[HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: My Glove (was Another one.../have emailed Paul/Molly Weasley

[Barry Arrowsmith]

Dear, oh dear.
Unable to respond for a day or so and what happens?
Talisman goes bananas.
"Molly must suffer!
This blot on the face of family dynamics must pay for daring to be the 
wrong stereotype! Only blood will wipe out this affront!"

Nah. Don't think so.
Well, not in the way our mid-western harbinger of doom sees it.
I scan the cast list in the books and if Molly is for come-uppance 
there is no sympathetic, married, possible surrogate-mother-for-Harry 
type at all. Not one. And since JKR seems hell-bent on repopulating 
Scotland on her own I don't find this credible.

Additionally, if JKR  was highlighting her own 'struggles' with 
parental pressure I'd expect that Molly would be all over Ginny like a 
rash - and she ain't.

Come-uppance no, suffer yes. She'll be mourning for dead kids - her own.
A touch over the top for "That'll teach you to smother 'em," I'd have 
thought. And after the mourning - vengeance.

She could kill her off (reading her biographical notes the deaths of 
her grandmother and mother seem to have had a much more lasting and 
devastating effect than career choices - it'd also be a chance to put 
her own evident distress into characters mouths) - but if she does I 
expect Molly to go down fighting, protecting her brood.

Old Kippers again:

"When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws,
'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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She is wedded to convictions - in default of grosser ties;
Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies! -
He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child."



Oh, and don't worry about ole Sevvy -  he's for the chop - and it'll be 
the fault of that insufferable snot Potter.





>  So, everyone got the boot did they?    Let's back up and examine
>  just what kind of boot we are talking about. 
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>  Mine was no flaccid wanker argument suggesting that  JKR only causes
>  bad things to happen to characters who represent attitudes or
>  behaviors she doesn't like.  I specifically  tied Molly's character
>  flaws to Rowlings RW experiences, and the shaft we are talking about
>  is a specifically tailored shaft, readily recognizable as a direct
>  response to Molly's behavior.  In short: Poetic Justice.
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>  Now, if Molly's "boot" had consisted of her being wounded in the
>  Death Chamber sortie, I wouldn't have a credible argument.  It would
>  not be the same thing at all.
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>  If you want to propose that virtually everyone received a cosmic
>  comeuppance in OoP, you will have to back that up with canon, or
>  quit the field, Madame.
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>  And really, threatening Snape?  How can such villainy be borne?  I
>  will tell you this: Snape at the end of HBP will be approximately
>  180 degrees from Snape at the end of Book 7. 
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>  Accordingly, I hope the final chapter of HBP finds all the Snape-
>  haters doing obnoxious victory jigs.  A little practice leaping will
>  assist when you are all hoist with your own petards.
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>  Awaiting you on the grassy swarth, bring your Second.
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