[HPforGrownups] female characters - very long and very opinionated

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 3774

Me too, there aren't enough crucial to the plot females.  And the thing is,
it would have been so easy to write a few in!  Lupin could have easily been
female.  It's not stretching things to have two men and a woman hanging
around together, JKR does it herself with Harry, Hermione and Ron.  Having
James, Sirius and Lycanthra (only wolfy girl's name I could think of)
hanging around together isn't so far fetched.

McGonagall has really proved to be a disappointment too - the first chapter
was so promising, but after that...  One possible way of saving her would be
for her to develop a relationship with Hermione similar to the one Harry has
with Dumbledore.
Difficult to do when Harry is the main narrator though.

Ginny has potential, and she and Hermione seem to be quite good mates.  Easy
to think of Ginny as a little kid tagging along, but she's only in the year
below.  She could be brought in a bit more.


Jinx

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Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 7:43 AM
Subject: RE: [HPforGrownups] female characters - very long and very
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> Susan, I agree strongly with all your observations.  It would be
interesting to go through the book and count lines of dialog, totaling male
and female contributions.  Sometimes when I'm reading the books, I think of
all the movies I have watched -- the majority of them have predominantly
male cast members.  (Think... War movies, Westerns, Heist movies, Science
fiction movies, etc.)  If the majority of the starring roles are played by
women, it's always referred to as a "women's picture" and the women are
usually involved in some kind of plot to wreak revenge on men.
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> However, I'm not going to let it spoil my enjoyment of Harry Potter.  Yes,
it makes me uneasy sometimes as I see the long string of subordinate female
characters.  But I rather think that JKR is reproducing the world as it is,
and not how it may be idealized by future visions of genuine equality.  The
only real sign of female equality seems to be the fact that Quidditch teams
are not gender-biased.
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> From: Schlobin at aol.com [mailto:Schlobin at aol.com]
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> ...I'd love to see this trend change.
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> susan (bracing herself for the fury of the list unleashed)
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