[HPforGrownups] Re: Bigotry in the Potterverse

[Rick H. Kennerly]

No: HPFGUIDX 188077


> Magpie:
> Really? I think there's tons of standard tradional male/female role behavior reinforced throughout the books. Hermione might be smarter than Ron or Harry, but where you say she "quietly backs a bag," she actually packs their bags, and seems to do most of the domestic work on their camping trip as well. (And most of the romance follows set patterns of male/female as well.) 
>   
You're only partially correct about Hg doing the domestic work on the 
camping trip.  Harry and Ron policed up the site while Hg does the 
important magical work of removing the protective hexes and spells.

Where you see gender based divisions of labor, I mostly see 
Meyers-Briggs types.  I'd claim Hg as an INTP, she's a planner, a 
reader, not particularly social, an introvert, when put upon she bites 
her tongue and acts as a team player...unless her core values are 
breached then she becomes mule-ish, she's the ultimate scout: Always be 
prepared (but she'd never be a scout because INTPs aren't joiners), and 
fiercely loyal to people and causes.  Generally Hg's preparations are 
for naught, except in this series, but Hg's got a plan for every 
circumstance because she is light years ahead of any other characters in 
skills, knowledge, and planning. Her mind is a frothing scenario 
factory.  She not only see "what is" like most INTPs she knows what it 
means, what it symbolizes ("it means that the MoM is interfering at 
Hogwarts").  She suffers fools, but only for so long. 

BTW: JKR is reported to be an INTP as well.

If I were to cast Hg as a modern day TV character, she'd be Dr. 
Temperance Brennen in Bones or Dr. Kay Scarpetta in a Pat Cornwell 
series.  Same temperment. 

I discount your romance comment.  Girls just mature faster than boys, on 
the whole. 
-- 

Rick Kennerly
Virginia Beach, VA
www.mouseherder.com 
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