OOP: My favorite Harry/DD ... Mrs Weasley and the Twins

[marephraim]

No: HPFGUIDX 65355

Innermurk" wrote:
> > 
> >Deb said: MRS. WEASLEY:
> > I kept waiting to find out Mrs. Weasley's reaction to the twins 
> > leaving school.  Ron alludes to the fact that she'll probably 
> > blame him, but we never see that or any other response.  The 
> > family is together in the train station, so presumably she was 
> > eventually okay with the idea, but given her character I 
> > expected something more explicit.  Perhaps she realized that 
> > things had gotten to such a state at Hogwarts that she wasn't as 
> > mad as she might have been.
> 
> I add:
> I kept wondering if she was scared because of what happened with 
> Percy to make a huge issue of it. She didn't want the family 
> divided more than it was, so to speak. Not that that would stop 
> her yelling at them in private, but she didn't want to make it a 
> family issue.

I considered the whole matter settled by the final chapter. Molly 
had raged against the Joke Shop because she didn't believe the Twins 
could make a go of it. It was along the same lines of a mother 
discouraging her child from pursuing a career as rock star. She knew 
the Twins were imaginative but thought their interest not sufficient 
to bring it off -- she probably saw their glee in pulling Jokes as a 
sign of not working hard enough, which would argue, to her, that 
they didn't have the stamina to actually do the work to make it a 
successful venture.

In the final chapter, however, there they are, in new expensive 
suits having opened the shop and already made it successful. Nothing 
mollifies a mother's disapproval like success and money! The Twins 
showed Mrs W that they /could/ make a go of it, thus relieving her 
of fears for their future (they won't starve).

M.E.