Jean and Hugo Granger had no doubt that life had been difficult for their daughter, and no illusions about the danger she and her friends had been in.

When, just before she should have started her 7th year, she sat them down and explained they too were in danger, it was not a large surprise.

She had shared quite a bit about her life at Hogwarts, her friends and her fears of what Lord Voldemort, as the nutter called himself, would do to the non-magical world if he succeeded.

Hermione's great-grandfather had been just her age when he had gone off to fight in WWII; his platoon had liberated a Nazi death camp. The suffering he saw there never left his mind. He raised Jean's father to fight injustice and he, in turn, raised Jean to also.

In fact Jean and Hugo had met volunteering with OXFAM during their gap year. Sure they had been scared for their daughter but proud too. Many people see a problem and talk about it, not many do something, and their daughter certainly was a doer.

Her solution for the problem of their safety was a hard pill to swallow, but eventually they came to the conclusion that if it gave Hermione peace of mind they would agree.

"Awakening" in Australia had begun the long time of recovery for their family and many others. Ron Weasley, who Hermione would soon marry, fit in to their little dynamic at once.

He and Hermione spent many evenings at the Grangers and slowly the stories of the past 6 years were told. Jean cried at all they had endured and worried that they might not recover from the deep scars.

This is Jean and Hugo's story from after the defeat of Voldemort, their view of the magical world, their daughter and how two muggles became so loved by the magical community.

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They had only been home a week when Hermione introduced them to Ron, the good looking redhead was ill at ease at first. Jean could see by the way he looked at her daughter he was deeply in love, so was Hermione it seemed.

She could also see that behind their tightly maintained façade they were ready to fall apart. Muggles have called the condition many things, trench fever and post traumatic stress syndrome among other names. The children had it bad.

Hermione would never just sit anymore. She was constantly flitting up to gaze out of windows, her hand in her pocket, grasping her wand. Ron would react to the slightest noise. In fact that is how Jean got a new microwave.

The first incident happened when she had put a kettle of water to heat in the microwave, Ron and Hermione had just popped in from working all day cleaning his brother's shop. Jean was in the kitchen preparing a light tea, the water heating merrily away in the microwave when Ron came in, volunteering to carry the tea things to the living room for her.

She had not had time to reply when the microwave went off with a loud ding, Ron shoved her to one side, brandishing his wand and the microwave exploded in a shower of metal, plastic and water.

Hugo and Hermione rushed in, the later with her wand drawn. It took a while to calm everyone down and to shift through what had just happened.

Ron apologized over and over, insisted that he would clear and fix the mess and the next day sheepishly bought Jean a new microwave, with a much quieter bell.

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One evening Ron broke down completely, after Hugo had asked how George, the brother he worked for, was doing with rebuilding his business.

It had taken a calming draft, which Hermione had made, to settle him. After he was tucked in to the guest bed Jean and Hugo sat their daughter down and asked her to arrange for them to see the physical damage done by the magical war.

So it was that a week later they were standing in awe in the middle of Diagon Alley. The place that had been bright and happy and fascinating on their shopping trips with Hermione was bleak and broken. Sure here and there you could see places coming back to life but it looked as if it would take a long time for it to recover.

Then they met Ron's family. They had lost their home and were living with Hermione's friend Harry Potter. The mum and dad had a haunted look as did the brother called George. Hugo, whose heart was as big as the ocean took one look and engulfed the dad, Arthur in a hug, Jean took Molly's hand and soon had her talking.

That began lifelong friendships. Soon Hugo could be found at gatherings with George, who, it was discovered as he came up from his grief, had the same wicked sense of humor that Hugo did.

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Jean had seen it coming, Ron asking Hermione to marry him, so it was no surprise to her when he and Hugo disappeared for a while one day. That Ron chose to ask their little girl in front of them just endeared him to them even more.

Hermione and Ron firmly stated that they wanted to be wed before Hermione returned to school, that it was to be simple and magical.

So Jean happily began to plan with her daughter.

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AN- This started as a one shot about Ron blowing up Jean's microwave, but then Jean and Hugo began talking to me.