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ajax-daughter-of-telamon replied to your post:talk to me about harry potter, encourage me
why do you hate Molly Weasley?
Well, the too-honest answer is that she reminds me of my mother.
But - basically, she’s verbally abusive, possessive and controlling, and it stems mainly from seeing other people as incapable of making their own choices. She tries to keep people who are already endangered from important information so that she can pretend they aren’t at risk. And she massively crosses the line in pursuit of that goal whenever she feels like it.
There are a number of times when she works to prevent Harry, Ron and Hermione (and others as applicable) from being able to speak to each other in order to stop them from planning, or just because she feels like it. Usually, she does this by guilt-tripping them into housework and verbally abusing them if they try to duck out of it. She uses Grimmauld Place’s cleaning for this in OotP and the wedding preparations in DH; both times, she spends days/weeks harassing the characters every spare minute. She bans them all from talking to each other after the meeting the first night in Grimmauld Place and goes up to check they’re not doing it anyway.
She also believes Rita Skeeter’s article about Hermione despite knowing her for years. She gives Fleur a really hard time for being interested in her son. She corners Charlie before the wedding and forces him to let her cut his hair at wandpoint. She belittles her husband repeatedly and screams at him, as well as her children, regularly.
She accuses Sirius of not being able to tell his godson apart from his godson’s father, in front of his godson, as retaliation for Sirius refusing to let her have Harry shut out of the meeting - and I’m pretty sure she said it there and then in an attempt to shake Harry’s confidence in Sirius. She succeeded in getting Hermione to pick the idea up. (I think JKR thought she was right, but it’s… not really what she put on the page with Sirius’ actual actions.)
It doesn’t particularly surprise me that Harry, who is used to being ignored and despised, loves her anyway, but I don’t think that’s him having good judgment.
I never thought about it this way, but this… makes a lot of sense.
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