[HPforGrownups] Molly with the Twins & some more Percy

[Pen Robinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 35923

Penny said:

>So, it's okay with you two if she just chooses the best career for the
>Twins, regardless of what they might prefer?  <g>  They are pretty
>obviously not cut out for the drone of govt work in the MoM, and they
>pretty definitely have started taking steps to avoid that situation.
>Molly, OTOH, has taken an active stance to *interfere* with their
>ambitions during the summer prior to their final year in school.

It must be such a relief to Molly that her third son has gone into a nice,
'safe' office job.  (I suspect the MoM will turn out not to be a safe place
at all, but from Molly's POV it must be good to have her child working more
or less regular hours and coming home at nights so that she can keep an eye
on him.)  The eldest is a curse-breaker, far away from home.  The second
works with dragons - dragons! - far away from home.   As a mother, she must
be in constant fear of the owl arriving with a black-bordered letter to
tell her that Bill or Charlie has been killed, or terribly injured.  She
seems to be reconciled to their choices, but I bet there were some very
exciting arguments when Bill and Charlie announced that they'd accepted
their job offers!

I can't really blame poor Molly for wanting the twins to work somewhere
nice and quiet, where they won't be forever igniting things and setting off
explosions...  She knows how reckless they are.  Betcha she won't want Ron
to be an Auror, either, even if it is more respectable than running a joke
shop.  But the Weasleys are all strong personalities, and it's fairly plain
none of them will let Mum's worries dictate their lives.

Mind you, I bet a lot of Molly's ire at the joke shop idea is due to the
number of times Gred and Forge have driven her to frothing madness with
their inopportune fake wands and other, er, novelties.   She's probably
been 'had' so many times that the very thought of another 'joke' sends her
round the bend.

Must be a lot easier mothering a Percy-type.

Pen
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