![]() At the age of 11, new students of Hogwarts are “sorted” into a school house. ![]() No such system exists for the boys’ dormitories.Ī metaphorical kind of identity-essentialism is built into the Sorting Hat process of Hogwarts as well. The staircase magically transforms into a slide and he is ejected. The in-world equivalents for male and female are “wizard” and “witch”, respectively, but the default term for someone who uses magic is wizard – much as the word “man” refers to both the gender and the human species.Īnxieties about men in female spaces appear in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, in which Ron attempts to enter the girls’ dormitory. ![]() The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, on which Hogwarts Legacy is based, is deeply structured around a patriarchal gender binary. ![]()
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