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[harmony867]

This might be a controversial headcanon I have about Merope and Tom Riddle Snr, because - although Merope is talked about with pity in the HP series - outside of it, within the fandom, she is very much a villain and Tom Riddle Snr her victim.

And I understand why - because she, according to Dumbledore's best guess, gave a love potion to (roofied) Tom Riddle snr and got him to marry and sleep with her against his will. In doing so she not only violated his body and mind but destroyed his actual relationship with the muggle girl, Celia, and created scandal in his hometown, making him a subject of mockery - when he was very much a victim.

And its distasteful (at best) to victim blame.

But... I think about how Dumbledore wasn't there and is only guessing, and how he is a man and sees the world through men's eyes, and I think about what the world (and men) are really like.

When Tom Riddle snr returns to Little Hangleton, he talks about having been "hoodwinked" and the people of the village assume Merope lied to him about being pregnant in order to get him to marry her.

Which means the people of the village are happy to accept that Tom Riddle snr was sleeping with Merope before they ran away together. They certainly don't think he was in love with her (hence why he was hoodwinked) but they accept without question that he had engaged in a sexual relationship with her.

And I don't think that's unlikely.

Maybe even before Morfin and Marvolo were arrested, but definitely afterwards. I just don't think it's unlikely - men being as they are, and sorry to be crude - that a man like Tom Riddle snr wasn't perfectly happy to use Merope as a warm hole to get his dick wet.

I don't think he loved her, or was even attracted to her.

But would he have sex with her?

Yes!

Especially if Celia is holding out for her wedding night.

Higher class man having sexual relationships with lower class women, which mean nothing to them, and not caring one jot how this can ruin the lower class woman's life is as old as time.

Merope is "in love" with him, she is unprotected by people who will look out for her, she has no friends, no education and little experience of the world. She is unloved and desperate for kindness.

She is a sitting duck for a callous man who wants to get his end away.

The problem for Tom Riddle snr is that she is not, actually, as powerless as other lower class girls. She has magic.

And when poor, silly, in love Merope tells Tom she is pregnant and he tries to cast her aside, unlike her muggle sisters she is able to do something about it. When he refuses to do "the honourable thing" as she believed he would (because she believed he loved her), she uses magic to get him to marry her.

Dumbledore says he thinks Merope must have somehow found a way to trick Tom Riddle snr into drinking a love potion; that she got him to stop his horse by her house on a hot day and offered him water. That she eventually stopped giving him the love potions because she thought he might have really fallen in love with her by this point, or would stay for the baby, or just didn't want to lie anymore. But he is only guessing. That is, in fact, his headcanon.

Mine is that Tom Riddle snr was using Merope for sex, that she was already pregnant when they ran away (like the villagers thought), and that she only used magic to ensnare him after he rejected her when she told him about the baby. I think she did grab her wand and confund him, as she was reacting to his rejection - and had not been planning to kidnap him before this moment. I think it makes more sense than Dumbledore's explanation for why Tom regains his own mind and leaves, that Tom began to fight a confundus charm applied by an inexpert witch and broke free. And, if it was Merope who stopped using magic on Tom, I think it makes more sense than Dumbledore's theory for her to do so if she had a concrete reason to believe that he had ever loved her in the first place (no matter how misguided that belief was and how much the concrete was actually sand). Whichever version is true, I think Dumbledore's explanations are vague and patchy at best.

I also think it makes the pain of his leaving her more real, than if it was all a fantasy she cooked up in her head, and explains better why she just gave up after he left. She was not only desperate and alone and genuinely heartbroken, because she had been part of an actual relationship (if under false pretences on his side) but was also having to come to terms with the fact that she had been tricked and made a fool of and not only did Tom not love her, the Tom she loved never existed and the real Tom thought she was so worthless he was happy to use her, discard her and didn't care if she lived or died.

