Once I started I haven't been able to stop, so I'll put all my prompts here for safe-keeping (and perhaps writing some myself sometime) and for use if someone wants one due to lack of ideas:
Sneaky of you to include a link to more prompts! *squish* I should've just done a whole massive post at my lj and linked that, then I wouldn't have five comments at the comm, lol!
I'm sure I read something with Hermione and Snape meeting in a village- I think it was by...Camillo? And the title had 'gold' or 'golden' in it? He was friends with her mother in that fic, and when Hermione turned up, she was all OMFG at seeing him...
Ha, googled and turned it up: Good as Gold. I love it when I remember fics. *iz smug*
Um, dude, HELL YES, wtf was JKR doing with Hermione's parents? She didn't think it was dysfunctional the way the girl was never home after PoA except to memory-wipe them? That's twisted! I mean, for all intents and purposes, Hermione's effectively emancipated, they have no influence on or over her at all. I don't understand why two parents who presumably care about her, from what few references we got to them, would allow their daughter to slip from their lives that way. I can only think she made it clear they were an embarrassment or hindrance to her and eventually it became easier and less painful for them not to even try anymore. Poor Grangers.
ITA, their dentist practice is almost certainly ruined, after their departure. Any social life they had is lost as well. And I just think, bloody hell, people are very cautious these days about national security and that, what if Customs or worse, the anti-terrorist people came across the Grangers and found out they either lacked any records or had falsified identities and threw them in prison under suspicion of being sleeper agents?
I can't get over the way people feel sorry for Hermione for what she did, that it's all about her feelings and how hard it was for her, not even considering what an atrocity it is to the Grangers and their free will and the sanctity of their own mind. UGH.
I did so after seeing it on someone else's sign-up. I wouldn't have had the nerve^^. And several people posted 5 prompts in the sign-up. But with my monster-prompts I wasn't going to inflict that on the mods. This way, if someone likes one of these better, they're free to them.
Yeah, the currency/village-fic in my mind^^ That one's gorgeous! Always worth re-reading.
Yes, why her parents put up with it at least during 3rd, 4th and perhaps 5th year is a puzzle. For Christmas at the very least and the majority of summer.... I'd be stunned, hurt and very very angry if my only child decided to simply never come home anymore, despite being away for 9 months. And I certainly wouldn't accept it from a 14/15 year old.
My only working theory is also the angle you mentioned: she made very clear they were a hindrance and after fruitless discussions (and possibly Hermione simply staying at Hogwarts against their wishes - Christmas?) they gave up. And then she came back - for the memory wipe.... Incredible. And not in a good way.
The only good thing is that the Granger got uprooted before 9/11 and the London attacks with the requisite security-changes.... Damn, the more we talk, the more I want to have this written (or even do it myself if I managed the British village life convincingly) because I really want to see the Grangers after all this.
Haha, yes, I included a fourth prompt 'coz I saw others with four or five- I'd be too chicken to do it on my own!
See, I don't particularly have much desire to spend time with my parents, and I don't think a lot of teens would either- of course they'd prefer to hang out with their friends. But what's different in our cases here is that we went to regular high school/uni and still live at home. We see our parents every day. In Hermione's case, as you say, she's away for nine months of the year, and there is zero contact with her parents.
(I find it highly doubtful she wrote to them because how would they reply? And yet people always make excuses like 'Hermione missed her parents, she wrote to them all the time'- well, I didn't see that anywhere in the books and there were countless chances to insert it, wouldn't have been that difficult. Instead of Hermione writing to Viktor and having that 'make Ron jealous' because jealousy is a sign of true love scene in OotP, she could've been writing to her parents, but no)
I feel exactly the same as you, it would hurt and it would make me so angry if I had a child who disowned me that way. I don't buy them simply accepting it from a 14/15 yo, I'm sure it was due to Hermione's insistence that they didn't figure more into her life.
(Sucks when I read fic that suggest her parents didn't love her or were distant and that crap- because they gave her money as a present. First of all, I love getting money! It means I don't have to pretend to be grateful for presents that I didn't even want. Second, they're not allowed to be a part of her life. They wouldn't know what to buy her, and since they're Muggles, they couldn't get into Diagon Alley to buy anything that'd be suitable in her life. Buying a mobile phone wouldn't really be appropriate, etc.)
My point was based on Hermione's statement in one of the books that she told her parents all the dedicated kids who wanted to do well stayed at Hogwarts over the holidays. If she did that enough times, I think they'd get the message that they're holding her back and she needs to be on her own to achieve her potential because as lowly Muggles, they can't help her. Ugh. And who knows whether she even got permission to stay at the Weasleys? She might've just rocked up there on her own.
