Hermione could continue to be standoffish, if she really wants to. She's been known to hold grudges for weeks, months even, sometimes even when there wasn't really anything to hold a grudge against. But given where she is and what she's seen, life may just be too short to hold grudges.
The mention of future generations is another sign of hope, though she does look down when he mentions that mages have so much to lose upon discovering that they're mages. She still can't fathom that, given how supportive her parents had been when Professor McGonagall visited and confirmed that their daughter had been a witch - supportive, if a little taken aback by the shock of it all. But here in a world where magic is no secret, there shouldn't be shock at all, and so the fact that parents would willingly run their own children out of their homes if they turn out to be mages....
"I wish I could help them," she murmurs softly. "The children who get turned away from their former lives. I wish this was the sort of place where I could feasibly take them in. No, I wish I could hex their close-minded families - nothing major, mind, just something like the pranks young wizards and witches play on each other, like... like temporarily covering them in hair or enlarging their teeth - and then I'd take in the young mages. I'd set up proper schools instead of Circles, where they would learn to control their magic and still be free to visit their families, if they want to. It wouldn't stop Abominations from happening, but if they had a class such as Defense Against the Dark Arts like we have at Hogwarts... maybe things would be a little easier for them."
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The mention of future generations is another sign of hope, though she does look down when he mentions that mages have so much to lose upon discovering that they're mages. She still can't fathom that, given how supportive her parents had been when Professor McGonagall visited and confirmed that their daughter had been a witch - supportive, if a little taken aback by the shock of it all. But here in a world where magic is no secret, there shouldn't be shock at all, and so the fact that parents would willingly run their own children out of their homes if they turn out to be mages....
"I wish I could help them," she murmurs softly. "The children who get turned away from their former lives. I wish this was the sort of place where I could feasibly take them in. No, I wish I could hex their close-minded families - nothing major, mind, just something like the pranks young wizards and witches play on each other, like... like temporarily covering them in hair or enlarging their teeth - and then I'd take in the young mages. I'd set up proper schools instead of Circles, where they would learn to control their magic and still be free to visit their families, if they want to. It wouldn't stop Abominations from happening, but if they had a class such as Defense Against the Dark Arts like we have at Hogwarts... maybe things would be a little easier for them."