I just think that - using a sex class analysis of behaviour - my headcanon is far more realistic than Dumbledore's, because men really are that awful.

Now, the fact that they were sleeping together and Tom was doing so under false pretences doesn't stop Merope's using magic on him from being wrong. But it does even things out between them a bit, Tom is no longer a hapless victim of Merope's, but his being enchanted somehow is a consequence of his own poor behaviour. It is arguably deserved. And I see why that is a controversial take because it removes Tom from being a totally innocent victim of Merope's while making Merope a victim of his and finding an excuse for her bad behaviour. It is - arguably - victim blaming.

But I'm afraid the whole story just makes more sense if Tom and Merope were sleeping together before they eloped.

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It says a lot about Harry and Hermione’s relationship that Dumbledore counted solely on Hermione to slow him down.

Who else would he listen and trust so deeply if not Hermione. She’s probably the only one who could temper his instinctive, sometimes reckless, drive to act. Dumbledore understood that Harry’s strength was also his weakness, his fierce loyalty, his instinct to protect, and his refusal to back down could easily lead him into danger without a second thought. Hermione, with her careful reasoning, deep knowledge, and unflinching loyalty of her own, was the perfect counterbalance.

Hermione is not just Harry's friend, she is his anchor. While Harry leads with his heart, Hermione brings foresight and caution. She doesn’t seek to control him, but to steady him. Time and again, she challenges him to think, to plan, to consider consequences. And Harry, for his part, recognizes and deeply values this about her.

Just as Hermione grounded Harry, Harry taught Hermione to be brave, to trust her heart, even when the facts were uncertain.

In their early years at Hogwarts, Hermione clung to rules, books, structure and knowledge was her safety. But Harry, by nature, was always willing to leap into danger when someone needed help. Over time, Hermione learned that bravery sometimes meant stepping into the unknown, even without all the answers. As she once said, "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery."

That lesson came from Harry.

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I talked about this with @a-capricious-creative and I kinda wanted to make a proper post about this:

Hermione doesn't write Harry and Ron's homework for them

I just see this point brought up sometimes (and I made the mistake of looking at Reddit), so I want to set the record straight regarding Hermione's help with Harry and Ron's schoolwork. In the books, she isn't writing their essays for them, nor does she let them copy the entire thing. Ron and Harry do their own work, and sometimes (not always) Hermione goes over it, corrects mistakes, spelling, and sometimes adds a different conclusion or, in general, refines the work; she doesn't write their work from scratch.

But, I wouldn't be me if I just said that without bringing up evidence, so, here is the evidence (You will see in the quotes that the book Hermione writes the most in Harry and Ron's homework is HBP, and before that she practiclly never helps with their homework to the degree shown there, if you needed any more reasons to criticize HBP):

More often than not, Harry and Ron do their essays on their own. They are described as studying last-minute and staying up late to finish essays after they procrastinated. They complete said last-minute essays with no help from Hermione:

Harry found Ron at the back of the library, measuring his History of Magic homework. Professor Binns had asked for a three-foot-long composition on “The Medieval Assembly of European Wizards.” “I don’t believe it, I’m still eight inches short. . . .” said Ron furiously, letting go of his parchment, which sprang back into a roll.

(CoS, Ch9)

He [Harry] replaced the top of the ink bottle; pulled an old pillowcase from under his bed; put the flashlight, A History of Magic, his essay, quill, and ink inside it; got out of bed; and hid the lot under a loose floorboard under his bed.

(PoA, Ch1)

When at the Dursleys, Harry does his summer homework of his own accord, no nagging needed. Harry actually worries and thinks about when he's going to do his homework quite a bit throughout the books.

They continued to make up predictions (which grew steadily more tragic) for another hour, while the common room around them slowly emptied as people went up to bed. Crookshanks wandered over to them, leapt lightly into an empty chair, and stared inscrutably at Harry, rather as Hermione might look if she knew they weren’t doing their homework properly.

