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[ SECRET POST #6978 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6978 ⌋

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Why did Mollie Weasley believe the article that Rita Skeeter wrote about Hermione and Harry? It doesn't make any sense. Her husband works at the ministry, and in the beginning of the book, he specifically said in front of Mollie that Rita was a troublemaker. Her sons chimed in, too. And even if you want to argue that she was distraught in that moment and not focusing on what they were saying, when she visited Harry before the third task, Mr. Diggory was rude to Harry about Rita's article about the tournament, and Mollie said to him that Rita is full of shit and writes exaggerated articles. So why did she not realize that the article about Hermione was bullshit, too? How come she hadn't learned that Rita exaggerated and lied in everything she wrote?

Because all poor people in Wizarding Britain are either dumb as a sack of hammers or evil. Molly's not evil.

From what I heard, British people who weren't poor expected the Weasleys to be even dumber, because that was the portrayal of poor people they were used to. This was one of the reasons Ron became so much stupider in fanfic.

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*Molly

Also, it's the easiest thing in the world to be taken in by lies. Have you been paying attention for the last ten years?

I'm not sure what the secret is here?

I could see an argument, at this point, that anything about this fandom counts as a secret by default.

Honestly, kinda fair.

NAYRT- What I was thinking. Can't really talk about Harry Potter anymore.

Well, the Doylist explanation is that the author needed Mrs. Weasley to feel/react a certain way, and that the author isn't talented enough and/or didn't put in the effort to write a logical, in-character set-up for the plot scenario she wanted.

I agree with this. I wouldn't exactly call it a plot hole, but it's definitely illogical that she would call out Rita Skeeter all the other times, but then believe this one article without even checking with Harry or one of her children.

I tend to lean that way because frankly, Rowling always has been a solidly mediocre, sloppy writer. When the series started out, this wasn't as obvious because there weren't as many characters or plot threads to juggle, but the more the series progressed, the more complicated it got and she clearly wasn't great at keeping the plot organized so that it always made sense.

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HP has a lot of inconsistencies and moments that feel OOC (though IDK whether that's the right word when it's literally canon, I guess I mean "doesn't fit with previously shown characterization and wasn't adequately explained in the story for me"). I think JKR is a plot-focused writer trying to hit the plot beats of an entertaining story, and sometimes details got lost along the way. That's speaking as someone who enjoyed the books for what they are. The plot holes IMO can usually be explained by "JKR wanted the story to go this way and didn't always pull off the scene convincingly."

Yeah, I was just coming down to say the reason is that JKR is not that good of a writer.

Maybe, but as I recall it, that whole subplot was kind of superfluous? Removing Molly's overly credulous reaction would have made the book a bit shorter and had no other effect.

... I can't even say it was to play into the series's reputation as doorstoppers because that started with GoF.

maybe jowling is kind of a bad writer or something idk

Unconscious biases/prejudices.

People are always going to be inclined to believe something that fits in with their own assumptions and/or worldview, whether or not they're even aware those assumptions exist.

Yeah, this.

Yep. "Not one of us."

It's the Wizarding World version of Fox News

Yeah, and like. I know that Fox News spews bullshit. So if I see a news clip from there, I'm going to be inclined to disbelieve it rather than take it as gospel, since I know they're biased...

Because she wanted to. Most people will take the excuse to feel righteous anger even if, were they to sit down and actually think about it, they know it's not true. *gestures at everything*

The same reason for everything else that's wrong with HP: JK Rowling is a bad person and that means she can't do anything that's not bad or stupid. /s

mmm based on this and many other things in the books, I think the answer here genuinely is jk's internalized misogyny affecting her assumptions about how women think and behave towards each other

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Maybe she didn't notice the byline?

We humans tend to lose all logic when things hit close to home.

I think of Molly as a kind of Mrs. Bennett. Well-intentioned but cringe. She knew Hermione was A Big Deal, and she wanted that for her son. Like Mrs. Bennett, the moment a speck of doubt entered the picture, she was eager to blame the supposedly offending party as a misguided attempt to protect her son.

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