[HPforGrownups] Re: Molly is not ESE!

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 125229

> vmonte responds:
> 
> The twins do not see Ron as the enemy. (I'm sorry, but isn't there 
> anyone on this site that has grown up with a family that teases
> each other?).... 
>
> And I do not believe that F&G hate their brothers. They are joking 
> around and are obviously the clowns of the family. In fact, I think
> that the fact that they are disappointed in Percy for not going to 
> the hospital points to the fact that they care about him and are 
> upset by what he is doing. 


Of course Fred and George don't "hate" Ron and Percy.  But they very
much resent being compared unfavourably to them by Molly.  

The practical jokes they play on Percy get increasingly hostile and
hurtful as they all get older.  Ron is very aware of this and his
idea of what constitutes proper Weasley behaviour throughout the
series is whatever won't turn Fred and George against him.  F&G's
comment to him that he wants to be head boy is met with a dramatic
denial, even though we saw in PS/SS that when he looked in the Mirror
of Erised that's exactly what he saw himself as.  Ron is in denial
about his own internal needs as long as they might conflict with
F&G's own views.  

I've said it before and I repeat it because it's significant: Ron has
his first decent Quidditch game after F&G leave Hogwarts.  This is
not a coincidence.  He's finally the senior Weasley at the school and
can step out of the shadows of the twins.

As for Percy, F&G are much more concerned about the effect his
estrangement has on Molly (which is irony to the tenth power, all
things considered) and seem quite prepared to write off Percy without
a qualm.  I think F&G spent a lot of years taking out their
resentment about Molly's nagging by expending it on Percy rather than
her, partly because Percy was on the spot at Hogwarts and Molly
wasn't but also because F&G are the kids most like Molly and it would
have been too close to home (no pun intended) to direct open
animosity against her.  Percy is a wonderful target and - like Snape
beside the lake - has the wonderful advantage of not acting like a
victim so its possible to pretend that what they're doing really
isn't so bad after all.

Magda


	
		
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