J.K. Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter series, the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and the screenplays to the spin-off Fantastic Beasts films and is a self-proclaimed feminist. However, a lot of her actions as seen on Twitter as well as what she does and does not depict in her books would indicate otherwise.

The women in Harry Potter, especially women of color, are given storylines that are generally lacking and unsatisfying, such as Cho Chang acting as merely a love interest for Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory. And while there is already a list talking about the badassery of some of these female characters and other woman characters who deserve better, here is a look at ten women in Harry Potter, including the most badass of the women, who deserve better storylines.

Parvati And Padma Patil

Parvati and Padma Patil are twins who are two very different individuals but unfortunately only received so little character development between the two of them that there is only enough for one entry. Since Parvati is a Gryffindor in the books, she appears in the books more often than Padma, a Ravenclaw. However, both get equal screen time in the films in which they are both in Gryffindor.

In both the books and the films, the height of both of their storylines is in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in which they are Harry and Ron’s dates for the Yule Ball. Essentially both girls were reduced as plot points so that both Harry and Ron could have dates to the Ball and then subsequently ignore them and treat them poorly because neither of them could take who they originally wanted to take to the Ball.

Angelina Johnson

Angelina Johnson plays on the Gryffindor Quidditch team alongside Harry as a Chaser. She and Harry throughout most of the series seemed to be on good terms, but like most minor characters, women and men alike, she did not get a lot of page time and received even less screen time.

However, in the books, when Angelina was appointed as Quidditch Captain, she immediately became more strict and less friendly. Women in places of authority are often depicted and even expected to behave in this manner which is unfair because women, just like everyone else, have different personalities and means of accomplishing tasks.

Queenie Goldstein

Queenie Goldstein is a character in the Fantastic Beasts series. Newt Scamander meets her in the first film of the series, in which it is established that she is an accomplished witch and a skilled Legilimens. However, her storyline throughout the two films that have currently been released is all about her love for the No-Maj (Muggle) Jacob Kowalski, which was forbidden at the time.

Especially in the second film, Crimes of Grindelwald, she takes drastic measures to ensure she can maintain her romance with Jacob, from bewitching him to fall in love with her, to joining forces with pureblood supremacist and notorious Muggle/No-Maj-hater, Gellert Grindelwald. Her actions, especially joining Grindelwald, make no sense and can instead be seen as character regression. She started out as a strong character but has since dwindled into a lovesick mess of a character.

Katie Bell

Katie Bell is yet another talented Quidditch player on the Gryffindor team during Harry’s time at Hogwarts. However, she is most remembered for her role in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in which Draco Malfoy uses the Imperius Curse on her in an attempt to get her to deliver a cursed amulet to Albus Dumbledore.

Before she could deliver it, she accidentally touches the amulet and gets cursed instead of Dumbledore. Again, this is another instance in which a female character is used as a plot point; Katie was used as a point of conflict and to depict Draco once again failing to kill Dumbledore on Voldemort’s orders.

Pansy Parkinson

Pansy Parkinson is one of the few named female characters in the Slytherin House. On top of that, seemingly her only function in the books and films is to act as an antagonist toward other female students at Hogwarts, especially Hermione, in a manner that is similar to the way Draco treats other students, particularly Harry.

Pansy is incredibly underdeveloped in that we only see this one side of her. All readers and viewers know is that she acts as a bully and she has no hope for ever winning people’s sympathies. Readers and viewers don’t even get the chance to know if she has any sympathetic characteristics.

Nagini

Nagini was at first known as Voldemort’s pet snake. She was then expanded upon for The Crimes of Grindelwald. In the film, it is revealed that she is a Maledictus and therefore cursed to transform into a snake, with the transformation eventually becoming permanent.

J.K. Rowling has given no explanation of why Nagini needed to be a person with a blood curse, or given a history of the blood curse itself. Also, just because Nagini had a blood curse does not mean that she had to join forces with Dark Wizards as viewers know she eventually does, especially since it is likely that the blood curse is a result of the use of Dark Magic.

Leta Lestrange

Leta Lestrange is a character introduced in Crimes of Grindelwald. She has a tragic backstory and a troubled childhood on top of her poorly developed storyline. She was conceived through rape, unnecessarily so, and she was depicted through flashbacks as a troublemaker while at Hogwarts. Neither of these aspects really add to her character as she is in the film.

Furthermore, in the film, she is depicted as engaged to Newt’s brother Theseus when she clearly still has unreciprocated feelings for Newt. Her storyline ends when she is killed by Grindelwald, which is Newt’s final motivation for going to war with Grindelwald. She is yet another character reduced to a plot point and also is thrown into a pointless love triangle between two brothers.

Luna Lovegood

Luna Lovegood is one of the best-developed women in the Harry Potter series. However, she does receive a fair amount of drawbacks in terms of storyline and character development. She is depicted as odd and quirky and is often looked down upon by her peers for it, especially when she is first introduced in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Her peers later see her quirks as useful at times, such as her suggestion of using Thestrals to fly to the Ministry. However, even after this, characters quickly lose patience for her eccentric beliefs and dress while interacting with her. Her individuality is something that should have been praised but is instead treated as an oddity and annoyance.

Fleur Delacour

Fleur Delacour was introduced in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in which she was the Champion for the Beauxbatons School in the Triwizard Tournament, meaning that she was already a powerful witch by the age of seventeen. She continued to prove this throughout the book and the film by competing in each task with some success.

However, she eventually met and fell in love with Bill Weasley and since was used purely as a love interest. Furthermore, in the books, Molly, Ginny, and Hermione are depicted as not liking her purely because she was pretty and they, therefore, believed her to be stuck up.

Hermione Granger

Hermione was yet another woman who was probably one of the best developed in the series. However, like Luna, her storyline is not without its pitfalls. She at first is depicted as bossy and a know-it-all with Harry and Ron not liking her very much. The three eventually bonded and became close friends, but Hermione still had a bossy, know-it-all personality.

As she grew up, she matured into an intelligent and strong young woman. However, she also is ultimately reduced to a love interest for one of the male characters, Ron. And even though her and Ron’s personalities generally complement each other, there were times in which Ron treated her poorly for seemingly no reason.

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