VWII and WWII (was Marietta and Hermione)

[annunathradien]

No: HPFGUIDX 121120


> > 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?
> >
> > "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)
> 
> TrekkieGrrrl:
> 
> Ah but IMO that is because she's angry at Hermione for BREAKING UP 
with 
> Harry - which is the rubbish referred to, and not for being his 
girlfriend. 
> Molly cares so much for Harry that she gets angry at anyone who in 
her 
> opinion threathnes his wellbeing


annunathradien:

However, Molly *knew* that Rita Skeeter is hardly a reliable source 
for information.  Molly herself had pegged Rita as a liar (for making 
up stories about Arthur earlier in GOF).  Yet Molly believed the 
stories about Hermione the 'scarlet woman' playing Harry's heart like 
a fiddle?  Why?  Why is Rita a liar when she's bad-mouthing Arthur, 
but apparently not when she's bad-mouthing Hermione?  

It does make you wonder.

I'm not saying Molly is an evil person or something, but, I do think 
she and all the Weasleys have displayed on occassion a sort of 
inherent, casual racism.  A Wizarding World status quo of distrust of 
things/persons not like them.  I kind of always saw Molly as a free-
thinking, gentile pauvre Southern woman with an abolitionist husband 
just prior the break-out of the American Civil War.  She's 
revolutionary in she'll invite *lesser* races into her home and break 
bread with them (despite what the other gentile might say) ... yet 
she still has that antiquated, inherent way of thinking ingrained in 
her.  Passed down to her from god knows how many generations past.  
Even a "free-thinking Southerner with an abolitionist husband" has 
her limits.  Muggleborns amalgamating into her family?  I could see 
Molly not particularly keen on the idea.  One might wonder how or to 
what degree her behavior/mindset may change once the war is in full 
swing.  Will she stick with her husband's ideals or will she squeeze 
the protective noose all the tighter around her family (her familiar 
circle)?

~annunathradien