[HPforGrownups] More on Parenting Styles

[Aegeus86 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 36073

Bernadette wrote:

> I think what a lot of us are overlooking is that Rowlings has had
> the guts to write a "good" mom who isn't perfect.  Most of us
> "good" moms aren't perfect in this life.  It would have been
> awfully easy for her to have made Molly the Martha Stewart of the
> Potterverse, instead of having flaws just like a real person.

I totally agree with this, and would like to expand a little.  I think 
Rowling's portrayal of Molly is indicative of a perfect mom, or as perfect a 
mom as humanly possible.  I think Molly is amazing, to be able to bring up 
all those Weaslys and still have a cheery outlook on life.  I can't even 
begin to imagine how cynical it would make me to have had the Weasley 
children as my own.  There's Bill, who has the whole punk-rock thing going 
on; Charlie; who works with *dragons*; Percy, whose boss was being controlled 
by *Voldemort*; Fred and George, (need I say anything about those two?); Ron, 
who is Harry's best friend and is always getting into life threatening 
scrapes; and Ginny, who apart from having to protect because she is the only 
girl, there was all the craziness with the Chamber of Secrets.  If you look 
back at it and see all that JKR put the Weaslys through and then look at how 
well Molly has faired through all of it, I doubt that anyone could not think 
that Molly was the closest thing to a perfect mother that one could have.

And on the Martha Stewart comment -- I'm so glad JKR didn't base Molly off 
her, because she is sleazy.  No one in her family will talk to her because 
she's alienated them, and she even *paid* actors to play her loving family 
for a K-Mart commercial.  In a way Martha Stewart is almost the antithesis of 
Molly -- she is fake, whereas Molly is the real thing.

How's that for my first post to the group?

~Aegeus

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