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J K Rowling creates the extraordinary Wizarding world as a reflection of the ordinary world we (muggles) inhabit. Though she populates it with witches and wizards with astonishing talents, they prove to be humans like ourselves. Hence, the famed portal quest fantasy is chosen for this paper, because the portal (the Harry Potter universe/ portal, popularly called the Potterverse) gives an apt platform as it hosts young students treading towards maturity. The Harry Potter Series is immensely famous; and since the stories are made into films there is a definite trickling down into the popular culture. But this work focuses on the text alone to study the promising aspects which are of interest with regard to gender and the social markers that allow exploring this scope. Gender is a complicated and multi-faceted spectrum, though the text tends to be limited with the binary division, these limitations are taken into consideration to explore the non-hegemonic views. Though gender roles are not abiding in the series, there are instances of them occurring, especially with the weaker characters like Merope Gaunt, Moaning Myrtle, etc. Hermione, Ginny and Luna break many stereotypes and head forward in the careers of their choice.