The Weasleys Not @ MOM

[Richard]

No: HPFGUIDX 83357

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "S & R Ranch" <sandrranch at y...> 
wrote:
> I have been wondering where were Mr & Mrs Weasley when Sirius, 
Lupin 
> Tonks, Moody & the others came to Harry & the others rescue at the 
> MOM? 
> Her "wonderful clock" (as DD put it)would have shown Mrs W. that 2 
of 
> her children were in mortal danger! So why would the parents not 
come 
> to the aid of their own children?


Richard here:

It is not enough to know THAT someone is in mortal danger.  One must 
also know WHERE that person is in mortal danger in order to be able 
to do something as specific as being in the relief column.  Also, as 
the Wesley parent would likely presume that the two kids in mortal 
danger were at Hogwarts, their first inclination might be to seek 
information there, rather than at 12 Grimmauld Place, which likely 
puts them behind schedule in finding out what is happening and where, 
when compared to the folks at Order Headquarters.

This assumes, of course, that the older Wesleys were there to see the 
clock, and thus to know that two of their children were in danger.  
As these two are their youngest, and the next two older children had 
recently left Hogwarts for careers their mother heartily disapproved 
of, it would not be too presumptious to think that the parents 
weren't even at home.  They might well have been at The Leaky 
Cauldron, so as to be nearer Gred and Feorge, and trying to talk 
sense into them.

In the end, though, we will never know where they were, what they 
were doing, or why, unless JKR tells us.  But until she does, there 
is no reason to suppose a Flint or an inconsistency is to be found in 
their absense, and ample room is available for relatively baseless 
speculation.


Richard