[HPforGrownups] Re: Mother Molly (was: Some OOTP Questions) / Nice people get pass

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 125231

> Magda:
> 
> And don't tell me she was in "mother bear defending her cub" mode 
> over possible hurt to Harry - she KNOWS that Rita Skeeter lies and 
> isn't to be trusted.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> I don't justify Molly's action here, BUT I think that it could be 
> indeed she in her "mother bear mode". Why are you so sure that
> Molly 
> knows that Rita lies and not to be trusted? Could you give me a 
> quote? I read it as Molly's sincere belief that Rita was correct.
> It 
> does not mean that Molly was right to judge Hermione so fast, but 
> she really does not know her well.

Molly would have read the earlier Skeeter article about Hagrid with
its prominent coverage of Draco Malfoy's lies, which appears in
Chapter 24; and in Chapter 13, Skeeter's article about "Arnold"
Weasley and his incompetence as a MOM employee appeared.

So by the time the heartbreak article appeared in Chapter 27, Molly
had had at least two indications that Skeeter was relying on bad
sources and was writing libels about people.  

And Molly knows that Hermione is the third corner of Ron's and
Harry's triange, that's she's her son's second-closest friend.

Magda


		
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