Harry and the chocolate egg

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89788

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" <rredordead at a...>
wrote:
> >--JDR
> >I think Molly will die before the series ends, and both the fact 
> >and the manner of her death will be gut-wrenching.
> 
> Mandy here:
> 
> Could JKR kill and/or maim another mother in the series?  It would be 
> awful. 
> 
> After all we already have:
> Harry's mum murdered 
> Neville's tortured 
> Tom Riddle's dead in childbirth agony 
> Sirius' mother dead and her memory portrait seriously deranged.
> 
> I don't think I could take any more.  Molly is the only 
> representation of a 'mum' loving, nurturing and alive that we and 
> Harry have. For her to die it would be devastating.  
> 
> However it might be the big kick in the arse that Ron needs to step 
> up to the plate.
> 
> Mandy, hoping Molly will survive to see her kids into old age.


Just a thought. Many fantasies, folk tales, and fairy tales begin with
the hero (or heroine) already orphaned, or a parent, usually the
mother, is killed off early in the story. It's unusual for the mother
to die after the son (or daughter) has already been to some degree
emotionally weaned from her. Take virtually any character from Bambi
to Harry himself. The death of the mother is a plot device to force
the hero to come to terms with life without the sheltering love of a
mother. But to kill off a surrogate mother like Molly at a stage when
the hero has outgrown that need (or the best friend's mother when he
also is growing up) serves no such purpose. It's male friends and
father figures that matter to Harry now, as we saw with Sirius. So, as
I stated in the previous post, I think Molly will suffer greatly and
lose more than one son, but I don't think she herself will die.

(I don't think Ron will die, either. That would be too big a blow to
JKR's young readers. But that's just my own gut feeling, not an
argument I can support with canon or logic.)

Carol