Am I the only one

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No: HPFGUIDX 95667

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sienna291973"
<jujupoet29 at h...> 
wrote:
> -
> 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

Sue B:

Honestly, guys, what do you want? Poor Molly. Not only does she have
all 
that pressure on her, the fear of her family dying (and it's only
luck that 
nobody in her family does!), not only, in OOTP, does she have to go
on guard 
duty like everyone else, but she still has to make everyone's dinner
and clean 
the house! And we're talking, here, about SIRIUS's house - shudder!

And to be blunt, I can understand her attitude to the twins.  True,
they end up 
okay, but how would you feel if your kids, whom you knew were bright, 
mucked around at school (a school whose fees I suspect are among the 
things keeping the Weasleys poor)? You'd want to thump them! I know
if Fred 
and George were my kids, I'd want to sock them one. And Sirius in
OOTP 
was sullen, depressed, rude - understandable, but in some ways, an 
extension of what he was. Lupin would have put up with it. She was
right 
about Sirius.

I guess it's easier for me to understand Molly, because I have a
Jewish 
mother (a wonderful one!). Molly is the WW equivalent of the Jewish
mother. ;-)