[HPforGrownups] Re: Bigotry in the Potterverse

[Rick H. Kennerly]

No: HPFGUIDX 188117


> sartoris22:
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> Increasingy, an older unpartnered male is considered threatening or weird in American society. But older unpartnered males have aways been considered somewhat strange, whch is why I say that HP takes a progressive approach to the lack of partnership. 
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rick:
Of course, with few exceptions, like Geoff, I don't know where anybody 
else on the list is located geographically.

But I'd think the questions about the partnered (or in this unpartnered 
status) of the Hogwarts Headmaster, Heads of Household, or Game Keeper, 
who all reside on the property (we really don't know about Madam Hooch, 
Professor Sprout, and some of the minor teaching characters), is really 
a function of most of us Americans not being familiar with the English 
Boarding School genre? 

Read enough Dickens, Bronte, Austen or the Tom Brown series and 
unmarried teachers are an unquestioned staple of this type of 
literature, background noise.

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Rick Kennerly
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