T&A in the DA

Disclaimer: I did not create the characters or locations, which belong to JK Rowling and her associates. I gain nothing from this effort, either monetarily or other, except the enjoyment. She built the playground, and I am just playing on the swing set.

Further, I also have no connection with Joss Whedon or any rights to his creations. I only use one quote (or as close as I remember), as it is one of the best distillations of what passes for the 'mind' of an adolescent male that I have ever seen.

Concerning Arthur and Molly Weasley

Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewitt met at Hogwarts, where they were quickly recognised as being a very powerful wizard and witch, respectively. Their proficiency with spells, charms and other magic were sufficiently high that they were drafted into the Order of the Phoenix before graduation, to work with experienced Aurors, Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall, and others.

They fell in love in fifth year, and eloped at eighteen in light of the fact that they might not survive the first wizarding war with Voldemort, and so why wait. Molly started producing children shortly thereafter (Bill being born when Molly and Arthur were but 20 years old), and had all six of her offspring before Voldemort killed Lily and James Potter some eleven years later, and was "diminished" by Lily's protective essence when he tried to kill Harry.

The Order quickly discovered that, although Molly was extremely proficient in protective and defensive magic, she was not particularly much as a fighter. Her main work within the Order, and indeed in her family, was the application of protective wards. The fact that none of the members of her family were harmed during the First Wizarding War shows how effective her work in this area was.

On the other hand, Arthur Weasley's shining talents lay in the area of detection spells and the discovery of hidden things, in essence, the circumvention of protective spells (in their private lives, this played out as Molly and Arthur's games revolving around the removal or retention of clothing – sort of wizarding strip poker). He passed the training courses up to the level of Stage 3 Auror, but did not practise as a Dark Wizard Captor. However, his work at the Ministry of Magic on the prevention of Misuse of Muggle Artefacts required that he work with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement (DMLE) in raids on Dark Wizards' houses, where his abilities to discover things that were magically hidden, and his auror training in defence, proved vital to the missions.

The school-age Weasley children were unaware of the details of their parents' work with the Order and the Ministry. When Bill and Charlie came of age and were drafted into the Order themselves, they came to appreciate the skills that their parents had and the very high level of those skills.

At home, Molly and Arthur did their best for their large family on a low-level bureaucrat's salary. The kids, and frequent guests, always had plenty to eat, prepared well. They kept chickens on the land surrounding their house (called the Burrow) just outside the wizarding hamlet of Ottery St Catchpole, which also had a small orchard and a small lake. Knuts were tight, and successive children often were clothed in hand-me-downs, but they never went cold what with Molly's homemade jumpers (can't really say hand-made, as she used enchanted knitting needles).

Molly and Arthur also recognised that their children would need to be comfortable in their own skins, so swimming in the pond was often au naturel. The kids quickly learned that grown men and women were shaped differently than children of the same genders, and also discovered the genesis of their mother's nick-name as her rather buxom body had parts that were not exactly rigidly attached. Sometimes Molly and Ginny wore women's swimming costumes (of muggle style, found in magazines that Arthur and the twin brought home) just because they were pretty, and they felt good wearing them.

When Ginevra (Ginny) was born as the first female Weasley child in many generations, things changed a bit. Molly doted on her daughter, and realized that hand-me-downs from her older brothers just would not do. Having already discovered what she called "the rule of knickers" (i.e., that the price of women's underwear had a strong negative correlation with the amount of material in the garments in question), Molly perfected her abilities in the transfiguration of garments. She was already very good at it, having had to modify and adjust clothes for five boys, but really polished her skills at buying from the near-by big-box store (WarlockMart), and adjusting the "granny-panties" into frilly lacy things (she had long done this kind of thing for her own {and Arthur's} pleasure, but the new presence of a daughter let her run wild). Molly became very over-protective of her daughter, and made sure that the boys knew their job was to protect her as well. This over-protective nature has some negative effects on the self-esteem of her youngest son, as he felt that he was an unnecessary addition to the family which was just waiting for a daughter, and he was the penultimate (i.e., failed) attempt to have a girl.

Unfortunately, Molly's practicing these transfigurative skills were observed and emulated by the twins. When the parents were not in the immediate vicinity, Fred and George would practice on their younger siblings (to older brothers, younger brothers always qualify more as test subjects than beloved kin, and a younger sister added some challenge to the process). Ron bore the brunt of this experimentation, and there were many occasions when at school at Pendragon Primary (in Ottery St Catchpole), when Ron's clothes would either disappear entirely or suddenly be so large that they would fall off under their own weight. Ginny did not go unaffected by her brothers' attentions, particularly when she was talking with male classmates and found herself standing in her underwear, or nude, or in a clown outfit, or wearing fairies' wings, or other some get-up.

Arthur and Molly also recognized that their children would need to have an awareness of the pleasures of the flesh, if they were to have a happy married life themselves. The muffling spells applied to their bedroom did not completely silence the sounds emanating in the night, which of course annoyed Percy, and greatly amused the twins. Ginny called these 'happy sounds'.

Fred and George acquired a collection of Playwizard, and a few issues of Playwitch (for scholarly comparison), as well as some "skin mags" when they went shopping in muggle stores with their father. As pre-teens and teenagers (who of course believe that they are inherently brilliant, or at least far smarter than their parents), they assumed that they had the magazines well hidden and their parents were entirely unaware of the existence of them – this of course was completely false given Arthur's talents and skills.

The moving pictures in the wizarding periodicals demonstrated, in quite specific detail, ways of pleasuring others and themselves. When the twins started practicing these lessons and "amusing" themselves, Arthur remarked to Molly about the twins' "misuse of muggle artefacts" (the twins were puzzled when they heard their mother guffawing loudly, while they were "otherwise engaged"). When the twins showed their younger siblings the "documentation", Ron got completely flustered (as he was getting to the stage where the difference between men and women was becoming relevant, and the contradiction of what was permissible with women not related to you, and the close presence of women with whom these practices were definitely frowned upon, was very confusing), and Ginny was intrigued as to what apparently turned teen-aged boys into drooling idiots (not that, in her female opinion, this was a particularly great change in most cases), and what they did in their excited states.