Does JKR's portrayal of woment combat sexism?

[pippin_999]

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wrote:

> I think that childless women are going to have to look 
elsewhere for positive childless female characters to identify 
with, because JKR didn't do a good job of providing any in her 
books.<

Hermione has children???  <g> I'm not nit-picking here. 
Hermione is such a dynamo and so important to the books that 
really, I think focusing on the lack of other female characters is 
missing the forest for the trees. If a girl, or a woman, can't identify 
with Hermione, she isn't likely to enjoy the series in the first 
place, and she'll find something else to read.

Pippin
reminding Judy about Mafalda Hopkirk, of the Improper Use of 
Magic Office, who seems to be as good at nailing the wrong 
person for the right crime as any other ministry official. (CoS ch. 
2)