Hermione, or the Ghoul in Pajamas

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Never, never pontificate without re-reading the original scene.

Here's what, precisely, Hermione says to Harry about her preparations to take off with him, specifically about her decision to modify her parents' memories so that "they're convinced they're really called Wendell and Monica Wilkins and that their life's ambition is to move to Australia, which they've now done.


"That's to make it more difficult to track them down and interrogate them about me--or you, because unfortunately, I've told them quite a bit about you."

She says it outright.

Ron's stratagem, the ghoul, is an attempt to protect his family from reprisals; Hermione's, to protect herself and Harry from the Grangers' knowledge of them. Not to protect them, or to protect them from being used as hostages to influence her.

And, y'know, it was a good thought. I mean, just imagine if her parents had blabbed about taking their little girl camping in the Forest of Dean.

Comments

[oryx_leucoryx]

Well, I suppose only Hermione and Ron know just how much of Harry's homework was actually done by Hermione.
Surely she understands that Severus knows exactly how poorly Harry performs as a student? Even if Severus doesn't know the specifics of which Transfiguration lesson Harry got on his own and which he did not? Severus certainly knows that in Potions Harry can follow given instructions if he bothers to, but has zero understanding.

If so, he ought to have realized he was wrong after the Trio broke into the MoM. Worst planning ever.

Well, during that time Voldie was out of the country, searching for Gregorovich, and later that blond thief.

[sunnyskywalker]

Weird, the first time I tried to post this it got marked as spam and I hadn't even included any links. What's up with that?

Oh, I'm sure Snape understands plenty. I wonder if Hermione realizes just how much, though? She doesn't ever seem to worry that any teachers will suspect the boys of copying, even when she outright just writes an introduction for an essay for Ron - wizards may not have turnitin.com, but surely even they can recognize when writing style changes dramatically from one paragraph to the next. Is she cold-bloodedly calculating how much such "help" she can give for each class based on how she reads the teacher without the boys getting suspected of cheating? Maybe she thinks they've been getting away with it a lot better than they actually have, and in fact most of the teachers have just kept cutting Harry breaks because, well, this year he's in the Tournament with all that stress, and this year a murderer is gunning for him, poor dear... (And Dumbledore told Snape to lay off, presumably.)

I would hope that Voldemort left a two-way mirror or some other reliable communication method with his DEs and called in regularly for reports, but that's probably too much to expect from him by this book

[sunnyskywalker]

[Re-posted without the accidental link (forgot to do that earlier).]

I'm sure Snape understands plenty. I wonder if Hermione realizes just how much, though? She doesn't ever seem to worry that any teachers will suspect the boys of copying, even when she outright just writes an introduction for an essay for Ron - surely wizards can recognize when writing style changes dramatically from one paragraph to the next. Is she cold-bloodedly calculating how much such "help" she can give for each class based on how she reads the teacher without the boys getting suspected of cheating? Maybe she thinks they've been getting away with it a lot better than they actually have, and in fact most of the teachers have just kept cutting Harry breaks because, well, this year he's in the Tournament with all that stress, and this year a murderer is gunning for him, poor dear... (And Dumbledore told Snape to lay off, presumably.)

I would hope that Voldemort left a two-way mirror or some other reliable communication method with his DEs and called in regularly for reports, but that's probably too much to expect from him by this book.