Mother Molly (was: Some OOTP Questions)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 125020


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Julia" <jolka55 at p...> wrote:
> 
>  
> > >>Richard Jones 
(Snip)  Molly says after Ron is made Prefect "That's 
> > everyone in the family!"  (OOTP 9/163) Is that just a set up for 
> > George's joke ("What are Fred and I, next door neighbors?") or 
is it something more?<
> > <snip>
> > 
> Julia:
> 
> I've read an essay at Ren Hen:
> http://redhen-publications.com/Weasleys.html
> about Molly and the whole Weasley family and I can assure you that 
I  now see Molly in completly different light. Now the Weasleys 
don't seem to be lucky to have each other... really worth reading!
> 
> As to the quote - I'm very suspicious about tha one too. I can't 
> imagine that mother can ever be in such state of shock that she 
> can'r remember her two sons. But I don't know what to think about 
> it. 


Tonks here:

I read the Ren Hen article and I do not agree with it. But this post 
got me to thinking. There is another part in SS/PS where Molly gets 
the twins mixed up and they say "honestly woman and you call 
yourself our mother".  What if she isn't their mother? What if the 
twins and Ginny are the children of Molly's bother that was killed 
in the War?

They don't mention it because Molly and Arthur treat all of the kids 
the same. And Ron would have been about a year old at the time,  and 
Ginny a baby. Only the older kids know and no one ever discusses it. 
It would be a kick wouldn't it. Harry gone to live with his Aunt. 
And Fred, George and Ginny gone to live with theirs, and the vast 
difference in the way that the orphans are treated. Would be like 
JKR to do something like that to us.  It is a bit odd for Molly to 
forget that she has 3 other children who have not been prefects. She 
was so excited that it slipped out.  Only rational explanation IMO.

Tonks_op