OOTP observations - Molly/Molly's worst moment in the books?

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 132697

Alla:

> You know what I just realised? If I were to nominate Molly's worst 
> moment in the books... <snip>... No, my number one choice would be 
> her forgetting about twins.

> I guess there is an explanation for that, but I just don't see any. 
> Would welcome one.

zgirnius replies:
Yes, that bothered me too. Technically, though, she also forgot about 
Ginny... I finally decided she didn't really forget any of them. She 
just meant, everybody in her family who might have had a 
hope/aspiration of being a prefect. The twins clearly do not, and 
have not for as long as we can see. They were 2nd years when we first 
saw them, I think (since they are 6th years in Book 5), and already 
it was clear they weren't interested in prefecthood. And Ginny was 
plain ineligible at that point, as a 4th year. A slip of the tongue. 
I have a mere 2 kids, and I manage to address one or the other of 
them by the wrong name all the time. (And soon they might get old 
enough to notice...)

It's still not totally great since her whole reaction to prefecthood 
for each of her kids clearly shows that is the only path she accepts 
for her kids...this is fine for younger kids, they need to know their 
parents value education so that they would make some affort at 
school, but once the twins are 6th years and of age, some openness to 
who they have turned out to be and their aspirations would be nice. 
But I think she will come around, eventually. Especially as the 
twinds appear to be making a success of their venture.