Molly: Good Mom or Bad Mom? (was Re: OOTP observations: Molly...)

[golden_faile]

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> 
> Betsy Hp:
> <snip>
> When you compare Molly with other literary moms, she tends to land 
> (IMO, anyway) in the "bad mom" pile.  She's more the bad mom 
> from "Pride and Prejudice", for example, than the good mom 
> from "Little Women".  
> <Snip>
> Regardless of how JKR wants me to see Molly, I know that for me 
> she's a walking guarantee *against* OBHWF (One Big Happy Weasley 
> Family).  Even if the books do end with Ron/Hermione and
Ginny/Harry 
> sailing off into the sunset, a future of bliss will *not* occur.  
> Not with Molly as a mother-in-law.  
> 
> Hermione will *never* do anything right where Molly is concerned, 
<Snip>
> 
> Poor Ginny will be haunted day and night by Molly just popping by
to 
> drop off some fresh baked goodies, or share the latest pattern from 
> Witches Weekly, or to help her with the spring cleaning Molly just 
> *knows* Ginny was about to start.  When the major screaming match 
> occurs (and you know it will) Harry will be appealed to by both 
> witches and he'll probably end up hanging out in the shed with 
> Arthur.
> 
> Just my opinion, of course.
> 
> Betsy Hp

All of these comments just prove to me that JKR created "real"
characters. Molly is not perfect... MOST mothers aren't (although mine
will try to tell you differently). MOST mothers are all of the things
that you just described in some form or fashion... I'm sure everyone
has had at least one of the experiences that you have listed above
with their mothers! Molly loves her family and wants the best for
them. However, she can be overbearing and a bit out of bounds. BUT
regardless of their faults, we manage to love our mothers just the
same.... and when we grow up and have children of our own we even
begin to understand that they are people with hopes and fears also, 
when we look at our children we begin to have an inkling of what it is
that our parents have felt for us. In this way Molly is very real to
me, she is not some cookie cutter ideal of what a mother SHOULD be. We
try to do the best we can with what we have and I think that is what
Molly does. She is the real deal.

Just another opinion,

Laila