In order to be able to have lesbians in Harry Potter you'd have to start by having women who interact with each other at all https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/1309227021214638080 …
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only major woman i can think of are Hermione, Mrs. Weasley and Tonks for one book. They dont.....interact much
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And yet even so, it is telling looking through the books and seeing just how uninterested JKR is in female friendship Like sure Harry is our viewpoint character and everything is through his eyes but it's still really blatant
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Who the hell would Hermione invite to her bachelorette party ("hen party" in the UK)? You can barely make a guest list based on other girls she theoretically knows, who have names in the text, never mind characters she actually has any developed relationship with
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I don't disagree - though I was referring more to the fact that it's not an unequivocal pass for all of the books. Given that the author has the stamina to write 900 words (albeit for adult fiction) you'd think such random dialogue between characters would come easily to her...
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The Bechdel moment that springs most to mind is Molly and Bellatrix fighting, but I don’t remember if Bellatrix even says anything
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Also, isn't the point of the Bechdel test that it's a comically low bar which too many movies still fail to clear? "Passing" it doesn't make you a paragon of representation.
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