Feminist complaints
'No clearly defined wage-earning mothers.'

If this comes from wanting small children to have good role models, I really really strongly believe that kids are going to map their own domestic experience onto the unexplored areas of Harry Potter. Kids with stay at home moms may assume that most moms are stay-at-home, even after the kids are in boarding school. Kids with working moms may assume that the moms of most of the Hogwarts kids work. Speaking as somebody who scrutinizes most entertainment for good girl targeting, I think the series did an excellent job of providing examples of many females in many different situations who kick ass in many different ways, often more than the males. I also don't think the author had any responsibility to clearly indicate wage-earning moms or the wage-earning married childfree. The number of defined moms we encounter is far smaller than the number of children we encounter, and the number of women we encounter, which leaves a vast number of family units completely undefined. I suspect a large number of them aren't happy Weasely units, but instead more like Neville and his Gran or Luna and her father or Harry and his aunt. But more importantly, it doesn't matter to the story whether the women are sterile, single, abstinent, sexually liberated or secretly lesbians.

And I think it's depressing that some people are focusing on the 'wage-earning' aspect of women's lives. The entire setting falls apart when you think too much about the money and the occupations and so on. I assume what holds it together is stuff I don't know about. Presumably other people accept the same fact. Why accept some stuff exists we don't know about but pick on these few threads?