Bigotry in the Potterverse/Hermione and her parents

[sistermagpie at earthlink.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 188138


> > Magpie:
> > But she just gave canon that indicated Hermione is doing the cooking and washing up and gathering food. That you can come up with a reason besides "they made her do it because she's a girl" or pointing out Ron and Harry doing other things doesn't change that. Whether or not one finds it sexist, the girl's mostly doing the cooking and washing up.
> >   
> rick:
> But you've got to take the canon as a whole, not keep twisting a single 
> instance into some PC argument. 

Magpie:
I am taking canon as a whole. And here we were talking about a specific thing. Can I not remember that on the camping trip with two girls and a boy the girl was described as doing most of the washing up and cooking without including a defense of how she's also a great student and planner so it doesn't really count in order to not be making a p.c. argument? I thought I was making a canon point. What requires the p.c. argument and what is that argument?

 
> > Magpie:
> > Of course, the Grangers are never in any actual danger to begin with (to answer Carol's question about how the movie would handle it, but guess is they'll ignore it since it never had to be there to begin with). The Grangers being memory charmed doesn't prevent them from being tortured or from being sitting ducks. It just makes them even more ignorant than they already were--which was pretty ignorant. 
> >   
> rick:
> apparently they were in danger until Hg performed the memory charm and 
> moved them.  Surely you don't think finding and torturing the Grangers 
> wouldn't drive The Trio out of hiding to save them?

Magpie:
Voldemort and the DEs weren't looking for them, so they weren't in danger. But that said, a memory charm doesn't make them immune from torture. As far as I can tell all it did was make them go to Australia, which they could have done with their own memories. 

-m