"Her female characters are put in a position where they are not allowed to chase their own dreams and fight for their own causes" (Fransisca and Mochtar 2).

"...the potential relationship

of any woman to her powers of reproduction and to children;

and the institution,

which aims at ensuring that that potential — and all women — shall remain under male control" (Rich 13).

The mothers

• Hagrid, the caretaker
• Professor McGonagall, the protector
• Luna, the nurturer
• Ginny, the defender
• Mrs. Weasley, the substitute mother
• Hermione, the mentor

It's obvious that Harry would attach himself to Mrs. Weasley because:

• She's very warm and generous.
• She treats him like one of her own children.
• She "nags at him to eat properly, meddles in his life and worries over his well-being" (Weiss 21).

"A woman is for a man both more and less a person: she is something terribly necessary and necessarily terrible" (Rich 112).

In many circumstances, when he is in trouble, Hermione immediately reacts to save him, sometimes even endangering herself.

A mother is also "charged with awareness of her intrinsic importance, her depth of meaning, her existence at the very center of what is necessary and sacred" (Rich 93).