OOtP: <Spoiler> Why Weren't the Weasleys in the Order?

[The Kirk]

No: HPFGUIDX 66394

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snufflesnbeakie" 
<bhauersperger at h...> wrote:
> I might have missed this topic of conversation, if it had been 
> brought up previously, but I was just re-listening to my audio 
tape 
> version of OOtP and came across something that made me 
wonder. . .
> 
> When Lupin was reassuring Mrs. Weasley after her terrible 
ordeal 
> with the boggart - he said that she hadn't been in the order last 
> time, so she wouldn't have known that it was different: i.e., that 
> order members where outnumbered 20 to 1 by death eaters.  
This time 
> it was different. . .  And they were not in the photo that Moody 
> showed Harry.
> 
> But why would the Weasleys not have been in the Order the 
last 
> time?  They would have been old enough, they are obviously 
staunch 
> supporters of Dumbledore, they are disliked by death eaters - 
surely 
> they would have been members.  This seems like a huge 
contradiction 
> to me.
> 
> Any theories?  If it's been previously discussed, I'd really like a 
> reminder of what was thrown out!
> 

Well, I think the best theory is the one that states Mr and/or Mrs 
Weasley were under the influence of the Imperius curse during 
the first Voldemort War.


Roo