Father figures in Harry Potter: the short version.

Father figures keep popping up for fatherless Harry.

It's not so much about Harry, but about something else: a set of concerns of a woman about her views of different types of men. It's not the concerns of the average woman or of women in general. It's not even fair to say it's Rowling's concerns. But rather it's the concerns of her mind set, a fictionalized version of Rowlings, as she approached Harry Potter. Let's call this person Woman X

( Fathers for the fatherless. )