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[a_svirn]

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> Montavilla47:
> But maybe I'm being unfair to cite the negative outcomes
> for children who have working mothers.  After all, we have
> negative outcomes for children of non-working mothers.
> Draco becomes a Death Eater (or does he?  We never do 
> know if he gets the mark) in spite of his mother's devotion.

a_svirn:
Does it matter? Would his actions be more contemptible if he had the 
mark? I don't think so, especially since he didn't really have any 
choice in the matter. It would have been Voldemort's choice. 

> Montavilla47: 
> And I'm not trying to bash JKR about her portrayal of
> either mothers or non-mothers.  I'm just pointing
> out that she seems to be a lot of power into mother
> love--the other side of which is that women without
> children tend end looking inconsequential and those
> who divide their attention between work and children
> end up with bad kids.

a_svirn:
Try as I might I don't see any direct correlation between mother's 
Love and child's morals. Take orphans for instance: Riddle is the 
evil personified, Harry is the good personified. Neither one of them 
knew what's it like to be loved by a mother (or a father for that 
matter). Neville is a good guy too, but then he had his grandmother 
to love him. The same with career – Lily didn't work, but then, 
neither did Merope. And to muddle the picture further neither did 
James (nor, for all we know, did Tom Riddle Sr.) 

> Montavila47:
><snip> The entire Tonks/Lupin
> storyline is unsatisfying.  We get these two characters with great
> potential.  <snip> 
> 
> And then, when she gets happy again, she nearly fades away
> completely.  It's like she's a Victorian women who must go
> into confinement during her pregnancy.

a_svirn:
I think it is a bit unjust. I too find the entire Lupin/Tonks 
storyline unsatisfying, but as for her "confinement", what else could 
she have done? She couldn't very well continue to work for the 
Ministry, could she? As for the Order, the whole organization seemed 
to have gone into "confinement", albeit with less satisfying results. 
a_svirn.