Harry Potter is this huge fantasy thing by J.K. Rowling. It’s about a kid named Harry. He finds out he is a wizard and goes to Hogwarts. Alongside Ron and Hermione, he faces trouble. Evil Lord Voldemort and his creepy Death Eaters are always lurking. Themes? Love, friendship, courage and good versus evil. Classic, right?

Meet the badass women from Harry Potter

Bellatrix Lestrange

Oh god, Bellatrix is pure chaotic electricity — unhinged, loyal to a fault (well, to Voldemort), and LOVES the melodrama of it all. She cackles like a broken music box and will slice the air with a wand and then offer you tea? (I swear she has a soft spot for battered teacups, no idea why.) Sadistic and theatrical, but sometimes there’s this tiny, ridiculous petulant child hiding under the murder-robe and it’s almost…sad? Also, she’s impossibly glamorous while being a disaster, like couture meets wildfire.

Narcissa Malfoy

Narcissa is all cool composure on the outside — icy elegance, perfect gloves, that cold blond hair — but she’s a steel beam of mama-bear fierceness when it counts. She’s not your typical Death Eater fan-girl; she makes one quiet, terrifyingly brave choice that reshapes everything (and I still get goosebumps). She loves propriety and will lie through her teeth with the most serene, polished face while humming something that sounds suspiciously like a lullaby. Oh, and she probably keeps a tiny garden behind the manor? No, wait, that’s maybe just a rumor I started, but it fits.

Nymphadora Tonks

Tonks is the adorable, clumsy chaos sprite of the Order — woolly-headed, tomboyish, always changing her hair color (seriously, it’s like mood lighting). She’s brave and kind and terrible at small talk but great at showing up when it matters; also a Metamorphmagus which means style choices are peak unpredictable. She fumbles with feelings and is secretly a cinnamon roll who will punch you for being mean and then apologize with biscuits. She can be loud and somber in the same breath — a walking, shifting glitter-bomb of emotions.

Luna Lovegood

Luna is the soft, sideways genius who sees the world on a slightly different frequency and you’ll immediately feel calmer and also slightly confused in the best way. She’s dreamy and earnest and will tell you about Nargles with a perfectly straight face, then casually point out what everyone else missed (she’s frighteningly observant). Kind, unflappable, and oddly stubborn — she believes things that make zero sense and yet is somehow always right about people. Also, she wears quirky jewelry like it’s a personality flag, and yes, she might have once tried to befriend a dirigible plum (or she’ll say she did).

Ginny Weasley

Ginny is fiery, quick-witted, and blessed with an attitude that can knock you over faster than a Bludger — Quidditch-star confidence plus actual emotional depth. She’s brave and sarcastic but also quietly tender, and she grows from scrappy kid into a full-force person who will absolutely get stuff done. Loves pranks (family hobby), hates being underestimated, and will roast you in five words flat; also, she probably keeps a secret stash of match programs or something sentimental like that. There’s this sweet contradiction where she hates the spotlight but will unapologetically take center stage when it matters.

Molly Weasley

Molly is warm, fierce, and terrifyingly domestic — she will knit you a jumper and also obliterate you with a curse if you hurt her kids, no questions asked. She runs the Weasley chaos with an iron spoon wrapped in gingham and honestly, her kitchen is the emotional HQ of the series (also, yes, she whistles while she works, I picture that). She fusses, nags, and loves harder than anyone, and there’s a deliciously savage edge when she’s pushed too far (battle-Molly is a mood). Also, she hoards buttons and keeps trophies from every school play like a proud squirrel.

Minerva McGonagall

McGonagall is the stern, razor-brained professor who will wither you with a look and then secretly root for your growth like a very strict gardener. She’s elegant, principled, and has this dry wit that sneaks up on you — plus the whole Animagus-cat vibe which is just chef’s kiss iconic. She cares fiercely about rules and also about people, and sometimes she will do something wildly unorthodox in the name of doing right (no one sees the slippers coming). Also, I’m 70% sure she keeps a secret stash of chocolate and denies it with dignity.

Hermione Granger

Hermione is textbook brilliant, a walking encyclopedia with a moral compass so sharp it files off your corners — she’s relentless, compassionate, and often the only adult in the room. She’s got that bossy-but-actually-helpful energy (and will correct your grammar mid-duel, don’t test her). There’s sweet awkwardness under all the competence — likes parchment, loves lists, panics sometimes, then recovers and leads the charge. Also, she absolutely hoards stationery and will judge your bookmark usage with love.

Dolores Umbridge

Umbridge is the candy-pink nightmare — syrupy sweet voice, terrifyingly bureaucratic cruelty, and an aesthetic so saccharine it curdles your blood. She loves rules, committee meetings, and kittens (the decoration of evil), while enjoying inflicting control like it’s a genteel hobby. Publicly prim and privately poisonous, she’s the kind of person to smile and then make your life a doctoral thesis on oppression. Also, canonically unbearable and probably obsessed with ribbons and impeccable handwriting — nightmare tea-party vibes.

Fleur Delacour

Fleur is all glittering poise and Veela-heat — gorgeous, a bit aloof at first, and totally carried by an almost mythic confidence (and that terrible accent which I adore). She starts off glamorous and slightly distant but is actually brave, loyal, and very, very underrated at being practical in a crisis. Dramatic, romantic, and fiercely protective of those she loves; also, she probably has a drawer full of delicate perfumes and weird hair accessories. She can be both snobbish and utterly devoted within a single sentence, which is somehow delicious.

Narcissa Malfoy

Narcissa again because she deserves second mention (and who wouldn’t want a second look at that silent steel?) — she’s subtle, controlled, and the kind of character who says nothing and changes everything. She values family above all and will perform the most shocking, quiet act of defiance you can imagine, which is infinitely more powerful than any speechy rebellion. Pale, precise, a lover of order but capable of unpredictable tenderness — there’s a lullaby-things-under-the-moon vibe to her that makes her oddly sympathetic. Also, she keeps immaculate gloves and maybe, just maybe, whispers to a dead rose now and then (no proof, just vibes).