[HPforGrownups] Re: SHIP: HRH Love triangle & Ron's downfall

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 76175

queenofeverythang wrote:
> 
> Sure Mrs. Weasley finds the story believable, because the humor 
> of the situation is that gossip seems scathing when it's aimed at 
> you but suddenly seems plausible when it's about someone 
> else. Harry and Hermione aren't a far-fetched idea, especially if 
> you don't know them very well. Mrs. Weasley doesn't know 
> Hermione too well, maybe she assumed she was duped into 
> liking her as Harry supposedly was. She sees Harry as a son 
> but, though she does care, doesn't show that same affinity for 
> Hermione.

Hermione isn't an orphan, and doesn't need an extra mother.

However, I don't think we know enough to say that Molly doesn't 
know Hermione well; we just don't see them together much. 
Hermione did stay at the Weasley's for a while, and seemed to be 
good friends with Ginny.  Ron has surely talked about her.

I would guess that Molly has recognized that there is something 
between Ron and Hermione, and that the story made her snub 
Hermione more because it implied that Hermione had dumped Ron 
than because it stated that she was dumping Harry.