To clarify, when I brought up the war, I didn't mean it to be an actual suggestion that Hermione would get killed and no one would ever contact the Grangers. I just meant that the fact that the WW is at war makes the demand that Muggleborns diminish, if not dismiss, their ties to Muggle family and friends more disturbing to me. (Especially wrt to Hermione, who's about as close to the front lines as she could be without actually being Harry himself). It really does make me wonder what the Grangers know--what Hermione tells them, what she doesn't--I forget the wording in OotP and I'm still in the apartment sans the HP books, but I think it definitely suggests a lie-by-omission at the most generous interpretation.* They're running the risk of sacrificing their daughter--without even the option of throwing themselves in her place, which I think a lot of parents would say is harder--for a cause they don't really know about, for a world from which they've been politely but firmly excluded.
And while "singificantly" is kind of fun to say--it sounds like some kind of the name of a canary that does magic tricks or something, it is sadly not in fact a word.
*speaking of which, does anyone else wonder logistically how Muggle parents write to their kids and, more problematically, how the kids write back? The only thing I can think of logically is some kind of clearinghouse where someone takes Muggle mail and gives it to owls, or vice versa (which in turn is making me imagine the wizarding equivalent of Bartleby the Scrivener)--although the letter covered with stamps sort of confuses that, unless Arthur thought the whole idea was just so nifty he had to try it himself. (And can you imagine how little respect you'd get as the WW mail clerk?).
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Date: 2005-12-17 05:28 pm (UTC)And while "singificantly" is kind of fun to say--it sounds like some kind of the name of a canary that does magic tricks or something, it is sadly not in fact a word.
*speaking of which, does anyone else wonder logistically how Muggle parents write to their kids and, more problematically, how the kids write back? The only thing I can think of logically is some kind of clearinghouse where someone takes Muggle mail and gives it to owls, or vice versa (which in turn is making me imagine the wizarding equivalent of Bartleby the Scrivener)--although the letter covered with stamps sort of confuses that, unless Arthur thought the whole idea was just so nifty he had to try it himself. (And can you imagine how little respect you'd get as the WW mail clerk?).