Molly-- Thoughts on a witch

[serenadust]

No: HPFGUIDX 109623

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Josh Warren" 
<wjwarren4269 at c...> wrote:

> Not saying it would be mature, necessarily, but Harry does have a 
> right to be angry. You can't dispute that.

Oh, he certainly has a right to be angry at the hand life has dealt 
him so far.  What I dispute is that he has any right to be angry at 
Molly, and I really don't think we'll see him direct any of his 
anger her way.

Josh continues:
 A good part of the living 
> hells of his life are quite attributible to the good guys in the 
> guise of protecting him. The Dursleys; 'nuf said. I think it is 
fair 
> to assume that the beginning of HPB will have PowderKeg!Harry, and 
we 
> can either leak that pressure off slowly, or in an explosion. 
Slowly 
> gets us a whole book of Angry!Harry, so... yes, I agree with you, 
and 
> thus we need an explosion. :)

Well, since OOP was nothing but PowderKeg!Harry, I think it would be 
a bit monotonous to continue that in HBP.  Besides, I think Harry 
has moved beyond the stage of acting out in anger.  It really hasn't 
been a very effective coping mechanism and in the end, I think he's 
begun to realize that.  I expect that we'll be seeing a more subdued 
Harry in the next book.

Although, Dumbledore has shown that he isn't always omniscient, I 
still think that placing Harry with the Dursleys was the best option 
left to him at the time.  He was placing Harry's survival ahead of 
his day to day happiness.

Josh wrote:
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> Hmm... we do have to wonder if Molly knows even the partial 
prophesy, 
> or is she the same as DD in that she's hoping that despite all the 
> evidence, that Harry won't have to fulfill it until he's an adult? 
> Molly not knowing the partial wouldn't contradict my above 
statement, 
> as she wasn't one of the ones guarding it.

How do we know that she wasn't one of the ones guarding it?  The 
night that Sirius appears in the common room fire to tell HRH that 
Molly doesn't want them to participate in the DA, he tells Ron that 
she can't tell them herself because she's "on duty tonight". When 
Ron asks "on duty doing what?", Sirius replies, "Never you mind, 
just stuff for the Order."  I think that's a pretty strong clue that 
she's pulling guard duty just like all the other Order members.  I 
think that if any of the other OOP members know about the prophesy, 
then Molly does too.

Jo S.