Am I the only one (Molly and Sirius in OoP)

[Nicole Lewis]

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galarieloflothlorien <mhairigowans117 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Now we all know that Molly loves to mother Harry.  She washed 
> his socks, buttered his toast and forced him to eat fourth 
> helpings at every meal (CoS).  When she reads Skeeter's article 
> in Witch Weekly she goes in all guns blazing believing that 
> Hermione is actually screwing him around.  Molly, loving Harry 
> as her own, naturally wants to defend him and this is the reason 
> why she is so cagey with Hermione in the latter half of GoF.  
> When Harry clears up the misunderstanding she is fine.  This is 
> becuase Molly doesn't have a problem with Hermione but is just 
> being overprotective of Harry.  
> This is also evident in Azkaban when she says:
>
> "Do you really want to send Harry back to school with that 
> hanging over him? For heaven's sake, he's happy not knowing!"
>
> Here Molly is being the typical over protective mother.  She is 
> totally underestimating Harry here, believing him to be more 
> vulnerable than maybe he is, but is that not typical of a mother?  
> She just wants to protect him - even when he doesn't need 
> protecting.  


As for her stabs at Sirius in OoP, that is easily explained.  Molly 
wants Harry to be part of her family.  Sirius, she sees as taking 
Harry away from her.  When she has a go at Sirius for not being there 
it is becuase she is trying to claim Harry as part of her family for 
fear of losing him.  She is jealous that Harry has someone else to 
make a family with.  Molly is obviously faulted but so we all are.  
It's understanding these faults that is the key.  

I agree with many of the points against Molly, she can be overbearing 
and unfair at times.  But I think these imperfections make her character 
more interesting.  No offence to any mothers out there, but if she was 
a 100% perfect mom then I doubt any of us would like her character anyway!  Also, she does has good intentions and a big heart, she just wants Harry 
to have a better "home life" than he's had in the past.  

And as for her comments to Sirius, I think she perhaps saw some of Sirius' behaviour that we didn't see, maybe Sirius did speak of Harry in a more friendly than fatherly way.  He is a threat to her because he could take 
Harry away, and she doesn't know him that well so doesn't understand his relationship to Harry.  As well, if Sirius was cooped up for really long 
time with Molly it is inevitable that they get on one anothers nerves.  I thought Sirius was the annoying one in OoTP, encouraging Harry to behave 
like James.  I think JKR did this on purpose to help ease the passing of Sirius.  Okay, so his death wasn't easy, but if you think about it he and 
Harry had no real future together.  Sirius as a father figure?  I don't 
think so.  

JKR did the same thing with Cedric in book four - he was dating Cho so we 
had reasons to dislike him - and then he died.  I also felt that she was 
doing this with Hagrid as well (I found him VERY annoying in OoTP) so I wouldn't be surprised if he was next to go.  Don't get me wrong, I wasn't 
HAPPY that Sirius died and I wouldn't be happy if Hagrid died, but I've 
noticed that JKR tends to emphasize the negative traits of characters especially right before they go.  But then again, all her characters are 
a balance of positive and negative (which makes them far more interesting) 
so I could just be reading into things that aren't there.  Anyone else 
notice this or am I going crazy?
 
"miranda_mcgonagall37"