More on Molly

[Matt]

No: HPFGUIDX 84364

--- artcase wrote:
> BUT I still think it is an injustice to 
> millions of children readers, especially 
> female ones, to only show fleshed out mom 
> characters that are stay at home moms. The 
> real world does not work like that and 
> shouldn't IMO. 

If you're saying not all the moms in the RW
are SAH, of course that's true.  It's also
true in the WW in the series, as I pointed out,
there being exactly -- count her -- one SAH
mom witch, Molly, and exactly two working moms
that we know of, Dr. Granger and Alice
Longbottom.

Instead, though, I think your real complaint
is that the working moms aren't "fleshed out."
There, you're sort of stuck with the fact that
the story is told from a kid's point of view.
(And a kid at boarding school, no less.)  It's
not terribly surprising that of his friends' 
parents the one he would see most of is the SAH 
parent.  It's much easier for Molly to host 
Harry for a few weeks a summer than it would be
for Hermione's mom (or dad), if they both work
full time.  

I can appreciate your desire to see different
kinds of characters, but I think it's unfair
to brand JKR's portrayal as unrealistically 
traditional.  If anything, her WW is more 
progressive than the RW in terms of gender 
equality.  (I can't think of any RW schools
founded by women in the 10th century, for
instance.)

-- Matt