The Dursleys, the Weasleys,Hagrid and Snape: Nice people get a pass

[lyraofjordan]

No: HPFGUIDX 125144



> 
> Lyra wrote:
> <How "nice" was it (for Molly) to publicly question whether the 
newly-
> bitten werewolf should be in the same room with Arthur two weeks 
away 
> from the full moon?
> 
Sylvia wrote > If it were my husband in the room with a werewolf, I 
should be 
> publically questioning it too.  She has just seen her much-loved 
> husband at death's door and now finds he is in the same ward as a 
> freshly-bitten werewolf and you expect her to be nice!  I have no 
> doubt the hospital has means, magical or otherwise, of restraining 
> the unfortunate werewolf when the full moon comes, but given the 
ease 
> with which Lockhart manages to wander about unsupervised, I'm not 
> sure how much confidence I place in that
> The Molly-bashing season seems to have started early this year.
> Sylvia (who can't think why everyone is so hostile to this lovely 
> woman)

Lyra responds:
Yes, but a werewolf is only dangerous at the full moon. And Molly, 
who has spent copious amounts of time in the company of one Remus 
Lupin, knows this from personal experience. To me, her reaction isn't 
just not "nice", it's as insensitive as backing away from a cancer 
patient as if he were contagious. 
(I wasn't really Molly-bashing; I quite like her and was as surprised 
as you to find out there are people in the world who don't share that 
feeling. This just wasn't her finest moment.)