Molly-- Thoughts on a witch

[Josh Warren]

No: HPFGUIDX 109567

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" 
<patientx3 at a...> wrote:
> HunterGreen:
> For what though? I can certainly see a reason why Ron or Fred or 
> George might want to tell Molly off, but I don't see what on earth 
> she has done to Harry. 
> Remember, she owes nothing at all to Harry, she's not his mother, 
> she's the mother of his best friend (we don't see Hermione's 
parents 
> doing anything for Harry). She isn't motherly to Harry because she 
> has to be, she is because she chooses to be. Its something that 
Harry 
> needs, and she's one of the few people to step in and give it to 
him. 
> Very few adults actually reach out to Harry, which is the only way 
he 
> developes any sort of relationship with them since he never reaches 
> on his own. She doesn't go as far as Sirius (who makes the effort 
to 
> write to Harry), but she still treats him almost as if he were one 
of 
> her own children (and she does already have quite a number of 
> children to deal with), which is very admirable. Harry telling her 
> off for "something" would be very cruel.

Ok, I'll back off on the terminology. Molly and every other adult 
has, in OotP, come out not smelling so much of roses, in Harry's 
view. Everyone knew more about his own freakin' destiny than himself. 
His overprotection has led to Sirius' death, and Molly's dislike for 
Sirius was made quite clear, and every attempt at protection in 
Harry's experience has failed: his parents' fidelis charm, Gringotts, 
the faculty, Fluffy et al, the faculty again, Azkaban, dementors, the 
Ministry on several occasions, and the Order.

Molly is over-protective, and Harry is definitely on a countdown to 
explode at all this protection. Dumbledore and Molly are the two 
worst instigators. Over-protection can quite deductively be seen as 
the quickest way to get Harry killed... and there's no way he'll be 
able to fulfill his destiny if he's locked in the bowels of Gringotts 
under a fidelis. He needs to demand to be treated as an adult member 
of the Order. Snape and Molly will be the loudest objections... and I 
look forward to Harry's response. :)

It's not that she isn't nice, concerned, etc. It is that she takes it 
too far and passes back into negative territory... petty, scathing, 
etc. on occasion. She needs an attitude adjustment on when to back 
off.

Someone else had asked why Arthur could take this job? Well... he 
would be the best person to do it, if he hadn't had almost all 
ability beaten out of him over 20+ years of marriage. Harry, being 
the outsider, can present a more objective view. The very fact that 
his telling her off would be obscene is _exactly_ the kind of "Huh? 
What?" it would take to go introspective long enough to see the 
problem.

Josh