I really don’t believe Molly was capable of killing Bellatrix. Bella is a Dark Lord trained Death Eater who frequently is using dark spells. Molly has been a house-wife for most of her life. Surely in reality she wouldn’t know those spells, let alone have ever used them before. Bella knows more and has been practising her skills (even through Azkaban), and yet Molly wins? I cant believe it.
(Taiga’s note: never, ever estimate the power of a mother protecting her children.)
I can’t wait until some of you idiots have children. See what you’re capable of when your child is in danger. She wasn’t just a house wife, she was a mother. Y’all moms should slap the ignorance out of you.
Molly was part of the Order in the first war. She lost her brothers to Death Eaters. She just lost her son, who was named in honour of one of those brothers. Her daughter, her only daughter, is threatened. You can damn well believe that her conviction was strong and she meant every spell she cast in defense of her family. Of course she knows those spells. Of course she wins.
^^^^ This.
Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, ‘Well, you know, she’s just a mother.’ And I was absolutely incensed by that comment. Now, I consider myself to be a feminist, and I’d always wanted to show that just because a woman has made a choice, a free choice to say, ‘Well, I’m going to raise my family and that’s going to be my choice. I may go back to a career, I may have a career part time, but that’s my choice.’ Doesn’t mean that that’s all she can do. And as we proved there in that little battle, Molly Weasley comes out and proves herself the equal of any warrior on that battlefield.
Molly was a warrior before she was a mother. Male soldiers become fathers all the time, I really don’t see how this is a problem.
I haven’t read the book in ages, but wasn’t it demonstrated fairly often that Molly was a powerful witch? Did this person miss that because of the fact she used her powers in a domestic fashion?
“Did this person miss that because of the fact she used her powers in a domestic fashion?“
In a word: yes.
Also, supposing she was “just a mother” and all that mothering made her forget everything that happened in her life prior to her children being born
Her house
you know (to be a stereotypical as possible) the thing that she spends all her time and energy cleaning and taking care of
has been a central hub of the resistance against Voldemort’s resurgence
Unless she’s walking around with her wand snapped in half and the bits of it stuck in her ears, she’s probably heard about a killing curse or two
soyeahso and hedwig-dordt hit the nail on the head – Molly is hella powerful. She casts silent spells all the time in her house. She has the pots scrubbing themselves, the broom & dustpan working by themselves, and she’s out in the yard yelling at Fred and George, or whatever. That’s not frickin easy.
And I think there’s still a lot of classism toward the Weasleys just kind of in general, even though the narrative of the books (& movies to a lesser extent) want us to question this (by showing the Malfoys’ classism as A Dick Move). Not only were the Weasleys instrumental in the first war against Voldemort, but their children all kick ass too. Bill is an Auror, which we learn requires very high performance in class as well as incredible technical skill. Charlie works with frickin dragons, nuff said. Percy makes prefect (and head boy right? can’t remember) and goes to work for the government. At sixteen Fred and George are so proficient at charms that they’re able to develop the entire line of Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes by themselves and they also manage the business. Ron, while hindered by persistent self-esteem issues, also on several occasions casts silent spells, performs well athletically, and is a quick thinker and great strategist (book 1 chess game anyone?). Ginny carries around Voldemort’s horcrux for nearly an entire school year and lives to tell the tale, and is basically Professor #2 for Dumbledore’s Army.
If the Weasleys were rich, everyone would know them as the greatest wizarding family in Britain, but they’re not, so instead it’s “red hair, freckles, and more children than they can afford.”
The story kicks off with the power of a mother’s love creating magic that is miraculous even by the Potterverse’s standards, and the fact that it was a MOTHER’S love that saved Harry is repeated over and over and over again.
Why would this case be any different?
Not to be flippant but bitch have you SEEN an angry or determined mum?
My grandmother was a battleaxe. Her grown sons obeyed her, her daughters-in-law – proud, educated, professional women with their own careers and children – respected and feared her if they liked their asses where they were. Fun story, the doctors said she’d die by December 1999. She would not live to see the new year. Only, my mum was pregnant then, and my dad being her youngest son, and with how long it took to conceive me, she knew I’d be her last grandchild. But if she died by December 1999 like the doctors predicted, she would never see me.
This woman went “Bitch no” and stuck around not just until I was born in late January 2000, but until the end of February 2000, pulling around her oxygen tank behind her the whole time – which, by the way, she was not supposed to be able to do either. Because not only did she want to see me, she wanted to be around at my full moon celebration (a traditional celebration partially to celebrate the baby making it to a month old). There’s a photo of her holding my ankle with a proud smile while my cousin carried me. Within two weeks, her condition rapidly deteriorated and she died.
Yeah. This old woman out-stubborned death itself for TWO MONTHS because she really wanted to meet her grandchild.
Just because someone’s a mum or grandma doesn’t mean they can’t be metal af. If anything, kids just give them reason to be metal.
