Too many awesome females here on SS for me to send out a shoutout to just one, so Happy Celebrating our Feminine Ways, girls and women of SS!

1. Bellatrix Lestrange
2. Maggie Smith
3. Holy... too many, will go with the easy one: JK Rowling
4. Ama!me!
5. Margaret Hale, protagonist of North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)