Evil! Molly (was E!Lupin)

[catherinemckiernan]

No: HPFGUIDX 57912

On the possible evil that is Lupin, speculation fluttered:

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "maria_kirilenko"
<maria_kirilenko at y...> wrote:
> Becky Walkden wrote:
> >> And Lupin being evil is definitely not even possible.  He is a 
> >> member of the Order of the Phoenix I bet and is very well
trusted 
> >> by (Omniscient) Dumbledore.
> 
> Pippin replied:
> > Impossible? Why? Because Dumbledore trusts him? Lupin's 
> > own friends thought he was the spy. I can't believe it was solely 
> > because he is a werewolf. 
> 
> Maria Alena:
> I agree with you, Pippin. <gasp!> While no one will ever convince
me 
> that Lupin is ESE, except canon, of course, I do think that Sirius 
> and James had a very good reason to suspect Lupin of being a spy.
The 
> simplest explanation I can think of has to do with the fact that 
> Lupin is a werewolf. It's very possible that Voldemort was
recruiting 
> werewolves as spies and/or DEs, tempting them with future work 
> opportunities, for example. 

<snip, because interesting asd it is, I don't intend to continue the
Lupin argument, but branch of on the slantandicular...>

Maria Alena then wondered:
> PS - is there an Evil!Molly theory? She did buy Harry green robes, 
> you know...

Me: 
There is now. Takes of shoes and prepares to jump in with both feet,
possibly in the manner of Princess Margaret unwisely and about to get
burnt...

Oh, those green robes. One of the few slip-ups in Molly's otherwise
well-camouflaged villainy, or perhaps, for we should surely give this
more devious witch all possible credit for her subtleties, a little
joke of her own concerning Harry's own inherent iffyness, designed to
raise his fellow pupils' suspicions (why is this Gryffindor clad in
Slytherin green?) and draw them away from thoughts that anyone but
Harry might have sabotaged the competition.

But is it canon? Is the evidence of Molly's evil more than
circumstantial? I think it is. Her parenting skills have occasionally
been derided, but that's not the issue here. However cosy her jumpers
or inadequate her sandwiches, Molly Weasley is evil, Ever So Evil.
Like Stuttering Quirrell, she hides it well, in her case behind a
façade of loving maternal devotion, but sometimes the hints just
slip
through on to the page. Back to the green robes. What day does she buy
them? The day of the Quidditch World Cup. Arthur and the kids get up
early, and the allegedly nonsporty Molly nips off to Diagon Alley. Did
she wait for Bill, Charlie and Percy to get up, I doubt it. No, it was
Floo powder in the fire and a race round the shops, grabbing the first
thing that came to hand, hence Ron's manky robes. "Not a lot of
choice" my foot! This woman is a knitting fanatic, she surely had time
to unpick a bit of lace if she wanted to? But she didn't, because
after her frantic shopping she apparated to the woods near the Q.W.C.
stadium, the co-ordinates of which she was well-aware, as Percy at
least probably discussed them loudly and often. Once there, she pulled
out Harry's wand.

Of course she had the wand. The one Harry had so carelessly left
sticking out of his top pocket was a fake, product of Fred and George.
Well, Molly knows all about Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes, we even have
the little scene in the kitchen to remind us, and the fake wand theme
is reiterated in the scene with Bagman. Harry's fake!wand simply
vanished after a couple of hours. Molly knew he wouldn't miss it, as
with Arthur around Harry would have no reason to try any magic. Once
in the woods, Molly is delighted to witness the torture of the Muggles
that obsess her husband so much that his career is a joke and he never
has any time for the family. Not that she lets the Muggle-torturers
interfere with her own plans. Harry's wand in hand, the powerful witch
performs the incantation. There is no indication that it was a man's
voice, only that it was deeper than Winky's.  Kath Bush's Wuthering
Heights voice is deeper than Winky's. Nor it is a problem that the
voice sounds like nothing the trio have ever heard before; they only
know cosy fussy Molly. Evil!Molly sounds, naturally, just a bit
different. She has time to disapparate before the Ministry wizards
arrive, and put on a good show of being worried next morning.

She?s there at every stage. She knows about the Tournament in time to
lay her nefarious plans. She encourages her husband to ensure
Fake!Moody gets off on a minor charge so that he can go to Hogwarts.
She?s at the Third Task to check her servant (and fall guy) has got
everything under control and to witness the triumph of her scheme.
Yep, Barty Crouch Jnr is doing it all at the instigation of Molly who
alone can promise what the neglected child yearns for; a little bit of
mothering. 

She's brilliant, she's the last person anyone would ever suspect,
she's powerful, cunning, she's Ever So Evil. Now we know why
Dumbledore doesn't want Harry to stay at the start of the holidays at
the end of the 4th year. He's starting to think something's up and
needs time to investigate. He's got such a weakness for sweets, tho'
and Molly's a good cook; I'm worried.

"catherine mckiernan"