OOTP observations - Molly

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No: HPFGUIDX 132713

 
> Alla wrote in post # 132692:> 
> Her forgetting  about the fact  she has two more  sons, I find 
close to unforgivable.
> 
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> 
> Now, having said all that, I DO like Molly. If for nothing else, 
for the wonderful children she brought up, so she must have been 
doing a lot of things right. :-)

Potioncat:

Yeah, I think she has. Now
as to forgetting the twins
speaking from 
painful experience, there are stupid things I've said as a mom that I 
would give my right arm to be able to go back and un-say. For each of 
my 3 kids I can think of something I said that to this day hurts me, 
whether they remember the incident or not. I mean those things said 
in the moment that didn't sound exactly as intended, but couldn't be 
explained away. So to me, this is a very believable Mom-moment.

All of JKR's characters have wonderful, terrible flaws. Some have 
more than others. 


Del wrote in post #133710:
> I'd say Molly did wonderfully indeed! Sure she's not the perfect 
>mom,she loses it sometimes, and she lets her heart overtake her mind 
>at times. So what?? There is NO such thing as The Perfect Mom. Molly
> loves her kids, her husband and Harry, her *worst fear* is to lose 
one of them, and she's working hard at making them as happy and safe 
>as possible, even if she's sometimes mistaken on the way to do that. 
>I say : go Molly, go!!
> 

Potioncat:
Me too!  I agree with everything Del said in that post.

I think Molly and Arthur have a loving relationship that fits them. 
It may not be the sort that everyone would want, but it fits them.  
The twins seem amused at Molly rather than insulted by her. The 
feeling I get is that they are secure in her love.

As for supporting their "dream": excuse me, they're failing school! 
How many teachers on the list would think highly of a parent who 
waved off their kids' poor grades with something like "Oh, they have 
potential and a dream, it's OK with me that they aren't doing their 
school work."

And how many parents would let their teenagers sell candy that makes 
a person's nose bleed, or items that explode? Yeah, I know Molly 
didn't know about all the details, but she knew enough.  It's all 
well and good for us to enjoy the twins' sense of humor and 
adventure, we aren't their mom.

But the truth is, Molly posts are like Snape posts
you either like 
her or you don't.

Potioncat who wishes she could think of something clever to add to 
Filch's drawers.