Harry as Auror, WAS: Rowling tells all

[Lisa]

No: HPFGUIDX 173085

Re: Harry as Auror, WAS: Rowling tells all
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<empress.najwa at ...> wrote:

 Katie again:
> >   I also liked hearing that Hermione was involved in an overhaul 
at
> the MoM. Seeing her simply as Ron's wife was sort of sickening to 
me.
> "The most brilliant witch of her age" becomes just Mrs. Ronald
> Weasley?? Yuck.<snip>

Lisa:

Just wondering here why anyone thinks that a woman who gets 
married "becomes just Mrs." Anybody?  Why did anyone see her "simply 
as Ron's wife?"  Are any of you with this opinion actually married 
yoursefl?  Frankly, I've done the Single Career Girl thing; the 
Married Career Girl thing; and the Stay At Home Mom thing -- after 
having graduated in the top 5% of my college graduating class.  
Priorities can (and in most cases, should) change as our 
circumstances do, and adults (as we're all supposed to be) 
diminishing other women's choices is really offensive.
> 
> Najwa:
> I agree with this too, Katie. To have Hermione , of all people, not
> use that brilliant brain of hers for the betterment of human and 
magic
> kind would definitely be a waste.

Lisa:

Again -- just because she's married, she couldn't "use that brilliant 
brain of hers for the betterment of human and magic kind?"  Do 
marriage vows render a woman's brain useless?  News to me.

Najwa again:
> 
> The issues I had with the epilogue was the confusion of everything.
> For one, why wasn't Teddy Lupin living with the Potters? Isn't he
> Harry's godson and an orphan? Also, why was Teddy at the platform? 
If
> math serves me correctly, Teddy had to at least be 7 years older 
than
> Harry's children, and considering James is at least a second year,
> Teddy should have graduated by then.

Lisa:

As has been previously pointed out, Teddy wasn't there to go to 
Hogwarts; he was seeing Fleur & Bill's daughter, Victoire, off to 
school.  And he didn't live with Harry & Ginny because they are not 
his family.  Teddy was obviously raised by his FAMILY, Tonks' 
mother.  Godparents have no legal standing -- and what caring parent 
would choose to leave their infant with a 17-year-old boy over a 
perfectly capable grandparent?  And how encumbering for Harry would 
THAT have been?!

Veronica:

please don't say that if she made the choice to stay home, with loving
and nurturing her family as her only full-time job (or if Ron did, for
that matter, but he doesn't have the personality for it), please don't
say that would be a waste. That is completely disrespectful to women
(and men) all over the globe who've made the same decision, and please
don't think it's an easy one to make, either.

Lisa:

Well said, Veronica!