Re: Cho Chang not Ginny
- From: "BubblyBabs" <ng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:14:44 -0500
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:> And what of kings, always offering their daughters to the first hero
:> who saves them. Killing a dragon does not a great husband make.
: No, but it gets the daughter off his hands. Daughters in a patriarchal
: society are considered a liability, fit only for bargaining them off
: to someone for political advantage.
: Sorry about that, women's lib folks, but that is the way things WERE.
More practically,these kings are usually shown as being without sons,
and a dragonslayer would presumably make a good successor.But legitimacy
as a successor requires marrying into the old dynasty.
No sons probably due to inbreeding... Marrying the daughter off to a hero
would probably guarantee he was not related and would introduce new genes
into the pool...
Babs
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