I am a mom who use to write short stories for her son when he was younger about his made up adventures, but now that he is older, he's asked for more contemporary characters. His current interest is Harry Potter. I also have a niece who gives me challenges and asks me to write stories for her. In the years I've been writing for them, I've never posted, but I was browbeaten.

I didn’t dislike the Weasleys (except for Ron, he was much earlier. I was hoping by the end of book three that she'd kill him off) or specifically Mrs. Weasley, until book five, although her story to Hermione and Ginny in POA about how she used love potions to attract Mr. Weasley has never set well with me. Is there much of a difference between love potions and Rohypnol? I find it disturbing really, but as she quickly pointed out, it wasn't illegal at the time. I guess she never considered that it was immoral and then several books later we see how disastrous the results can be when Merope Gaunt used them on the object of her affections. Later, it was Mrs. Weasley's overbearing, I know best attitude and tantrums until everyone did as she dictated that became too much. Good lord, do functional people yell that much? At the beginning of OotP she stated that Harry was as good as a son. How can that be? Sure he was her youngest son's best friend, but just how well did she know Harry? The boy spent two weeks with the family before second year and two before fourth. It was two years between those two trips to the Burrow for Harry. The only contact in between was the one night in POA at the Leaky Cauldron and the two times he got off the Express. I find the whole thing a bit creepy. She is as manipulative as Dumbledore, just more blatant about it and far more insidious. I am also unclear what her issues were with Fred and George and their Wheezes at the beginning of book four.

In case I wasn't clear, I really, really don't like Molly Weasley. I just don't buy that she was the one that defeated Bellatrix. I know that was what was written, but I just don't see it happening. It was Hermione and you will never get me to acknowledge otherwise.

That brings us to Ron. I don’t see why either Harry or Hermione would continue to beat that dead horse. Friends don’t treat each other with that much contempt or disrespect. Constant bickering and arguing are not the signs of love, they are the signs of two people who don’t really get along. Why would anyone want to live with that much discord? And no, I do not buy into the theory that it was intellectual debate. Furthermore picking fights, demeaning someone’s achievements, and making fun of the things that someone enjoys doing are not a way to declare to the world that you love someone, it just means that it will be an emotionally abusive relationship. Most teenage girls have at one time or another subjected themselves to that abuse and I find it disheartening that Hermione was another victim of the phenomena. Furthermore it is irresponsible for an author to portray it as true love in a children's tale. After all I am sure that Ron and Hermione together for the epilogue was for the Greater Good of the Weasley family. I was saddened by the way Hermione was dumbed down in the sixth book to make her more compatible with Ron.

Ginny- The thing is, I would have been able to live with this paring if her character would have been better developed, but it wasn't. What little we do know I wasn't impressed with. The biggest mistake JKR made with Ginny (other than not really writting her into the series) was that she made her the fan girl in book two. Had Ginny not been in love with the BWL, poured her heart and soul into the diary, and everything else, she could have gone from Ron's sister to girlfriend, but the other is quite a hurdle to overcome. Also, in an effort to make it clear to everyone that Harry and Hermione are not together or compatable, JKR goes a bit overboard. Ginny is elevated at the expense of Hermione. It could have been done much better.

Ships: H/Hr, H/O, Hr/O; never Hr/R and personally, I don't sail the harem ship.