Yeah, there is some....weird hatred for the Weasleys. Not even Harmony hatred, more like--I have DARK and EDGY fic coming up here, I am here to TELL JKR how it SHOULD'VE gone, and the Weasleys (and Dumbledore) will bygod PAY.
I recently had to quit reading a fic that just had this hate-on for Molly--really tore her up ("screechy," "hysterical," had this humiliating incident in front of everyone at Hogwarts). I posted a comment saying "you have some decent ideas here. But Molly--Molly is the mother surrogate who held Harry in her arms as he sobbed after coming back from the graveyard at the end of GoF. She doesn't deserve this." With very few exceptions (UMBRIDGE), most of these characters are carefully realized, complex characters that have good and bad points, both mitigating and aggravating circumstances. Even Voldemort (and I daresay if we'd been given some of Umbridge's backstory, we'd have understood a little bit why she became such an abusive horrible person). If you can't see that and write fic that realizes that, it's creepy grudgefic and I have no time for it.
Re: I don't understand the argument against the Weasleys
I recently had to quit reading a fic that just had this hate-on for Molly--really tore her up ("screechy," "hysterical," had this humiliating incident in front of everyone at Hogwarts). I posted a comment saying "you have some decent ideas here. But Molly--Molly is the mother surrogate who held Harry in her arms as he sobbed after coming back from the graveyard at the end of GoF. She doesn't deserve this." With very few exceptions (UMBRIDGE), most of these characters are carefully realized, complex characters that have good and bad points, both mitigating and aggravating circumstances. Even Voldemort (and I daresay if we'd been given some of Umbridge's backstory, we'd have understood a little bit why she became such an abusive horrible person). If you can't see that and write fic that realizes that, it's creepy grudgefic and I have no time for it.