Rita Skeeter's Article. (Was Re: Voldies at the Riddle Mansion; go get him!)

[darrin_burnett]

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Olivia wrote:

> 
> That reminds me of a question that came up as I read GoF. Why did 
> Molly after repeatedly defaming Rita as nothing more than a nosy 
> troublemaker when she went after the MoM and Harry did she believe 
> the article about Hermione? She always seem to have a very friendly 
> relationship with her and knew Rita Skeeter exaggerated and 
> misrepresented the facts. Did she really think a sensible fourteen 
> year old girl like Hermione could be a 'scarlet woman'?
>  
> -Olivia


First, my guess is that this will just be written off as some kind of 
overprotectiveness on Molly's part and niceties like whether it makes 
sense will be ignored.

But I do have a theory: We know that Molly, Hermione and Ginny have 
engaged in quite a bit of girl talk and presumably Ginny and Hermione 
probably have as well, which might have been reported back to Molly.

What if Molly knows more about Hermione's feelings for Harry - or 
Ron - than she's telling the boys and was therefore shocked when she 
read about Hermione and Krum?

Darrin
-- If I had a date with Padma, I'd sure as hell not ignore her