Book 7, Ep. 3 | Motherhood with Erin Wunker
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The Importance of Motherlessness in Harry Potter
There are so many characters in this series that have absent mothers. It feels to me like these characters get marked as outsiders or in some ways weird at the very least. And I feel like it's a really great segue into owls and we can dive into the specificity of the mothers and the mother and the non-motherless children in this series. Do you want to start off with Petunia Dersley? Sure. Yeah, absolutely. What do you think? Good mother? Good mother, medium mother, bad mother. Let's scale.
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