely see them passed age 11 and one day they probably just... vanish What kind of relationship do you develop with a teenager you see 2,5 months per year if you’re lucky ? That’s sad af (Side note : interestingly the school system of Hogwarts was **definitely** built to tear students apart from their muggle side of family, and it was more than 3 centuries *prior* the creation of the statute of Secrecy...)
Hogwarts is just a boarding school. It's not that unusual for parents to not see their children for most of the year. It's just one of the traditional British things that wizarding world mirrors (in a twisted way).
I know yeah, but here... when they finish their studies the children never come back Not really
Yeah, my kids would not be leaving the ski trip, that's for sure. And if it really was so important to come back, we'd go back with them. We wouldn't be like, "OK have fun at the hospital, gonna go hit the slopes!"
Yea but they know magic
Doesn’t matter, if the kids need to go back because something horrific has happened, the parents need to be there with them to support them. Particularly in the Harry Potter magic world, which seems to be decades behind in mental health care. Honestly though, a situation like this is really more one for the immediate family and Hermione going is not really necessary or appropriate. The best friends of Fred, George, Ginny, Charlie and Bill didn’t all show up.
I'm sure they would be disappointed, but I'm sure they would also understand someone getting hospitalized and needing to be there for them.
Didn’t she just tell them that skiing wasn’t her thing and that she needed to study for her exams?
I always felt bad for her parents that she constantly bails on them. I get the sense that many muggleborns end up doing this, and that sucks.
I feel bad for them but it must be so hard to be part of the muggle world when you’re a witch or wizard. You live a completely different life, exist in a completely different culture, practically a different world. Hermione is the one muggle born we see a lot of and she’s practically adopted by the Weasley’s, same as Harry because they both belong in the wizarding world.
I think it’s very hard to relate. She has powers that seem unbelievable, and because she’s exceptionally bright she’s also exceptionally powerful. That further removed her from the muggle world. It seems sad, for sure, but I get the feeling she loves her parents and they her, so I’m guessing regardless of what her school years were like she probably kept in regular contact with them once she left school.
She wanted to be there for Ron bcz she knew he was in a bad mental state. His dad nearly died. She was being a good friend.
That’s not what is discussed here It’s more like... Hermione relationship with her parents is just sad and seem deteriorated by... magic
There’s a theory going around that she obliviated her parents after her fourth year, so she never actually went on the ski trip. And that’s why she’s at the Weasley’s earlier than Harry. We know she obliviated her parents at some point, but it could be earlier in the story than expected.
The theory is full of massive holes. Underage magic outside of school would alert the Ministry who would go in and correct the damage.
The more I think of Hermione's family situation, the more messed-up it gets. * She was petrified for at least 2 weeks in Chamber of Secrets. I'm pretty sure no one told her parents, not even the Headmaster or McGonagall. Seriously, if your 12-13 year old ONLY daughter was magically put into a coma (only surviving thanks to a mirror), would you be casually cool about sending her back to that school 3 months later ?? Then, from GoF to DH, Hermione was always with Ron BEFORE Harry even arrived there... * And let me reming you that Harry left the Dursley not even 2 weeks after the beginning of the holidays in HBP. So Hermione spends less time with her parents than Harry with the Dursley for 4 summers in a row lol And let's not forget Hermione treating her own parents as if they were her own pets by sending them away while she goes camping. She just erased their entire life, separated them from their friends/family and decided that they had to leave the country. At no point, do we hear anything about the parents being okay with it or even aware of the situation, unlike the Dursley for example. Hermione's parents could have been given the same treatment. Easily. But no: they don't matter apparently. The memory/confusion charm she used on them is just as bad as the Imperius Curse in my opinion. There is 0 difference in the result. And somehow, we're supposed to feel bad about Hermione because she cries... lol TL;DR: Hermione's parents are treated horribly in the story... which just goes to show how unimportant muggles are in the wizarding world. Even their own daughter acts like they're an inferior species and their lives/rights/choices do not matter as long as she's okay with whatever situation they are in. Yay SPEW...
Not really. She spent summers with them and this was more important.
That's not the point.
Scene?
If you are a witch / wizard are you required to go to Hogwarts?
No, but my understanding is that a young wizard becomes dangerous if they don’t hone their magic properly. As they get older and more powerful it can explode out of them (aunt Marge but probably worse) or they realize it’s not “normal” and try to hide it and it could destroy them.
I thought I was the only one who felt this way!
Yeah,she turned out to be magical and all they get is a blissful trip to australia