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⌈ Secret Post #6990 ⌋

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I'm not a fan of all those dysfunctional family role designations, but I do think that Ron Weasley is a Glass Child.

[(Anonymous)]

Really? What makes you think? And which child is the one getting all the time and energy?

I personally don’t see it. Molly and Arthur love all of their kids and genuinely seem to care about them in the here and now but also their futures. That’s how it should be but I can tell you it’s not as common as people want to think.

[(Anonymous)]

Molly and Arthur love all of their kids

iirc Ginny got her own robes and wand and books at the start of the Chamber of Secrets. Ron got various hand-me-downs from his brothers and only started being good at spell work when he got his own wand due to breaking Charlie's old one.

[(Anonymous)]

Girl clothes are different than boy clothes. I can see a school as prestigious and strict Hogwarts not feeling very comfortable with a female student wearing her brothers' hand-me-down. And I say this as someone who went to a school with a strict private school where the girls had to wear skirts. (Not of course considering the author being a complete terfasaurus)

[(Anonymous)]

Aren't the robes pretty unisex, though? In the way that graduation gowns are?

[(Anonymous)]

things the movies definitely changed. in the books everyone just wears the unisex robe (which the tailor only takes up/down at the hem and sleeves) but the movies went nope we need full school uniforms with gendering.

like, shit, everyone in the family was in Gryffindor so Madam Malkin wouldn't have even needed to change house patches or contrast colors (if there were any).

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I didn't like how they wore normal clothes under their robes in the movies. That's not how it was described in the books at all. There was the whole thing in the books about how wizards didn't know how to dress like Muggles, that was totally lost with the movie since they all dressed in clothes that would look totally normal to muggles if they just took off the robe/cloak.

[(Anonymous)]

You are forgetting who the author is, Hogwarts robes definitely not unisex, but exceptionally highly gendered.

[(Anonymous)]

Molly could've literally magically adjusted them. Clothes don't have gender until the gender that puts them on decides they do.

[(Anonymous)]

The ill-fitting and worn-out hand-me-down robes were one minor thing that really bugged me when I re-read these books as an adult. I understand they didn't have enough money to buy new robes for every kid, but you're going to tell me that Arthur Weasley could illegally enchant a car to fly and Molly Weasley could knit 7-8 sweaters a year, but neither of them had the time or ability to magically mend and alter some robes??

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. It seems like there would have been spells to restore things to better condition or to extend the length of the robe/sleeves.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, but IMO, this is an example of the world building details where Rowling has failed to really think it through. I've said this long before she outed herself as a crazy TERF - she has some good ideas, but her writing has always been rather untidy and mediocre. It's great as a framework for fanfiction, but the canon itself is lacking.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I wondered this when I first read it and every single time I reread, it'd stick out even more and more. Molly Weasley seemed quite good at magic and she was very skilled in homemaking. Like, if she can knit sweaters, she'd be a good enough seamstress to alter old clothes or create new clothes from old fabrics.

[(Anonymous)]

It wasn’t just Ron, all the boys went through that. Even their oldest had second hand everything. It isn’t that Ron was a glass child, it was that Ginny got some special treatment.

[(Anonymous)]

What does "glass child" mean? I haven't heard of that particular term before.

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently a child that's ignored over a special needs kid in the family, like I guess they're saying Ron is ignored over Molly's adopted child, Harry???

[(Anonymous)]

Also Percy seemed to be the favorite, and while Fred and George obviously weren't they still got a lot more attention for their antics.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I can see how Ron got the least attention out of all the Weasley children. Bill was head boy, Charlie was a Quidditch champ, Percy was... also head boy and had ministry ambitions, the twins were the twins, and Ginny was the only Weasley girl in like 7 generations and was also the youngest. Ron was the most "normal" out of all of them so I can see how/why he was overlooked.

[(Anonymous)]

This is the first time I'm hearing the term Glass Child, but looking it up, I can see Ron falling under that umbrella. Being from a big family, the youngest of five boys with a baby sister, and having busy parents, it's be easy to accidentally leave Ron to his own devices.