[HPforGrownups] Why did Mrs. Weasley say that?

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 22454


--- morsethanatos at yahoo.com wrote:
> I was reading Sorcerer's Stone over and I like began to seem very 
> strange to me:
> '"Now what's the platform number?" said the boys' mother.'(Chapter 
> six pg 92 of the Scholastic paperback)
> This seems extremely peculiar. Would she not know what the station 
> was and where to go? Or is there actually another magic platform?

Isn't that a time-honoured Mom-thing where you ask a simple silly
question that is supposed to cause the little ones to snap to
attention, come up with the answer and compete for Mom's attention to
say what it is?  The laugh of course is that the Weasleys - even
little Ginny - are too old to fall for this trick but Mrs. W. is
obviously reluctant to abandon tried and true tactics.

(Haven't you ever seen a young mom desperately trying to distract a
crying baby by pointing out something and saying with forced delight
"Look, what's that?  It's a little doggie, isn't it?  A cute little doggie."?)

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