Everybody is chattering, apparently, about the maybe proposed Potter-verse tv series

[conuly]

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.

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[brokenallbroken]

Dudley of any of them has the most reason to hate magic. That tail Hagrid gave him (in reaction to something Vernon said) had to be surgically removed.


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

[conuly]

What really gets me is that I'm convinced that this is another area where JKR has no idea what the hell she even wrote. I don't think she realizes that the Weasley parents' on-page behavior is so close to emotional abuse, I don't think she realizes that the entire family is seriously dysfunctional, and I don't think she realizes that the most reasonable explanation for how the kids act is rooted in this interpretation of the text.

[brokenallbroken]

She certainly doesn't. Part of it is leaning into tropes and part of it is...well, she's clearly not an entirely healthy person herself. I think she doesn't know what a functional family looks like. I feel sorry for her kids.