What was Mrs. Weasley Thinking?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 90030

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" 
> <drednort at a...> wrote:
> 
> >> I don't think she forgets Ginny - Ginny isn't old enough to be a 
>  prefect yet - her statement could mean 'so far' or she could be 
>  confident for some reason that Ginny will be a prefect. Fred and  
> George, though, are old enough - and they in the room with her.  
> Yes, a mother with a large group of kids can occasionally forget  
> something, sure - but to actually totally forget two of them 
> exist...<<


> Pippin:
> 
> I think JKR is illustrating denial. And since denial is a 
> subconscious process, it doesn't matter that the Twins were 
> right in front of her. Molly wants to think that all of her children
> are Prefect material, and the inconvenient fact that two of them 
> were not, though as conspicuous as the proverbial elephant in 
> the living room, simply  escaped her.  That's my take on it, 
> anyway.
> 
> Pippin

bboy_mn:

Another possibility is that Molly wrote off Fred and George's chances
of becoming Prefects a long time ago, so when she says 'that's
everyone', what she means is that's everyone who ever had even the
remotest of maybe becoming prefect. 

Just a thought.

bboy_mn