Brute Reason — In an ordinary narrative, traditional Harry Potter...

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In an ordinary narrative, traditional Harry Potter narratives included, the idea of a Male Hero manifests very differently. See, if Newt were the hero we were used to, he would still defend those creatures — but out of some profound, Gryffindor-like sense of indignation and rage, and use it to justify whatever extreme means he had for protecting them. If he were the hero we were used to, he would have lashed out at Queenie, and we would have accepted it; men’s pain is traditionally considered weakness, and her exposure of his would open up a plot point for him to expose his manly fury. And the “manlier” thing to do when Newt’s beasts were compromised was, no doubt, to hurt anyone and everyone he could.

And you know why the fandom wouldn’t have blinked? Because we already had a hero who was subject to the harmful standards of toxic masculinity, and his name was Harry James Potter. He balked at the idea of women crying; he funneled his emotions by essentially speaking in caps lock for the majority of his fifth year at Hogwarts; he was frequently the last to clue in on the poignance of an emotional situation, and one of his biggest, very Slytherin-esque fears was the perception that he might be too weak to save the people he loves. We know how harmful this was to Harry in particular because we took that journey with him, and watched how those standards derailed him; we also know how harmful these standards are to men and women at large, because of all the research that has gone into proving the negative emotional consequences of toxic masculinity. It was very clear through Harry’s arc that J.K. Rowling was making a statement about just how it affected him over time, and in some ways, the psychological ramifications we see in older Harry in Cursed Child was a continued response to it.