[ SECRET POST #3064 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3064 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: But there would have to be some differences, if only in the way people reacted to Harry.

[(Anonymous)]

See, reading this I can't help but think it kind of proves the point about gender ideas/beliefs in the secret.

Like, maybe I've spent too much time reading Game of Thrones, but I'm thinking of Arya, who's a little rough for 'girl standards' even before all the shit that happens to her, and spends half the series being mistaken for a boy. She's about the same age Harry was in the first book, and her appearance would be way more acceptable in current times than it would have been in medieval times. Why would there be comment about it? There are underprivileged girls who wear oversized, 'boyish' clothes all the time.

I can't imagine the Dursleys would get any more comments about Harriet being dressed in Dudley's hand-me-downs than they likely got about Harry. At most maybe Petunia would've tried altering one of Dudley's old pants into a skirt or something, but it was already obvious that something was wrong in the home for anyone who cared to ask, and I'm not sure how a girl not wearing a skirt would make someone more likely to ask.

I don't think Snape's reaction would be different. Not if eleven-year-old Harriet could easily pass as eleven-year-old James.

And Harry's flare-ups would be more problematic...why? She'd be going through the exact same PTSD crap, and really, it's more acceptable for boys to rage and throw things and fight people than it is for girls to do it?

I concede the Yule Ball, if only because I think any girl written by JKR would be incapable of not being excited for the ball and 110% invested in dates and her appearance for it. But for argument's sake, I do think it's possible for a girl to not be looking forward to a big school dance, to attend reluctantly and spend most of it sulking with her best friend because the date she wanted attended with someone else.