[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape/nasty teachers/m-f friends

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 3978


----- Original Message -----
From: Caius Marcius <coriolan at worldnet.att.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 5:22 AM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Snape/nasty teachers/m-f friends


> Oh, now, Susan, we all regard you as a first-class citizen at HP for
> Grownups.  And do you really think that making Voldy or Snape or Malfoy
> female would mollify the Gender Critics?  "Rowling displays her
gender-based
> self-hatred by displacing what she concieves of as Evil onto the diabolic
> maternal figure of Voldemort, in which the archetypal Female is
inextricably
> linked as the castrating antagonist opposing the so-called protagonist,
> whose usurpation of the antique matriarchal symbol of the Broom in which
to
> cavort in his Male Competitive Power Games, blah blah blah......."

Anyone who regards Voldemort as a role model is a seriously sick individual.
All in all, I think he works quite well as he is.  As do most of the male
characters, I might add (Dumbledore, Snape, Sirius, Harry, Ron).  Just one
or two gender changes might have been appropriate.  At least one other adult
female on the good side and with a fairly important role would do me.

I believe someone (Ebony?) mentioned why we're not getting worked up about
the lack of ethnic minorities in there.  Truth is, the UK is 90% white, so
all in all, you wouldn't expect there to be that many non-whites around.

Jinx