Remember my last:: SPOILER

[ladyramkin2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 115169


I was frantically trying to catch up with back posts (I'm drowning! 
I'm drowning!) when I came across this statement, which I cannot let 
pass.

Finwitch: If Petunia never applied to a Muggle school, expecting a 
Hogwarts letter, it may explain why she ended up as a house-wife 
instead of having a work of her own.

Soory, but this is a damned patronising attitude to t ake towards 
women who elect to be stay-at-home Mums. Do you really think the job 
of bringing up children is suitable only for the uneducated?  My 
husband and I decided that I should give up my job while the children 
were small.  It was a job I loved (teaching) and it meant 
considerable sacrifices, but I never regretted it.  Nor did I ever 
allow anyone to call me "just a housewife".  I am a great believer in 
the old adage: Educate a boy and you educate a man: Educate a girl 
and you educate a family.  Admitted Petunia doesn't make a marvellous 
job of bringing up Dudley but Molly is also, as far as we know, "just 
a housewife"  and I think she's made a brilliant job of bringing up 
her kids.

Sylvia (not getting at you specially, Finwitch, but I've had to put 
up with a lot of crap from other people on this subject)