honestly that would make merith love her more because she can't stand her family either, outside of the younger generation of cousins who are thankfully much more rational lmao. merith stopped talking to her parents about 3 years ago after a blowout over merith's career and her then-relationship with a muggle-born and she's basically disowned them. and i think that's partly why merith liked her in the first place, knowing her parents would disapprove of the friendship, and then she just liked her because she was awesome lmao