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+Molly Weasley, the Potion Mistress?
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+:date: 2022-11-17T11:48:52
+:category: faith
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
+
+(a record of discussion about the topic on the Reddit thread
+“`Could Molly and the ‘Love Potion’ incident be a communications
+misunderstanding?`_” started by `u/varrsar`_; more discussion on
+that thread)
+
+The biggest problem with Molly Weasley and Love Potions is that
+everybody seems to remember something completely different than
+what actually is in the canon:
+
+    [Harry and Weasley boys] headed down to breakfast, where Mr.
+    Weasley was reading the front page of the Daily Prophet with
+    a furrowed brow and Mrs. Weasley was telling Hermione and
+    Ginny about a love potion she’d made as a young girl. All
+    three of them were rather giggly. (Chapter 5 of PoA, “The
+    Dementor”)
+
+That’s it. There is nothing more on the topic. We don’t know what
+kind of potion it was, we don’t know if she ever used it (and
+certainly we don’t know that she used it on Arthur), we don’t
+know whether she was successful in making it, we don’t even know
+whether it was some fun concoction she made even before Hogwarts
+(note that “a young girl” doesn’t feel like a Hogwarts-age
+teenager). We know almost nothing about it.
+
+    Huh, so it could well be a “look how dumb I was when I was
+    a kid” story. Possibly even in response to Hermione’s story
+    of the polyjuice potion brewing. This was, after all,
+    probably the first time Molly could get some more of the
+    details about what happened to Ginny the previous year from
+    other people’s perspectives. (`u/HairyHorux`_)
+
+Yup. I think there are more versions of love potions. Yes,
+Amorentia is on the top as a rape drug, and it is quite horrible
+(see “`An Hour of Wolves`_” by solvskrift for a rather horrific
+treatment of the matter; all trigger warnings apply!) to
+something which the Weasley brothers were selling (which I would
+expect could just persuade a girl to enjoy her date more or
+something of that kind) to some complete nonsense. I am a bloke
+so mysteries of young girls’ play are still mostly a mystery to
+me (although, I have a daughter), but I know there are various
+silly girly games about whether she will find a boyfriend or not
+via kind-of-divination from flowers and such. Why shouldn’t there
+be in the magical world something similarly silly for young
+girls?
+
+And yes, that giggling feels more like “we are all idiots
+sometimes” than Amorentia.
+
+.. _`Could Molly and the ‘Love Potion’ incident be a communications misunderstanding?`:
+   https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/n94v6l/could_molly_and_the_love_potion_incident_be_a/
+
+.. _`u/varrsar`:
+   https://www.reddit.com/user/varrsar/
+
+.. _`u/HairyHorux`:
+   https://www.reddit.com/user/HairyHorux/
+
+.. _`An Hour of Wolves`:
+   https://archiveofourown.org/works/14164617