[ SECRET POST #4375 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4375 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(Madam Secretary)


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[Doctor Who S11E06, "Demons of the Punjab"]


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[Dark on Netflix]


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(Madam Secretary)


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Comments

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

Molly Weasley. To call her a good mother is fucking laughable. Just because she's nice to Harry and occasionally shows warmth doesn't change the nearly-brazen neglect that she subjects the rest of her brood to. I hate it, and I hate that I'm supposed to accept her as some paragon of motherhood that should be aspired to.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

sa: oops, I only saw the "least favorite" part, haha. I have too many favorites! But I suppose if I had to pick one, it'd be Luna. She's so supportive and helps people come out of their shells, and she's so cute.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god, thank you. I can't stand Molly, she's a terrible mother and it's so obvious that the children are unhappy but think of it as the norm. (But Bill and Charlie got jobs as far away as possible from her as soon as they graduated, Percy went all in trying to please her, the twins went the extreme opposite way right until Percy ditched the family [honestly, I really don't blame him] and then they turned around and began flat out trying to buy Molly's affections which, not to her credit, looked like it was working. Ron just bummed about with a massive inferiority complex and coasted through life and Ginny got great at sliding under the radar to avoid drawing her attention in negative ways. And Arthur was always working late and hardly ever home. I think everyone there, including Molly, was desperately unhappy, but no one really realized they didn't have to be.)

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[morieris]

Damn, man.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

lmao, sorry, I have a lot of feelings on Molly

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[ayebydan]

Nail on head though. Nail on head.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[philstar22]

I agree 100%. She treats Hermione shamefully. And she acts like she's Harry's mother in terms of wanting to get to control what he hears and does, which is not cool. And she treats Arthur kind of terribly too. Then again, Arthur wasn't amazing either.

Honestly, just, the Weasleys in general. I know JK wanted them to be this idealized, amazing family. But they just didn't appeal to me. I like certain Weasleys. But as a whole, the whole vibe of the family was not as amazing and healthy as the author wants us to think.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

You're kind of seeing them from Harry's perspective in the book though. Any family probably looks good compared to the Dursleys.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[philstar22]

This is true.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[morieris]

The fact that she fell for the bullshit in that article and acted spiteful toward a fucking child is beyond.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly.
Not to mention that she was awful to Fleur just because... she was pretty I guess? She was like one of those typical evil mother in laws that go on about how no girl is good enough for her son. It took Bill almost dying and Fleur declaring that she loved him no matter what he looked like for Molly to warm up to her. Like, damn.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

I took the Weasleys to be an example of the "Not rich in money or material possessions, but rich in love and warmth" kind of families (like the Cratchit family in A Christmas Carol), as a contrast to the Dursleys, who were better off financially (not rich, but solidly middle-class, although the extent to which this was a matter of having more money or fewer children is debatable) cared a great deal about appearances and material things, but treated Harry abominably and weren't doing a great job raising Dudley. The Weasleys can certainly be flawed and still provide that contrast, but the books don't peg the flaws as flaws, which suggests they are not to be seen as flawed and the result is pretty uninspiring.

Re: Favorite and least favorite Harry Potter characters

[(Anonymous)]

I agree completely.