The unattached, the Dursleys, the role of women

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> zanooda:
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> But Fudge *is* married, or at least was at some time :-). Barty Crouch mentions Mrs.Fudge in "The Madness of Mr.Crouch"(GoF, p.555). OK, Crouch was delirious at that point, but I still think that Mrs.Fudge is real... :-).

Potioncat:
We see students at Hogwarts from single parent families, and blended families. Several characters lost partners during the war with LV or through illness/accidents. There are many that we just don't know the status. I think we see a range of styles.

McGonagall is listed as being single by several posters, but I don't think we know that. Harry never sees her with anyone he knows to be a partner, but that's because he doesn't know. Slughorn is unattached now, but we don't know if that was always the case.

There's no reason for JKR to mention whether or not every character has a partner. If she had to account for all partners, she'd kill them off as fast as un-needed parents. Come to think of it, Hermione was probably protecting her parents from JKR, not LV---having noticed how easily parents fell prey to unspecified illness and premature old age.