Lockhart - Yuck! and the women who love him

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 19592

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Vicky Ra" <andromache815 at h...> wrote:
> > Ah ... but Molly Weasley also believed all the garbage that Rita 
> > Skeeter wrote about Hermione. Remember how badly she treated 
> Hermione 
> > after she read Rita's column?
> 
> This is true too and I was just as shocked to see that, given that 
> Mrs. Weasley has known Hermione for four years now [or at least 
> peripherally through Ron].  
> 
> That's just it. Molly doesn't really know Hermione. But then, I 
would think Molly would know not to trust Rita Skeeter. I mean, after 
all the fraudulent articles on the Ministry's actions...
> 
> Vicky
> 
> 
Okay, granted and accepted she knows little of Hermione beyond "that 
girl with the prominent teeth and hair who rides in with Ron each 
year," and the time she spent visiting over the Quidditch cup.

It just seems she's giving her son too little credit for being able 
to pick friends who aren't bad influences. 

I'm certain, positive, beyond a shadow of a doubt that Ron, Fred and 
George go on at length about what a creep Malfoy and his cronies 
are.   So by contrast, if Ron hangs around with Hermione, it seems 
reasonable to draw the conclusion that she's quite different from 
those Ron refuses to hang around with.

Maybe I'm just overanalyzing.

Indigo