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

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 152528

>
> 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.

Magpie:
Doesn't Rita write unflattering articles that mention Arthur Weasley in the 
beginning of GoF?  I thought Molly knew her as the author of those, which 
she complained about, but then she turned around and believed the other 
stuff about Hermione.

-m