What do you think of that one scene they added in DH Part 1 where Ron stops Harry from sneaking out and leaving the Burrow early? Personally I always liked it. As much as they shit on Ron in the films, I thought that was a great moment for him, and Harry felt very much in character too. But I dont really see people bring it up so im curious about it. ^^

weasleyswizardwinter:

I have mixed feelings on it!

Because I totally agree, they would not last without Hermione and it’s totally adorable Ron is the one to point this out to Harry. None of the trio would have survived well without one another while searching for horcruxes – as we saw when Ron left.

Also the Romione aspect is!!!!!!!!

It’s cool they showed Ron being the one who wanted to stay too!

And Rupert looks good in that shot.

My problems however is that it’s a very Hermione is prefect and the boys would fail without them mentality the films ~~and some fans~~ have.

Not only that if you look at how they film the bits where Ron leaves later Harry and Hermione do survive pretty well without him – unlike the books – so it feels kinda weird to me!

Thanks for the ask.

Agreed.

elbiotipo:

Not to be fake deep Internet Historian here, but one of the best things tumblr has is the relative anonimity. You only need an email account, your age and an url, and you can instantly start posting, whetever travel photography or anime fanfictions or science blogging or just pretending to be Goku or whatever. Ustedes no se acuerdan porque son muy chicos, but once the entire internet was like that; in old forums and imageboards as long as you behaved like most people do, you didn’t need to tie your account towards your real life. A nickname was enough to participate in your interests, the way you liked, no other requirements.

But every single other major social media I know does the exact opposite.
Your real name is considered your default user name.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and so on ask for personal information, and when I mean personal, I mean things like your CELLPHONE NUMBER AND LOCATION, just for registering. I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook asks me for my DNI one of these days. They expose your likes, friendships, and interests to everyone. They thrive on connecting the internet to your real self, and for you to share personal stuff so advertisers can better target you (in real life). This oversharing, ultra-personal internet is not for everyone.

Not that I, or most people, have anything bad to hide. Sometimes you just want to write, or see fanart, or do tremendously stupid jokes, or enjoy your personal interests, without owing explanations to anyone or sharing them with people that aren’t interested. You don’t want your aunt who hasn’t talked to you in years like and comment your nerdy joke, or your crush knowing each and every single one of your interests, or your mom asking you why are you complaining about college or sharing communist memes. You just want to kick back and share the things that fascinate you with other people who are equally fascinated. Keeping in touch with your real life friends is fine, but not all people are in what you are, and that’s also fine, and that’s why the internet is so diverse and wonderful.

Now, I understand tumblr also does advertising, and also allowed the sharing about personal data. And anonimity brings up heavy issues that a minor internet forum can fix, but large social media companies cannot. And NSFW is a thorny issue, to say the least, especially when harmful content is involved. But I’m talking about the culture of self expression, about being whoever you want in the internet without owing anything to anyone, about collaborating and learning and participating in your interests freely without having to pay with your data. Owning your own art, writing without censorship, doing things because you and your friends like them, not to satisfy shareholders.

Tumblr may not be dead, but lately it looks so, and with it, dies the last of Internet 1.0. Old Geocities and Livejournal are dead, 4chan is under nazi occupation, and most 1.0 forums are either too especific or dying too. Soon the only thing remaining will be ‘social media’ basing on sharing, sharing, sharing, sharing, sharing, your personal data to other people (and advertisers) until you have no interests or things of your own, only marketable information.

And it sucks.

lytefoot:

headcanonsandmore:

lytefoot:

headcanonsandmore:

“Your brother is gorgeous and I want to marry him.”

— Hermione Granger and Ginny Weasley, to each other at various points.

Okay, so it is canon that Hermione gave Ginny advice on how to get closer to Harry. Now I’m imagining these two girls hanging out and gossiping about the dense boys they’re crushing on and it’s a joy. We don’t talk enough about Ginny and Hermione’s friendship.

True; their friendship doesn’t get talked about enough (especially since Hermione has virtually no constant female friends aside from Ginny for most of the series). Although I don’t think Hermione has any right to call Ron ‘dense’.

No, she doesn’t. But she would, and Ginny would agree with her.

On the other hand, Harry entirely deserves it, at least where other people’s feelings are concerned.

Agreed. I tend to notice that in fics, and (while I personally find it a little unkind) it is something Hermione would do in the pre-Lavender period. And Ginny would agree with her, since (to everyone-else) Hermione’s crush on Ron was obvious, and Ginny (like virtually everyone) didn’t really understand Ron’s insecurities about being ‘least loved’ by everyone (including Hermione).

Most of my post-canon character development fics tend to evolve out of this theme. As well as being a form of stress relief that doesn’t involve me yelling angrily ‘he’s not dense, you jerks; he just can’t imagine why anyone could love him!’ at fics where Ginny and Hermione talk about Ron like that.

~~Sometimes I think I love Ron too much…~~

Harry (as much as I like him) does deserve that moniker more than Ron. I mean, he completely forgets about Ginny’s possession by Riddle’s diary, despite being the one to save her from said-possession in the first place. Harry was far less aware of other’s feelings than Ron was. At least Ron had the excuse that his negative-five-billion-self-esteem prevented him from believing Hermione could fancy him.

But, hey, they’re all teenagers during the series. Not to mention it being the 90s, and Rowling tending to write along the lines of ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’ (which I’ve personally always had issue with).

lytefoot:

headcanonsandmore:

“Your brother is gorgeous and I want to marry him.”

— Hermione Granger and Ginny Weasley, to each other at various points.

