Molly and the twins (Re: Am I the only one)

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 96059

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:

> 
> Del :
> Or you could see them as those kids who play in rock bands and make 
a
> bit of money as teenagers. There are quite a few of those, but how
> many become rock stars ? For one U2, I'll bet there are at least 100
> teenage bands with no future.

Quite so. But how will you know which one you are unless you give it 
a try? After having two adult novels refused (IIRC) JKR could have 
finally buried her dreams of becoming an author and applied for a 
secretary job for the sake of her child, and the world would never 
have heard of Harry Potter. That is what grates me most about Molly 
and the twins, that she's so convinced that what they are doing is 
rubbish that she won't give them a chance.

They were making money on Skiving Snackboxes in book five, sorry. 26 
Galleons in one evening. Not peanuts. 

> Del :
> But those are the *exceptions*, not the rule !! We simply can't 
expect
> Molly to sit back and *hope* that her kids are going to be the 
Edison
> and Einstein of joke items ! Molly wants *security* for her kids, 
she
> knows what being a poor grown-up is like, how could she not want the
> Twins to follow a more traditional but much safer path ?
> 
> Del

I'm not saying it's odd that Molly values security and 
respectability. But whenever she wants her children to become 
something they clearly are not suited for, she is setting herself up 
for a disappointment. It's like asking chickens to become fish, 
completely unrealistic. If Fred and George were less forceful 
personalities and Molly tightened the thumbscrews, they would 
probably become Ministry officials or something like that, rather 
bitter and unhappy with their lives and bad at their jobs. Molly is a 
woman with her heart in the right place, but she can't live her 
children's lives for them or prevent them from making mistakes 
(nothing wrong with making mistakes, by the way.) If the joke shop 
goes bust, then it goes bust. But at least they tried.

Alshain