Sexist Themes in Harry Potter?

[Jade]

On our way to Maine last week me and my parents began talking about this.
Look at Hermione, she's the brightest witch of her year and you would expect great things from her, but instead she marries Ron and has kids.
Lilly Evans: Another promising witch, but instead of putting her abilities to use she settles down and has kids.
Tonks: An Aurar, who gets marries, has kids, and then gets killed off.
Fleur Delacour: The only woman in the Tri-Wizard Tournament, eventually gets married and has kids.
Anyone see a pattern here?

Ok, I was just putting this idea out there! 'Harry Potter' is a brilliant series (even if the epilogue wasn't very satisfying). Even though most women do get married, some do not. I just think that one or two female main characters shouldn't have settled down, so that younger kids won't grow up thinking that they will definitely get married, and they don't have a choice.

[Heidi]

Just because they get married and have kids doesn't mean they're not still important people

Hermione- has a high-ranked ministry job, not to mention she played a huge part in the defeat of Voldemort
Lily Evans- probably would have an important job, had she not been in hiding from voldemort, and she also was as active as any male member of the OOTP
Tonks- Was an auror, had a high position of the OOTP, which was the cause off her death
Fleur- I remember something about her wrking in gringotts, but she has to go into hiding from voldemort. Who knows what she may have done after his defeat.

So no, I can't say I agree.

[Jade]

I know they were important, but what kind of message is it sending, that you can have a high ranking job and do all these things, but in the end all women will get married and have children!

[Heidi]

Can they not do both?
And not all women in Harry Potter have children.
Professor McGonagoll, Madame Maxime, Luna Lovegood... need I go on?
But in life, the majority of women have children, and it is the same in HP, but why is that a bad thing?

[Jade]

It's not that it's bad, its just that pretty much every main female character gets married and has kids, as if thats the only possible conclusion to the story.

[Jade]

Oh, and you never find out what happens to Luna, so you can't say that she never settled down. That really annoyed me about the epilogue, because you find out what happens to everyone else, and she was one of my favourite characters.

[Heidi]

Oh, wait luna did have kids.
She married newt scamanders grandson, and became a wizard naturalist. She became quite famous for finding new species. If that's not impressive what is?
And most of the main male characters also settled down and had kids. Having kids is not a conclusion, these characters had many ther acheivements.
It isn't twilight, they didn't just have sex all day after they got married, most of them made important contributions to wizarding society.

[Parade]

Please pardon my interruption, but--

"It isn't twilight, they didn't just have sex all day after they got married"

--That is literary poetry, right there.

[Rachel Disaster]

I agree.

[Stephanie Sirius Ojeda]

Too true!

[Bhakti Patel]

thanx for this statement. totally using it in the next twilight debate

[Sasha Brooklyn Eleanor]

amen to that

[Dan Muhlenkamp]

"...its just that pretty much every main female character gets married and has kids..."

So did the men... I don't see how that's sexist. People can get obsessed about relationships and like to hear about who's with who and what not. I think a majoity of the audience, especially the adolecent-teen audience, think of marrying and starting a family as the ideal way to live adulthood and finish their lives. I think it's more or less just a way to make a happy ending. It is a fantasy after all.