[HPforGrownups]Wizardesses (Witches?) and their working habits...

[storm stanford]

No: HPFGUIDX 3883

  Dee said 
   
  "We've seen Diggory, Arthur, and other men in the roles I am describing, but I do not recall any women in power besides Madame Maxine, who seems to hold AD's role in (France?)."

  that's the french for you <g> funny buggers! j/k

  "What roles are there available to wizard women besides Mothering?  Would be interesting to see."
  I've wondered about this. It does seem mostly to be teaching, nursing, singing (remember the singers at the yule ball), & mothering. (Amanda, Martha, Susan, etc - "not that there is anything wrong with that" - just for those of us who are *not* ever going to raise the next generation it'd be nice to have some more choises <g>) As we have noted there is only one female DE and we haven't heard of any autours (sp?) who are female. the other female charators who do things (the ones lockhart rips off from) they are hags I think (no thanks, no raw liver)

  sometimes I think it's because JKR appears (to me) to have 'borrowed' the structure from a type of novel written in the 50's and 40's - school and kids adventure type books. goodness knows she has been so inventive in almost every other area of the books I could understand her conforming to 'type' on this (if that is indeed what she is doing.) What other ideas do ppl have?

  "And no, for the record, I am not a feminist," 
  not that there is anything wrong with that .... 

  storm (who *is* a feminist and agrees that men's casual clothes are the most sensible/comfortable atire one can get around in)



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