(GoF, Ch14)

He was working flat-out just to get through all their homework, though he made a point of sending regular food packages up to the cave in the mountain for Sirius; after last summer, Harry had not forgotten what it felt like to be continually hungry.

(GoF, Ch28)

Again, Harry is working on his homework on his own while worrying about Sirius.

Now panicking slightly about the amount of homework they had to do, Harry and Ron spent their lunch hour in the library looking up the uses of moonstones in potion-making. Still angry about Ron’s slur on her woolly hats, Hermione did not join them.

(OotP, Ch13)

He had not had time to practice Vanishing Spells, had not written a single dream in his dream diary, and had not finished the drawing of the bowtruckle, nor had he written his essays. He skipped breakfast next morning to scribble down a couple of made-up dreams for Divination, their first lesson, and was surprised to find a disheveled Ron keeping him company.

(OotP, Ch13)

His homework situation, however, was now desperate, and when he returned to the Gryffindor common room he did not, though exhausted, go to bed, but opened his books and began Snape’s moonstone essay. It was half-past two by the time he had finished it. He knew he had done a poor job, but there was no help for it; unless he had something to give in he would be in detention with Snape next. He then dashed off answers to the questions Professor McGonagall had set them, cobbled together something on the proper handling of bowtruckles for Professor Grubbly-Plank, and staggered up to bed, where he fell fully clothed on top of the bed covers and fell asleep immediately.

(OotP, Ch13)

Due to Umbeidge's detentions, he had no time for homework and stayed up late to pull something together on his own. Both Harry and Ron are more likely to cobble up a subpar essay last minute than not submit anything or copy from Hermione (not that she lets them, more on that later). Also, Harry got an 'Acceptable' for McGonagall's homework described here, which I think is commendable considering the very little effort he put in.

but Harry pulled out his Potions book and set to work to finish his essay, though he was only pretending to concentrate and, by the time that Ron said he was going to bed too, had written hardly anything. Midnight came and went while Harry was reading and rereading a passage about the uses of scurvy-grass, lovage, and sneezewort and not taking in a word of it. . . .

(OotP, Ch18)

Again, Harry is working on his homework on his own.

Having wasted a lot of time worrying aloud about Apparition, Ron was now struggling to finish a viciously difficult essay for Snape that Harry and Hermione had already completed. Harry fully expected to receive low marks on his, because he had disagreed with Snape on the best way to tackle dementors, but he did not care

(HBP, Ch21) - Harry and Hermione clearly didn't write the same essay, and Ron is writing another essay on his own.

Harry refers to his own homework workload a lot, and complains about having to do all of it and having no time for it. If he was copying everything off Hermione, that would not be the case:

Perhaps it was because he was now so busy, what with Quidditch practice three evenings a week on top of all his homework, but Harry could hardly believe it when he realized that he’d already been at Hogwarts two months.

(PS, Ch10)

Meanwhile Professor Binns, the ghost who taught History of Magic, had them writing weekly essays on the goblin rebellions of the eighteenth century. Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked. Professor Flitwick had asked them to read three extra books in preparation for their lesson on Summoning Charms.

(GoF, Ch15)

“I hope she [Umbridge] doesn’t keep me too long this evening. You realize we’ve got to write three essays, practice Vanishing Spells for McGonagall, work out a countercharm for Flitwick, finish the bowtruckle drawing, and start that stupid dream diary for Trelawney?”

(OotP, Ch13) - about his detention with Umbridge.

And sometimes, all three do homework together. Hermione is not the only one sitting long hours in the library over homework; they all do, and they all write their own essays with different conclusions and different grades:

They piled so much homework on them that the Easter holidays weren’t nearly as much fun as the Christmas ones. It was hard to relax with Hermione next to you reciting the twelve uses of dragon’s blood or practicing wand movements. Moaning and yawning, Harry and Ron spent most of their free time in the library with her, trying to get through all their extra work.

