[HPforGrownups] Re: Weasley Poverty, Working Wizard Women; was Molly & Arthur - was Why I like G

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 123913


--- hogsheadbarmaid <hhbarmaid at gmail.com> wrote:

> From Ron's perspective
> (and Draco's) they are poor and he does not get everything he wants
> because of that.  But frankly Ron is benefiting from many of those 
> choices and from the rich family life the Weasleys have built.  It
> is likely that he will appreciate the non-material wealth of his
> family as he matures. 

To come to Ron's defence, he's the one who sticks up for his father
when he says that Arthur could have been promoted lots of times but
he likes where he is.  Which I believe.

But I think Ron's defensiveness about being poor comes from something
other than Draco Malfoy's taunts.  After all, he wouldn't be
vulnerable to them if he weren't already believing it himself.

Ron's complaint isn't that he doesn't get stuff; it's that
"everything I own is rubbish".  Molly can't be bothered to remember
that he doesn't like corned beef sandwiches (PS/SS), that he doesn't
like the colour maroon, and culminating in the humiliating moment
when she presents him with hideous dress robes with no appreciation
about how a teen will feel wearing them (and its clear from the
description that they are indeed ugly).

It's not poverty Ron objects to: it's always being at the end of the
line, getting what's left over regardless of how many hands it's been
through before getting to him, of simply being the last Weasley boy. 
It's tied into what he saw in the Mirror of Erised: always being in
the shadow of his brothers, he dreams of exceeding them all.  As he
says in PS/SS, no matter what he does, another brother has been there
first.

Poverty isn't always a lack of money; sometimes there are other
things that are lacking where poverty is a handy excuse.

Magda


		
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