[HPforGrownups] Re: Dating Muggleborns(was: Where does it say that Molly ...

[Paula "Elanor Pam"]

No: HPFGUIDX 125324

> In a message dated 2/27/2005 2:08:44 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> horridporrid03 at yahoo.com writes:
>
> >>Magda:
> >Yes, but the question is: why was Molly so  willing to believe that
> the Hermione that she knew was this heartless jade  that Skeeter
> described?<
>
> >>Naama:
> >Maybe she  has a thing against girls with large teeth? Or very smart,
> goody two-shoes  girls? Or brown, fuzzy hair? Or girls she suspects
> her son fancies? Could  she have murky psychological problems with
> girls who befriend her  daughter? Girls who aren't interested in
> Quidditch?
>
> Chancie:
>
> I tend to agree with Naama on this point.  But I see it as pretty  simple.
> Molly isn't against Muggle-borns IMO, she's just concerned about  Harry.
> As it has be brought up in other threads, I think that Molly thinks of
Harry
> like he's her own child.  She reads that Hermione is ripping Harry's
heart
> out and toying with it.  *Any* good mother would be angry if  something
like
> this was truly happening.  If Rita had written that story about any  other
girl
> I have no doubt that Molly would have the same reaction.  And it is  true
> that Hermione has spent time with their family and she knows her  fairly
> well.  But Molly doesn't feel the same connection to Hermione as she  does
> Harry.  That's where the difference comes in, and I think it has
absolutely
> *nothing* to do with Hermione's family tree!!!

Elanor Pam:

I tend to think that Molly actually felt betrayed - that this intelligent,
friendly girl could do such a thing to a boy she considered part of her own
family. To think that she had actually trusted her!! That she had accepted
her in her own household!! Laughed along with her!! AND THEN!! Isn't there
supposed to be a little basis of truth to every rumor?

Just my take on her behavior. :D Molly clearly seems to me the kind to
overreact, and I think that's exactly what she did.


Elanor Pam