[HPforGrownups] Re: VWII and WWII (was Marietta and Hermione)

[charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 121009

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> Del replies:
> Which is why even Arthur makes me uncomfortable. He obviously loves
> the Muggles, but he also quite evidently IMO doesn't consider them as
> equal to the wizards. *Nobody* in the WW considers the Muggles as
> equal to the wizards, *not even the Muggleborns themselves*. Because
> the Muggles aren't magical, they are considered as *inherently
> inferior* to the wizards.

<rest of discussion snipped - I agree, I agree>

charme:

Heh.  :)  I am about to say something which may be *very* unpopular.  You 
folks who are Molly and Ron/Hermoine shippers, don't shoot Dungbombs at me 
now, ok?

Arthur doesn't make me nearly as uncomfortable as Molly does, and I 
vacillate on that in different severities each time I read GoF. :) At least 
Arthur is enamoured of Muggles and their culture, and that's perhaps a 
start, IMO.  I got this weird, strange and lingering impression that Molly 
wasn't too happy with the possibility of Hermoine being Harry's girlfriend:

"Harry looked between them, then said, "Mrs.Weasley, you didn't believe that 
rubbish Rita Skeeter wrote in Witch Weekly, did you? Because Hermoine's not 
my girlfriend."
"Oh," said Mrs. Weasley, "No - of course I didn't." But she became 
considerably warmer toward Hermoine after that." (GoF/US)

Now, before I get Stunned repeatedly by those Molly fans, let me say this: 
earlier in the same chapter only a couple pages before, Molly angrily 
admonishes Amos Diggory for believing anything Rita Skeeter writes.  So I'm 
either left with Molly:

- As the "do as I say not as I do" sort of person with Amos, yet she 
believes the worst of Hermoine per that article (if that makes sense)
- If the Ron/Hermoine shippers are right,  how she'd take having a Muggle 
daughter-in-law like Hermoine :)

There are probably other reasons, but she damn well confuses me :)