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** That would require a mother of a young child to murder several children the same age as her kid. |
** That would require a mother of a young child to murder several children the same age as her kid. |
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* All too often handwaved in the "Adopted Hermione" subgenre of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic: Hermione learns that she's not only adopted, but "really" a Pureblood. In roughly nine such stories out of ten, no reason is ever given for her birthparents' relinquishing her—except possibly a vague assertion that it was "for her own protection". |
* All too often handwaved in the "Adopted Hermione" subgenre of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic: Hermione learns that she's not only adopted, but "really" a Pureblood. In roughly nine such stories out of ten, no reason is ever given for her birthparents' relinquishing her—except possibly a vague assertion that it was "for her own protection". |
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** Subverted nicely in ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11540013/1/Benefits-of-old-laws Benefits of Old Laws]'', in which Hermione discovers that she's a pureblood -- but so are her parents; the Grangers are descended from a squib branch of the Lestrange family. |
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== Film == |
== Film == |