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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