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Twelve Months stuck?
Mira:
--- Quote ---Minor difference of opinion here, but I don’t think it was Charity not seeing the signs that her daughter was developing magical talent as much as it was Charity not wanting to believe that her daughter would develop the talent combined with Molly keeping the secret to herself.
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Yes, but also not leveling with Harry up front from the beginning of her husband's friendship with him, of her own background. Instead she treated Harry as if he were a corrupting influence on her children. I think it was out of ignorance, fear, and misplaced thinking that magical talent is somehow evil in of itself that guided her. As forbidden fruit, Harry's talent and exploits became even more attractive to Molly, for many of the wrong reasons..
g33k:
--- Quote from: Regenbogen on June 28, 2024, 08:45:58 AM ---You beat me. This feels much closer to 100% than before, lol.
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Specifically, it feels 10% closer.
/snark (*)
(*) -- ahhh, who th'hell am I kidding? You'll stop my snark when you pull the keyboard from my cold, dead fingers...
Regenbogen:
--- Quote from: g33k on June 28, 2024, 07:38:40 PM ---(*) -- ahhh, who th'hell am I kidding? You'll stop my snark when you pull the keyboard from my cold, dead fingers...
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Gnarly old fingers clutching the ancient keyboard, refusing to let go. With one last effort the trembling index finger hits "post".
One last snark leaves the cozy run down home to find its place in the void of the world wide web.
One last breath escapes, almost like a content sigh.
Gone is the snark.
Gone are the typing noises.
No more.
Nothing left.
Silence.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on June 28, 2024, 11:41:39 AM ---Yes, but also not leveling with Harry up front from the beginning of her husband's friendship with him, of her own background. Instead she treated Harry as if he were a corrupting influence on her children. I think it was out of ignorance, fear, and misplaced thinking that magical talent is somehow evil in of itself that guided her. As forbidden fruit, Harry's talent and exploits became even more attractive to Molly, for many of the wrong reasons..
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I think you're more or less correct, but you seem to be judging Charity's all-too-human failings quite harshly.
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
As Harry notes, modern scholarship puts gives us a *MUCH* more nuanced understanding of this verse.
But from what we understand of Charity's upbringing... that's probably how she felt about the matter.
Her background with magic was something she was ashamed of. She never really took any time to really think about it, come to a deeper understanding. She felt a reflexive dread, and shied away from addressing the issue, doing the emotional work that her own background would have required, if she were to address the issue rationally.
And, just as a practical matter: as Charity noted, most of Michael's serious injuries came from the few occasions he worked with Harry. How could she see Harry (and "wizardly" pursuits) in anything other than a horrible light?
g33k:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on June 27, 2024, 11:20:28 PM ---I think Molly was doing everything she could to hide her talent from Charity. Seeing as she described to Harry (in Proven Guilty) that she pulled up a vail on her own without previous instruction must have made it much easier to keep her talent hidden.
Minor difference of opinion here, but I don’t think it was Charity not seeing the signs that her daughter was developing magical talent as much as it was Charity not wanting to believe that her daughter would develop the talent combined with Molly keeping the secret to herself ...
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Speaking as a parent: one becomes very adept at spotting your kids' BS.
Not perfect -- never 100% perfect -- but IME kids fool their parents less than they think they do.
I think it was both, and in roughly equal measure: Molly working really hard to hide it, and Charity not wanting to face it. Molly provided just enough "plausible deniability" that Charity could convince herself "nothing magical" was happening... despite the fact that Charity herself had a background of being a tween/teen becoming magical under parental disapproval, i.e. personal experience of exactly what Molly was going through.
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