[HPforGrownups] Re: Bigotry in the Potterverse

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 188058

sartoris22 wrote:
> sartoris2:
> married Neville or Dean. Alas, we never discover if Luna is accepted in the wizard community. The Potter books are strangely male-centric and reinforce, to me, a notion of male supremacy. I've read comments from Emma Watson about the books exhibiting girl power, but, if anything, they occasionally exhibit Hermione power. To me, there's a current of traditional sexism that runs throughout the books, and I find that somewhat disheartening.

Bart:
    From 
http://the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/7/30/j-k-rowling-web-chat-transcript:

 >Alicepie: What happend to luna, did she get married who to?
 >
 >J.K. Rowling: She ended up marrying (rather later than Harry & co) a 
fellow
 >naturalist and grandson of the great Newt Scamander (Rolf)!

    I personally had the theory that she became an Auror, capitalizing 
on the fact that absolutely nobody would take her seriously, so that she 
could go into a den of criminal wizards, declare openly that she was an 
Auror, and have everybody confessing their deeds to her, thinking it was 
a great joke.

    Bart