In OotP, Sirius's misery will also be hidden away as Dumbledore stows him at Grimmauld Place rather than addressing his ultimately fatal unhappiness.
I wonder if it's perhaps something to do with the mindset of our heroes not being particularly comfortable with emotion. So many of the characters in the books are Gryffindors, and with the attendant bravery etc. does seem to be a machismo - uncomfortableness with emotions other than anger (especially from the men - and strict gender lines seems to be another WW/JKR thing. Although Ginny and Molly are both fairly unsympathetic to troubles that aren't...well, Harry's. Molly thinks Sirius is sulking rather than genuinely depressed, Ginny comments on Cho needing 'comfort' from Michael Corner and thinks Umbridge is sulking rather than genuinely traumatised by the centaurs.) The deaths of Cedric and Sirius are punctuated not by open tears/mourning, even from Harry; but explosions of anger - the train hexings in GoF and OotP, for example, as well as the obvious room trashing. Hagrid appears to be the exception to this, but then he's not fully human...
JKR seems to have chosen to make her elves sound uneducated.
So they can be even more grateful for being educated into realising that they need to be rescued by the Wise White Woman Hermione, I guess.
They're afraid to openly announce their anti-Muggleborn views.
Odd, because JKR quite often comments on how prevalent anti-Muggleborn sentiments are, yet we really don't see much examples of this. There's few examples of racism in the WW society (are Muggleborns paid less? Is there a glass ceiling? Are more in Azkaban?) and as you say, apparently anti-Muggleborn sentiments are rare enough that people don't wish to own to them publically.
This is the second time in two chapters that Harry's non-working watch has been pointed out (it stopped working after he spent all that time down in the lake).
Was Harry's watch ever mentioned before it broke, out of curiousity?
Molly's harsh judgment gets to her.
Hermione really has sort of become an honorary Weasley over the books, much like Harry. (I'm sure there's interesting insights there about Muggleborns assimilation into wizarding culture and possible neglect from both Hogwarts system and said pupils themselves of their Muggle relations - is it coincidence Hermione's picked one of the oldest pureblood families around to ally herself with?) So I guess Molly's the wizarding mother substitute (by OotP, Hermione's even leaving her own family at Xmas to spend the holidays with the Weasleys, yes?) that will eventually become mother-in-law. Hooray for OBHWF! *rolls eyes*
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I wonder if it's perhaps something to do with the mindset of our heroes not being particularly comfortable with emotion.
So many of the characters in the books are Gryffindors, and with the attendant bravery etc. does seem to be a machismo - uncomfortableness with emotions other than anger (especially from the men - and strict gender lines seems to be another WW/JKR thing.
Although Ginny and Molly are both fairly unsympathetic to troubles that aren't...well, Harry's. Molly thinks Sirius is sulking rather than genuinely depressed, Ginny comments on Cho needing 'comfort' from Michael Corner and thinks Umbridge is sulking rather than genuinely traumatised by the centaurs.)
The deaths of Cedric and Sirius are punctuated not by open tears/mourning, even from Harry; but explosions of anger - the train hexings in GoF and OotP, for example, as well as the obvious room trashing.
Hagrid appears to be the exception to this, but then he's not fully human...
JKR seems to have chosen to make her elves sound uneducated.
So they can be even more grateful for being educated into realising that they need to be rescued by the Wise White Woman Hermione, I guess.
They're afraid to openly announce their anti-Muggleborn views.
Odd, because JKR quite often comments on how prevalent anti-Muggleborn sentiments are, yet we really don't see much examples of this.
There's few examples of racism in the WW society (are Muggleborns paid less? Is there a glass ceiling? Are more in Azkaban?) and as you say, apparently anti-Muggleborn sentiments are rare enough that people don't wish to own to them publically.
This is the second time in two chapters that Harry's non-working watch has been pointed out (it stopped working after he spent all that time down in the lake).
Was Harry's watch ever mentioned before it broke, out of curiousity?
Molly's harsh judgment gets to her.
Hermione really has sort of become an honorary Weasley over the books, much like Harry.
(I'm sure there's interesting insights there about Muggleborns assimilation into wizarding culture and possible neglect from both Hogwarts system and said pupils themselves of their Muggle relations - is it coincidence Hermione's picked one of the oldest pureblood families around to ally herself with?)
So I guess Molly's the wizarding mother substitute (by OotP, Hermione's even leaving her own family at Xmas to spend the holidays with the Weasleys, yes?) that will eventually become mother-in-law. Hooray for OBHWF! *rolls eyes*