[HPforGrownups] Molly/SB, Snape's demise, Quirrell coveted stone himself, the room

[Melanie Black]

No: HPFGUIDX 71589

Dan wrote:

Molly and Sirius (reply to a few)

I think Molly's response is a bit more complicated - her irritability 
i attribute to being away from The Barrow, to the fact of the war 
having begun, and of having placed, by her decision to take HP into 
her family, all of them in more peril than they would have been 
otherwise, as Percy's letter suggests to Ron. It was a necessary 
decision, laudable, don't get me wrong, but in a moment of fear, 
perhaps there was a tiny echo of guilt in Molly's helplessness at the 
boggart - I don't know how else to explain her failure to get rid of 
it. She seems rather a formidable witch, but the boggart no doubt 
would detect that echo of guilt, and the even more powerful shame it 
would make her feel - unjustified, yes, but I think it is there. Her 
fight with Sirius is just that - Black gives no quarter for the 
decision Molly has made - HIS life, however, was already forfeit. It 
sounds cruel but it's not, really. So, with this in mind, I found 
Molly's behaviour quite reasonable. It would be unethical of either 
her, or myself as reader, to deny this breadth of response from her, 
in facing the boggart. She sees HP dead after HP arrives in the room. 
BANG! There is the guilt, the echo, the unspoken "why did I do this?" 
That breadth of character makes her more attractive, not less. 
Because she CHOOSES to continue, and not fight her natural, or 
whatever, response.


My reply:

You know Sirius did not really figut with Molly quite as much after that Boggart....the thing is JKR puts it clearly in the text that Sirius just stood staring at the place where the boggart was prior to that.  I think he realized how much Molly loved Harry...and maybe he got scared too.  Most likely both.  I loved that scene actually.

 

I still think she is hard on Sirius but the one thing I will say is that Molly is very hard on people.  Especially people she cares a great deal about.  There is no doubt who runs the Weasley family..and it's not Arthur not really.  Though this is not a bad thing.  It's just her...she is stubborn, Sirius is stubborn they both want their own way.  Perhaps, they were just too much a like.  

With that said I do think in many cases Molly was the one that was wrong and Sirius was the right one.  The DA was a good thing....although, Molly had a right to  be worried.  Sirius made one of the strongest lines in the entire book when he told them that it's better to be expelled and prepared than to be students and clueless.  There is going to come a time when the kids won't be safe any longer.  What if something would happen to all everyone and it's just left with the kids?  They need to know how to fight back.  

 

And I'm sorry but he was right about giving Harry some sort of information he has a right to know.  

 

The truth is nobody is perfect...and you can tell the quality of a book when you can't put the blame on either character.  

 

 

 




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