[HPforGrownups] Re: The Dress Robes Affair

[Diana Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 59584

Fred Waldrop said:
> >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.
> >

and Felinia replied:

> 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.
>
> Felinia

One thing to point out is that parents sometimes forget how easily
embarrassed children get.  I can remember being *horribly* embarrassed when
my mom came home from shopping one day and announced outloud that she'd
bought me some new underwear so I could throw away my old, torn ones - right
in front of my best friends.  And despite remembering how humiliating that
was, I came home the other day and announced to my son that I'd bought him
some boxers I thought he'd like better than the last ones.  As parents, we
just sometimes get caught up in what we're doing and forget to take into
account various sensitivities.

Diana W.