Saving every Sickle (Was: Percy and the Weasleys' finances)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 59213

Sisklou: 
> 
> > Perhaps she was embarrassed.  Her son was rubbing in the fact that they
> > were too poor to afford good robes, in front of their visitor.
> 
> Perhaps, but she could have avoided the whole dilemma by
> taking Ron aside earlier and explaining, instead of trying
> to sneak the "dress" in.
> Ron was just as embarrassed, and he's a teenager. They tend
> to be emotional and act immature, sometimes ;)
> 
> Molly is the adult here, and made things worse, imo.


Canon tells us that Ron doesn't know what dress robes are, which makes no 
sense, but it's canon. I mean, he has a father and five older brothers. At some 
point, he should have seen his dad or Bill or Charlie wearing a dress robe.

I disagree that she was sneaking anything in. She went and got their stuff 
while they were enjoying themselves at the Quidditch World Cup and she 
dumped it all on their bed.

She had to buy things for four of her own children, plus Harry and Hermione, 
AND get them all ready to go to the train.  So, at the least, it didn't occur to her 
that it would be a crisis, and I'm sure it didn't occur to her that Ron would be 
such a brat.

Now, I wish she would have suggested that Severing Charm, which she or 
Arthur probably could have done more neatly than Ron ended up doing. But 
then again, maybe she was too angry over the "I'll go naked before I wear 
those" routine to suggest it.

 
> I generally like Molly, but she, too, has her faults ;)
> (another example being the way she treats Hermione after
> falling for Rita's article)

Yeah, that's another case where canon doesn't make a lot of sense, 
especially after Molly has said to Percy that Rita makes up lies. 

My guess here is that Molly has grasped that Ron secretly has feelings for 
Hermione, and maybe figured out, or thought she did, that Hermione had 
feelings as well. And she got mad over Hermione's apparent switch.

But, I don't approve of Molly's behavior there either. 

Darrin