[HPforGrownups] Molly & Arthur - personlities

[Barb Roberts]

No: HPFGUIDX 123080




>  phoenixgod2000 wrote:
>
>  > ... shes (Ginny) already starting to become as domineering as her 
> mother
>  > and the last thing I want for my favorite character is to end up as
>  > henpecked and brow beaten as Arthur Weasley.  Molly has him on leash
>  > so tight its pathetic...
Jocelyn Grunow wrote:
>
>  ...Molly also seems to do all the discipline, leaving Arthur as the 
> 'good
>  guy'.  I personally know several women who are frustrated to the nth
>  degree because their partners avoid taking on the unpopular parts of
>  childrearing. 

I see Arthur and Molly as having opposite personality types that as a 
couple balances out.  It's funny we've had another set of posts on 
Snape's  personality type (Myer Briggs or Keirsey.)  I take these 
personality sorters with a grain of salt, but sometimes they are 
useful.  Fun too.  A simple Google search various forms of "Harry 
Potter" and "Myer Briggs" (or "Keirsey") will lead to different sites 
with all sorts of speculations about the personality types of the 
characters in JKR's books.

One site "Pirate Money" ( http://piratemonkeysinc.com/allresults.htm) 
says that Molly is an ESFJ (or Keirsey's Provider "guardian" type) and 
describes this type as "nurturing, generous and protective. In their 
interactions with others, they try to avoid conflict. ESFJ's are 
usually easy-going but they will not hesitate to scold someone of whom 
they disapprove."   This does describe  that seemingly contradictory 
trait of Molly's where she attempts "avoid conflict with others," by 
scolding her family to behave more conventionally.  Arthur, on the 
other hand, is probably something akin to an ENFP ( a "champion") on 
Keirsey's Temperament Sorter 
(http://keirsey.com/personality/nfep.html.) or ENTP (an "inventor") 
perhaps?   Perhaps the Inventor tag is closest.  Anyway he is more an 
idea person and not terribly sensible,  practical or conventional.


Barbara Roberts
           	


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