Ooh, let me know if you ever do write that story, I'd be interested in reading it!
I'm sure I read something with Hermione and Snape meeting in a village- I think it was by...Camillo? And the title had 'gold' or 'golden' in it? He was friends with her mother in that fic, and when Hermione turned up, she was all OMFG at seeing him...
Ha, googled and turned it up: Good as Gold. I love it when I remember fics. *iz smug*
Um, dude, HELL YES, wtf was JKR doing with Hermione's parents? She didn't think it was dysfunctional the way the girl was never home after PoA except to memory-wipe them? That's twisted! I mean, for all intents and purposes, Hermione's effectively emancipated, they have no influence on or over her at all. I don't understand why two parents who presumably care about her, from what few references we got to them, would allow their daughter to slip from their lives that way. I can only think she made it clear they were an embarrassment or hindrance to her and eventually it became easier and less painful for them not to even try anymore. Poor Grangers.
ITA, their dentist practice is almost certainly ruined, after their departure. Any social life they had is lost as well. And I just think, bloody hell, people are very cautious these days about national security and that, what if Customs or worse, the anti-terrorist people came across the Grangers and found out they either lacked any records or had falsified identities and threw them in prison under suspicion of being sleeper agents?
I can't get over the way people feel sorry for Hermione for what she did, that it's all about her feelings and how hard it was for her, not even considering what an atrocity it is to the Grangers and their free will and the sanctity of their own mind. UGH.
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And several people posted 5 prompts in the sign-up. But with my monster-prompts I wasn't going to inflict that on the mods. This way, if someone likes one of these better, they're free to them.
Yeah, the currency/village-fic in my mind^^ That one's gorgeous! Always worth re-reading.
Yes, why her parents put up with it at least during 3rd, 4th and perhaps 5th year is a puzzle. For Christmas at the very least and the majority of summer.... I'd be stunned, hurt and very very angry if my only child decided to simply never come home anymore, despite being away for 9 months. And I certainly wouldn't accept it from a 14/15 year old.
My only working theory is also the angle you mentioned: she made very clear they were a hindrance and after fruitless discussions (and possibly Hermione simply staying at Hogwarts against their wishes - Christmas?) they gave up. And then she came back - for the memory wipe.... Incredible. And not in a good way.
The only good thing is that the Granger got uprooted before 9/11 and the London attacks with the requisite security-changes.... Damn, the more we talk, the more I want to have this written (or even do it myself if I managed the British village life convincingly) because I really want to see the Grangers after all this.
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See, I don't particularly have much desire to spend time with my parents, and I don't think a lot of teens would either- of course they'd prefer to hang out with their friends. But what's different in our cases here is that we went to regular high school/uni and still live at home. We see our parents every day. In Hermione's case, as you say, she's away for nine months of the year, and there is zero contact with her parents.
(I find it highly doubtful she wrote to them because how would they reply? And yet people always make excuses like 'Hermione missed her parents, she wrote to them all the time'- well, I didn't see that anywhere in the books and there were countless chances to insert it, wouldn't have been that difficult. Instead of Hermione writing to Viktor and having that 'make Ron jealous' because jealousy is a sign of true love scene in OotP, she could've been writing to her parents, but no)
I feel exactly the same as you, it would hurt and it would make me so angry if I had a child who disowned me that way. I don't buy them simply accepting it from a 14/15 yo, I'm sure it was due to Hermione's insistence that they didn't figure more into her life.
(Sucks when I read fic that suggest her parents didn't love her or were distant and that crap- because they gave her money as a present. First of all, I love getting money! It means I don't have to pretend to be grateful for presents that I didn't even want. Second, they're not allowed to be a part of her life. They wouldn't know what to buy her, and since they're Muggles, they couldn't get into Diagon Alley to buy anything that'd be suitable in her life. Buying a mobile phone wouldn't really be appropriate, etc.)
My point was based on Hermione's statement in one of the books that she told her parents all the dedicated kids who wanted to do well stayed at Hogwarts over the holidays. If she did that enough times, I think they'd get the message that they're holding her back and she needs to be on her own to achieve her potential because as lowly Muggles, they can't help her. Ugh. And who knows whether she even got permission to stay at the Weasleys? She might've just rocked up there on her own.
Ooh, let me know if you ever do write that story, I'd be interested in reading it!
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