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

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 21228

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., foxmoth at q... wrote:
> --- 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. 

This is very true, and I was rather incensed that the usually level-
headed Molly and the alarmingly frequently level-headed Hermione were 
both taken in by Lockhart's schtick...just as I was that Molly 
believed Skeeter.

My guess on Lockhart is that he actually has a smidge of writing 
talent, and that he does have some clue about magic -- but nothing of 
as grand a scope as he'd want people to believe.  He probably just 
didn't believe that de-gnoming a garden would get him the glamour and 
fame he desired.  

> 	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

Very good thought, Pippin. I hadn't considered that.

But on the other hand, I think the Weasleys have been through a good 
bit of stuff that would darken anyone.

The Ginny crisis in CoS.

Arthur's crisii at work with Moody and the Dark Mark at the Quidditch 
final...not to mention his failure to keep his temper around Lucius 
Malfoy. 

Percy's blind loyalty to a boss who turned out to have been acting 
under an unforgivable curse.

The Twins trusting a MoM official and getting swindled out of their 
life savings.

Charlie's dangerous dragon job.

Bill's solemn reaction to Voldemort's return.  

It's possible it's more a combination of the two. Harry is spending 
more time around the Weasleys than just about anyone else in the 
wizarding world...but their proximity to him has resulted in a lot of 
fallout hitting them, IMHO. 

Indigo