Mothers in HP

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 150714

Tonks_op: 
  
> > And I totally missed the part about Ginny. Do you think that 
means 
> > that Ginny will be the one to die?
 
 
> 
> Sue here:
> 
> Or maybe it just means that Lupin got into the room and removed the 
boggart before she 
> could do any more imagining? :-)
>

Hickengruendler:

Exactly. And when Harry entered the room, Mrs Weasley was already 
weeping over the Boggart. Therefore Ginny could just as well have 
appeared earlier. By the way, Charlie's body didn't appear either. 
What is important about the boggart is a.) that it explains Mrs 
Weasley's sometimes over the top behaviour, b.) it shows (again), 
that she sees Harry as part of the family and c.) that she still 
loves Percy, no matter what he did. 

And while I think, that JKR's male characters are generally better 
written than the female ones, saying that "girls aren't worth dieing 
for" in the HP series is IMO way over the top. First of all, nobody 
died for Tom. If anything, Merope died in spite of Tom. That leaves 
Harry, who as the main character happens to be a boy, and Barty 
Crouch junior. And I must admit that I have a hard time imagining the 
Crouch junior character as female. To start with, he identifies 
himself with Voldemort up to a certain point, and that just works 
better when they are of the same gender. 

Hickengruendler