That would do it. I seems like the best way to get kids to remember life lessons years down the road isn't to explain it to them directly, it's to explain to someone else while the kid is nearby doing their own thing slash nosing into the adult conversation.
As an ex-Catholic who refused Confirmation (lots of people on these forums have heard my rants about 8th grade, I'm NOT going into it), I am surprised that there is still the attitude of "don't leave your abusive husband" in 2024.
it was one of those ultra conservative groups maybe catholic maybe not been to long for me to swear on the exact denomination. but in my experience extremists don't exactly care about what the new party line might be when upholding an older or just more stringent standards makes them the "more faithful one" or they convince themselves all of us not holding to older standards are destined for hell. Not that it prevents them from modernizing in other ways and ignoring inconvenient bits of the Old Testament but it's not like they've read the bible cover to cover anyway. Why would they when they live in an echo chamber regurgitating the same bits that convince them they're right….
Taylor gave her chances; and she just keeps acting like she's the mother of either or both of them. At some point Taylor is not going to listen to Harry anymore and she's going to solve the problem.
It's worth noting that Harry's lenience isn't just because he's conflict avoidant and she's not acting like a mother towards him just because she's bossy. For a long time, she was the closest thing he had to a maternal figure and the Weasleys were, more or less, his surrogate family (with the Dursley's being his main point of comparison). Her behavior is very problematic, but it's not coming out of nowhere.
I disagree. She's not acting like Taylors' mother, she's acting like a Karen who thinks she knows everything about everyone around her without actually learning about them. A mother would be crying and trying their best to help Taylor deal with being suddenly married to a strange man she doesn't love, or trying to tell Harry how to treat Taylor to make her happier with the situation while warning him about traps and pitfalls of marriage to someone he doesn't really know... depending on whos' mother she was.
This is so, but then again she's always struck me as a harridan so I can't really judge whether she's in-character and just dialed up a few notches or if she's not in-character to most people.
Very few mothers I know would be happy to know or very accepting of their 15 year old daughter being married to a 15 year old boy who just happens to be the target of murderous National terrorists. Good ones would not be acting like Molly, granted, but very few mothers would be accepting of this.
That's a strange way to spell "awful."
To be fair, she acted like a mother to Harry when he was 11 going on 12 after his first year, and he really needed it at that point. The problem was that he was almost a teenager even then, and she hasn't cottoned on to the fact that Harry isn't a preteen anymore and doesn't want to be treated like he's still a second year.
I was going to say, there is very little in the books which show she's a good mother. She's awful to Fred and George effectively every time they are on screen together, and even when they succeed in their business she still makes negative comment, she's awful to Fleur and Bill and tells Fleur to her face after Bill gets torn up by Greyback that she'll leave him because he's 'no longer handsome', she's so bad to Percy it causes him to literally chose the falling Ministry over them, and while we never see Charlie on screen, one of the times he is mentioned it's Ron saying that Molly and Arthur are going to Romania to visit him but that they haven't told Charlie they're coming because Ron know's he'd make excuses why they can't come.
I'm not entirely sure why you're focusing on the "teenage" bit at all. Regent is also a teenager, so it's not like he's an adult perving on a minor or anything. Also, he wasn't even really aiming to molest her, he was reveling in the feelings he got from a strong body and the endorphins after running, feeling her muscles and abs (and breasts, but he didn't focus on them at all)--he even said he almost forgot she was there until she shuddered in revulsion. At no point during the interlude did he do anything to her aiming to be sexual, he was enjoying the feeling of being able to feel. There's plenty of other fucked up stuff he actually did do to her, ruining her social life and pretending to make her commit suicide, but what you're insinuating is wrong.
I did check the chapter before posting the first time. Maybe you should check it yourself. Let me quote it directly:
Good point, it's off-topic. This discussion started from arguments about the quality of Taylor's character judgement (somewhat relevant for the fic, so not entirely off-topic), and people who said that her trusting the Undersiders showed that her character judgement is poor. The argument about Alec branched off of comments that Taylor trusting him in particular showed poor character judgement.
There is being unhappy and unaccepting, and there is slinging shit and hurling blame and insults almost every interaction. She's not in any way treating Taylor as a daughter caught up in a forced marriage as she is treating Taylor as a cancer that needs to be purged.
First question: what freaking right does she have to jump Taylor's shit? Taylor didn't force Harry to marry her; and since the WW is stupid enough to allow minors to do a magical binding, nothing can be done about it now; what good does screaming do anyone at this point? Harry can't change it, Taylor can't change it; all she's doing is causing stress to Harry(who really doesn't need more stress with moldishorts trying to kill him) pissing Taylor off, and getting closer to having a permanent case of pubic lice and or crabs.
Yeah, the fact that Molly appears to be treating Taylor as one of the perpetrators rather than one of the victims in that situation is a big factor in why both Taylor and a lot of the audience are offended at Molly. Not that it's unusual to blame one of the victims, and Molly is rather judgemental in canon, but that just means we don't blame the author for writing her in-character.
