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Molly Weasley, née Prewett (born 30 October c. 1950) is a prominent fictional character in the Harry Potter series. She is a witch housewife, married to Arthur Weasley and mother of Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron and Ginny. She is most probably the daughter of Ignatius Prewett and Lucretia (née Black) Prewett.

Her youngest children, Ron and Ginny, are best friends with Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. Molly seems to have taken Harry and Hermione, both of them without magical families, under her wing and treats them with motherly affection as unofficial members of her family. Harry especially is treated with her over-protective tendencies, because he is an orphan and his real adoptive family mistreats him. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Mrs. Weasley defends him and declares him just as good as a son.

Molly tries to keep order in her house, a task made difficult by Fred and George. Molly appears to be a stickler for following the rules, however while she was at Hogwarts, she and her future husband violated the midnight curfew (see Book 4).

Molly also homeschooled her seven children before they attended Hogwarts, apparently a common alternative to Muggle primary school in the wizarding world.

The name "Molly" may come from the word "mollycoddle," meaning to be overprotective toward. Arthur Weasley's nickname for her is "Mollywobbles" Her greatest fear, shown by a boggart attempting to frighten her, is the death of those she loves, which is understandable, as her brothers, Gideon and Fabian Prewett, were both killed. Molly is often overprotective of her children. When the Death Eaters caused mayhem after the Quidditch World Cup, she worried that she might never see Fred and George again after she'd been angry with them when she saw them last.

Molly disapproved of Sirius Black and Mundungus Fletcher, Sirius because she thought he acted rashly and irresponsibly, Mundungus because he left while he was supposed to be guarding Harry (resulting in Harry being nearly expelled for using a Patronus Charm on two dementors) to go and pick up some stolen cauldrons. In turn, Sirius disapproved of Molly, whom he thought was overprotective of Harry and treated demeaningly as a helpless child without recognizing his abilities. Even though Molly disapproved of Sirius, and the feeling was mutual, she often helped him with cleaning and cooking in Grimmauld Place.

When Molly met her future daughter-in-law, Fleur Delacour, who was engaged to her oldest son Bill, she immediately took a disliking to the girl, a feeling shared by her daughter Ginny and by guest Hermione, though she wouldn't admit it. Molly couldn't grasp how Bill had fallen in love with Fleur because, as far as Molly could tell, Fleur was nothing but a vain, spoiled, shallow, superficial, self-absorbed, narcissitic snob, and Fleur didn't really give Molly much reason to think otherwise. Molly objected to the wedding of Bill and Fleur on the grounds that they were both too young and the timing was just not safe, even though she and Arthur had married young and during a dangerous period of time. Ginny even thought Molly was trying to get Tonks to come over for dinner in hope of Bill leaving Fleur for Tonks, when in reality she was counseling Tonks about her relationship problems with Remus Lupin. Molly finally accepted Fleur after Bill was badly scarred in a fight with a werewolf at Hogwarts (though the werewolf had not bitten him during his transformation); Molly assumed, and perhaps hoped, that Fleur would be far too vain to still marry Bill after he had been disfigured so badly and been possibly infected with werewolf blood, but Fleur surprised her and those present when she passionatley professed that she loved Bill and that she was still going to marry him regardless of his facial scars, even regarding the scarring as living proof of his valor. Molly reevaluated Fleur's worth after that.

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