[HPforGrownups] Re: Evil! Molly (was E!Lupin)

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 57932

> ME:  Ever been a mother of a large clan on 6 highly active (and
overactive) intelligent boys and one young girl?  Believe me, you'll spend a
WHOLE lot of time getting on people's cases.  And I think cannon has shown
us more of the confrontations then the loving relationships between Molly
and her children so this Evil Molly is another thing I can't buy.  The twins
must drive her absolutely nuts at times! But while they may cringe at her
anger, they are hardly afraid of her ("And you call yourself our mother!"
said in jest first book) and seem to love her very much. And Percy?  Well I
doubt a mom would be real quick at seeing his faults and HE doesn't give her
so many headaches and has achieved things that would make every mother
proud.  Nah, Evil Molly is another example of why we need to get busy
reading the next book.  It's been so long, our own hyperactive imaginations
are getting the better of us.  Huggs Becky


Let's not forget the QWC bit in GoF.  Right before everyone leaves to go to
it, Molly gets into an argument with Fred and George over their candies.
She yells at them about still having them when they were told to get rid of
them, and spending more time on foolishness like that instead of studying
for their O.W.L.'s, which they could have got more of, in her opinion.  But
then she hears that the Dark Mark went up over the QWC.  The next morning,
when the Weasleys and co. come home, one of the first things she does is
pull Fred and George into extremely tight hugs and says, "I shouted at you
before you left!  It's all I've been thinking about!  What if You-Know-Who
had got you, and the last thing I ever said to you was that you didn't get
enough O.W.L.'s?" (p. 146 US hardcover)

Not only does this scene shows how much she does love the twins, but to me,
it brought home what it might have been like to live in the Dark Times even
more than Arthur's explanation in the previous chapter.  The Dark Mark was
going up all the time, and people were always hearing the worst about the
places where these things had gone up.  Molly, having been an adult and
perhaps even fighting against Voldemort during the last war, knows perfectly
well what that Mark symbolizes and, although the Daily Prophet made it clear
that all the attendees of the QWC hadn't died, it also never said that there
were no casualties, meaning that anyone who knows what that Mark means and
knew someone who was going to the Match probably had a sleepless night like
Molly, afraid that their loved one(s) had been hurt or killed.  Molly's
emotion really helps bring home Arthur's words on what it was like to live
at that time.

As one can guess, I don't believe Molly is evil at all.

Kelly Grosskreutz
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova