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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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".

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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.