Why the Molly hate?

[wook77]

I was reading a craptacular story written by an author that I adore mocking.

That being said... a theme that runs throughout this author's stories is - Molly bashing/hating. I thought it was just further proof as to the craptacularness of this author but it turns out I was wrong.

It seems that there is more than one person out there that dislikes Molly for whatever reasons...

My questions to you -

Does anyone else hate on Molly and, if so, why the Molly hate?

No wank and please to be providing reasons.

Comments

[shaggydogstail.livejournal.com]

Here via hogwarts_today.

There are an awful lot of reasons to dislike Molly, some of which are fair and reasonable (imho), some less so. I'm not keen on Molly because she can be overbearing, and has a tendency to jump to conclusions and be a bit spiteful. I'm thinking particularly with the way she took against Hermione in GoF because of Rita Skeeter's article (when she knew already what a hack Skeeter was, because of the way she treated Arthur), her comment about Azkaban when she was arguing with Sirius, and the way she freaks out about there being a werewolf in St Mungo's.

Molly does have good qualities, and I couldn't actually hate her because I recognise that she mostly has good intentions. She loves her children and she loves Harry--I don't personally agree with the way she tries to, uh, mollycoddle the kids, but I can see why she does it. She irritates me and if I knew her in rl I wouldn't get on with her, but I think it's a bit ridiculous to hate her as she's essentially a good and loving person.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

First - welcome! I'm glad that you shared your thoughts with me (and, well, the group at large...).

Molly is very reactionary. That seems to be an over-riding theme in the reasons why people don't much like her. As I've said above... I view this reactionary thing as part of being a Gryffindor. (I keep using the same two examples as well...) Ron reacts similarly when Harry's name is pulled out and Seamus is reactionary at the beginning of OotP.

As soon as any of them are informed differently, they accept the truth and apologize or act apologetically (I will also admit that I'd forgotten about the Sirius situation so I can't remember how she reacted there).

I'll agree that if she were my own mother, I'd probably yell and scream at her, similar to Ginny's treatment.

*snirt* at the mollycoddling comment, btw. But yes, she does try to mollycoddle them. I think she has the best of intentions and I cut her slack because of that. Then again... the road to hell is paved with good intentions...