Arthur Weasley loved muggles but does he still love a rubber duck?

When it comes to characters and the things they love, it is very clear that Arthur Weasley loves muggles. But does that ever change?

Arthur Weasley loved muggle artifacts. We know that from the first time we meet him. But I wonder, did that change after the war? A man so dedicated to a people who had no idea what was going on in the wizarding world lost his son to the cause. So would he continue to love them and their culture afterwards?

I’d like to think so. Arthur Weasley is so amazed by everything that has to do with muggles, I’d like to think that even after Fred’s death, he continued to study them and their world just to make him feel better about the state of his family.

There are so many head canons for how Molly Weasley coped with the death of Fred but not really that many for Arthur. While she was his mother, it is still Arthur’s son who died. So I think that he would have gotten lost for a bit in studying muggles. He’d continually call Harry and Hermione and want to know things about a toothbrush.

Arthur would have an entire room dedicated to things that are mundane to us yet fascinating to him. But you know what would be heartbreaking? The minute he breaks and says that he is collecting them all because he thinks Fred would have found it interesting.

Again, so many of us look at Molly Weasley’s grief and understand it. But Arthur is right there with her. He also buried his son. So while yes, it is sad when a mother loses her child, it is interesting to think about how Arthur Weasley would react.

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Even if he wouldn’t care as much about muggle artifacts, I do believe that Arthur would continually think about things that would have made Fred happy. Either way, it is increasingly sad.