Molly Weasly's parenting style/ Percy

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Vicky DeGroote <degroote at a...> wrote:
> I agreee with the several poster who have stated that we need to 
give Molly Weaslya break whenit comes to her parenting-esp of Ron!  
<Snip large part>
It's probably accepted in their family that whatever is on sale at 
the market that week is qhat they get for sandwiches!  Some weeks 
it's maybe Percy's favorite, corned beef.  Other weeks, Ron's 
favorite (ham?) is on sale so everyone gets ham that week whether 
they like it or not <snip large part>
As far as her favoring Ron, let us ALWAYS remember that this entire 
story is done Harry's point of view!  < 

YES! The last sentence says it!  As the youngest of four, there were 
many times I complained that Mom *always* gave my eldest 
(brother/sister depended on my mood) their favorite and *never* 
mine.  Which, of course, they could produce evidence that I was 
usually favored before them. (As they put it, simply because I whined 
louder.) So, while we hear Ron complaining that his mother keeps 
forgetting he doesn't like corned beef, it doesn't mean he always is 
stuck with it. Harry just hears him complain more, because he's with 
him more than with the other Weasleys.

BTW I do like Ron. I think he is a good friend for Harry. We just see 
more of his warts because as I said, Harry is with him more.  


> of course Molly gives Ron attention and love! She goes overboard 
with Harry cause she has precious little opportunity!  The deal with 
Ron's robes could be that she's giving him these dress robes she 
could afford, yes they're maroon (he'll look good in them, very 
popular color, only one in his size, whatever)assuming that a fourth 
year Hogwarts student should have enough knowledge and be clever 
enough to doctor them up himself!> 

This reminds me of an episode with my brother who was around thirteen 
or fourteen at the time, and it could relate to Ron.  My eldest 
brother complained that my mother never had time to bake cookies like 
his friends mothers.  Mom looked up from her work and told him he 
knew where the kitchen was and he knew how to read.  If he wanted 
cookies that bad, he could learn to bake them himself.  He became 
quite good at too! (Both brothers also learned how to sew.) Maybe 
with her other housework, there is a huge basket of mending, and Ron 
and the others supposedly do know how to do simple alterations 
spells. They have a choice: either wait until Mom has time or do it 
themselves.  Ron is fourteen in GOF so he should be somewhat self-
sufficient. And as pointed out, he has made some transfiguration 
spells. I do like the idea of gold piping rather than cutting off the 
lace too bad Ron didn't think of it. Of course, there is the chance 
that Molly actually likes lace...(the book did say it was in style 
around the 1890s...maybe they told her it was coming back among the 
young wizards.)

Cat