Am I the only one

[sienna291973]

No: HPFGUIDX 95660

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, BrwNeil at a... wrote:
> Has anyone else's opinion of Molly Weasley changed?  In the first 
three books 
> I really liked Molly.  Sure, she was on the tough side, bossing 
the kids and 
> Arthur around, but her good heart and fondness for Harry 
outweighed that.
> 
> My opinion started to change in GoF and by the end of OotP, I no 
longer liked 
> the woman.  Now the love and kindness she showed seems to be far 
out weighed 
> by her controling attitude.
> 
> She is bossy, pushy and just plan iritating.  She thinks she is 
always right 
> and feels everyone should bow to her will.  She is not happy just 
bossing 
> Arthur and the kids around anymore.  Now she feels, Harry, 
Hermione, even Sirius 
> and the other members of the order should do as she says.
> 
> Does anyone else feel like telling her to shut her mouth or is it 
just me?
> 

Oh Neil, I so agree.  I can't stand the woman (*ducks rotten 
tomatoes*)... she seems to me so very stereotypical.  She is the 
ultimate tyrannical mother.  If she were my mum, I'd move to another 
country.  I was never a big Molly fan (I can't handle people who try 
to control and mould their family around their own wishes and 
wants), but in OotP she took the cake.  This is just my own opinion 
of course, but I don't know whether it's the way she behaves or the 
fact that the only house-wife portrayed in the HP books is a brow-
beating, tyrannical overlord.  I accept that she has everyone's best 
interests at heart and that she loves her family (and even Harry) 
but it just doesn't sit right with me.  I'll accept that she is a 
powerful witch, but that doesn't give her the right to behave the 
way she does.  I particularly dislike the way she treats the twins, 
the way she treated Hermione in GoF, and the way she behaved with 
Sirius in OotP.

Sienna