Weasley Family Dynamics

[James Lyon]

No: HPFGUIDX 164938

Molly only seems to have two settings--mean and nasty or smothering.  
She insults the twins when Ron-insecure-git becomes a prefect, she  
says that now all her sons were prefects. I find very few canon  
episodes where she is not yelling at her kids or trying to control  
someone's life.
How does she treat Sirius--as a child with brain damage and emotional disorders. Now, we might say that Sirius did meet those conditions,  
but her treatment of him, in front of Harry and regarding Harry, was  
"the tongue that castrates." Add bastard!Snape into Sirius's  
enjoyment of being "home" again, and you have some of the best  
torture-of-the-soul that anyone has been put through--and Dumbles  
seems to approve.
Her first three sons were smart enough to get out of the house when  
the getting was good and do not want to spend any more time under her thumb then they can help.
Then, poor Ron, going from the neurotic mother to the neurotic  
Hermione. Molly wears the pants at the Burrow and, if Ron marries  
Hermy, she will wear the pants in their house. I can just see Ron  
being over shadowed by his successful wife while their children spend their childhood in various child care institutions. For all of us  
that don't care for Ron that much, we see wife!hermy as the ultimate  
payback.
The thing in canon through the first six books is that the good guys  
get punished, the bad guys skate, and no one ever comes to Harry's  
defense (and I don't count Dumbles very limited defense of Harry to  
the Wizengamot). But, don't get me started on all of Dumbles  
missteps, inadequacies, cruelty, neglect, and hubris. The man should  
have retired 50 years ago.
Draco throws Cruci- and Harry sends Sectumsempra, and Harry gets in trouble and nobody questions Draco or Harry over the self- 
defense issues and the attempted unforgivable. One thing that Harry  
should be very clear about by now is that there is no justice and  
nobody sees "just Harry."
Thanks to Molly and Vernon, Harry would be justified to determine  
that every family must have a designated yeller and a submissive  
partner, with the kids either brow-beaten or spoiled rotten.

James