[HPforGrownups] Re: Was Percy! now Percy/Molly/Hermione

[Laura Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 35908

Penny wrote:
I do 
> dislike the way she interacts with her children in some ways.  
With 
> Bill, she seems fond but a bit meddlesome; with Charlie ... hmmm, 
no 
> real opinion here; with Percy, she is fond & doting to the point 
of 
> fairly obvious favoritism; with the Twins, she is definitely 
bossy, 
> interfering & unappreciative of their strengths & ambitions; with 
Ron, 
> she seems to be largely uninvolved or "absent" (she pays *far* 
more 
> attention to Harry than to Ron, and someone wrote a really nice 
analysis 
> some point back about how Molly's favoring Harry over her own son 
Ron 
> might cause problems in the Harry/Ron relationship as well as the 
> Molly/Ron relationship before all is said & done); and finally, 
with 
> Ginny, I see her as smothering & over-protective.
> 

^_~ I happen to love Molly.  She and Arthur remind me very much of my own parents (in a fictional, idealized way of course) complete with the screaming on her part and Arthur's tendency to come off as bumbling, a little eccentric, and quite harmless -- not really a father at all...My mother is always saying (sometimes jokingly, sometimes very angrily) that dad is just her third child.  Just like my father, Arthur is pretty immature about everything *except* his work, and his reaction to Molly's anger in CoS when the Weasley boys had brought Harry back in the car (not to mention when that ton tongue toffee incident) was so familiar it gave me the chills -- but it also made me laugh.

Of course, in RL, when a mother gets angry like that, it is NO FUN for the child at all.  However, I still think Molly is doing very well.  Think about it: she has SEVEN kids.  Holy toledo.  And as far as keeping them in line, Arthur is really no help.  While I sympathized with Fred and George when she was yelling at them about the ton tongue toffee incident, I still understand her exasperation with them.  Sometimes, it seems, the only way to get through to kids is to raise the decibel several levels.  As far as I am concerned, she is a phenomenal mom.  I mean, she's got the body type and everything -- don't you just want to curl up on her lap and listen to bedtime stories? ^_~

Furthermore, I don't think she favors Harry to Ron.  Ron would have been very quick to pick up on this and we have yet to see him upset because his mom is paying attention to Harry.

On to another topic, I still don't see the problem people see with Hermione in her first year.  Honestly, she wasn't all *that* bad, was she?  I mean, she was a bit chattery before the Sorting and the first time they went to "broom lessons" -- but I expect that was nerves.  And she *did* lie for Ron and Harry after the troll incident.  *And* she fully devoted her efforts to helping Harry and Ron solve the mystery about the Philosopher's Stone as soon as she realized it was important, not just the boys fooling around.  Yes, perhaps before the troll incident she came off a little annoying, but once she, Harry, and Ron became friends, she has always been fiercely loyal to the both of them, which is more than I can say for Ron.  Furthermore, she has always been courageous enough to do what she knows is right, *no matter what* anyone else says or thinks.  Take the firebolt incident, for example.  She *knew* Harry and Ron would shun her for telling Mrs. McGonagall about it, but she did it anyway because she would rather have Harry hate her than have Harry blasted to bits by a jinxed broom.  Not many kids her age would have had the nerve to that.  

Allot of people can't understand why Hermione is a Gryffindor, I mean -- she's quite the intellectual -- she should be in Ravenclaw, right?  However, I believe that Hermione is incredibly gifted in the greatest and hardest kind of courage it is possible to have, being a girl at her age -- the courage to withstand and defy peer pressure.

mm..well g'bye.
laura (who is not a Weasley fan at all, but generally doesn't mind the lot of them)  




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