(PS, Ch14)

“Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting. Hermione had now started making study schedules for Harry and Ron, too. It was driving them nuts.

(PS, Ch14)

“Why would anyone want to celebrate the day they died?” said Ron, who was halfway through his Potions homework and grumpy. “Sounds dead depressing to me. . . .”

(CoS, Ch8)

Harry, Ron, and Hermione chose seats as far as possible from Percy in the common room that night. Ron was still in a very bad temper and kept blotting his Charms homework.

(CoS, Ch9)

“How’s she doing it?” Ron muttered to Harry one evening as Harry sat finishing a nasty essay on Undetectable Poisons for Snape. Harry looked up. Hermione was barely visible behind a tottering pile of books.

(PoA, Ch12)

Neville actually asks Harry for help with his own homework (Harry isn't seen as a bad student by others; that being said, it is DADA which is his best subject):

“Er — not now — I was going to go to the library and do that vampire essay for Lupin —” “I’ll come with you!” said Neville brightly. “I haven’t done it either!” “Er — hang on — yeah, I forgot, I finished it last night!” “Great, you can help me!” said Neville, his round face anxious.

(PoA, Ch14)

Hermione herself is against just letting Harry and Ron copy her homework, and repeatedly doesn't let Harry and Ron do so:

Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat together next to a window. Hermione was checking Harry and Ron’s Charms homework for them. She would never let them copy (“How will you learn?”), but by asking her to read it through, they got the right answers anyway.

(PS, Ch11)

“You know, we probably should try and get more homework done during the week,” Harry muttered to Ron, as they finally laid aside Professor McGonagall’s long essay on the Inanimatus Conjurus spell and turned miserably to Professor Sinistra’s equally long and difficult essay about Jupiter’s moons. “Yeah,” said Ron, rubbing slightly bloodshot eyes and throwing his fifth spoiled bit of parchment into the fire beside them. “Listen . . . shall we just ask Hermione if we can have a look at what she’s done?” Harry glanced over at her; she was sitting with Crookshanks on her lap and chatting merrily to Ginny as a pair of knitting needles flashed in midair in front of her, now knitting a pair of shapeless elf socks. “No,” he said heavily, “you know she won’t let us.”

(OotP, Ch14)

When we do see her help them, she never writes the whole essay for them; she usually corrects the essays they wrote and occasionally adds to them:

It was really lucky that Harry now had Hermione as a friend. He didn’t know how he’d have gotten through all his homework without her, what with all the last-minute Quidditch practice Wood was making them do. She had also lent him Quidditch Through the Ages, which turned out to be a very interesting read.

(PS, Ch11)

She helps Harry go through his homework when he doesn't have time for it; he goes through it himself, too. She is helping by summarizing information (as we see later), not doing it for him. (I also want to note Hermione read Quidditch Through the Ages, she knows Quidditch, she just isn't passionate about it).

“Don’t start arguing again,” said Harry wearily, as Ron opened his mouth to retaliate. “Can’t we just . . . Let’s just do that homework, get it out of the way. . . .” They collected their schoolbags from a corner and returned to the chairs by the fire. People were coming back from dinner now. Harry kept his face averted from the portrait hole, but could still sense the stares he was attracting. “Shall we do Snape’s stuff first?” said Ron, dipping his quill into his ink. “ ‘The properties . . . of moonstone . . . and its uses . . . in potion-making . . .’ ” he muttered, writing the words across the top of his parchment as he spoke them. “There.” He underlined the title, then looked up expectantly at Hermione. “So what are the properties of moonstone and its uses in potion- making?” [...] “Anyway . . .” He [Ron] rolled up the parchment on which he had written the title of Snape’s essay. “There’s no point trying to finish this now, I can’t do it without Hermione, I haven’t got a clue what you’re supposed to do with moonstones, have you?” Harry shook his head, noticing as he did so that the ache in his right temple was getting worse. He thought of the long essay on giant wars and the pain stabbed at him sharply. Knowing perfectly well that he would regret not finishing his homework tonight when the morning came, he piled his books back into his bag.

