Is There Magic in Hogwarts and the Wizarding World?

The Dursleys see Hagrid as profoundly masculine in the classic and kind of toxic ways, right? He's big and he has masculine features like lots of hair and he acts with force and strength and even violence in order to protect Harry. They don't see the other side of who Hagrid is, which is his deep, deep emotion,. His willingness to show affection and to weep and to be really vulnerable to others and to children and to peers. And this might be another one of those places where we can see the text reading back against JK Rowling.

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