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Molly Weasley (nee Prewett)'s Greatest Secrets

She was the eldest of her parent's three children and from the moment she saw her brothers in her mother's arms, she knew that she would die to protect her family, because without them, she was just another person. It was her family who made her who she was, and she never forgot it. Her family made her Molly and she made her family come alive.

She met Arthur on the train to Hogwarts in her first year. By the sorting, they were best friends. She was in her second year when she first realized she loved him both as a boyfriend and as just a friend. It killed her when he started dating Andromeda Black. By the time they broke up, she had lost hope. Just like her daughter, she'd dated other guys, just to take her mind off Arthur. In their fifth year, just before the OWLs started, he kissed her. He proposed to her just after their NEWTs and they were married just after graduation. It was just after her wedding that she realized Arthur was more important to her than either of her brothers had ever been.

She was the best dueler in her year, the top in DADA, just like her brothers and like Fabian's friend Lily Evans. Like Lily and Fabian, she often invented spells and fought in competitive duel clubs in the school. She was their star and there were teachers who couldn't beat Molly Prewett. She had intended to become an Auror but then….then Arthur proposed and suddenly nothing was more important than he was. Suddenly, she would like nothing better than to settle down and raise a family with Arthur. That's why she understood, possibly better than anyone, why Ginny retired from professional Quiditch when she married Harry.

She knew Lily Potter. How couldn't she know Lily, the little girl her brother took under his wing? Lily came to spend summers with them several times, even after Fabian left Hogwarts. She liked Lily. It was impossible to not like the fiery red head with emerald green eyes. They used to duel together and Lily was the only one who could ever beat her. She knew James too, because James and Fabian were friends. She was the one who helped James get that first date with Lily. She knew that Lily and James were the perfect couple, just like her and Arthur. She'd seen them duel and helped them become better. She really wasn't surprised when they became known as the best aurors in the business. So when she found out that they were dead…..she was in shock. After all, if Lily could die….if James could die, then who in this world was safe? Their death and the deaths of her brothers made her even more protective of her children.

Her brothers died in the same year as Lily and James, about six months before them. That year was both the best and worst year of her life. Her brothers were killed in May and, when she found out, she slipped. She'd failed. She'd sworn, she'd promised herself the day they were born that she would protect them, that nothing in the world would hurt them. So, not only was she miserable that she'd broken her oath to herself, she was terrified. If she couldn't protect her brothers, then how could she protect Arthur, how could she protect her children? How could she protect her family against him? And….their death…..all of a sudden, the twins seemed even more special, because they were like their uncles. Even though she never showed it, the twins were her favorite sons.

But that year was one of the greatest of her life as well. It was that year, that August, that she finally got the daughter she desired. She hated herself for being prejudiced and for not giving Ron the attention he needed, but Ginny, Ginevra Molly Weasley, was everything to her. So, even though Ginny was her most beloved child, she was never as protective of her as her brothers were. It made her laugh; it still makes her laugh when she thinks about how her sons eyed Harry in an almost menacing way when they announced that they were going out….getting married….that Ginny was pregnant. It reminds her about that time, in her seventh year when Gideon and Fabian, both only first years and several feet shorter than Arthur, had asked him to come for a walk with them and had threatened……threatened to relieve him of his manhood if he did anything to hurt her. It still makes her laugh to think about it, especially when she heard Ron, Charlie, Bill, George, and Percy all threaten to do the same thing to Harry if he did anything to Ginny.

Ron was her baby in a way that Ginny never was. While Ginny was independent and fierce and constantly getting herself into trouble. Ron…Ron needed love and comfort constantly. Of all her children, she was most protective of Ron. So, when he made friends with Harry Potter, the Harry Potter, and she found out about their adventures, she panicked and yelled and became unreasonable. Then, Voldemort was back and Ron was friends with a nutcase and then, the Chosen One. She knew that, of all her children, Ron needed the most protection but also that Ron was the one who was truly a hero. It wasn't the future she'd predicted for her youngest son, but when it was all over, she was prouder of him than she was of any of his brothers.

Sending any of her children off to Hogwarts was difficult, but by far the hardest send off was Ginny's. Ginny was her little girl and, without Ginny at home, she'd be alone. Call it empty nest syndrome, but the day after Ginny left, Molly refused to get out of bed. It was only after she learned about what Ron and Harry had done that she had enough energy, fueled by her anger, to get out of bed. Afterwards, she looked back on it and laughed, thinking that, for the first time, Ron had helped her let go instead of forcing her to cling harder. And then, then Ginny was taken into the Chamber of Secrets and Ron and Harry had gone in after her. Those few hours, when she didn't know if they were dead or alive, when she thought that she had lost two of her most precious children and a sweet little boy who was her son's friend, were the worst in her life. Even when she looks back on the death of her brothers, on Fred's death, she agrees that those hours were the worst.

The final battle, Ginny's sixth year at Hogwarts, Ron gone with Harry on the horcrux hunt….that was another one of the worst times of her life, a time that ended with the death of her son. A small part of her, just a small part, blamed Harry for tearing her family away. Then she saw Fred dead on the ground and knew that she'd failed once again to protect her family. She saw Lupin and Tonks lying dead on the ground and knew that she'd lost her friends. She saw Harry, dead in Hagrid's arms, and she knew that she loved him like a son and would mourn him the same way she would mourn Fred. So when Bellatrix threatened Ginny, her little girl, she knew that Bella would never kill again.

After the war, her life was perfect. She had a perfect family of famous and influential people. She was hailed as the killer of The Bellatrix Lestrage. And she had Grandchildren, the most perfect little darlings she'd ever seen. She even found it in her heart to love Fleur Weasley, especially when she held Victroire Elizabeth Weasley for the first time. All her life, Molly Weasley's family had defined her. And now, even though her family was broken, she defined her family.

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