(OotP, Ch13)

Again, Harry does his own homework and schedules when he does which assignment for himself. And sometimes, they work together; there is nothing wrong with studying together or writing essays together. This isn't cheating.

Ron is attempting to get Hermione to explain what he needs to write so he won't have to track a book to read it in, but she doesn't help him in this situation, and later Harry and Ron go to the library to research for this essay on their own:

Now panicking slightly about the amount of homework they had to do, Harry and Ron spent their lunch hour in the library looking up the uses of moonstones in potion-making.

(OotP, Ch13) - I brought this quote up earlier, but this is the context. Harry and Ron sometimes have Hermione summarize research for them instead of going to the library. This is often what her help looks like.

When she does help, it usually looks like this:

“Jupiter’s biggest moon is Ganymede, not Callisto,” she said, pointing over Ron’s shoulder at a line in his Astronomy essay, “and it’s Io that’s got the volcanos.” [...] “Give them to me, I’ll look through them and correct them,” she said. “Are you serious? Ah, Hermione, you’re a lifesaver,” said Ron, “what can I — ?” “What you can say is, ‘We promise we’ll never leave our homework this late again,’ ” she said, holding out both hands for their essays, but she looked slightly amused all the same. “Thanks a million, Hermione,” said Harry weakly, passing over his essay and sinking back into his armchair, rubbing his eyes. It was now past midnight and the common room was deserted but for the three of them and Crookshanks. [...] “Okay, write that down,” Hermione said to Ron, pushing his essay and a sheet covered in her own writing back to Ron, “and then copy out this conclusion that I’ve written for you.” [...] said Hermione. “Harry, yours is okay except for this bit at the end, I think you must have misheard Professor Sinistra, Europa’s covered in ice, not mice — Harry?”

(OotP, Ch14)

Again, context, it's past midnight, and Harry is having a Voldemort-induced migraine. They've procrastinated the essays until the last moment, but they wrote them. Hermione checks them over and corrects them, but she isn't writing them for them.

All that day she [Hermione] seemed to be in a particularly good mood, and that evening in the common room she even consented to look over (in other words, finish writing) Harry’s Herbology essay, something she had been resolutely refusing to do up to this point, because she had known that Harry would then let Ron copy his work.

(HBP, Ch20)

Again, Hermione doesn't help them as often as some fans say, because she wants them to learn. And again, she corrects and helps finish an already written essay, and Ron, apparently, copies Harry's essays sometimes (at least per HBP that started dumbing both boys, but especially Ron, down...).

“Ah no!” said Ron, staring horror-struck at the parchment. “Don’t say I’ll have to write the whole thing out again!” “It’s okay, we can fix it,” said Hermione, pulling the essay toward her and taking out her wand. “I love you, Hermione,” said Ron, sinking back in his chair, rubbing his eyes wearily.

(HBP, Ch21)

Hermione again checks over already written essays and corrects Ron's spelling errors caused by Fred & George's jinxed quill; she isn't writing the whole thing.

Hence why Harry, Ron, and Hermione get different grades often enough because they aren't submitting the same essays, nor are they always working on them together (even Harry and Ron don't always do their homework together, though they help each other more often than Hermione helps either of them). Hermione never wrote their whole essays for them; she corrected and reviewed them, and there is a huge difference. She actually compliments Harry's essays sometimes as being good. Regardless, Ron and Harry still sat in the library/common room and stayed up late to write their essays on their own more often than not. Ron and Neville see Harry as a good enough student to copy his essays from him in certain subjects (and sometimes, Ron's essays are better than Harry's. Though I'd say Harry is more inclined to put slightly more effort into his essays than Ron usually is, if he has time. Harry also doesn't like setting homework off for the last minute, and it's Ron who repeatedly convinces him to do so:

