Protection: Hallowe'en (Book 1, Chapter 10)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
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Is There a Difference Between a Damsel in Distress and a Man Girl?
The agency of the female character here is obscured. She's not like a damsel in distress who is kidnapped from her bed and saves herself to a large extent. In some ways, by giving her a little bit of agency, but not all of it, it resembles the way gener dynamics actually often, really work in the world.
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