The Owlery - What is Hermione's Home Life Like?
Added 2025-07-27 12:00:12 +0000 UTCComments
I like that. Maybe it's her internal curiosity and high-pressure and perfectionistic standards on herself, but her parents encourage her to take her nose out of her books and make friends. It also aligns with how alone Hermione was at first and her tendency to run off to the library and not talk to anyone for hours/days, but then she surfaces and remembers to be social again.
H Huhum
2025-07-27 20:03:49 +0000 UTCI’d almost imagine that Hermione’s parents were encouraging her not to study as much. I am actually probably encouraged her to hang out with Harry and Ron rather than them so that she’d make friends and that sentiment she said in book one about book not being as important is probably something she learned from her parents.
Adam Pennington
2025-07-27 19:21:42 +0000 UTCGood Owlery question and response as always! Love the tangents we can get into once a week. I like how you approached it from multiple angles, suggestions and motivations. Great point, Ben, on parents being loving but also wanting their parents to succeed. That, a bit of Hermione's perfectionistic personality, and determination to prove herself within a foreign context where she is despised by some for being related to Muggles sum it up nicely. She keeps her head high, works hard, applies logic quickly making her brilliant, but she seems quite independent standing up for the right things rather than what the flow goes with. I've always assumed she has a loving relationship with her parents, but she is quite able to distinguish self from family in terms of identity, whereas Ron is always being compared to his family often by his mother and Harry continuously relies on memories and thoughts of his parents for strength based on each of the Trio's histories
H Huhum
2025-07-27 16:28:54 +0000 UTC
