Wizard Marriages Divorces

[Sandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 185462

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:
>
>  michelevp66:
>  And I noticed there is no divorce among wizards, awesome, right?
> 
> Pippin:
> Welcome! Formal divorce is not mentioned but  at least two  
marriages
> end in permanent separation: Voldemort's parents and Hagrid's. 
IIRC,
> we're not told of any happy, lasting wizard/non-wizard marriages. 
But
> even where both spouses are wizards, there are various hints that 
not
> everyone lives happily ever after, though murder or turning your
> spouse into a yak seem to be preferred over legal dissolution. Not 
so
> awesome, I'm afraid.
> 
> Pippin
>

It would be nice I think to discuss this topic, especially the angle 
of how do you think JKR's own life experiences regarding marriage  
have effected the series? After all she has been divorced and also 
seems to be happily married now. 

Wouldn't the marriage of Seamus's parents be an example of a happy 
wizard/muggle marriage? I think so. This is from the Lexicon: Irish 
boy with sandy hair, he is a Half-blood: his father is a Muggle, and 
his mother didn't tell his dad that she was a witch until after they 
were married, which was a "bit of a nasty shock for him."

They do seem to still be married, or at least Seamus never mentions 
his parents being seperated, and seems to think the incident funny.

It seems that it is common not to tell your married muggle partners 
that you are a witch or wizard until you have too. As Dean's father 
as we found out from JKR was in a similar situation

Outside the books in one of her interviews JKR mentioned that Cho 
married a muggle, and it might be safe to assume that is a happy 
marriage. Although we should confine our discussion to actual 
written canon. 

Note that Snape's mums powers as a witch, couldn't even keep her 
from being abused. So that in itself isn't a protection. Or was it 
that Snape's mum refused to use her powers on her husband for moral 
reasons. 
 
DA Jones (Sandy)