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

[bboyminn]

No: HPFGUIDX 188817



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff" <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
...
> 
> 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.
> 
>

bboyminn:

While I don't disagree with you, I think you are being a little
hard on Molly. She is basically doing what mothers do. She it
trying to protect here kids, including Harry, from the dangers
of life. All parents are like this. All parents are slightly
irrational when it comes to their kids. All parents tend to
be over protective. 

Much like Aberforth, Molly thinks Dumbledore has put too 
much on Harry's shoulders. She thinks Harry ought to step back
and let the 'adults' handle it. She, and to some extent 
Aberforth, think that Harry should concentrate on being a kid 
a little while longer. He should live his life more carefree,
free of the demands of adulthood. They both tend to forget 
that Harry has already carried burdens beyond most adults.

Of course, we see as all kids see, that the adults are making
a total mess of it, and that if the job is to truly be done,
and done in a timely fashion, then Harry has to do it, or
at least try.

But again, most parents are irrational. And yes, Molly does 
things that are generally irrational, but at the same time
are typical of over protective parents. 

Yes, I do think Molly is something of a control freak, but
given the house she lived in, she only had two choices,
either be in absolute control, or live in absolute anarchy.
She choose, and wisely so, control.

Steve/bboyminn