Considering how ALL the women (except the spinsters) were ultimately defined by their men and children, this isn't a real surprise. Think about it:
Molly's greatest moment is done out of maternal love.
Ditto Lily's. Poor Lily doesn't even have a patronus of her own, since hers is but a female version of James'.
Ginny barely does anything (so much for the promises of "something spectacular" that Rowling made in her infamous Mugglenet/Leaky Cauldron interview in 2005) except date lots of boys, play quidditch decently, and eventually have three children. I'm not even sure she casts that bat-bogey hex Slughorn admired.
Hermione only has two kids, but the fact that NOTHING was mentioned about her having any sort of life except with Ron disturbed me. A lot. Of all the females, she was the one whom I expected would NOT marry her high school sweetheart, especially since she's smart enough to know that statistically speaking, teenage relationships simply don't last. Unless there's a lot of backstory Rowling is refusing to give out (which seems likely, since she skipped nineteen years), I am very disappointed by this.
Tonks. Dear God. She has a fascinating power that would make her a perfect spy, and she never uses it. She's cheerful and impudent and rebellious until she crushes on Remus, and then becomes an obsessive, whiny idiot who only wants marriage and babies. And then, in the ultimate bit of bad, frigid characterization, she leaves a newborn with her mother and follows Remus into battle even though she knows full well that either or both of them could die.
Absolutely horrible. Why Rowling did this, why she forced the romance plot down our throats at all, is beyond me. It seriously damaged the book for me, as well as my opinion of her as an author.
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Date: 2007-07-22 11:36 am (UTC)Considering how ALL the women (except the spinsters) were ultimately defined by their men and children, this isn't a real surprise. Think about it:
Molly's greatest moment is done out of maternal love.
Ditto Lily's. Poor Lily doesn't even have a patronus of her own, since hers is but a female version of James'.
Ginny barely does anything (so much for the promises of "something spectacular" that Rowling made in her infamous Mugglenet/Leaky Cauldron interview in 2005) except date lots of boys, play quidditch decently, and eventually have three children. I'm not even sure she casts that bat-bogey hex Slughorn admired.
Hermione only has two kids, but the fact that NOTHING was mentioned about her having any sort of life except with Ron disturbed me. A lot. Of all the females, she was the one whom I expected would NOT marry her high school sweetheart, especially since she's smart enough to know that statistically speaking, teenage relationships simply don't last. Unless there's a lot of backstory Rowling is refusing to give out (which seems likely, since she skipped nineteen years), I am very disappointed by this.
Tonks. Dear God. She has a fascinating power that would make her a perfect spy, and she never uses it. She's cheerful and impudent and rebellious until she crushes on Remus, and then becomes an obsessive, whiny idiot who only wants marriage and babies. And then, in the ultimate bit of bad, frigid characterization, she leaves a newborn with her mother and follows Remus into battle even though she knows full well that either or both of them could die.
Absolutely horrible. Why Rowling did this, why she forced the romance plot down our throats at all, is beyond me. It seriously damaged the book for me, as well as my opinion of her as an author.