Harry felt a small twinge of guilt at the thought of the pile of homework awaiting him upstairs, but the sky was a clear, exhilarating blue, and he had not been on his Firebolt for a week. . . . “I mean, we can do it tonight,” said Ron, as he and Harry walked down the sloping lawns toward the Quidditch pitch, their broomsticks over their shoulders

(OotP, Ch14)

I love Ron, but he is a bad influence on Harry when it comes to his schoolwork. Harry actually read through his school books before first year:

He had decided to call her Hedwig, a name he had found in A History of Magic. His school books were very interesting. He lay on his bed reading late into the night

(PS, Ch6)

Harry just: a. stops caring when he sees no one else really cares b. he gets good enough grades without caring c. has so much other shit on his mind, give him a break).

So can this fanon that Hermione does all their essays be put to rest, please? Harry and Ron's 'A's, 'E's, and occasional 'O's are their own, not Hermione's.

(Also, considering how last-minute Harry and Ron tend to do their homework, the fact that they average on 'A's and 'E's for most subjects is absolutely a testament to them being intelligent and decent bullshiters)

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can we just appreciate how harry potter truly gives no fucks?

he will choke you in broad daylight on a public street for stealing something from his dead godfather.

he will beat you bloody, again in broad daylight in front of his entire team and an entire stadium of people for mocking his best friend.

he will use an unforgivable torture curse on you for spitting on one of the few adults he actually respects.

he will laugh at and mock and wave at the death eater, who just killed his godfather and is trying to kill him, for how much trouble she’ll be in with the darkest wizard ever for failing to get the prophecy like he instructed.

he will call some random boy’s mother stupid for believing bullshit stated in the prophet.

he will mock the spoiled boy for his father being in jail when it was him that put the boy’s father in jail.

he will also mock the spoiled boy’s mother for her shitty husband being in jail even though he’s the reason her husband is in jail and will also dare her to take a shot at him there and then in a public store.

he will mock his dead father’s friend to his face for trying to be a daredevil like his godfather and leaving his pregnant wife behind.

he will make fun of the same girl for crying because:

1) she thought his best friend of four years was his girlfriend

2) she lost the quidditch match to him

3) her best friend who sold out his illegal resistance group and his best friend put a permanent acne jinx on her best friend

he will send his bitter teacher across the room with a protection spell and treat said teacher like he’s his subordinate.

he will throw a badge at his best friend’s forehead for not believing him and mock him for being jealous of his fame.

he will lie saying his godfather is a convicted murderer to get his abusers to abide his requests.

he will threaten to reveal his identity as a wizard to their guests if they fail to meet his commands.

he will carry out masterful psychological warfare using the memory of his death mother on a member of authority to get what he wants out of him.

harry’s jar of fucks is empty and collecting dust on the shelf. the fucks he gives are buried six feet under with his family. it’s so funny to me when people who haven’t seen the books call movie harry rude or bitchy or annoying because it’s like mate, YOU HAVE NO IDEA. these weaklings would NOT be able to handle book harry.

he’s so iconic.

[harmony867]

Long time no see. I miss you so much ❤️

[harmony867]

I haven’t been posting much since I have my alevel mocks. Pray for me guys, my uni applications depend on this.

[harmony867]

hey!!! I’ve been following you for a while and I just want to let u know that you remind me SO MUCH of Hermione herself! The way you represent your arguments, state your points, and listen to everyone. I don’t have a question I just really wanted to let you know!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

That’s probably the nicest compliment anyone has ever told me!!!

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Can you like HP and not be transphobe at the same time like JK?

