Evil! Molly (was E!Lupin)

[Tom Wall]

No: HPFGUIDX 58045

Eric wrote, in response to Catherine's post #:

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 
lways 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!
END QUOTE.

Tom replies:
Nice comedic sense there, Eric, and that would indeed be funny. 

Funny, yes, but IMHO unlikely, and almost impossible. 

This is not to focus on your response, per se, but the entire line 
of speculation about Molly's possible evil-ness in general.

See, this position opposes my principal argument to FIE (which, in  
this case is related,) and that is:

She's there at the Triwizard Tournament.

She, along with her son Bill; and Fudge, and also Ludo Bagman.

Granted, we don't see Molly (or the other three) immediately after 
Harry's return to Hogwarts via Portkey - but we do see Molly there 
at the pre-tournament meal, and afterwards in the hospital. 

To read between the lines, she wouldn't be able to get to the 
graveyard if she was on the Hogwarts grounds, because she couldn't 
apparate from Hogwarts - so, if she were a Death Eater (at present) 
then she'd have to sneak away from both her seat at the tournament, 
AND Bill, unless he was a Death Eater too and left with her. This is 
because as far as we know, the Death Eaters *apparated* to the 
graveyard.

And so, she couldn't really apparate. And neither could Fudge or 
Bagman, being judges (and accounted for) at the tournament.

So, Molly could potentially *in the future* become evil. She might 
even become a Death Eater - (in the future.)*

But is she a Death Eater now? No way.

-Tom