Molly & Rita (was: Ginny/brothers/not old fashioned but old predjuces)

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 152524

katssirius <katbofaye at aol.com> wrote:    
"I was shocked back in GOF when Mrs. Weasley turns on Hermione because of Rita's stories. She knows Hermione, she knows Rita and the Prophet, she knows Harry, and she comes down on a 15 year old girl as the obvious one at fault without bothering to check it out first."


Joe:
"Does she know Rita? Is there any canon for that? For that matter does she know Hermione? I mean in the first three books how much time did Mrs. Weasley spend with Hermione?"


BAW: 
Do the math!  Molly's and Ritas' times at Hogwarts would have overlapped.  Even if Rita were a Slytherin (she might have been a Ravenclaw, she's certainly not dumb--I can't see her as either a Gryffindor or a Huffelpuff), they would have known one another at least a little.

Perhaps Rita had changed over the years.  If in her student days Rita had been known to be a bit of a nosy-parker, annoying for that reason, but essentially truthful, Molly would have assumed that the girl she remembered was the same as the woman whose columns she was reading.

BAW