Molly's mistake.

[Marianna Lvovsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 25883

I don't think Molly's coldness to Hermione after the
Skeeter article is unreasonable/out of character.

Look at the evidence:

1. She is a fiercely protective woman, and Harry is
like a son to her. Any hint of trouble with Harry and
she jumps to his defense. Borrowing an example from my
family, if one of my grandmothers (though a woman full
of common-sense) found out froma gossipy aquiantance
that I and my boyfriend weren't getting along, I am
sure her first reaction would be to get all protective
and angry at anyone who could even possibly harm her
little Marsha. Molly is the same. 

2. The biggest (and in canon evidence): Book 2. Look
at her reaction to Lockhart. She is as moony over him
as a teenager. Hermione has an excuse: she is 12.
Molly doesn't. The Rita asrticle incident is an
extention of that. Despite her obbious merit and
strengths, she strikes me as the type of woman who
would read tabloids for fun, and is easily swayed by
selebrity. She knows Rita lied in an article about her
husband, but in any other matter, it's the same as the
Lockhart incident: she is easily swayed by tabloid
(Lockhart's level IMO) culture.

Marsha/Marianna

P.S. As re: wand order, it never bothered me. Every
author makes a mistake now and then.

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