I don't think having kids is unfeminist either. As I said in my comment, it only rubs me the wrong way when every female character in a story goes down that road. It is even worse when the mothers in a work don't seem to have anything to them beside the fact that they have kids. Now, not every female character in HP ended up exactly like that, but the fact that the only "good" unmarried, childless woman alive in the series at the end was an old woman, and not really a central character.
Also, re Lily and James's jobs, why should we have to consider JKR's interviews to see what they did? Why wasnt the fact that they were awesome soldiers important enough to make it into the books when the name of Draco's kid was? James and Lily were Harry's parents, for god's sake. Also, iirc, James was also said to be an Auror. Lily? Errrrr...soldier?
That is the sort of smaller annoyance that adds to the others and pisses me off.
No, James is not an auror. (You are maybe mixing him up with Frank Longbottom? Though in that case, Alice is an auror, too.) The only thing we know about him is that he is in the Order, just like Lily. That's without JKR's interview! She just confirmed that there is nothing more to their careers in her mind.
Are there many central male characters who are alive but unmarried and don't have children by the end of the series? Or any?
I think regardless of gender, a happy ending ideally includes kids for JKR.
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Also, re Lily and James's jobs, why should we have to consider JKR's interviews to see what they did? Why wasnt the fact that they were awesome soldiers important enough to make it into the books when the name of Draco's kid was? James and Lily were Harry's parents, for god's sake. Also, iirc, James was also said to be an Auror. Lily? Errrrr...soldier?
That is the sort of smaller annoyance that adds to the others and pisses me off.
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Are there many central male characters who are alive but unmarried and don't have children by the end of the series? Or any?
I think regardless of gender, a happy ending ideally includes kids for JKR.