Bigotry in the Potterverse

Miles d2dmiles at yahoo.de
Thu Oct 15 22:56:26 UTC 2009


No: HPFGUIDX 188059

sartoris22 wrote:
> There are countless scenes of Ron and Harry interacting in
> their dorm room with the fellows, but none of Hermione interacting
> with her dorm mates. And Hermione, except for Ginny, has no female
> friends, and even Hermione and Ginny aren't BFFs because Hermione is
> always hanging out with Ron and Harry.

Miles:
While I do agree that the gender concepts JKR presents are a bit weird from 
time to time, this bit is easily explained. Almost all the narration is told 
from Harry's POV, and he obviously can't know about Hermione's activities 
with her roommates or friends. We get the information that Hermione is on 
good terms with some other girls, but don't see them interact so much - 
because Harry is not interested in it. Actually, Harry is not really 
interested in other people at all, with very few exceptions.

Miles, who thinks that there isn't much interaction of Harry with his 
roommates, and misses scenes like the one in the GoF film in the books 





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