The Watch

[AmanitaMuscaria]

No: HPFGUIDX 173687

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "faery_wisdom" <kitnkids at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lawandmommyhood"
> <lawandmommyhood@> wrote:
> >
> > In the epilogue, Harry has a watch.
> >
> > "He checked the battered old watch that had once been Fabian
> > Prewett's."
> >
> > But where did *the watch* enter the story? How did Harry get it?
> > What's its significance?
> 
> 
> In DH on Harry's 17th b'day, Molly Weasley tells Harry his 
present's on top. He opens it and it's the old beat up watch. Molly 
says it's
> tradition to give a wizard a watch on their 17th, when they become 
of
> age, and starts to apologize for it not being new like Ron's. It's
> actually a a very touching moment, between what she says, and the 
hug
> Harry gives her as thanks. In that moment they seem to acknowledge 
that he is as much a son as Molly's others, and she and Arthur Harry's
> adopted parents.
> 
> faery_wisdom
>

AmanitaMuscaria now - I thought that scene was very touching. 
Did anyone else think it was highly significant that Molly gave her 
brother's watch to Harry - the one she presumably had been treasuring 
since he died? It's more than just acknowledging Harry as one of 
Molly and Arthur's sons, to me it reads like Molly's putting him in a 
favoured position.
Cheers, AmanitaMuscaria