Hermione couldn't help but wonder how much of the past had been revealed to cover up the present. Hermione didn't know much about either of her parents after her own birth. Now that she thought about it, her parents hadn’t really known how to relate to their little girl even before Hogwarts. She had still been an odd, temperamental, bookish child, prone to neurosis and standoffishness. They could do nothing but try to ignore it when things vanished or flew or caught aflame. She remembered how they had her meditate every day. She remembered overhearing how the house became cooler and calmer when she did so. She remembered wanting so badly for her parents to be happy. She remembered meditating for hours every day, sometimes from the moment they came home to the moment they went to sleep.