The Issues of a Post-DH Hermione

[silburygirl]

Lately, I've been struggling with wrapping my head around how to write a post-DH Hermione, and not only because of the canon-rape in the book. I can work with what JKR did to the character, as long as we close our eyes and imagine that she was going through some sort of prolonged PMS... and some delusions regarding Ron. Now that we've got the

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[melusin_79]

Let me first just say that I have never thought Hermione would make a particularly good mother. Look at her own experiences - only child with professional parents - no doubt she was sent out to childminders when she was little. At eleven she goes to boarding school and thereafter sees little of her parents before mind raping them and sending them to Australia 'for their own good.'
In all honesty, if she were to have children (and if you take the epilogue on face value she had two) it would be more likely to please Ron than from any great maternal instincts.
Then there's the pre-Hogwarts schooling - I can't see her home-schooling like Molly (she'd make a lousy teacher, expecting the children to come up to her standards and berating them for not). So. A Muggle junior School? I can't see Ron or Molly being particularly happy with that and I can't see Hermione allowing Molly to step into the breach.
No, I'm afraid her children would be an addition to her life but not the centre of it. Incidentally, I'm the only child of a Virgo perfectionist professional woman and never lived up to my mother's expectations. I pity those kids, I really do.

[silburygirl]

Incidentally, I'm the only child of a Virgo perfectionist professional woman and never lived up to my mother's expectations. I pity those kids, I really do.

Me too, more or less (except for the bit where she's a Pisces - I'm the family Virgo), which is where the thought grew out of.

I hadn't thought of the pre-Hogwarts schooling at all, which raises the interesting point that home-schooling tends be looked on as a bad idea, taken on by controlling, and generally religiously zealous parents (that's the North American stereotype, anyway-correct me if I'm wrong), and I've met few to no socially well-adjusted home-schooled children.

Not to mention that working in addition to educating one's children would be a self-created pocket of hell.

[melusin_79]

Home schooling isn't really done by religious types over here - more well meaning, hippy types disaffected by the state system. I think it can work if there are a number of kids in the family, but the only example I know of personally is where a couple adopted a child quite late in life (they were unable to have children of their own) and then proceeded to act as though the sun shone out of his arse. He's growing into the most peculiar, socially inept young man I've ever met.

[silburygirl]

Good to know. Perhaps motive plays a role in the effects of home-schooling?

Any child that has been raised to believe that 'the sun shone out of his arse' is going to grow up a bit... socially impaired.

I don't think even a large family helps - I know of a family of eight children, all home-schooled... and every last one of them is horribly, painfully awkward (especially the parents).