The Dress Robes Affair

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 59546

Fred and all:
>
>Accually, Ron did ask for help, in a way. He might not have begged
>his mum to fix his robe, but he did basicly ask for help.
>(Page 156 & 157, GoF, US)
>Mum, you've given me Ginny's new dress.... Of course I haven't, said
>Mrs Weasley. That's for you. Dress robes.
>What?, said Ron, looking horror struck. Dress robes! repeated Mrs
>Weasley.... You've got to be kidding, said Ron in disbelief. I'm not
>wearing that, no way.
>Everyone wears them, Ron! said Mrs Weasley crossly. They're all like
>that....
>I'll go starkers before I put that on, said Ron stubbornly.
>Don't be silly, you've got to have dress robes,they're on your
>list....
>I'm never wearing them, Ron said stubbornly. Never.
>Fine, snapped Mrs. Weasley. Go naked....
>
>Instead of offering to help fix the robes, Ron's mum just tells him
>to "go naked." If Ron could take the fringe and lace off in a couple
>seconds while walking down the stairs to the ball, not knowing what
>he was doing, why didn't his mum try to fix them herself, instead of
>argueing about him having to wear them as is?
>Even if she did not have much time, she could have given her son 5
>minutes to try and fix his robes properly. Unless she really did want
>him to wear a robe with fringes and lace, or really go naked after
>all.
>
Fred, maybe Molly was (quite rightly) fed up with Ron's constant melodrama 
and moaning about poverty; it is possible that, flawed wizard being that she 
is ;-), she overreacted at the wrong moment trying to teach him a lesson she 
had struggled with him with for some time.

Parents are not perfect and all-wise; sometimes they do react to a *minor* 
outburst of a problem that's been major for some time.  I know my parents 
did it more than once, and I've seen my friends' parents do it, and my own 
friends when they're parenting.  Sometimes the same spot gets picked at so 
often that it's just raw and it provokes an outburst when it would have been 
better ignored or on a rare occasion helped the way the kid wanted it.

Felinia

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