Rowling also refuses to give any female teenage characters female friends lol. Lily doesn't have Friends outside of her husband's friends after marriage apparently. Hermione isn't well liked by other girls and she gets yelled at by ginny in order of phoenix while actually making sense. Ginny is said to be popular, but her defining characteristic is how popular she is with the boys. Luna is so wierd that she apparently has no friends. In fact female friends are often treated disdainfully in the narrative (cho and her friend whose name I can't remember, lavender and the patil sisters). Ginny is quite terrible to Fleur as well. In Rowling's universe only men can be afforded a life outside their immediate family and love interest.
Let’s not forget when Cho was treated like a traitor just because she chose to defend her friend (being the ultimate girls’ girl, a goddess, honestly, thank you Cho for so much, and I’m sorry for all the mistreatment) over a boy and even over political duty, exactly what a real girl would do, because friends come first, even when they mess up. But instead of being portrayed as the boss she is, Rowling paints her as a whiny, immature traitor.
Fleur is only respected by “the cool girls in the story” once she stops being herself and becomes a housewife who lives entirely for her husband. Basically, for Rowling, everything revolves around male validation: you’re only intelligent and brave if your friends are boys, because if your friends are girls, then you’re shallow, superficial, and a gossip. You’re only “cool and popular in a good way” if you’re admired for the same reasons a boy would be, and if they think you’re cool and popular, it doesn’t matter what the girls think.
And above all, every female character who’s treated positively is filtered through purely masculinized gender standards. Their “virtues” are virtues from a male perspective based on what men like, find attractive, or consider “worthy” in a woman. Every teenage girl or young woman who doesn’t perform a kind of femininity that’s acceptable to or built around the male gaze’s approval is ridiculed, diminished, or treated horribly by the narrative. Rowling hates women, and it’s honestly not surprising that she didn’t have female friends in school. The problem wasn’t the others; the problem was her.
