JKR, the female and facism (wasRe: WAS Slytherin as villains...

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 179127

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
>
> Hmm... I think this is the view JKR has.  That girls are 
> mechanically looking for proper breeding mates and boys are rather 
> innocently tripping along until the girl traps him.  Again, the 
> sexual predator is the female out to get the more innocent male.  
> It's a very  negative (and fearful) way I think, of looking at 
> female sexuality.

One could add to the list plenty of other women.  Bellatrix who is
clearly sexually obsessed with Voldemort, Molly who used a love potion
on Arthur (funny how we forget that*), Merope (poor Merope), Tonks who
gets her man even though it seems to be against his better judgement,
Lavender who is in there as a blow-up doll, Cho whose trauma is
actually derided, Padma and Parvati, who are as alike in their
superficiality as in their looks.  One also remembers Florence, no
better than she ought to have been behind the greenhouses; we thought
she was kissing Snape, once, but that no longer seems likely - and the
weirdly flirtatious Hepzibah Smith.

Apart from that, with the sole exception of Andromeda, it's hard to
think of a single instance of a sexually active woman who is shown as
straightforward in her sexuality.  There are plenty of other women in
there - but they're either mothers and thus sanctified (apart from
poor damned Merope, the ghastly Mrs Black or Eileen Prince), or
entirely sexless, MacGonagall being a case in point.  Oh, and
Umbridge, who is a caricature of menopausal horror.

* Of course, Molly shouldn't attract any opprobrium for this - she's a
Gryffindor and so her actions are Right.  <eg>

Mus