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[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 182071


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> Betsy:
> > Combine that with the fact that girls can enter the boys dorms 
> > whenever they like and you've got a series of books that seems to 
> > deny the existance of female sexuality as a natural thing.  Which is 
> > a throw-back view, IMO.
> 
> Magpie:
> That little detail is bizarre, isn't it? I think when it comes to this 
> the books are like a nexus of all sorts of unexamined stereotypes that 
> lead...somewhere...but are probably a mix of different things.
> 

Pippin:
My goodness, you're kidding, right? I mean, you do at least allow for the
possibility that JKR is making fun of what Hermione calls the "old-fashioned"
ideas behind the staircase by showing us in exaggerated ways that girls
do indeed have sexual interest in boys?

It also shows us that social changes do take place in the WW.


Betsy Hp:
Up until she gets married, Fleur is not considered a good girl. The
Patil sisters, like Lavender, are considered flighty, Cho Chang is
painted as completely untrustworthy by Ginny in the final battle of
Hogwarts (Ginny's extreme worry about Cho being the one to take Harry
to the Ravenclaw dorms). Mme Maxime did dodge a bullet in not
settling down with Hagrid, but she's hardly a main player.

Pippin:
But this does not establish your thesis that flighty equals bad. Molly
feels that Fleur is not serious, but that only bothers her 
because she feels that Bill is. Ginny thinks they  both enjoy a good
time, and mostly dislikes Fleur because she's so full of herself (and
because Harry can't hide how attractive he finds her.)

There's nothing untrustworthy about Cho's behavior. Officially, Ginny and 
Harry were no longer a couple. Cho may have had long odds against her,
but if she'd wanted to get Harry interested in her again, she'd have been
well within her rights to try. 

Pippin