Evil-Molly Theories

[catherinemckiernan]

No: HPFGUIDX 57967

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eric Oppen" <oppen at m...> wrote:
> 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)

Oh, I've got to read that! 


> 
> 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.

Me: A good point. I agree she can't possibly be having an affair with
Peter  - a man that even the most Bent of people couldn't make sexy.
(Any takers for the Challenge?) How about Lucius Malfoy? They're both
pure-blood and could even have been at Hogwarts together. Maybe
Lucius' hatred of Arthur is related to Arthur's winning the seductive
Molly? His loathing of Muggles merely a loathing of anything that
interests that Arthur Weasley who stole his girl? No, it doesn't even
make a good ludicrous argument.

> 
> 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?

Here I am more convinced. It's family, and Molly is very fond of her
family. Where are the Weasley grandparents? Why doesn't Ron stay with
them when Mum and Dad visit Bill and Charlie? DId Uncle B-- (can?t
remember his name) really die after seeing a Grim, or was this a
convenient way of explaining to the children why he wasn?t around any
more? What about the Weasley cousin dropped from GoF? Did JKR think
she risked giving the game away too soon?

Re. Ersatz Harry?s point that Barty Crouch said that he had summoned
the Mark. Not an insurmountable problem. Veritaserum makes one reveal
the truth. But the whole truth? The truth concealed by a memory charm?
Maybe there?s a counter-potion. I bet Molly?s pretty good at Potions
if her cooking is anything to go by. Ah, that?s why Fudge let the
Dementor?s get to Barty! Fudge is having an affair with Evil Molly,
and knows that if the Ministry wizards have a go at him, they might
break down the defenses that prevented Veritaserum revealing all. Our
source on the workings of VS. is Snape needling Harry; he surely
didn?t tell the boy everything about it. 


Catherine (who doesn't _really_ believe Molly is evil, but it's darn
good fun to speculate)