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snow15145
kking0731 at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 4 05:44:42 UTC 2005
> Talisman's little ears perk up.
>snip>
>
> 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.
Snow:
Ahhhhh, why are you picking on poor Mrs. Weasley, she is the epitome
of motherhood! She loves all of her son's equally, doesn't she?
There's Bill who she berets constantly and insultingly over the
length of his hair, nothing that I can remember said to or about
Charley (from her), the twins are persecuted at a daily, if not
hourly rate but then, but then you have Percy, the much beloved son
who can do no wrong in her eyes, Ron who also made prefect like his
brothers Bill and Percy, which allows him to be considered at about
the same rate as Bill.
Molly is a very interesting mother figure. The one child whom Molly
dotes over, even over the only girl in the Weasley clan for three
generations, is the very one to leave her high and dry, how ironic. I
have to throw my couple cents worth in and say that all these
children do not belong to her, naturally. I don't know how many of
you, if any, read my Weasley/Prewett twins theory:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/101911
I will stand by this theory even though when Rowling was asked about
the Prewett brothers she said, "their history is not particularly
significant in terms of the overall plot". Doesn't mean that there is
no significance at all, just to the overall plot.
It makes perfect sense to me that Molly shows prejudice; not only for
others and their circumstances, but also to the family that she has
raised. I wouldn't mind at all if Molly got her comeuppance!
Talisman,
> P.S. When I was a Girl Scout we carried weapons and swam naked.
Snow:
Lucky you, all we did was sing Kumbaya and memorize the handbook.
Brownies wasn't too bad though.
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