Chapter 2
The Granger-Weasley-Potter clan finished their shopping, after which Ron and Hermione returned to get their luggage from Hermione’s parents’ house. When they got into the house, Mrs. Granger was looking at a Muggle social media app on her cell phone; this seemed foreign to Ron, who nonetheless noted that it would have greatly interested Mr. Weasley to see what Mrs. Granger was doing, given Mr. Weasley’s obsession with Muggle lifestyles. As Rose had recently been reminded when she visited Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, this unusual interest of Mr. Weasley’s had inspired Uncle George and Fred to develop Muggle magic trick products to sell at their joke shop, for wizards like their father who were obsessed with Muggle lifestyles.
What Rose was rather more interested in, however, was what her maternal grandmother was looking at on her social media page; she asked to see Mrs. Granger’s cell phone, despite such things being completely foreign to wizards, as Rose saw an image that looked similar to those which the masked Muggles on Charing Cross Road had been showing. It was a very gruesome image of a factory farm; Rose asked Mrs. Granger who would post such a thing, and Mrs. Granger said that she had a friend who was vegan. Rose asked what this meant; Mrs. Granger explained that vegans did not eat any animal products at all, but that was all she knew. “So there may be more to the vegan lifestyle, but you don’t know what that is?” asked Rose; Mrs. Granger said that Rose was correct.
When the Granger-Weasley family got back to their own home, Rose said to her brother Hugo, “Even judging by what little I’ve seen so far–now I feel lied to in the same way Mum did when she found out that our school enslaves a great number of house-elves!” Hermione had told Rose and Hugo all sorts of stories about what inspired her work in favour of elf rights. Hugo said, “I’m not comfortable going vegan myself, but–unlike how Dad was when Mum first started S.P.E.W, which he tells me that he derisively called ‘spew’ at first–I will admit that I was somewhat disappointed that, despite Grandma Granger having a vegan friend, Grandma Granger didn’t know exactly what more there was to the vegan lifestyle besides not eating animals.”