FIC: Separation 1/1, FR13, no pairings
Title: Separation
Author: Sweetness (aaronlisa@gmail.com)
Rating: FR13
Pairing: none
Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling and company.
Prompts: 100quills - #36 (family)
Notes: Set post-War.
Summary: After the war, Hermione loses her parents, but not in the way one might think.
Being an only child meant that Hermione had always been close to her parents. However things had drastically changed when she had received her Hogwarts letter. Hermione found herself editing her adventures with the boys upon her return from her first year there. As the years passed, she couldn’t not tell them certain things since they received the Daily Prophet and they also spoke to the Weasleys, but she always downplayed her role. It wasn’t until the Dark Lord was resurrected that things were forced to change. Still she allowed Professor Dumbledore to explain the grave situation to her parents and the necessity of her involvement. At the end of her sixth year, a hastily penned letter informed her parents that she would be spending the summer with the Weasleys, she didn’t tell them that she was too afraid that the boys would run off to hunt down the horcruxes without her. By the war’s end, she had found a wide chasm between herself and her parents. It had been created by the long absences, her inability to tell them the truth about her involvement in the war, and her parents’ status as muggles. They could never really understand the draw and appeal of magic for their only child. Her parents had lost the ability to communicate with her and soon they found themselves living in vastly different worlds. It wasn’t as if her parents could voice their pride over their daughter’s achievements to their family or friends, nor could Hermione bring her parents to live in her world. Over the years following the war, the chasm that separated them seemed to grow wider and wider despite the shared regret between Hermione and her parents. It wasn’t that they didn’t love one another anymore but Hermione had become a stranger to her parents, just as they had become strangers to her. When she looked upon her failed relationship with her parents (she marveled at the other muggle-born wizards and witches who had managed to bridge the two worlds), Hermione often felt as if the gene that had made her a witch was defective in some way. She blamed it for making her an emotional orphan that she had grown up to become.
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Author: Sweetness (aaronlisa@gmail.com)
Rating: FR13
Pairing: none
Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling and company.
Prompts: 100quills - #36 (family)
Notes: Set post-War.
Summary: After the war, Hermione loses her parents, but not in the way one might think.
Being an only child meant that Hermione had always been close to her parents. However things had drastically changed when she had received her Hogwarts letter. Hermione found herself editing her adventures with the boys upon her return from her first year there. As the years passed, she couldn’t not tell them certain things since they received the Daily Prophet and they also spoke to the Weasleys, but she always downplayed her role. It wasn’t until the Dark Lord was resurrected that things were forced to change. Still she allowed Professor Dumbledore to explain the grave situation to her parents and the necessity of her involvement. At the end of her sixth year, a hastily penned letter informed her parents that she would be spending the summer with the Weasleys, she didn’t tell them that she was too afraid that the boys would run off to hunt down the horcruxes without her. By the war’s end, she had found a wide chasm between herself and her parents. It had been created by the long absences, her inability to tell them the truth about her involvement in the war, and her parents’ status as muggles. They could never really understand the draw and appeal of magic for their only child. Her parents had lost the ability to communicate with her and soon they found themselves living in vastly different worlds. It wasn’t as if her parents could voice their pride over their daughter’s achievements to their family or friends, nor could Hermione bring her parents to live in her world. Over the years following the war, the chasm that separated them seemed to grow wider and wider despite the shared regret between Hermione and her parents. It wasn’t that they didn’t love one another anymore but Hermione had become a stranger to her parents, just as they had become strangers to her. When she looked upon her failed relationship with her parents (she marveled at the other muggle-born wizards and witches who had managed to bridge the two worlds), Hermione often felt as if the gene that had made her a witch was defective in some way. She blamed it for making her an emotional orphan that she had grown up to become.
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