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Is There Something Subtextual Going on in Hogwarts?
There is definitely a lot of dismissiveness in these books around female characters who are even remotely, quote, girlish or overly feminine. There's a whole other episode to be had talking about how the author has written female characters and we could go into that in much more detail. I think between Sprout and McGonagall, there are at least a couple of female characters at Hogwarts who have not been hoodwinked by Lockhart at this point.