Harry's Doomed Admirer

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 21293

I wonder...if one of Harry's admirers is doomed to join the 'Eavenly Choir
Invisibule in the next book, couldn't we all have been barking up the wrong
tree?

Hogwarts, and people at it, are fairly safe.  Not so the rest of the
wizarding world---_including the Burrow!_  I've got a horrid suspicion that
the next victim is none other than...Molly Weasley!

Think about it:  She's at a known location that's less well-protected than
Hogwarts and less under wizard eyes day-to-day than Diagonal or Knockturn
Alleys, or, for that matter, the Ministry of Magic, she's apparently a
competent-enough witch but we've seen no evidence that she's had any combat
training (no reminisces about "Before I married your father, Ron, I was the
belle of the Aurors...handsome wizards throwing themselves at my feet when I
brought in another Death Eater...) and she could, to be blunt about it, be
lured out fairly easily by a report that one of her children or Harry (or,
for that matter, Hermione or her parents) was in danger.

I hope to heaven I'm wrong; Molly Weasley is one of my favorite "minor"
characters, and I envy Ron having such a mother (mine could, when in a bad
mood, have eaten Voldemort for breakfast and picked her teeth with his
bones) but this might be the Big Trauma that not only forces Ron to grow up
some, but draws him and Hermione closer together.  Comments?

Eric Oppen
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