#The Golden Trio

[aloe-wasser]

Whenever I see someone thinking Harry's and Ron's grades are average or the guys are a bit dumb, I know it's coming from someone very young and unfamiliar with the British grade system of the 80s. I've just seen people complaining that Hermione received one EE as if it is horrible. Not in this specific universe!

Rowling clearly based Hogwarts' grading system on O-levels and A-levels from the 1980s, when she went to school. At that time, there was no grade inflation yet (nowadays, almost half of the year receives an A, and they have even added an A* to better differentiate).

The number of A grades was restricted to 10% at most. Students even got into universities with BBC grades, and B used to be something to be proud of.

A, B, and C assured you that you could continue with the subject at A-levels reserved for university applicants. I've seen our transfer students freaking out because of a B even though it's exceeding the expected amount of knowledge.

Hermione not receiving one O is just her not outshining everyone else in a single subject. Harry and Ron receiving that many good passes while not even studying half as much as Hermione is a tremendous achievement.

Moreover, let's remember that grades are correlated with high executive functioning skills, not high intelligence or general ability. The grade distribution was not bell-shaped the way the IQ is, even in the 80s. And the canon is pretty clear that magical power, at least at the school level, isn't either. So, the Golden Trio is brilliant; it's not 2024; they are in the UK. Let's mind the context while analyzing old books.

[axilotol]

harry potter makes me mad.

this year, i plan to reread the entire harry potter series to point out all the mistakes and plot holes JKR left.

this blog/tumblr is going to be very HP and Marauders based because i love themmmmmm

I want the record to show that I don't support JKR, but I do love HP and I love the marauders even more <3

[toorumlk]

hogwarts yearbook superlatives, 1996

taken by colin creevey

[handledwithgloves]

“harry, malfoy’s looking over here… well, he was.”

[daddiesdrarryy]

Harry: Okay, I don’t know how to tell you guys this, so I’ll whisper it in Ron’s ear and he’ll blurt it out in astonishment

Harry: *whispers in Ron’s ear*

Ron: YOU’RE DATING DRACO MALFOY?

Hermione: …

[lunarlivs]

breakfast time

[the-original-gays]

Ginny: You know that voice of morality and reason in your head?

Ron and Harry simultaneously: You mean the one that sounds like Hermione?

[slitheriyn]

inspired by that one image of alan laughing <3

[myoonmii]

The Trio!✨

The Posters looked So good I had to immediately draw all of them together. They already look so in character , I love the Casting and I can’t wait to see them on screen 😭‼️

[luchorgasm]

Sami and Kevin running to celebrate with Cody.

[iifishizzleii]

ron is a moral compass.

u cannot convince me that ron weasley isn’t a mother hen. because while hermione is a child prodigy, she’s breaking laws and committing war crimes half the time when it benefits her. and harry ‘i’m the Chosen One’ potter attracts danger like a flame would a moth.

so while they’re a duo of danger, there’s ron.

who grew up with siblings and spent a lot of his childhood making sure ginny didn’t get hurt playing in the mud.

who’s as nervous as Molly when Charlie works with the Dragons, and panics when Bill gets attacked by the werewolf.

who steals specific concoctions from the twins when they try to prank Percy because it could possibly harm him.

who wraps harry’s wounds when he gets hurt and is too tired to see madam pomphrey. who helps hermione understand why killing Rita in the jar wouldn’t help in the long run.

Ron Weasley, the worrier and moral compass of the Golden Trio. he doesn’t believe how many times he saved the wizardry world by simply being himself. and everyone at hogwarts but him can see it.

[looopylupin]

mcgonagall: you often use humor to deflect trauma

harry: thank you

mcgonagall: i didn't say that was a good thing

harry: what i'm hearing is, you think i'm funny

[toorumlk]

i just like drawing them being best friends

[profoundmakerdreamerss-blog]

I hate, hate golden trio bashing fics. They have such a ride-and-die friendship like bro they raided a bank together then fled on a dragon they stuck together through so much — while having fights like normal friends do, but the best thing about them? They get back together. No matter what. Thus, coming out of a literal war in one piece, together; if that doesn't tell you how much they love each other then I don't know what to tell you.

[yosb]

in 2024 im making mike mignola inspired assassins creed tarot cards of the golden trio

[olivers-cocoapuffs]

Every time there's a rainbow, the Gryffindor boys of the 90's are torn between making a gay joke about Seamus or making a leprechaun joke about Seamus