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[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 182016

> >>Lynda:
> Oh, I get all that. I really do. I just look at it and say, hey 
everybody has a different view of life. <
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Betsy Hp:
That's true of course.  I'm just pointing out that JKR's view is a bit 
of throw-back (almost Victorian, I think).

> >>Lynda:
> By the same token, neither do I see those characters she created who 
are without partners as being a judgment on that segment of society. 
It's simply the way she structured a fictional world, not reality. <

Betsy Hp:
Oh, it's certainly *not* reality (frankly, it's one of the more 
unrealistic things about the series as far as I'm concerned).  It's 
hard for me to not see it as a judgement though.  I mean, the very 
consistency of it is fairly damning, I think.  And that JKR speaks of 
punishing a character she doesn't like by preventing her having a 
husband and children in the epilogue tells me that she wrote this sort 
of stuff deliberately.

Betsy Hp