I am genuinely not being rude here, and this is just a curious question I had to ask because nowadays I’m seeing an uptick in HP hate in recent years, mostly because normies of the modern society seem to jump to the conclusion that HP is bad because they equate Rowling’s books to her codswallop views. *Yes, I get it just as you all do!!! JK IS INDEED A PIECE OF HOG WARTS (no pun intended)!!!*

And even if there are indeed better things to enjoy in life out there, it doesn’t mean people can still constantly throw stones at HP every now and then, but mostly just because of the reason I stated about Rowling. The books are still something worth having a good go at without thinking about the “author-that-must-not-be-named”, for a lack of a better description. In short, her books are great but her views in society are not.

(Sorry for such a late response, I was quite busy and wanted to give a proper answer)

In my opinion, being part of the Harry Potter fandom isn’t the same as actively supporting J.K. Rowling’s views—especially if you're consciously choosing not to contribute to her monetarily. Many fans have made a clear distinction between enjoying and engaging with the world that shaped their childhood or brought them joy, and endorsing the harmful opinions the author has expressed.

That said, it’s also important to engage critically with the series. Pretending it's flawless or immune to critique does a disservice to those it excludes or misrepresents. There are legitimate issues, both in the text and in the way its creator has behaved, that deserve thoughtful conversation. People saying the entire series is "all bad" also ignores the real value and impact it's had for millions of people. There is merit in the story: in its themes of love, resistance, friendship, and courage. Those themes don’t become meaningless just because their author lost her way.

You can hold space for the magic the series gave you while also acknowledging and challenging the harm that’s come from it. That’s not hypocrisy, it’s maturity. It’s what makes fandom powerful: the ability to reshape the narrative, to hold creators accountable, and to keep what matters to us alive on our terms.

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Thoughts on AVPM?

It’s very funny!!!

The art of comedy (especially parodies) is difficult so it’s nice to see. It’s a parody so it serves its purpose. I remember watching grainy parts on YouTube.

It’s the superior play compared to c*rsed ch*ld.

[harmony867]

Ron and Hermione:

Always argue.

Disrespect and belittle each other.

Don't have a lot in common.

Harry and Hermione:

Rarely argue. If they do, they reach a compromise/agreement eventually.

Respect each other.

Have a lot in common.

I don't know about you, but I think it's already pretty clear what the better relationship is.

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experimenting different styles w some hhr 

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Thinking this interview when it comes to Hermione it seems like she could have been in any house. Her strong loyalty could have deemed her a Hufflepuff or maybe it’s because it’s only directed at Harry. As they said, it was Harry and Hermione’s journey, ‘they were true equals.’

And maybe some people will ask: why is that so important? Ron came back, didn't he? Ginny wasn't even allowed to come with him to the hunt, it's not a fair comparison. Sirius didn't willingly leave Harry. Hagrid was there for Harry, wasn't he? Why is the fact that Hermione stayed so special? Why do silly harmony shippers make a mountain out of a molehill and act like this means they would have made sense romantically?

The thing is almost everyone important in Harry's life has left him or failed him or not been there for him one way or another. Some left through death (James, Lily, Sirius). Some left willingly (Ron). Some were there, but limited in the ways they could be there for him (Hagrid). Some wanted to be with him, but were persuaded out of it and accepted they couldn't (Ginny).

But for Hermione it was never a question. Not in fourth year when almost no one else believed him. Not in sixth year where she decided she would go with him without him even saying anything. (And someone may say, well what if Harry had persuaded her to leave him just like Ginny? What if he had said, it's not safe, leave me to my hero's journey alone? Hermione would have laughed in his face and gone anyway. Because she wasn't asking for permission. She had decided herself that she was going to walk that journey with Harry or die trying).

When Ron asks her, if she's coming with him or if she's staying, she chooses Harry instead of her supposed love interest. Over and over again, she chooses him and she FIGHTS for him, even when it’s hard or when Harry fears she won't.

That's the difference. That's what makes it that no one else will be able to compare with what they have.

