> ...だからといって、昨日も、山ほど宿題を出すのをためらうわけではなかった。 (official Japanese TL)  
>  ...but it hadn't stopped her giving them a huge pile of homework the day
> before (original Harry Potter text)

"It won't stop X doing Y" seems like a really useful construct to learn e.g.
"the accident didn't stop him from learning to drive". I wonder just how
natural and close to this meaning Yをためらうわけではない is? My literal translation is
"It doesn't mean that X will hesitate in doing Y", which sounds rather clumsy,
and I'm always suspicious about the translations in this book.

I'm also confused because ためらう is supposed to be an intransitive verb.
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meaning transitivity
Is ためらうわけではなかった natural?
When I search 「ためらうとは」 the Google definition pulled up has the example
sentence 「受診するのを―」 so the transitive use does seem established.

Literally translated, 'It didn't stop her giving them homework' is something
like 「それは宿題を出すのを止めなかった」 which sounds _horribly_ awkward in Japanese, with a
nebulous but almost definitely inanimate subject (Japanese doesn't really like
inanimate subjects for transitive verbs) translating the dummy subject 'it'
from the Japanese sentence.

The sentence you've got is 'That didn't mean she hesitated to give them plenty
of homework' literally. I honestly find the sentence to be fine in English and
it's fine in Japanese there too. The one problem is maybe the wording you used
for it.
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