* Go you, Hermione! I think you're right that you end up doing the cooking because you're a girl.
Ron's assumption that Hermione is automatically better at household charms, something she wouldn't have learned at school, is pure sexism. Also dumb, because they've got Harry who can cook the Muggle way. Not that he would, of course. Beneath his dignity, and it might look like he learned something useful from the Dursleys.
BTW, why is his name Nigellus, if he is a Black? Did he want a fancier name than "Black" and changed it into its Latinate form?
It seems before they got into astronomy the Blacks used to go for showy double-barrelled names. Phineas is Phineas Nigellus Black, the woman who wanted to hunt Muggles for sport was Araminta Melliflua Black and etc. As to why use a name that already means "black", either purebloods like to overdetermine or the author likes to mock them. In support of the latter theory I give you Brutus Malfoy.
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Date: 2008-12-21 05:07 am (UTC)Ron's assumption that Hermione is automatically better at household charms, something she wouldn't have learned at school, is pure sexism. Also dumb, because they've got Harry who can cook the Muggle way. Not that he would, of course. Beneath his dignity, and it might look like he learned something useful from the Dursleys.
BTW, why is his name Nigellus, if he is a Black? Did he want a fancier name than "Black" and changed it into its Latinate form?
It seems before they got into astronomy the Blacks used to go for showy double-barrelled names. Phineas is Phineas Nigellus Black, the woman who wanted to hunt Muggles for sport was Araminta Melliflua Black and etc. As to why use a name that already means "black", either purebloods like to overdetermine or the author likes to mock them. In support of the latter theory I give you Brutus Malfoy.