Harry set out to save the world but he didn't do it because he wanted to: he was resigned to his fate. And deep down, he was resigned to death, and to everyone he ever cared for eventually leaving him behind. It just makes sense and feels like the natural conclusion to their journey that his life partner would be someone who was the only one who stayed, who deeply understood him, who fought for him and walked with him each step of the way.

Harry literally has seperation anxiety about Hermione and was thinking about her ALL the time, constantly and painfully alert that Hermione would leave, looking for signs that weren't there, paranoid and afraid. Deathly afraid. Harry doesn't voice his need often, nor his fears, but in this case his awkward silence stemmed from how much Harry needed her by his side, and how the fear of saying or doing something that would make her rethink staying with him left him in paranoid silence. He needs her desperately.

And like always Hermione stayed with him. For him.

It’s what makes their bond so unshakeable.

[harmony867]

What's your favourite genre? Oh idk, maybe Harry's pure rage and panic when someone aims to kill Hermione.

Order of the Phoenix

My boy threw all caution to the winds and was willing to bodyslam the attacker because "we can go down together but you are NOT harming her"

it's also interesting how his muggle upbringing is very much reflected here but we will talk about that later

Deathly Hallows

"Wiped all else from his mind" is so brilliantly phrased because it implies how Harry forgot his priorities at that moment and decided attacking Crabbe was more important (even after Hermione was out of harm's way for the moment) like "the horcrux i have been seeking for months? we will come back to that later. but did you just fucking DARE try to kill my best friend-"

[harmony867]

What do you think of JK douchebag?

I try not to think of her lol.

I do like Harry Potter but that doesn’t mean I don’t have criticism of her and of Harry Potter. From Plotholes to how women are portrayed (Hermione is the only girl in the Top 15 most relevant characters in Harry Potter).

And at first I could agree with some of what JKR preached in the early days, her activism and charity, nowadays I can only see how she’s shifted more and more away from helping women.

[harmony867]

I feel like those kinds of people just want to contrarian. She’s so overhated. #Those fans wished he could be her. She’s just as fantastic in the books.

Has there been an uptick in Hermione Hate?

I feel like there’s been an increase in hate towards Hermione, especially on Reddit.

Don’t get me wrong, criticising characters is fine and Hermione does have her flaws but some of the reasons are baffling to me. ‘Hermione is overrated’ will never be a valid critique to me. A while back there was a poll on popularity of HP characters and Hermione came first, not a big deal right?

But all of the comments were shocked that she specifically ranked above Ron and were insisting that they must all be just like Emma Watson fans or haven’t read the book properly. Apparently anyone whose favourite character is Hermione is her ‘worshipper’ and that all her ‘lines were actually Ron’s’ so we have don’t actually know canon Hermione or is using her as a self-insert.

I love Hermione’s character and I’ve re-read the books more time than I can count. I could make a whole essay on why she’s my favourite character but I’m just shocked that people feel this way about Hermione. (I’m also noticing that majority of it comes from Romione/Ron stans but I’m sure that’s irrelevant)

[harmony867]

Has there been an uptick in Hermione Hate?

I feel like there’s been an increase in hate towards Hermione, especially on Reddit.

Don’t get me wrong, criticising characters is fine and Hermione does have her flaws but some of the reasons are baffling to me. ‘Hermione is overrated’ will never be a valid critique to me. A while back there was a poll on popularity of HP characters and Hermione came first, not a big deal right?

But all of the comments were shocked that she specifically ranked above Ron and were insisting that they must all be just like Emma Watson fans or haven’t read the book properly. Apparently anyone whose favourite character is Hermione is her ‘worshipper’ and that all her ‘lines were actually Ron’s’ so we have don’t actually know canon Hermione or is using her as a self-insert.

I love Hermione’s character and I’ve re-read the books more time than I can count. I could make a whole essay on why she’s my favourite character but I’m just shocked that people feel this way about Hermione. (I’m also noticing that majority of it comes from Romione/Ron stans but I’m sure that’s irrelevant)