I'd never really looked at that scene like that, but it does fit into that pattern, doesn't it? I think I see the "something they can understand" less as, "My parents are such morons," and more as, "My parents don't get my world." Both are common teenage attitudes, but the first is not the sort you expect from Hermione. The second, OTOH, makes sense because her parents really don't live in the same world as she does. However, I think most kids (who got along with their folks) would build a bridge to some extent, if only so that their parents *could* understand their achievements. I think this comment indicates that Hermione assumes her parents won't understand anything from the magical world, and in fact they don't, but I think they don't because she doesn't really talk to them about it.
Yeah, it's disturbing that she spends all of that summer away from home. Additionally, I don't think she's been home for Christmas since SS, has she? Now, I have an unusually good relationship with my mom, but I still can't imagine not going home for Christmas four years in a row as a teenager. I've seen people take this as evidence that the Grangers fall in with all the other sorry parents we see in canon, but I don't think we've got any evidence of this. I think the problem here is Hermione, and I feel terribly sorry for her parents.
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Date: 2004-11-11 12:09 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's disturbing that she spends all of that summer away from home. Additionally, I don't think she's been home for Christmas since SS, has she? Now, I have an unusually good relationship with my mom, but I still can't imagine not going home for Christmas four years in a row as a teenager. I've seen people take this as evidence that the Grangers fall in with all the other sorry parents we see in canon, but I don't think we've got any evidence of this. I think the problem here is Hermione, and I feel terribly sorry for her parents.