[HPforGrownups] Re: The Dress Robes Affair

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 59564

>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.

Fred:

I'm using this little scene to postulate (not prove, just postulate) that 
Ron probably does a fair amount of complaining about his lack of money 
*offstage*.  The way it's written, it has the quite authentic ring of an 
oft-repeated type of exchange.  I highly doubt it's the first time such a 
thing has come up.

He does make comments throughout the series - his mention of "why is 
everything I own rubbish?" when unsticking Pigwidgeon's beak - and we are 
also given visual cues, like his too-short pajamas which he has obviously 
outgrown faster than Molly can replace them with the correct size (or, 
perhaps not being used to asking for help, he simply hasn't mentioned the 
growth spurt, thinking it's unimportant or that Molly "just wouldn't care 
anyway").

>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
>
I have no idea why she did that, Fred - my guess is that it's because JKR 
wrote it that way to drive the plot.  Remember, we only know what she 
chooses to show us.  I doubt , really, that she would write a Molly Weasley 
whose first aim in life is to embarrass her kids.

And I know that sometimes parents have to deal with kids being annoying, but 
sometimes adults are imperfect, too - and my point, and I thinkt he 
metapoint of this whole discussion, is that the kids just have to deal with 
*that*.

Felinia

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