Each summer, she stayed at school for whatever intensive summer courses that they were offering. There would still be two or three weeks when she couldn’t be at the school. Her solicitor arranged for her to switch off between the Weasleys and the Potters. Harry and Ron had been her closest friends in lower school and it seemed to work well at first. Until Hermione started to realize that they didn’t really have anything in common as they grew older. Mrs. Weasley wanted her to learn how to cook and do domestic tasks like mending, and Hermione would have rather slit her wrists.