Harry's Doomed Admirer

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 21305

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Eric Oppen" <oppen at c...> wrote:
> 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 don't see that happening.

She may not have any wizarding training, but she can do a good bit 
of 'Accio!' which means she can summon pots and pans and knives and 
saws and chairs to zoom around her,  between her and an assailant.  
Not to mention all the potentially dangerous stuff the twins have 
made that she's confiscated.

Arthur is not a nitwit git of a wizard.  I'm pretty sure he has all 
kinds of charms, hexes, and jinxes on the house to protect his 
family, and such charms and hexes and jinxes are added by the kids as 
they grow up,  constantly reinforcing the protections, layering them, 
and making it effectively impossible to make a successful attack on 
the house [because you have 11 different magic styles in that house 
when all the Weasleys are in it]. 

At least, I HOPE that's what has been done.

I also doubt the boys would stand by knowing Voldemort's back without 
putting protections on their Mom, whom they know is Harry's mother 
figure.

And Molly would probably rush out to see one of her kids' clock hands 
turn to "MORTAL PERIL," but Harry has no such clock hand.

Plus, Molly knows Dumbledore has the entire Hogwarts staff looking 
out for him. Much as she'd like to rush to his aid, she knows he's 
looked after, and by some of The Best. 

I doubt she'll go rushing off to save him if Rita Skeeter [who's been 
proven fraudulent to Molly] prints an article saying "BOY WHO LIVED 
IN DANGER FOR HIS LIFE!"

Just my two Knuts.

Indigo 
also Griffindor
Phoenix Feather, Holly, 10 inches  -- must not be Fawkes!