OOtP: <Spoiler> Why Weren't the Weasleys in the Order?

[zanelupin]

No: HPFGUIDX 66059

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snufflesnbeakie" 
<bhauersperger at h...> wrote:
> I might have missed this topic of conversation, if it had been 
> brought up previously, but I was just re-listening to my audio tape 
> version of OOtP and came across something that made me wonder. . .
> 
> When Lupin was reassuring Mrs. Weasley after her terrible ordeal 
> with the boggart - he said that she hadn't been in the order last 
> time, so she wouldn't have known that it was different: i.e., that 
> order members where outnumbered 20 to 1 by death eaters.  This time 
> it was different. . .  And they were not in the photo that Moody 
> showed Harry.
> 
> But why would the Weasleys not have been in the Order the last 
> time?  They would have been old enough, they are obviously staunch 
> supporters of Dumbledore, they are disliked by death eaters - 
surely 
> they would have been members.  This seems like a huge contradiction 
> to me.
> 
> Any theories?  If it's been previously discussed, I'd really like a 
> reminder of what was thrown out!
> 
> Thanks :-)
> 
> Beth

Perhaps it has to do with their children.  Their youngest child, 
Ginny, is what, 14 in OOP?  So when Voldemort and the Order were 
around the last time, I imagine they had their hands full with quite 
a few young children.  Maybe they didn't want to risk putting their 
children in harms way or didn't want them to grow up without 
parents.  Molly is very protective of her children.
Or maybe they were involved with war, just not a part of the Order.  
After all, they weren't contending with a Voldemort operating 
covertly.  

Have an action-packed, fun-filled day,

KathyK