Ron / Molly / Gred&Forge /

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 35964

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "catlady_de_los_angeles" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:


> Debbie elfundeb wrote:
> 
> > I sense that in the Weasley family, the squeaky wheel gets 
the oil, with the result that Percy draws attention to himself by his 
> > accomplishments, the twins draw (negative) attention to 
themselves through their mischief, and Ginny is a natural 
attention getter as 
> > the youngest and only girl. Ron is lost in the chaos.  
> 
> Yes! There are certain things in Book 1 that troubled me the 
first 
> time I read it and every time since.  "She always forgets I don't 
> like corned beef." "Swap you for one of these," said Harry, 
holding 
> up a pasty. "Go on --" "You don't want this, it's all dry," said Ron. 
> "She hasn't got much time," he added quickly, "you know, with 
five of 
> us." Ron is very loyally making excuses for his mother but 
IMHO she 
> needs excuses. It seems to me that JKR intends to portray 
Molly as a very lovable good person and her relationship with 
Ron as warm and  loving, but she does these things that just 
seem like she doesn't  care much about Ron, and like she 
doesn't do her homemaker 
job very well... She's only making *four* to-go lunches, even if 
they all have  to be the same kind of sandwiches, even if they 
have to be whatever  was on sale cheap or leftover whether or 
not the kids like it, how could she not have enough time to put an 
anti-dessication charm (or 
> Saran Wrap Spell) on the sannies? 
> 
> > Debbie wrote:
> > the dress robes (has Molly really not figured out that Ron 
hates maroon?),  
> 
<snip>: 
> 
> > With seven kids... I'm not too surprised. Can you imagine 
keeping track of all the different favorite colors, favorite foods, 
> > favorite whatevers?
> 
> Why not? I don't have children, but I can recite off the favorite 
> colors of a long list of my friends, and remember who's allergic 
to  mushrooms. Those kids are her JOB, she should know them 
as well as I  know the databases of the system that I support at 
MY job. 
> 

Your databases do not lock themselves in a room at night and 
think of ways to drive you crazy (at least I hope not). Whereas any 
pair of kids who have an entire drawer to themselves in Filch's 
cabinet probably also take up an extraordinary amount of their 
mother's time as well. I'd always figured the sandwiches were 
dry because the someone had eaten or used up the last of the 
butter, and Molly didn't have time to get more.  (I know, butter and 
corned beef, yuck, but that's Britain, in my experience.) As for 
dessication spells, well if I'd picked up a fake wand, or the kids 
had hidden mine, or done some other prank while I was trying to 
get five children ready for the train, well I might figure that dry 
sandwiches are just what they deserve.

The maroon dress robe was probably such a bargain (such 
beautiful fabric!) that Molly couldn't see past the low price. Or JKR 
may have been wishing on Ron the problem girls have if they are 
tall and fourteen, finding formal wear that is suitable for 
someone who is beneath the age of consent, to put it quaintly. 

Besides, Molly probably thinks Ron looks darling in maroon (it 
shows off your Weasley hair!), and gets maroon stuff for him 
because she thinks it's his color and it makes the laundry easier 
to sort. 

Pippin