Molly Weasly (Re: Ginny - Not)

[Richard Shepard]

> Geoff:
>
> I have to agree with you. It must be a couple of years or so ago, I wrote 
> on Main that I wasn't a fan of Harry and Ginny getting together. i've never 
> liked her as a character and felt that she was becoming rather pushy and 
> a bit like her mother. Molly is a great person but inclined to be a control 
> freak when it comes to her (extended) family.
> 


Richard:

Hmmmm, I guess I always thought Molly's worrying and controlling were justified.  Early on she is a little pushy and controlling, but in a way that I think makes sense for a stay-at-home mother of seven.  Later when Voldemort resurfaces and the danger magnifies, she gets worse.  But considering the dangers I again think it is a reasonable way for her character to react.  Her two brothers were killed by Voldemort the first time around.  She is very aware of how bad the bad guys are, and knows that a lot of the good guys (especailly her chidren) are not careful enough.  

I did not see Ginny as becoming controlling.  She doesn't freak out when he says he has to go off to find the horcruxes and confront Voldemort.  She is a little pushy, but Harry (like most of the boys in the books/movies) is sort of dense and needs a girl like Ginny.


> Again, I didn't like the epilogue which suggested that Harry had got married 
> not too far after the events of DH. I think he should have had a bit more "free" 
> time before getting tied down by family life. I think this stems from the fact 
> that I have often felt a kinship with Harry over his teen years. I grew up in a 
> time when a two-thirds of UK schools were single sex and if you were  keen 
> on doing well in education, there wasn't a lot of space for girls. Like Harry, I 
> had a Yule Ball experience which didn't help my confidence and  I finally married 
> when I was 31. 
> 


Richard:

Considering Harry's lack of a family, I thought it was natural for him to want to create his own fairly quickly after Voldemort was dealt with.