Why does Snape teach?/ Molly & Ginny/SHIP: Ginny&Draco
Milz
absinthe at mad.scientist.com
Fri Jun 22 16:07:23 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 21303
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., pigwidgeon37 at y... wrote:
>
> As to Molly & Ginny:
> Ebony wrote:
>
> "The problem is, we don't know much about Ginny. Reading between
the
> lines,
> I think she either has a very close relationship with her mother or
> her
> mother has simply kept her close."
>
> I thought about this and would have given the answer that Andrea
gave:
>
> "I think that the only hint we've been given about
> Ginny's beliefs on this matter so far is in GOF when
> Molly is trying to talk Bill into letting her cut his
> hair and Ginny pipes up that she likes it long and
> Molly is being too old-fashioned."
>
> Ginny is certainly in a very difficult situation: she's the
youngest
> of seven. assuming that Molly had her first child rather early (she
> and Arthur were a couple when they both were at still Hogwarts)
let's
> say at the age of 20, that would lead to the following scheme
(always
> based on the belief that witches, as Muggle women, are pregnant for
9
> months and giving her a bit of a rest between each birth):
>
> Bill Molly 20
> Charlie Molly 22
> Percy Molly 27 (because Percy is in his 4th year when
> charlie is already working as a dragon keeper)
> Gred&Forge Molly 29
> Ron Molly 31
> Ginny Molly 32
>
> Therefore, in GoF, Molly would be about 45. For the last 25 years,
> she has been playing- and IMHO gladly- the role of the loving wife
> and mother. she certainly had no easy time with her Muggle-loving
> husband who isn't ambitious in the least, never promoted and
entirely
> relying on her when it comes to manage the household and getting
> their children school books and clothes out of his modest salary.
>
> In fact, there might be a conflict coming on between her and Ginny,
> who certainly won't fit into her mother's role but seems to have
> ideas quite of her own.
> Might Ginny fall in love with a Muggle???? Or decide to live an
> independent life of her own? Ginny strikes me as a possible rebel
of
> the Weasley family, getting completely off the family line. She
might
> even be attracted to Draco, merely because he could offer her
enough
> power and money to pursue her very own goals in life.
>
>From what little is written about Ginny I think we do know quite a
bit about her. She loves her brothers: crying and running after the
Hogwarts Express in SS/PS. She has a sense of morality: she was the
one who said Ludo Bagman should know better than to wear his
Quidditch robes around the Muggle Camp Site Manager. She has
compassion: she semi-scolded Fred when he joked about Scabbers death
in front of Ron and gave Harry a hand-made 'get well' card after
Lockhart de-boned him. We know she has shares the similar
insecurities of girls her age from what she wrote to Tom Riddle. And
Ginny knows how to get what she wants: she wanted to go to the Yule
Ball so she went with Neville.
Ginny has a vantage point as most "youngest children" have: she can
see how and where her brothers have messed up and with any degree of
insight she could avoid them. My best childhood friend and I were the
youngest and only girls of our families. We both avoided the problems
of our elder siblings.
Milz
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