Desencantando a consciência feminista: um a análise de Hermione Granger

Abstract

The main objective of this work was the analysis of Hermione Granger, from specific situations in the seven novels of the Harry Potter series, written between 1997 and 2007, by English novelist Joanne Rowling and translated into Portuguese by Lia Wyler, in editions of 2000 to 2007, as we investigate whether the character could actually be a feminist. Although she is not the protagonist of the saga, Hermione is one of the central characters in the plots of the Harry Potter novels, representing intelligence and determination in the magical world of Hogwarts. At first, we gathered information about the author and her work, especially regarding her representation as a female writer. In this way, it was also crucial that we did a study of her novels, which present characteristics os the marvelous, so that we could focus, from the second part of our work, essentially on the development of Hermione along the plots. In this sense, this research presents a critical feminist perspective and we have considered authors who deal with the feminine and women’s studies, such as Virginia Woolf (1997) (2019), Simone de Beauvoir (2019), Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar (2020), Gerda Lerner (2019), Pierre Bourdieu (2020), and Michelle Perrot (2005) (2017), among others. This study has a bibliographic methodological profile, and, for this reason, it has considered extensively other works that also bring studies from both the Harry Potter series and Hermione Granger. From our readings and reflections, we observe that, although the character is an important creation of the modern girl/young woman, Hermione still needs to face many challenges within the patriarchal society, also articulated in the wonderful world represented in the series’ novels, to develop her feminist conscience.