THE WOMEN IN HARRY POTTER’S WORLD: A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE

My analysis uses a feminist perspective to examine the gender roles portrayed in Harry Potter. In this analysis, I place an emphasis on two of the female characters in the book series, Hermione Granger and Minerva McGonagall or Professor McGonagall. Although Professor McGonagall and Hermione are fantasy creatures of the wizarding world, their characters represent so much more than just women of the book series. Both are fighters, pioneers, historians, liberators, and heroes.