Mother Molly (was: Some OOTP Questions)

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>>Arynn: 
>I must have missed the part where she encourages the twins to attack 
their siblings, if it does exist, please point it out, cos that would 
be significant. But, as far as I can tell, she only ever cries when 
Percy is mentioned in OotP. And I think I would have noticed if she 
had done anything of the sort with regards to Ron (who is one of my 
two favourite characters). But if I'm wrong, please tell me!!<

Betsy:
She doesn't come right out and tell Fred and George to make Percy's 
and to a certain extent Ron's life a living hell, but Molly does make 
sure to constantly hold Percy up to the twins as the "good" son, from 
PS/SS on.  And she pushes Ron into that role in OotP.  By praising 
Percy and then Ron and constantly brow-beating the twins and holding 
up their "better" brothers as proper role models, Molly is setting 
the twins up to resent Percy and then Ron.  

As I said earlier, I don't think she knows what she's doing (I hope 
anyway).  But by forcing her children to compete for her affection 
and praise Molly is not creating a healthy home or a healthy sibling 
relationship.  And her behavior helped drive Percy away.  It will be 
interesting to see what will happen with Ron.  Maybe the war will 
distract her and she won't lose a fourth son.  

(Plus, I'm not all that impressed with her tears in OotP, now that I 
think about it.  Molly is ensuring that her remaining children will 
see Percy as the enemy and refuse to forgive his breaking away from 
her and Arthur.  Proper parental behavior would be to keep the 
children out of it.)

Betsy