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

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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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[conuly]

And Percy, of course, is estranged for doing nothing more than not toeing the family line - nevermind that all his mother ever wanted him to do is take a Ministry job - and then he had to practically beg forgiveness before they would talk to him.

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.)

[brokenallbroken]

I see a lot of Percy's support for the Ministry being less about ideology and more doubling down as a way to assert his independence within the confines of having done what his mother wants and turning into the person she wanted him to be his entire life. "Dumbledore is not GOD" is a perfectly reasonable line to take, and Molly certainly shows the same level of credulousness wrt sources she sees as authoritative (c.f. sending Hermione a tiny Easter egg in GoF).

[conuly]

(c.f. sending Hermione a tiny Easter egg in GoF).

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?

[brokenallbroken]

RIGHT?! And it isn't as though she had another source than fricking RITA SKEETER to find out what's going on over there before passing judgement. Given her opinions of Arthur's hobbies, one does wonder if she would have treated a pure or halfblood witch the same way....

[conuly]

You think that's why she's such a bitch to Fleur? I thought it fell into the much simpler answer of "She's never going to like anybody her sons date or marry".

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".

[brokenallbroken]

You think that's why she's such a bitch to Fleur? I thought it fell into the much simpler answer of "She's never going to like anybody her sons date or marry".

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.