[HPforGrownups] Molly and the Day Job (Was Ron, Molly and Those Robes)

[Diana Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 59583

> Becky:
>
> >Now then. On to a completely different point. I'm highly suspicious
> >of our dear mother!Molly. I think there must be something she does,
> >other than blunder around an empty house hold. Now, I haven't re-
> >read GoF yet, so there might be canon in there that I have mentally
> >blocked. But really, any witch with a solid Hogwarts education
> >doesn't seem like she would be content at home doing basic things...
> >Can you imagine Hermione sitting idly at home? I can't even see
> >Lavender keeping a wizard house and not doing other things. We know
> >Dumbledore trusts her. He's likely to give her something to do from
> >now on. What I want to know is what she's been doing for the last
> >three years!! Any thoughts? Canon to make me look dumb?


Actually, Molly Weasley has a pretty big day job already - she's taking care
of a large household and trying to stretch a small paycheck to take care of
a lot of people.  People who have never done that don't realize how time
consuming it can be.  It's not all sitting around eating bon-bons and
watching Oprah.  It can be very demanding and exhausting work - during the
various times I've been between jobs and working at home, I found it harder
work than my job! And despite the fact that most of us have been raised to
think of careers, only 6 out of every 10 women in the US work outside the
home (a little over half), and that number is less in other parts of the
world.  Plus, in my mother's generation (roughly equivalent to Molly's
age-group), most married women stayed home at least until the youngest ones
went off to college.  So yes, it is conceivable that Molly Weasley is fully
occupied already.

Diana W.