Maroon

[tiggersong]

No: HPFGUIDX 88596

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jesta Hijinx" 
<jestahijinx at h...> wrote:
> >
> >Can anyone guess what the deal is with the color maroon so
> >frequently associated with Ron?
> >
> >When his clothing is described (sweaters, dress robes, etc), it is
> >almost always maroon.
> >
> >Does this color symbolize anything?
> >
> >neisra
> >
> I always thought that if it symbolized anything, it symbolized 
Molly 
> Weasley's being out of touch with what her youngest son really 
thinks and 
> feels - he apparently doesn't like maroon from his muttered remarks.
> 
> Moreover, IMHO, maroon goes really badly with red hair.
> 
> My guess as to why she keeps doing it is not to annoy him, but 
simply 
> because for her own sanity she has a "color" coded to each child so 
she 
> knows whose is which when doing laundry, making things, sorting out 
> purchases.
> 
> Felinia


This is mild fic-contamination, but as someone who's struggling with 
money, it seemed realistic when I read it:  When Ickle Ronniekins was 
a small baby, Arthur and Molly got a lot of maroon yarn at some 
incredible discount.  Molly then used it to make all of Ron's baby 
things and ... the color stuck.  (This is not to say that Molly is 
still *using* that old yarn, just that now [as Felinia said above] 
Ron's "stuck" in maroon as far as Molly thinks of it.)

I was stuck in Very Used clothes for similar reasons when I was 
growing up.  When I got my first paycheck, I went out and bought New 
Clothes.  Oddly enough, I'm wearing maroon right now.  In fact, I 
like maroon on me and I'd happily go meet Ron in Knockturn Alley now 
to trade one of the sweaters I've knitted (in a non-maroon color) for 
an Actual Weasley Sweater.  

::grin::

Stasia