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[Talisman]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith <aIn HPFGU-
Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote>
> Sean - the Molly posts. It's a female thing. They tend to get a
>bit stroppy when women aren't characterised as thrusting, go it
>alone, "take charge of your life, Girl!" types. Mind you, when
>they do they end up like Dolores or Bella.
> Sad really.


Talisman's little ears perk up.

Don't approve of those "thrusting" types? Quelle honte, mon ami.

But must we really choose between Molly or Delores? Hyman's beard!

(And, when did you and Bella break up?)

Consider Madame Rosmerta. She seems cheerful enough. I'll bet she
gets bent over her bar on a regular basis, all in those sparkling
turquoise heels. Then serves up a nice pint of mead. What more
could a man want?

Lily appears to have been a foxy witch with both a wicked charm wand
and a capacity for domesticity. `Course Rowling snuffed her before
we ever got started.

No, darling, I'm all shakti to your shiva. But Molly Weasley is a
thoroughly tiresome creature. If you enjoy the company of people who
are amusing and thoughtful, you will skip her altogether.

I've never bothered, but there are plenty of posts out there that
will run-down her abysmal attributes, if you've missed them. Here's
just a bit.

Molly is a "Mother." Right?

Sure, she is Arthur's woman, but she's still more a mother than a
lover. All he gets is a dry peck on the cheek and a good scolding,
even when he's lying in St. Mungo's. In fact, I'd say he's more
bawled out than balled, at least nowadays. And you can't put that
all down to POV.

She may be a new recruit to the Order, but it turns out she's a bit
of a crybaby. We've yet to see her do more than clean house(what's
wrong with a few doxies?)cook and take a turn at guard duty. Still
well within the motherly ambit.

So, just what sort of mother is she? You know as well as I do.
She's slightly better than Petunia, if that's the index we're
using. Otherwise, she's just the sort of mother from whom you'd
escape at the very first opportunity.

That Percy idolization nonsense. That alone warrants a kick in the
rear. You may recall, Kneasy, the Pre-OoP dialogue we had about the
Weasley's names, etc. I still like the traitorous Hotspur as a name-
sake for old Percy, but the name also reflects on Molly's character.

Percy is a synonym for a mollycoddled mama's boy, a pantywaist, a
lily-livered goody-goody. I'm not making this stuff up, it's all at
Roget's 421.10.

He didn't get there by himself.

As I said so long ago, in predicting (no-brainer) Percy's betrayal,
I was really looking forward to Molly getting some of the
comeuppance she deserves.

Well, she hasn't gotten nearly enough. It may chafe that her shining
little Prefect/Head Boy/ M.O.M. star has turned his back on his
parents, but she is too stupid to recognize her own failures of
judgment in the matter. She's still keeping score on how many
prefects are in the family and, for most of OoP, the twins are still
keeping all their plans secret.

Of course we do wonder what she gets up to all day at The Burrow, at
least prior to OoP. Not Pilates. Not any clever little way to turn
a dime for managing school supplies. Perhaps it has something to do
with Arthur's batteries and a picture of Lockhart. No, forget that,
that would actually be fun.

In any event, in spite of the fact that she's supposed to be this
Mother figure, she apparently can't be bothered thinking about her
children's feelings or even how to make a decent sandwich

There was a time in my life when I was feeding seven people--while
working a demanding professional job--and I can tell you no one
went off for so much as a day trip with a sandwich they didn't like,
let alone a sack of dry ones. And, I didn't even have a wand.

If Rowling wanted to keep Molly the personification of Motherhood,
and yet mitigate her thoughtlessness, she should have had Arthur
knock her up a few more times and at least given her a busy nursery
to cope with. Something.

Oh, but that's right. It's not that she hasn't any time. We see
that she can doodle snitches all over chocolate Easter eggs for
Harry, if she feels like it.

How about the bullshit of giving a budding adolescent boy a lace
covered rag to wear to his first ball? Yeah, I could give a shit
about you, Ron. Don't have time to try to fix it, either. I'm too
busy knitting my darling new pseudo-son's jumper and kissing Percy's
pasty arse.

Sick of Percy? Juxtapose the Twins: powerfully magical, talented,
bright, enterprising, courageous and--lo and behold--amusing! Yes,
some how, in spite of all her stomping around and honking like a
goose, she has managed some children you might want to know. And
what does she do? Her level best to squash it out of them.

She's a prig and an ass and a human Howler. Pitch her in the flames
and be done with it.

Love and Kisses,

Talisman,

Who has been predicting Snape for DADA Prof. in Books 6 and 7, since
July 2003(HPfGUs #73715)in spite of the fact that bboy was skipping
around a few months ago chirping:"you heard it here first."

P.S. When I was a Girl Scout we carried weapons and swam naked.

Carolyn: Those tranquilizer darts sound like just the thing. And you
know the way?