[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter 27 Padfoot Returns

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 10301

Dai Evans wrote:

> Neither women needed to stay at home with the
> kids after they reached pre-school age, yet they did.

But imagine the mayhem possible at a wizarding version of daycare. Not
only do you have a double handful of small children, it's a double
handful of small children who are learning magic like ours learn ABCs.
Perhaps wizarding daycare providers are rare, therefore, and there wasn't
much other option.

Nor do we know whether the wallflower wives we've seen--Mrs. Crouch and
Mrs. Malfoy--raised their sons or had nannies. Molly probably stayed home
with the kids for monetary reasons. I've been there--for a while we would
have lost money if I'd worked, since daycare for three preschoolers would
have cost more than my job brought in.

--Amanda