Okay, so it is canon that Hermione gave Ginny advice on how to get closer to Harry. Now I’m imagining these two girls hanging out and gossiping about the dense boys they’re crushing on and it’s a joy. We don’t talk enough about Ginny and Hermione’s friendship.

True; their friendship doesn’t get talked about enough (especially since Hermione has virtually no constant female friends aside from Ginny for most of the series). Although I don’t think Hermione has any right to call Ron ‘dense’.

Ew.

Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, watching ‘Deathly Hallows: Part 1′.

Your brother is gorgeous and I want to marry him.

Hermione Granger and Ginny Weasley, to each other at various points.

ronarry

burgundydahlia:

lytefoot:

headcanonsandmore:

whatifdestiel:

headcanonsandmore:

okay but instead of harry & ron asking the patil twins to the yule ball they go with each other

they’re dancing pretty goofily during most of the ball & even talking with hermione & viktor a little & suddenly the champions have to dance, right?

it’s a slow song. one about love & friendship. well ron starts leading harry in the dance & things get a little awkward because it wasn’t like before when they were a few feet apart. they’re up really close now.

but it doesn’t really feel all that weird to ron. harry’s his best mate & it feels right to dance with him like this. & then it hits him. maybe he doesn’t really see harry as his best mate at all. maybe harry is meant to be something more than that.

so he leans in and gives harry a gentle kiss.

ron thinks harry is gonna push him away but he doesn’t. harry just wraps his arms around ron and kisses him back.

and that’s how ron became harry’s first love.

(sorry if it’s not too good, i’m not much of a writer)

That was brilliant, @whatifdestiel! Thank you so much for submitting! Loved it all!

Not gonna lie, though; I can’t help but wonder what Hermione’s reaction would have been. Jealousy, tears, setting a flock of birds on Harry?..

i might have to come up with something for how hermione reacts when she finds out that ron & harry were together. i personally think she’d be jealous but at the same time understand because “same harry! ron is way too amazing for his own good! it’s a wonder he doesn’t have a line of people waiting to date him!”

“because they know how you get when you are jealous hermione! they’d never dare touch ron with you around! you’d kill them!”

I’d like to think that it would turn out that way.

So I wanna talk about this, because it requires a really delicate touch. “What happens with Hermione” is a big challenge when writing Rarry, because it touches on three things that are really important to me in fic.

Most generally, it’s important that characters be entitled to totally justified feelings. In particular, if Ron and Hermione are already together, Hermione is absolutely entitled to be absolutely furious if Ron leaves her for Harry. I read a fic recently that did that really, really well. (She… didn’t actually try to kill them, which made her much more sympathetic.) She had justified angry feelings, but moved past them, and her friendship recovered. Which brings me to the second important thing.

Unless that’s the whole point of your fic, I feel like it’s super important not to break up the Golden Trio. Like, the trio’s love for one another is one of the core things that’s good about Harry Potter to me. Just like you shouldn’t make Ron a useless jerk-off to make Harmonie happen, you shouldn’t make Hermione an evil harpy to make Rarry happen. Furthermore, in the same way you shouldn’t play up how much Harry and Hermione being together breaks Ron’s heart, you shouldn’t play up how much Harry and Ron being together breaks Hermione’s heart. It’s just mean.

And that brings me to the third thing that’s kind of a big deal here–it’s never okay to bash a character for getting in the way of your ship. Because of the history of fanfic, it’s especially important not to bash a female character for getting in the way of a M/M ship. It’s important even when the female character is a cardboard cutout love interest created to highlight the male character’s heterosexuality; it’s even more important with a female character as important and well-developed as Hermione.

So… how is Hermione likely to react to Ron and Harry getting together before Ron and Hermione have articulated their feelings for one another? I don’t think she would react nearly as negatively as she did with Lavender, for a couple of reasons. First, Lavender is someone Hermione actively dislikes, and is an example of a kind of performative femininity that Hermione despises. Hermione is actively insulted when (in her perception) Ron chooses someone like Lavender over her, because Hermione feels very strongly that Lavender’s life choices are inferior to her own. On the other hand, Harry is someone she likes and admires; she knows what someone might see in him, even if she doesn’t. And second, Harry’s a boy. Hermione is very likely to see Ron and Harry getting together as less a “doesn’t like me” thing and more a “doesn’t like girls” thing. (It was the 90s. As someone who was a bi teenager in the 90s, that really wasn’t on the menu, especially for guys. Bi guys were gay but trying to hide it, bi girls were straight but trying to be cool. You still get this kind of biphobic narrative, but it was nearly universal back then. A teenage girl whose crush got a boyfriend would not be thinking “well maybe he’s bi,” she’d he thinking, “he’s gay and I never had a chance.”)

The right analogy for Hermione’s reaction might be, imagine you baked someone a cake and they wouldn’t eat it. You’d be a little annoyed if they picked a well-cooked steak instead, but the steak is still good, and it looks like they just didn’t want dessert. On the other hand, you’d be completely furious if they turned down your cake in favor of a twinkie.

Reblogging for @lytefoot’s (as usual) incredible and spot-on commentary

hillnerd:

headcanonsandmore:

I’m currently discovering that (as someone who’s watched ‘Fullmetal Alchemist; Brotherhood’) it’s virtually impossible to hear the phrase “big brother Ed” without collapsing into a ball of misery and tears.

First off- I LOVE THAT SHOW!- second off- I HAVE AN ALEXANDER DOG AT HOME! D: Stricken.

*Unrestrained sobbing*