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

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 21240

--- 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.


I'm not sure that's entirely the case.  After all, Molly knows, due 
to her husband's complaints,  that the Daily Prophet articles about 
the DE's at the Quidditch World Cup were highly sensationalized. 
George Orwell once wrote that "Early in life I had noticed that no 
event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper." If you are highly 
knowledgable about a particular subject, you are quite likely to be 
appalled when you see an article in Time or Newsweek about it; yet, 
we often continue to take Time and Newsweek's at face value when they 
deal with other matters in which we lack expertise. 

The sad fact is that the mass media (both in real life and in JKR's 
alternate universe), widely relied upon as a means of information,  
is superficial, frivolous and inaccurate in matters large and small.

  - CMC


....we are in for a sequentiality of improbable possibles though 
possibly nobody after having grubbed up a lock of cwold cworn above 
his subject probably in Harrystotalies or the vivle will go out of 
his way to applaud him on the onboiassed back of his remark for 
utterly impossible as are all these events they are probably as like 
those which may have taken place as any others which ever took person 
at all are ever likely to be. Ahahn!

   - Finnegans Wake, p. 110