I know Molly.....

[erinellii]

No: HPFGUIDX 84188

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> Pippin previously:
> > > We don't know what Hermione wants for herself apart from 
> being  a terrific student. I think that's part of the suspense.
> What's going  to happen if Hermione wants a life like her Muggle 
> mother has,  but in the wizarding world. Will it be allowed?
 
But say, pace Shippers, that Hermione wants to marry a 
> Weasley. Will St. Mungo's refuse to train her as a wizarding 
> dentist/healer because everybody knows that Weasley wives 
> have umpteen zillion children and no time for another career? If 
> she decides not to have umpteen zillion children, will she be 
> getting tiny easter eggs for the rest of Molly's life?


Erin:
  Well... I just can't see the St. Mungo's thing, I really can't.  I 
mean this is a society in which Alice Longbottom can be an auror 
during the uprising of the most dangerous dark wizard in a century, 
while she is pregnant and while she has a young baby.  
  I think the WW is a lot less sexist than you're trying to make it 
out to be.  My Dad used to repeat this old saying sometimes, "God 
made men and women, Smith and Wesson made them equal".  Magic pretty 
much levels the playing field, wouldn't you say?  And it's not a 
recent invention, it's something they've always had. I don't think 
there's too much wife-beating going on in the WW.  Look at the 
founders of Hogwarts, however-many hundreds of years back.  Half of 
them were female, so that should tell you something right there.  No, 
if there is sexism in the WW, it would be imported from the contact 
they've had with muggles.

As for the tiny easter eggs?  Maybe.  But you know, that wouldn't be  
wizarding culture, that would just be *Molly*.