[HPforGrownups] Gender balance

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No: HPFGUIDX 14785


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Amy Z 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 6:58 AM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Foreshadowings - Gender balance - Snape

  >>I sympathize with JKR, who bristled a little at the suggestion that 
  >>she doesn't have enough women/girls, because, as she said, there are 
  >>other characters to come, but for her to say the staff is 50/50 is a 
  >>bit beside the point.  Look at the most important characters, amongst 
  >>students, staff, and elsewhere; they are almost all male.  Going by 
  >>pure screen time, Hogwarts is a man's world.  Trelawney helped right 
  >>the balance, as did Rita, but please--these are our female role 
  >>models?  (Maybe Trelawney will be redeemed when we learn about the 1st 
  >>True Prophecy.)

  I don't want to start the debate on whether or not there are strong female characters in Harry Potter, but this topic did bring to mind a question that has been on my mind for a while and I'd like to see what y'all think: Do you think that the Harry Potter series would have become as popular as it is if Harry had been a girl? (with a different name of course).

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