The Dress Robes Affair

[Fred Waldrop]

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 Fred Waldrop Wrote:

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.

 
<jestahijinx at h...> wrote:

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


Hello all, Fred Waldrop here:

Felinia, If you would please answer me a couple of questions, I would 
really appreciate it.
Why do you say "maybe Molly was (quite rightly) fed up with Ron's 
constant melodrama and moaning about poverty"? I have read all 
4 books 4 times now, and I really can not remember Ron's "melodrama 
and moaning about poverty" more that 2 or 3 times. If that is all he 
complained about being poor, how do you get it as being constant?
Sure, he does complain about a few other things, but he is NOT 
constantly complaining about anything.
And please answer me one other thing, when Ron complained about his 
robe, Mrs Weasley tried to explain that it was second hand, and then 
she got embarressed and left the room. Why didn't she show Ron the 
robe in private so NEITHER would get embarressed? Or an even more 
resonable question would be be, why didn't she remove the lace before 
she gave the robe to Ron in the first place?
I know that children can be annoying and everything, but sometimes, 
being the adult, the parents have to just deal with it.

Fred Waldrop