"My family certainly wasn't expecting it either," Hermione empathized, her words quiet, and not begrudging in the slightest. Although she was sure that her own battles had been just as difficult, in their own way, as the personal struggles that Kate had in her household, Hermione wasn't in the habit of drawing comparisons. All that she ever wanted was to understand, as much as it was possible to, the positions that other people came from, Kate herself very much included. "We lived in a very standard neighborhood. If anything, it was safer than most. My parents were both dentists, you see, so we never really wanted for income, and we were able to live in a nice area. But... war crept up on us, and we never would have known, had it not been for the fact that I had magic."
Rubbing the back of her neck with her hand, Hermione shook her head. "And, I don't know, it wasn't... something that I wanted them to grapple with any further than they had to. So, as soon as I was old enough to legally make my own way, and as soon as the war grew to be too imminent, I." She paused, biting down on her lower lip. "I had their memories altered so that they'd move to Australia, just until, just until I'd be able to come back, safe from the war. It's just not something anyone should have to be saddled with, least of all when there's nothing that one can offer to the cause."
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Date: 2011-10-24 05:33 am (UTC)Rubbing the back of her neck with her hand, Hermione shook her head. "And, I don't know, it wasn't... something that I wanted them to grapple with any further than they had to. So, as soon as I was old enough to legally make my own way, and as soon as the war grew to be too imminent, I." She paused, biting down on her lower lip. "I had their memories altered so that they'd move to Australia, just until, just until I'd be able to come back, safe from the war. It's just not something anyone should have to be saddled with, least of all when there's nothing that one can offer to the cause."