I remember thinking this years ago when reading the books and a lot more fanfiction.

How negligent are Hermione's and other muggles parents like the Creevys.

Unfortunately there is a shit load we simply don't know to get a definitive answer, but we can logically guess some. Also we have to split this into pre and post Dumbledore.

Post Dumbledore, it seems totally stupid for any muggle born to willingly enter the wizarding world. Now we don't know if they could choose to simply stay at home and leave the magical world, or if they would be hunted down. Either way, the worst thing to do would be to keep going to school, the best thing would be to organise a nice long trip down under or State side.

But this is mostly about Pre Dumbledore's death, and specifically about Hermione since we know the most about her.

In PS it seems fine and logical to send their daughter to a school so she can learn to control the freaky shit that sometimes happens around her, we can assume they got a visit and some reading material and also went to Diagon Ally to check it out.

But come CoS, they have a run in with Malfoy in the book shop, and realise that dispite being White middle/upper class, they are considered the worst sort of scum, and are called it to their face. They would also know that this while not wide spread, is hardly a small portion of the population with even a few questions or reading their daughters history books.

We don't know for sure, but I find it hard to believe they didn't know about her being petrified. Add this into other numerous other events that we can't be sure they know everything about but must know some... How negligent are they?

Not being a parent, I can't say definitively, but I don't think I would want my child going to a school with a vocal and historic hate group aimed directly at you. A history of sever negligence by the staff and numerous deaths or accidents.

Now you can obviously argue Hermione shielded her parents from a lot of it, but they are supposed smart people and have first hand experience with some of it. Any responsible person would look into it, read their papers and history and pull their kid the fuck out of there.

 

Clearly, you don't have enough experience lying to overprotective parents. Boarding school makes it astonishingly easy.

 

Also, magic.

Could you tell your kid she couldn't go learn to do magic? Hell no.

 

Oh I can expect Hermione to cover up as much as possible.

But I think there are a few things they would know

* Definitely knew about the Malfoys and the muggle born hate.
* Would hope the school informed them about their daughter being turned into a half animal and being petrified, if not just another example of negligence on the schools part. They don't have to report everything to parents, but those were pretty fucking extreme.
*Being responcible parents, you'd expect them to d some reading, the Daily Prophet and Hermione's history books.

None of this paints a good picture.

 

I don't think Hermione has parents tbh. After GoF she hardly ever spends more than a week a year with them, and never talks about them much. She probably murdered them with accidental magic before coming to Hogwarts and the ones we saw in Diagon Alley were just some Imperiused muggles.

 

I'd read that fic.

 

Well, this is only for a year. And besides, I expect that once Voldemort took over, they either didn't tell new muggleborns or, more likely, arrested them without telling them anything about the wizarding world.

(And did any of them keep going to school? I thought there were only half-bloods resisting in the DA.)

 

The Creevy brothers were in the DA and final battle, one of them died.

 

This is the same school that doesn't require parental permission for eleven year olds to play a vicious bloodsport that regularly causes broken bones, concussions, and occasionally kills people. Criminally negligent is kind of the Hogwarts motto.

 

I have to disagree with you there, what about in America where children told to run into each other as hard as they can, or in the UK where we play rugby. Both of these sports have the same sort of backlash and injuries, and in some cases, probably more dangerous (American Football). The amount of concussions and mental consequences that sport has is incredible.

 

Comparing quidditch and football in terms of lethality is both hilarious and off-topic. And trust me, there's no way a kid is going to be on a school-sponosred team for a contact sport without a permission form and a disclaimer in the states.

 

I actually read this one fic, way back in the day, where I vaguely recall one of the plot points was that Hermione's parents had somehow died/been killed either before or not long after she started Hogwarts. She really only had to figure out what to do the few weeks of the year she wasn't at school, the Burrow, or Grimmauld Place.

She even paid/bewitched a pair of muggles into pretending to be her parents in Diagon before her second year.

 

It is fairly likely that as Muggles they have no right whatsoever to decide about Hermione's schooling.

Anyway, there is nearly no available canon so one may easily fit nearly everything - from "Hermione's parents are dead", through "they are negligent" or "abusive like Dursleys" to "they are discovering that they are is world of Lovecraftian horrors and they are about as good at handling this as average person" or "everybody involved is really trying but their attempts cannot compete with Power of the Plot" or "family members of Muggleborns are confunded by Ministry to ensure that Muggleborns will be mostly ignored".

"They'll be really pleased - I mean prefect is something they can understand." etc indicate that they were unable and/or unwilling to understand what happened.

"we can assume they got a visit and some reading material". I am not sure. It is certain that they were not given full access to all relevant information (because Statute of secrecy. It is also entirely possible that they received clear/implied threat "she is going to magical school or...". It is quite interesting that either only limited information is given or they would be basically threatened to follow exactly what Ministry wants - implication of how secrecy is maintained are obvious.

 

I'd just like to point out the merits of one of the best fics in the fandom, Harry Crow. Here, Dan and Emma Granger (wonderfully unique names crafted by Robst) actually threaten to remove Hermione from Hogwarts on multiple occasions after learning about the dangerous shit that happens at school...but they can't because muggles are considered animals in the eyes of wizarding law. Cue 600k words about changing the world and perceptions.

So there you go, JKR can learn a thing or two from Robst.

 

You think it's that easy for muggleborn parents to get something like the Daily Prophet delivered to them? They're muggles. Owl mail? Wizarding money? The paper contains moving pictures. Wouldn't that risk a breach in the Statute of Secrecy, sending obviously magical items to the muggle world, to muggles?

I've always felt that the muggleborn parents are left high and dry. I highly doubt that they're informed about anything that happens to their child. As for Hermione, she's a main character with plot armor, she needs to be there next to Harry and studying magic, so her parents were just basically ignored in the books.

 

The Dursleys were never told about what was going on with Harry at school so I doubt Hermione's parents knew much either.

 

I have a feeling that's More Equal Than You Know https://m.fanfiction.net/s/3787073/1/More-Equal-Than-You-Know. Seem to recall it being a decent enough read, a few clever ideas but rushed on the romance and very much a super Harry.

 

I'm pretty sure you're being sarcastic, but I'm not certain.

 

A possobility is that hermiones parents just didnt care about her but werent neglecting her. I imagine her need to be praised ba adult or atuhority figures could come from being ignored or treated coldly by her own parents.