In this episode, Professor Julian Wamble traces the Patil twins from Philosopher's Stone through the Battle of Hogwarts, examining what the series gives them and what it withholds. From the Yule Ball's transactional gaze to their D.A. membership, the pattern is consistent: presence without interiority, heroism without subjecthood. Why is Parvati's identity always tethered to someone else — and why is that someone always white? We know about Seamus Finnegan's mother and Lavender Brown's rabbit. We know almost nothing about the Patil family.The episode closes with a reflection on the patriarchal structures that determine whose interiority gets developed, and what it means that three of the five women examined in this arc are women of color whose visibility follows the same conditional rhythm.

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“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.

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