heartbreaking moment / Was: Re: Longbottoms insanity/Thestrals/etc

[Mary]

No: HPFGUIDX 68850

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "galaxianomiko" 
> I, too, had been near willing to dismiss most of Mrs. 
> Weasley's "overprotective mother" reactions up to this point in the 
> book, when I read the boggart scene.  That is, until I realized 
that 
> she had left someone out.  The boggart turns into all of her sons, 
> her husband, and even Harry, but no Ginny??  I must say I'm not 
sure 
> what to think about this.  Certainly, if I saw my own mother in 
this 
> situation, and a boggart turned into all my siblings but me, I'd be 
a 
> bit put off.  Not sure what the reasoning behind the omission of 
> Ginny is, or if it's even an important detail, but something's 
fishy 
> there.
> 
> -Meesh

Now me:
There has been discussion elsewhere in the current flurry of posts 
about Ginny not being part of the boggart brigade.  However, we need 
to remember that Harry walks in on Molly when her battle with the 
boggart is already in progress - it's not only possible, but likely, 
that Ginny was the first incarnation.  Think about it...she's the 
youngest, a girl, already having been a victim of Voldemort, it 
stands to reason that Molly would consider her the most vulnerable 
and at risk of her children.  By the time Harry walks in, the boggart 
has become Ron - the next one of her children most likely to be in 
Voldemort's line of fire. She would have tried to eliminate the 
vision of Ginny with her riddikulus spell and, seeing that it had 
become Ron, begun to sob.  That's when Harry hears her and walks in 
on the scene we read.