Molly-- Thoughts on a witch
Josh Warren
wjwarren4269 at comcast.net
Mon Aug 9 15:47:03 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 109455
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cmw652" <cmw652 at y...> wrote:
> A lot of what you say is true if taken at face value. However, I
> have always valued "Intentions" when looking at actions. A lot of
what
> Molly does can be seen as cruel, but I do not believe that is her
> always her intent.
Ahh... the road to hell, and all that... :) Yes, absolutely Molly is
very well intentioned, but she's certainly a terror... and I'm still
counting her among the short list Harry is going to tell off rather
convincingly in the nearer chapters of HPB. She deserves it!
It isn't the lack of perfection that is ever a problem. All of us
needs someone to (metaphorically or not) come up and gives us a slap
or a kick in the pants when we've lost all objectivity in judging and
choosing our own actions. Molly's only experience with this in the
past... 25 years more or less? ...has been Percy's leaving, but Percy
is clearly in the wrong, so it doesn't do much good.
I personally look to the wrongs of Molly has JKR not only showing how
concerned a mother should be, but also how there is definitely a line
of going too far. If JKR lives the lessons she teaches in these
passages, her children will be very lucky.
Josh
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