[HPforGrownups] Re: Mother Molly (was: Some OOTP Questions)

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 125048

Potioncat:
Checking the dates as given by the Lexicon, it would be possible for 
the twins and Ginny to be Molly nephews and niece. And it wouldn't be 
unheard of for both a husband and wife to be killed. But I hope this 
isn't what JKR is doing. My reason is for a RL example, but one an 
author could make a mistake in. If Molly and Arthur took the three 
kids as their own kids, they wouldn't think of them as nephews and 
niece after 11 years. It might be what JKR is doing, but it is a 
mistake. 

On the other hand, I only have one other explanation: Ginny isn't old 
enough to count yet. And no one ever expected the twins to be in the 
running. They never wanted to be prefects, or pretended they didn't 
want to be perfects. It was still an unfortunate thing to say.

Potioncat

Sherry now:

I was raised from when I was six to when I was 14, by my dad and his second
wife.  They divorced when I was 14.  However, in all those years, and all
the years since, that woman has been my mother.  She has not loved me or
treated me differently than the two children she and Dad had together.  My
own mother is alive, but this other woman is my mom in all the ways that
count.  It doesn't seem like Molly, after all those years would separate the
twins in her mind that way, not her blood children.  I rather think her
comment was more a thing of, well, that's everyone in the family who could
possibly be a prefect, so far.  We know the twins had no interest in it at
all.

As far as how the twins react to Ron's becoming a prefect, I never took that
to be anything but a lot of teasing.  I'm the oldest in my family, and
though all my siblings know my love for them, I might have teased them like
that, and they would tease me just the same.  The twins aren't mean to Ron,
they just give him a bad time.  Ron's dread of standing up to the twins in
his role as prefect strikes me not as fear, but rather, just a matter of not
doing that to older prankster brothers.  In similar situations, my siblings
would never have done such a thing to me.  Even though I am the rule
follower in our family, for the most part, I wouldn't have taken points from
my siblings either.  I only ever told my parents something my brother did
once, that I thought was serious enough to need parental intervention and
involved possible harm to another person.  And 30 years later, I'm the only
one who remembers the incident, because I still feel guilty about ratting on
my brother.

I think Molly is a wonderfully loving mother, and I'd loved to have had a
mother like her.  You never have to wonder how she feels about her kids.
She gets angry with all her might, but she loves them with all her might,
too!  Go Molly!

Sherry