Molly with the Twins & some more Percy

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 35931

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce <pennylin at s...> wrote: 
> Molly, OTOH, has taken an active stance to *interfere* with their 
> ambitions during the summer prior to their final year in school. 

"Weasley's Wizard's Wheezes" were dangerous, according to Ron. I can 
understand why she is down on them going into the joke shop business, 
based on what she's seen. My mother also very much objects to any 
suggestions from siblings like, "I want to be a war correspondent." 
 
>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.  

That's true, but there are two ways of meddling with your kids career 
ambitions.

The first is to drill into the kid's head that they have to be a 
doctor when they want to take Music. There was a pathetic case up here 
where a very wealthy woman (whom I knew) sued my old private school 
for not educating her son well enough so that he could eventually get 
into Medicine. She dragged it through every court in the land, and 
managed to expose it to the newspapers that he had always wanted to 
take a Music degree, had taken one, graduated with honours, and now 
was off in Europe with his band. She lost her case. 

But there are also many parents who do have strong opinions about what 
they hope their kids will do, but don't stand in the way when push 
comes to shove. 

> > Exactly. Percy is even ahead of the Lestranges in my book. And JKR
> > has promised that Percy's particular problem will be adressed in 
Book
> > V.
> 
> I've not heard *this* before.  You always hear this business about 
Ginny 
> playing a "bigger" role in Book V (and as I always sarcastically 
note: 
> yeah, bigger than her role in PoA or GoF?  What would *that* take?). 
> I've never heard anything about Percy though -- very cool.  Can you 
> provide a cite?

"Ginny (Weasley) does have a bigger role in Book Five." Right. 

You know, that's not much of a promise, though I'd like to see more of 
Ginny. It's a character promise, not a plot promise, and it's harder 
to keep than the second.

But Percy's is a plot promise.
"Hello, Ms Rowling. Just a little question: What's to become of poor 
old Percy? Will he side with Fudge or with his family?"
"Good question! You'll find out in book five!"
Barnes&Noble.com, OCTOBER 20, 2000 

Now, that's a plot promise, an essential plot promise. You could 
possibly never get around to further developing Ginny's character, but 
there's no way you can never get around to answering that "good 
question."

And, as I pointed out, you can't answer the question without taking a 
much better look at Percy. 

Eileen