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And is there a mother in there who might resemble you?You're not the Molly Weasley-type.
˜Well, a little bit, I hope. Years ago someone wrote: she characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children. I was deeply offended, because I till a year before that had also been such a mother who was at home all the time taking care of her child – for the outside world at least. What has lesser status and is more difficult then raising a child? And what is more important? Molly had seven! I think Molly is a terrific woman."

She does commit a murder.
"Yes in book seven she kills Bellatrix- she is the only woman on the good side who kills. I saw Molly and Bellatrix standing opposite of each other for a long time; two completely different characters, who each show a very feminine side of love. The pure and protecting love of Molly, and the obsessive, perverse of Bellatrix. Those two feminine types of energy against each other. That was very satisfying to write."

In Potterverse there are 3 main mother figures: Lily Potter, Molly Weasley and Narcissa Malfoy. Time, death and war stand between them but yet they have so much in common: mainly their love for their children. Their greatest fear and the worst thing that could possibly happen to them is the death of their offspring; as it would be for any loving mother, be she muggle or wizard.
To me this makes them very remarkable women. Yes, this includes Narcissa, the snooty Death Eater’s wife. I find her pleas of “My son…my only son” and “Why Severus, why my son?” to be highly reminiscent of Lily’s cries of “Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry!” Nobody would argue the fact that Lily loved her son more than life itself and that she was very noble to die for him. But I got the feeling that Narcissa was willing to die for her son as well. She’d do anything for Draco, even committing the ultimate sacrifice. This levels the playing field in the mommy department and earned her some of my respect.
The bulk of my attention will be focused on Molly Weasley. She is the only mother we have seen in more than a couple of chapters; the only one we’ve really seen in action. She is the mother of 7 healthy and for the most part happy children as well as a surrogate mum for the protagonist of this saga. She cooks, she cleans, she sows and she nags; everything your stereotypical matriarch of a nuclear family should do. But most importantly she gives them love. I think the best evidence (I can’t imagine why you’d every need any) of this is her boggart. When faced with this being it turns one by one into her family members (Harry included!), all of them dead. Her worst nightmare (literally, she said she dreamt about it) was played out in front of her she was unable to cope due to her distress (The Woes of Mrs. Weasley; Half-Blood Prince).
Molly also provides us with perhaps my favorite HP moment; the Hug. This I think sums up her relationship was Harry: a mother, but not quite.

“Mrs Weasley set the potion down on the bedside cabinet, bent down, and put her arms around Harry. He had no memory of every being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her. His mother’s face, his father’s voice and the sight of Cedric dead on the ground all started spinning in his head until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him.” (The Parting of the Ways; page 714, Goblet of Fire, US Edition.)

She can help him through his pain, guide him along the way, give him the love care and nurturing he has never received but yet she could never take Lily’s place in his heart. She could never fill the void that she left since it was left empty for so long. Perhaps if she had cared for him since birth he could really call her his mother, but she came along too late.
My point is, no matter how black a heart is, a mother’s instinct, love and devotion will win out. (Unless they’re just a crappy mother of course.) Here’s to Molly, Lily and Cissy; here’s to all those mothers out there to whom their children are their world. I hope that someday I can be as good a mother to mine as they are to theirs. I certainly hope I’ll never have to make the sacrifice that Lily made; though I hope I’d be willing to make it.