I know Molly.....

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 84264

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Pen Robinson <pen at p...> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, Nov 6, 2003, at 14:38 Europe/London, artcase wrote:
> >>
> <much snipped>
> 
> >  The boggart scene
> > reinforces my opinion that Molly lives her entire life through her
> > family and extended family. That is unhealthy.
> 
> I'm surprised that you see it like this.  I am certain that my boggart, 
> if I had one, would be the same - the dead bodies of my husband and 
> children.  What could possibly be worse?
> 
> This is not living one's life through one's family, this is loving them 
> more than anything else in the world.
> 
> I don't mean to say that Molly is without fault, but I think you're 
> wrong on this point.
> 
> Pen

I agree with Pen. I also think it's quite possible that Molly's
boggart is going to prove prophetic--not that I think Boggarts have
prophetic powers but because her worst fear may well be realized. I
think (fear) that one of her family members really is going to die,
and worse, die unreconciled to his family. Remember her reaction when
Percy returned his Christmas sweater (jumper?) with the package
unopened? I'd much rather believe that Percy will return to his family
having learned a valuable lesson in humility, but it seems more
probable that LV (via Lucius Malfoy?) will put the breach between
Percy and his family to some malicious use and there will be no return
and no redemption. I think there's real grief in store for Molly, who
took such pride in Percy, the son who obeyed the rules and never got
into any trouble, the one she was so certain would succeed in the MoM.
If that happens, if there's no way out for him except death, I hope no
one will say that she brought it on herself by her child rearing
methods. Percy's folly is his own, the result of his own choices. But
Molly will blame herself if it happens, and her grief will be worse
than anything Harry has experienced. There is nothing worse than
losing a child. If she suffers that unspeakable grief, I'll cry with
her, whatever I may think of her child-rearing methods or her career
choices. Dementors? Mummies? Snape? Failed exams? Molly has the only
really terrifying boggart in the entire collection, the only real,
justifiable, fully human fear.

Carol, who is sorry to get emotional in this post but is also tired of
the Molly bashing