Evil-Molly Theories

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 57944

I've got to say that the argument earlier that Molly Weasley is Ever So Evil
was ingenious.  As a long-time reader of mysteries that do their best to
make the least obvious person the villain, I find theories about the
Evil-ness of un-obvious people intriguing (and I think I may be the list
member who came up with the "Hermione Granger is Ever So Evil and plans to
be the next Big Dark Sorceress" theory)

However, what might be Molly's motives for being Ever So Evil?

Could she have been having an affair with a DE---like the one that was
living, under her whole family's noses, in her house for years and years?
(And how _did_ the Weasleys acquire Wormtail/Scabbers, anyway?  Inquiring
minds want to know!)

No.  NO.  Evil she may be---but Molly's still a woman, and I can't see _any_
woman going for that cringing little twerp.  I know of people in the fandom
who crush on the unlikeliest people, but I haven't seen anybody yet going
all gooey over Wormtail.

However---she could be very ambitious for herself _and_ her family.  Being
Ever So Evil does _not_ preclude being a good, warm, loving, caring parent,
and she might well feel that the "good" side won't ever let her children get
to their maximum potential.  Let's face it, the Powers That Be in the WW are
corrupt, incompetent, inept, and about as much use in a crisis as a
one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest.

Or she could be out for _revenge._  We don't know much about her family, do
we?  What if, say, some kin of hers were falsely accused and thrown into
Azkaban without a trial during the Voldemort Years?

I'm seeing a future scene, where Ron, Hermione and Harry have been captured
by the DEs, and are tied up in the middle of the circle, surrounded by
masked and robed DEs.  Voldemort's ranting and raving, in classic Evil
Overlord fashion, about all the Evil Stuff he's going to do to them "---and
after I make you, Hermione, read fifty or sixty _Sweet Valley High_
books...*Hermione faints in horror* I'll start on you, Ron Weasley!"  Right
about then, a robed DE behind V'mort pulls out a wand and either AKs him or
gives him a good solid "Reducto!" right in the back.  Standing over the
smoking, twitching, bleeding corpse, the DE pulls off her mask.

Ron's eyes go wide as saucers.  "MOM!"

"Hello, dear," says Molly.  "Don't look quite so gob-smacked; you always did
look like a guppy-fish at feeding-time when anything unexpected happened.
Why are you so surprised?  I needed _something_ to do on my own, when you
and your brothers and sister were out of the house."  She turns to the DEs.
"Well?  What are you waiting for?  'Meet the new boss, same as the old
boss!'"  As the DEs bow, she turns the Trio loose.  "Now, run along to
school, dear---and for pity's sake, at least _try_ to do some studying!"