Arthur and Molly WAS: Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION Chamber of Secrets Ch. 5.

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 188816

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "SteveE" <winterfell7 at ...> wrote:

Steve:
I liked Molly's character much of the time, but I did get annoyed by many things she did. I think Harry loved her as well, and while upset w/ how she treated Sirius and w/ her behavior at times, still cherished her as a mother figure.  What irked me the most was her insistence in DH to know what HRH's mission was and her insistance on keeping them separated at the burrough.  I see why she did it, and sympathized w/ her motives I guess, but wished she would have trusted in Harry a lot more than she did. And like Alla, I too think she was a bit selfish in her actions. I basically thought she should have stopped hassling Harry once she found out he was on a mission for DD. I think Molly should have acted more like Minerva, who was immediately on Harry's side once she heard he was still doing something important on DD's orders/instructions.

Geoff:
In a way you are tending to agree with Alla and myself.

It is **precisely** the things that annoyed you which make me see 
her as a control freak. She wanted to be able to say "yea" or "nay" to 
what the trio or Harry were planning to do and I suspect that if she had
known what their plans were, they would have had great trouble 
getting away from the Burrow despite the fact that it was of paramount 
importance that they did.

There seemed to be a basic distrust of the fact that Dumbledore had 
instructed Harry to keep any information about the Horcrux hunt 
absolutely limited beyond himself to Hermione and Ron and she "had 
to know".

If Molly had found out what their plans entailed and tried to be in 
complete control of their actions, it would have been potentially a 
total disaster.
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