The fat phobia, simply the characters who were written as “fat”, “husky” or “bigger” were often depicted as villainous such as Crab, Goyle, and Dudley.
Plump Molly Weasley, Round-faced Neville Longbottom and five-times as wide as a normal man Hagrid would disagree.
The goblins at Gringotts, describing them in ways that were used to stereotype Jewish people during the Holocaust, such as “long hooked noises” that appeared on nazi propaganda. As well as describing them as smart, and greedy with their riches, furthering another stereotype held.
If you come to the conclusion that Goblins are Jewish people because they have long hooked noses (which goblins usually are always shown having across media?) and run a bank then that says a lot more about you than the author.
The pro slavery narrative? That house elves are just so ‘thankful’ to be enslaved and that they think it’s their only life obligations. Seems really weird that they would sympathize with their oppressor and want to be enslaved.
House Elves have been born and raised in slavery for centuries (at least), which has led to them being sort of content with their existence, and wizards have never bothered to try to change that since it benefits them. Hermione changes Ron’s mind on the subject and clearly is interested in trying to change peoples opinions on it. There’s nothing pro-slavery about it - Rowling expects us to sympathise with the House Elves. She wouldn’t have a character like Hermione, who represents someone trying to change this mindset, remotely interested if that were the case.
Professor Quirell’s turban “hiding evil”, this is self explanatory but disrespects those who wear a turbans or any sort of headscarf covering for religious faith, making them out to be evil.
Again, if someone comes to this conclusion then it says a lot more about them than it does about Rowling. I thought it was pretty self-explanatory that it was necessary to hide Voldemort on the back of his head.
Little to no representation for poc(let alone no good representation)
An odd thing to begrudge Rowling for given where she grew up and the sorts of people she would have interacted with. Half the UK had little to no representation too.
The stereotyping of Indian character, Padma and Parvati Patil deserved so much better. As well as their names are some of the most stereotypical names to give a character of Indian descent.
How exactly were they stereotyped? Also how are those names stereotypical - wouldn’t that just mean common names?
Having 2 of the very FEW black characters(referencing Dean and Blaise) not having a father figure, this perpetuates a negative stereotype of black fathers being absent in their families life
Dean’s father was murdered by Death Eaters by trying to protect his wife and son.
Going further on the Jewish stereotypes of being very greedy and selfish we are introduced to “Anthony Goldstein” whom we know is Jewish solely from his name.
We know he’s Jewish because Rowling confirmed he was Jewish when asked if there were any Jewish wizards.
Cho Chang, we are going to give a Chinese character a Korean name?? Let alone cho chang, that is one of the most stereotypical names I’ve ever heard.
Doesn’t Rowling name all her characters after something to do with their character?
Dolores Umbridge = sadness and anger/taking offense
Gilderoy Lockheart = golden king who locks away the truth
Remus Lupin = one of 2 founding leaders of Rome raised by wolves and “of the wolf”
Xenophilius Lovegood = lover of foreign things and a true heart (Luna also of a true heart)
Bellatrix Lestrange = warlike woman of the dark arts
Voldemort = flight of death
Minerva = warrior goddess
Peeves = a thing which annoys
“ chóuchàng” (惆悵)“ meaning “Melancholy” “Forlorn” and “Despair”
It might be poorly executed but there was no ill-intent there.
Promoting harmful stereotypes but what about how Seamus’ only character trait is liking rum and blowing stuff up. This isn’t a little harmful of an Irish stereotype to push?
The blowing stuff up was an invention of the movies and rum isn’t stereotypical of Ireland. Incredibly reductive view of Seamus’ character.
We had a black wizard with the last name “Shakelbolt”, am I the only one that finds that wrong??
Shacklebolt* and I always took it as his role as an Auror locking up Death Eaters and then Kingsley for his position.
Transcoding Rita Skeeter.
As well as after coding Rita Skeeter as a trans woman, Rita also uses her status as an illegal animagus to spy on children in gof. Pushing that narrative that trans people are using their identity to be able to have access to children and those of the opposite gender, a harmful stereotype cis people have towards trans people. (It’s not explicitly stated that Rita is trans but I read her as trans as well as she is described with masculine features and coded that way by Jkr)
Or it was a caricature of journalists who are willing to invade every part of a persons life to get the next scoop. Transgenderism wasn’t really a thing back when Rowling wrote the books either. Trans people abusing the respect given to their identities wouldn’t exactly be inaccurate though.
Fleur losing every event. Arguably you can say ‘oh someone has to loose’ but if when the only woman competing who the goblet chose her as one of the most capable wizards at her school to compete, why is she not on the same level as the men. Why isn’t she a more capable wizard? There were tens of other wizards from her school that possible could have been picked but she was the best. And she lost? Almost as if jkr deeply rooted misogyny never planned on giving fleur a decent chance.
A reach if there ever was one. There are plenty of strong female characters within the series. Fleur losing really isn’t… misogynistic whatsoever.
Hermione’s inner misogyny(I love Hermione but she was written with inner misogyny especially since jkr has it). Such as her down playing Dolores assault, her hatred towards lavender(it wasn’t just jealousy), bullying/calling fleur rude names(especially since fleur is very feminine and a veela), ect trust me there’s more
Hermione disliked those characters for reasons that had no attachment whatsoever with their womanhood. Fleur was also introduced as a bit of snob so… what?
Demeaning or villainizing femine interest or things stereotypically femine that can perpetuate misogyny. Like the balant disliking of Padma and Lavender for gossiping, or taking interest in fashion(notable stereotypically feminine interests).
Trigger warning: SA/R@PE. Although it is not clearly stated when umbridge is taken away by the centaurs but it alludes to her being r@ped by the centaurs. In alot of Greek myths along with stories centaurs have been known to r@pe helpless women. Even if it is not clearly written, most people know of these stories about centaurs can connect two together. Going back to the point of Hermione misogyny after Umbridge’s attack she mocks her, victim shaming her. It’s gross and disgusting.
Yeah, this rears its ugly head all the time and it’s so disgusting that peoples first thoughts would be drawn to this. Greek myths are full of abhorrent stuff but that rarely ever extends to anything that draws influence from them. Please have some common sense given who the book audience is aimed at. Rowling isn’t the sort of person that would punish her female characters like that. That’s more George R.R. Martin’s style.
Queer coding Nymphadora Tonks, then putting her in a heterosexual relationship with Remus only for the sake of invalidating Wolfstar
Ableism : I’m sure many disabled people can explain this way better so please feel free to add on to this but jkr when discussing Frank and Alice Longbottom’s condition referred to it as in the books as ‘a fate worse than death’. It’s obvious that it pushed harmful narrative especially towards those with disabilities or similar situations.
They were tortured to the point of insanity. This isn’t even an issue of disability… that is a fate worse than death?
There is only so much more so as I reread the books I’ll continue to add onto this list.
Please don’t if it reaches as much and wilfully misconstrues as much as this list has already been.
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