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Everybody is chattering, apparently, about the maybe proposed Potter-verse tv series
Or, at least in the places I read, about how they probably shouldn't do it because JKR is super transphobic and doesn't need more money anyway.
You know, there's a lot I could theoretically say about that, but somehow, the convo in the comments I actually had was on the subject of Why Molly and Arthur Are Bad Parents, Canon Backs Me Up.
"But don't you think you're putting too much emphasis on the roast beef sandwiches?"
Nope, not at all. What I think is that Molly Weasley, if there's any justice in that world, is going to end up alone, wondering why all her kids won't talk to her. She's like one of the parents at Issendai's site. Literally, she's this woman at the end here, the one with the corn chips. She's not going to see her son for another ten months, and she makes him a lunch she knows he doesn't like?
I will stand by this statement.
You know, there's a lot I could theoretically say about that, but somehow, the convo in the comments I actually had was on the subject of Why Molly and Arthur Are Bad Parents, Canon Backs Me Up.
"But don't you think you're putting too much emphasis on the roast beef sandwiches?"
Nope, not at all. What I think is that Molly Weasley, if there's any justice in that world, is going to end up alone, wondering why all her kids won't talk to her. She's like one of the parents at Issendai's site. Literally, she's this woman at the end here, the one with the corn chips. She's not going to see her son for another ten months, and she makes him a lunch she knows he doesn't like?
I will stand by this statement.
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What punishment do the twins get? Well, nobody says boo about them not going to the Quiddditch Cup. Molly is staying home anyway. Wouldn't be a problem having someone to stay with them. But no. Off they go. They get to the campsite and very soon ignore their father again and bet on the match. It's no wonder the twins are a problem at school. They don't listen to the yelling, and no one at home cares to punish them any other way.
All the Weasley kids are reasonably well mannered. But I still think Molly and Arthur failed miserably with the twins and got lucky with the rest.
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It's not often one is made to feel sympathy for the Dursleys, but this'll do it.
And of course they never listen to the yelling - it's always the same! Bill was perfect, Charlie was perfect, Percy (whom the twins are allowed to bully mercilessly) is perfect, why aren't you perfect like all your perfect older brothers?
(And then we see the effect of all this on Ron right from the start, and straight through to the end of the series - he's convinced he can never live up to any of his brothers, and by extension, that he's never quite good enough in any situation. So why try at school? Just to fail? Better to not try and then failing doesn't count.)
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And then we see the effect of all this on Ron right from the start, and straight through to the end of the series - he's convinced he can never live up to any of his brothers, and by extension, that he's never quite good enough in any situation. So why try at school? Just to fail? Better to not try and then failing doesn't count.
Yep yep yep
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Maybe I'm reading the wrong fic or something, or all the writers read the wrong series.
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But there's just so much potterfic, it's easy enough to miss out on a story or a theme or two. Do you have any recs?
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That's even weirder as a premise than "Dumbledore, in between grooming Harry as a child soldier and managing the Ministry, loves to play matchmaker between his students".
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control freakbusybody, and it's as good an explanation as any why two people a generation apart who don't seem to love each other (or even know each other well) would suddenly get hitched. Remus' reaction to finding out he's going to be a father is to run away. He's not happy. I can easily imagine Molly watching Tonks pine a bit in her crush, see Remus' "shyness" and low self-esteem (but not his grief for Sirius or very real anxiety about being a werewolf with a family), and think "I want the people around me to have the kind of happy domesticity I think I have because that's the only real way to be happy" and "he just needs a bit of a nudge".no subject
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the twins had to learn their bullying and disregard for customers' consent from somewhere
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He'd had no way of knowing the Ministry would end up the wrong side, and when push came to shove he chose the right side. He should've stayed estranged.
(Also notice that the twins, despite technically staying in the country and literally being able to teleport, somehow "never have time to come home for dinner". Uh-huh. That's the issue, time.)
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Which, by the way, who does that!? Hermione is a teenager. It is perfectly normal for teenagers to go in and out of relationships. Not only that, but Hermione is her children's friend - and a close friend, at that, who has stayed with their family by that time!
Who treats anybody this way, least of all a child who is a family friend?
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And when Bill goes back to international cursebreaking, and continues to see his mother rarely, if ever, Molly is never going to say "Well, he's been doing this since he left school". Now that he's married it's going to be "His wife has her parents over all the time and not us, his wife has her parents watch the grandkids and not us, his wife is selfish, I just don't know why she doesn't like me".
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Some of each. Remember how catty she got about whether Fleur would still love Bill after Greyback's attack. And even after Fleur's badass comeback to that. We don't have a lot to base comparisons on, except the way she treats Hermione, and that's before she and Ron get together.
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"But don't you think you're putting too much emphasis on the roast beef sandwiches?"
Nope, not at all. What I think is that Molly Weasley, if there's any justice in that world, is going to end up alone, wondering why all her kids won't talk to her. She's like one of the parents at Issendai's site. Literally, she's this woman at the end here, the one with the corn chips. She's not going to see her son for another ten months, and she makes him a lunch she knows he doesn't like?
LOL! You made me chuckle - thank you.
No disagreement. I didn't like the Weasley's as much as the author seemed to. And yes,why would you give your kids food they clearly don't like?
JKR reminds me more and more of Ronald Dahl (an equally problematic UK children's fantasy writer) with a snide and somewhat biting absurdist wit. Like Ronald Dahl - she has "gender" issues. Dahl did too, among other things.
From what I've read - Warner wants to buy her out much like Disney did with Lucas, Marvel and the Muppets. But JKR is unlikely to sell.
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Because many parents, and child psychologists, believe that children disliking food is just some kind of psychological tic that can be overcome by making them keep eating the food. Eventually they'll like it.
I'm here to say, as a former child, that this doesn't work. Kids don't dislike foods for strange psychological reasons. They dislike them because THEY TASTE BAD. As with their other senses, children's taste buds are very strong, and dislikable sensations are intense. I still dislike the same foods I disliked as a child, but my tastes have faded over the years, I can tolerate many of them now. I couldn't then.
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It's the smarter choice.
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2. Honestly, she's smart if she doesn't sell. Warner would be smart if they could get her to - then they could divorce the work from the creator entirely.
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Ernest looks a lot like GRR Martin.
2. Agreed. She doesn't need the money, and retains control. But I can see why Warner is trying to buy all rights, so they can divorce the work from her entirely. OTOH - unless JK wants to continue playing around with it - it makes sense to sell. (shrugs).
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His peer Weasleys are smart enough to know that if they can make it through Hogwarts, they won't have to deal with her ever again.
It's almost sad to recognize that Molly had seven fiercely brilliant children and managed not to raise any of them well.
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(Except his parents. Which is a whole different rant. The Longbottoms are suggested to come from some serious money, why are they letting Frank and Alice be warehoused like that? I don't know if they ever could improve, but they could be just as unimproved in the comforts of home, with a few paid caregivers so Augusta doesn't have to spoonfeed them herself. Or, look into the muggle world, where there are multiple paid tiers of nursing homes to suit every budget.)
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