Molly with the Twins & some more Percy

[serenadust]

No: HPFGUIDX 35911

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., 

I wrote:
> 
> > As for her "interfering" with the twins, well somebody
> > had better interfere with them!  Can you imagine having to bring
> > those two up, what with burning holes in their little brother's
> > tongue, and turning his bear into a giant spider?  I don't *see* 
any
> > evidence that her mothering has cramped their style.



Penny replied:
> So, it's okay with you two if she just chooses the best career for 
the 
> Twins, regardless of what they might prefer?  <g>  


Do you really think that there's the slightest chance of the twins 
allowing their *mother* choose their careers?  She's just being a 
typical worrywart mom here, and she IMO knows better than anyone 
that they will do as they darn well please once they're out of 
Hogwarts.  Just wait and see.


Penny again:

> Molly, OTOH, has taken an active stance to *interfere* with their 
> ambitions during the summer prior to their final year in school.  
She 
> also says later something to the effect of "I guess they'll just 
not 
> amount to anything."  Yeah, they'll not amount to anything -- 
they'll 
> just be those wildly successful entrepreneurs they *could* be if 
she'd 
> keep her nose out of their career-planning.  I guess I just have 
> reasonably strong feelings about letting your kids be who *they* 
want to 
> be, not who *you* want them to be.  Molly may think the MOM is the 
only 
> way to go career-wise (though why she'd think so since neither 
Bill nor 
> Charlie chose that route is a mystery), but the Twins have other 
ideas & 
> they seemed reasonably mature in their approach (drawing up order 
forms 
> & creating a business plan & thinking about financing).  That's 
why I 
> think her mothering style with respect to the Twins is not so 
great. 
> I'm not saying she should never have prevented them from doing 
> *dangerous* things.  I just think she fails to let them be the 
people 
> they'd like to be.  Possibly ditto with Ron & Ginny.


Again, do you really think that the twins are not exactly the people 
they'd like to be?  Their business plans may show some maturity, but 
their "inventions" are pretty hair-raising and their tendency to try 
them out on unwitting victims, ie Dudley & Neville, could border on 
criminal (although I did enjoy Dudley and the ton-tongue toffee <g>).
Molly probably fears they may land themselves in Azkaban, if she 
can't keep them in check, and obviously Arthur isn't much help.  For 
Molly, going into the MoM is probably like the average muggle mother 
wanting a "safe" career (like law, or medicine) for her sons, 
instead of persuing something like, say, stand-up comedy. She's 
spent years yanking them back from the brink of disaster, and is 
having some trouble dropping the habit.  Sorry, but I still can't 
see that they aren't doing just fine at being themselves, and will 
continue to pursure their ambitions (with Harry's financing).  
Anyway, IIRC Ron says at the end of GoF, that he doesn't think their 
mum will be so keen on their going into the MoM now that she's seen 
what's coming.


> 
> Jo Serenadust said:
> 
> > Kids often pick up mannerisms from one
> > parent or the other without otherwise resembling them 
personality-
> > wise, although I do think they have some traits im common.  My
> > impression of Molly leads me to believe that she was quite the
> > pistol in her day and not really much like Percy.  Remember her 
fond
> > recollection of her "nighttime stroll" with Arthur <vbg>?

Penny once more:
> Yeah, and poor Percy is so straight-laced, he'd never do anything 
like 
> that.  :::whispers:"Remember what Ginny caught Percy doing with 
Penelope 
> in CoS?"::::  <vbg>


Yep, I did think of that, but a little daytime kissing in a 
classroom pales in comparison with being out on the grounds with 
Arthur until FOUR in the morning (Molly, you hussy!).  Anyway, the 
classroom smooching was probably Penelope's idea (You know how take-
charge girls named Penny tend to be <vbg>.


Jo Serenadust, breaking her all-time 24 hour posting record