What was Mrs. Weasley Thinking?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 90020

--- 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...<<

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