Early on, I think it's Harry who compares Tom to Percy (though it might have been Ron, I can't recall).
It is Ron. He compares Riddle to Percy twice during CoS, because both of them were at the top of all of their classes and received recognition and reward. Jealous, some? Ron is dreadful to Percy.
The family is equally dreadful to Ginny throughout the story (either ignoring her suffering (Ron) or purposely scaring her (the twins), but Molly and Arthur both take the cake here. As you point out, Molly hugs Harry, not her own daughter. And Arthur -- yikes! He berates her! This is one of the only interactions that we ever see between Arthur and Ginny in the entire series. He yells at his 11 yr. old daughter because she was ... what? Acting like a normal little girl? Because she was "dumb" enough to become ensnared by the most powerful, evil wizard in the last 100 years??? What the hell was Arthur thinking? He is horrible here. I believe that Arthur was thinking only of himself. Somehow, someone got to his daughter and tried to turn her into an instrument of the Dark Lord so that she could be used to kill his pet Muggles. He's not thinking of her at all here.
I so often want to pick up Arthur and Molly and shake them and ask them if they have any freaking idea what they're doing to their children.
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Date: 2004-11-10 12:36 pm (UTC)It is Ron. He compares Riddle to Percy twice during CoS, because both of them were at the top of all of their classes and received recognition and reward. Jealous, some? Ron is dreadful to Percy.
The family is equally dreadful to Ginny throughout the story (either ignoring her suffering (Ron) or purposely scaring her (the twins), but Molly and Arthur both take the cake here. As you point out, Molly hugs Harry, not her own daughter. And Arthur -- yikes! He berates her! This is one of the only interactions that we ever see between Arthur and Ginny in the entire series. He yells at his 11 yr. old daughter because she was ... what? Acting like a normal little girl? Because she was "dumb" enough to become ensnared by the most powerful, evil wizard in the last 100 years??? What the hell was Arthur thinking? He is horrible here. I believe that Arthur was thinking only of himself. Somehow, someone got to his daughter and tried to turn her into an instrument of the Dark Lord so that she could be used to kill his pet Muggles. He's not thinking of her at all here.
I so often want to pick up Arthur and Molly and shake them and ask them if they have any freaking idea what they're doing to their children.