When i was like 13 was allowed to use the internet unrestricted for the first time and i spent a lot of time on Runescape. One of the people i talked to on there was this person who had much higher levels than me in every skill and had, to my perception, a seemingly overflowing amount of game resources. One day i was taking about wishing i could get gold ore to level my smithing and not having access to any and they like “here, you can have this gold that i have” and just gave me this big stack and i was like “i don’t even have anything to offer back”. They told me they didn’t need anything and just wanted to be nice. I said that they didn’t have to and what they told me honestly has stuck with me since, they said “life’s too short to spend it being mean to people” and like it’s such a simple thing to say but combined with their actions and the weight they bore to me at the time was hugely influential on my outlook on life and the way i treat others. I don’t know who that person is but they changed my life that day and I’m so thankful to them.
high level MMO-ers are either the nicest people on earth or the spawn of Satan there is no in between
Runescape was a big part of my formative years for better or worse. Age twelve left me impressionable at best and the free lobster this guy gave me one day just stuck with me. We fished together for days on end and we talked about our parents and stuff. If you’re out there NinjaKirby69 I miss you buddy.
I forgot to type it up yesterday but one of my best experiences didn’t even involve me. It was when my younger sister, Runescape user cooldudetha, crashed the steel market single-handedly out of sheer boredom.
I need to know this story
So if you’re not aware, Runescape has the Grand Exchange, which is basically a global trade market controlled by supply and demand. It’s an incredible system, and deserves a lot of commendation.
Well one day back in…I think Summer between 2010-2012? my younger sister and I had nothing to do but play Runescape in our free time. I did what all aspiring heroes do, I was happy to go out and commit mass goblin murder. My sister was more creative. At first she went to train Smithing in Al Kharid, which is this desert area with easy access to iron, coal, a player bank, and a smelter. So basically she made craploads of steel for hours on end for like a week. But then she realized she had nothing to do with the steel. She could go find a smith with an anvil and train Smithing further, but that was boring since she’d already been grinding forever. So she went to the Grand Exchange and sold it all.
Thousands of units of steel ingots.
And it sold like immediately, since there was always a large amount of people training Smithing at the level they could use steel.
Obviously she became fabulously wealthy and didn’t know what to do with her newfound wealth. But since she spent a lot of time at the Exchange, she knew basically how the market worked. I’m not 100% sure on what the thought process was for her, but she essentially realized a basic economic principle: If she could control the supply and demand for steel she could accelerate her profit margins.
So like any reasonable 12-14 year old, she bought out about twice as much steel as she sold. Flooding the market had almost halved the price, and she now was both the supply and demand. Of course, as a result of some mystery person buying tons of steel, the price went up again. So she went and sold it at the higher price. She spent about another week or two playing Carnegie before it got old and she retired to Lumbridge with fat stacks of gold and the finest armor money could buy (but she couldn’t wear due to low Defense level).
I found out from a friend later who was part of one of the big trade guilds that the big market guilds were all pissed that somehow the steel market had crashed, skyrocketed, then crashed in quick succession for no goddamn reason and all of them had lost thousands of coins in the process.
My favorite thing about this is that it validates my entire Master’s Degree. This. This is how games can develop incidental learning and teach kids valuable lessons. This 12 year girl figured out, and manipulated, a free market economy because she was bored. She was able to recognize, understand and utilize a fundamental principal of economics to entertain herself.
A few years ago I worked as a freelance web designer before focusing on web development. My second client was a local plumber with 3 employees. He asked me to create his new website.
Client: Hey, can you help me with my new website?
Me: Of course, what do you want?
Client: My website should exactly look like my business card. With a fixed height and about 4 static pages. Ah, and I won’t pay more than 300 bucks.
Me: (aghast)
The business card was designed in a bright green, a royal blue and white font color and several graphics matching his business.
He sent me his card as a PDF. That’s all he had…
Long story short: I did it, cried, and didn’t tell ANYONE that I made his website.
Yes this could have to do with the fact that Freya the Norse Goddess of love, beauty and fertility drove a chariot pulled by cats.
So, if I ever get married, I fully expect a catmobile.
One of the other reasons why they gave cats to each other was for their valuable skills as mousers. Cats were able to control rodent populations around their properties.
Also, Norse myths are thought to have the earliest literary descriptions of the Norwegian Forest Cat. They were described as large, strong cats that drew Freya’s chariot and were so heavy that not even Thor, God of Thunder, could lift them from the floor. (Source)
They kinda live up to the legend, too. Your average Norwegian Forest Cat is twenty pounds of solid muscle, with claws large and strong enough to climb solid rock. They’ve been known to attack bears when defending their territory. And yet they’re one of the cuddliest breeds out there, particularly noted for being patient with small children.
I have a Norwegian mix, and can attest that she is the cuddliest cat but also insane enough to try and fight a bear.
Viking cats “FIGHT ME”
Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, still could not lift this cat.
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