• Dr. Ruby

Harry Potter is responsible for fostering a love of reading in a generation with a good cause. It fights bravely for racial and gender equality, as well as love’s triumph over evil. All of this is accomplished while keeping an excellent narrative, and its success is well-deserved. Harry Potter is full of unexpected joys, even when it comes to the female cause. Hermione is smarter than Harry and Ron, Bellatrix Lestrange and Minerva McGonagall are among the best fighters in the universe, the main heroine (Hermione) does not fall in love with the main hero (Harry), and prefers Arithmancy to Divination, the latter having the implication of being ungrounded in hard facts. Harry Potter, on the other hand, fails feminism by ignoring the issue of underrepresentation of women. It does not mean that they are not portrayed appropriately but they are few in numbers comparatively. It would be a mistake to believe that the Harry Potter series is all about Harry Potter. Despite the fact that the series is named after him, it nonetheless has numerous female role models while one study them with feministic perspectives. J. K. Rowling, the popular series’ author, did not use her full name as a stage name because she was afraid just because she is a woman, less people would read her work. Female empowerment, however, is still strongly prevalent in the series through various characters. Males are always portrayed as being more powerful than women in so many texts and movies, and there is frequently a concept that men must vanquish evil in order to save women. Harry Potter is unique in that there are several major female characters in the novel that help build the road for Harry’s victory against Voldemort, and like men, they equally combat evil. The paper studies the following females’ characters in the light of feminism.

Harry Potter, gender, stereotypes, masculine, feminine, power, strength

"A Feministic Study of Selected Female Characters of the Harry Potter Series", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 6, page no.K110-K117, June-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2406A14.pdf

"A Feministic Study of Selected Female Characters of the Harry Potter Series", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 6, page no. ppK110-K117, June-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2406A14.pdf