Love Those Weasleys [re: Notes on the Weasleys and their Hardships]

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No: HPFGUIDX 21222

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Indigo" <indigo at i...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Melanie Brackney <ilovbrian_99 at y...> wrote:
> > However, her worry does tend to show itself in her
> > temper, too, and 
> > in her tendency to be impulsive.  She actually
> > believed Rita 
> > Skeeter's article in Daily Prophet and treated
> > Hermione coolly <<snip>>
> > 
> > Molly's one of my favourites too, which is why it bothers me so 
> much.

<<snip>> strikes me as weird that Molly doesn't know that 
> Hermione's okay with Ron/Harry, enough to dismiss Skeeter's article 
> as a fat load of codswallop.

	It dawned on me finally: it's not that Molly doesn't know 
Hermione's okay. It's just that Molly's  one of those people who 
believes *everything* she reads. Remember in CoS, she wanted the twins 
to look up how to denome the garden in Lockhart's books, even though 
they'd obviously been doing it all their lives. 
	We've been discussing the changes in Ron, Molly, Percy and the 
Twins as though *they* went considerably darker, or at least more 
complex in GoF, but maybe that's not the way to look at it. Maybe the 
point is that *Harry* is growing up, and inclined to view people, 
including his friends, a bit more critically.

Pippin