what she means: wtf did the fictional character ronald bilius weasley do to piss off steve kloves, david yates, michael goldenberg, chris columbus, and alfonso cuarón so much that they basically made the entire movie series into one big anti ron/pro harmione event? they completely erased any importance ron had, gave all his good lines to hermione and other characters, forced him into the role of comic relief, and tried so hard to force harmione to be canon, this was a huge disservice to ron and the rest of trio, but it was also a big ‘fuck you my version is bettter’ to jk fucking rowling. they need to stay a thousand feet away from ronald bilius weasley for the rest of their life, i swear to god-
The Fandom Effect: a piece of information about Harry Potter that everyone thinks it’s canon after tons of fanfictions/fanarts but when they read the books again it’s actually not.
What are the best examples?
Lucius Malfoy does NOT have long hair *le gasp*
Ooooohoooohoohoho yes let’s talk about this.
– Remus never canonically had scars on his face.
– Daphne Greengrass doesn’t actually get a single line in the series let alone the personality of being the ‘ice queen’.
– SIRIUS BLACK NEVER ONCE DATED A FEMALE PERSON, OR ANY PERSON. Yes, there were several girls giggling as they watched the Marauders but I have absolutely no idea where the characterization of Sirius being a ladies’ man even came from. Or a guys’ man. Or anyone’s man.
– Remus wasn’t as smart as James and Sirius. He admits right in the Shrieking Shack that James and Sirius were smarter than he was when it came to the inventions/becoming Animagi so the characterization of Remus getting all As in his classes as the other Marauders scraped by is wrong.
– Regulus Black could have actually been an asshole. Like the fandom came together in this wonderful agreement that he was going to be this innocent kid, too afraid of his parents’ abuse, and that Sirius protected him up until the point he ran away, at which point Regulus faced the abuse alone and was forced into becoming a Death Eater because nobody else was around to protect him. I love that characterization with a heart and there’s nothing disproving it but there’s also nothing proving it. Reg could have been a complete asshole who wanted to kill Muggles before he realized the error of his ways.
– Lily wasn’t a fusion of Hermione and Ginny
– Bellatrix was ten years older than Sirius
– Luna was odd but not a complete hippie who smoked one too many, she said plenty of things that made sense, she also never talked in riddles??? Not sure where that characterization came from
– The House of Potter was never a Noble and Most Ancient House. James and Lily were only rich because of Fleamont’s hair potion. I love Powerful!Harry fics to death but the Potters were not part of the Sacred 28.
– And as far as fanart goes, don’t even get me started on Lily’s hair being shoulder-length, Ginny have orange hair like the rest of the Weasleys, Petunia being blonde, Neville being blonde, Luna having dirty-blonde hair, Harry being incredibly thin due to the abuse, Ron having scars on his arms due to the brains, Hermione only getting the Mudblood scar in the movies, Bellatrix looking identical to Andromeda which means sheprobably didn’t have the crazy Bride of Frankenstein hair, Voldemort having red eyes, Ron being tall, etc.
– draco Malfoy isn’t ‘just behind hermione’ in classes. All we know was fact is he’s not as smart as her.
– Hermione never calls Ron Ronald
-Ron isn’t dumb as a rock. He doesn’t only pass his classes because Hermione fixes his work for him. He scores nearly the same on his OWL exams as Harry does, passes the same number of OWLs as Harry, and had no help during those exams because *they’re ministry administered examinations*.
-Pettigrew isn’t basically a squib. He’s a strong and intelligent enough wizard to become an animagus at 15. Whether he had help or not doesn’t matter, he still completed the transformation, which no one can do for him. He also isn’t dumb as a rock. He successfully played traitor/spy in the first Voldemort war without being caught, then pulled off faking his death while framing another wizard, and managed to keep up the pretense for 12 years. He found wraith-voldemort on his own, and cared for the baby-homunculous for a year, alone. He also completed the rebirth ritual, with guidance from voldemort for the prep, most likely, but the actual ritual was all him.
Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.
Beekeeper here! Just wanted to say that the fact that vegans won’t eat honey is very silly. Harvesting honey does not hurt bees. The invention of modern moveable-frame hives means we can remove a selected frame, extract the honey and return it without killing a single bee.
If we destroyed the colony to harvest honey there would be no bees for next year, and beekeepers are incredibly careful to keep their bees healthy and thriving. We take *excess* honey that they don’t need, and it stops the hive from becoming honey-bound, meaning that there’s so much honey the Queen has nowhere to lay eggs. And if the winter is harsher than expected and the remaining honey store runs low, we feed the bees plenty to make sure they survive. We also make sure that pests are controlled, bees are treated for disease, and the hive is weatherproof and in good repair, all things that wild bees struggle with.
Keeping bees in properly managed hives where they don’t starve or die from preventable disease is much better for them than being left to fend for themselves, and they’re far too important to be left alone.
All the fruits and vegetables that vegans *do* eat couldn’t exist without bees, and the hives which pollinate those crops also produce excess honey which the beekeepers can sell to help keep themselves and their hives going.
Okay, so in the last scene Harry yelled at Ron and was visibly angry at himself for doing so. Why is he apologetically asking this to Hermione instead of Ron? Wouldn’t it make more narrative sense to have Harry trying to make amends to Ron?
This has baffled me for years;does anyone know?
Maybe he’s asking the queen permission to make up with ron who he doesn’t really care about , that’s how I always perceived it
That’s why it doesn’t make any sense. Because in the last scene, Harry looked genuinely angry at himself for treating Ron like that. Harry beats himself up about it, but then is apologetic to Hermione rather than the person he actually yelled at? Why even bother with the scenes where Ron defends Harry and then gets chewed-out by him, if they weren’t going to have Harry understand that he needed to stop being rude to the only people who supported him?
It’s such a bad bit of scene-building. There’s build-up for at least three scenes before this, but there’s no pay-off! What was the point? If anything, it’s just wasting screen-time on stuff that doesn’t do anything for Harry’s mini-character-arc.
@thegrumpyanimagus and @spaceprincessem Agreed. The film-makers didn’t care at all about Harry and Ron’s friendship. Which is a real shame, considering how well Dan and Rupert worked with each-other, as well as how brilliant the character’s friendship was in the books. You’d think the film-makers wouldn’t have been this naked with their disinterest in Harry and Ron’s friendship.
Okay, so in the last scene Harry yelled at Ron and was visibly angry at himself for doing so. Why is he apologetically asking this to Hermione instead of Ron? Wouldn’t it make more narrative sense to have Harry trying to make amends to Ron?
This has baffled me for years;does anyone know?
Maybe he’s asking the queen permission to make up with ron who he doesn’t really care about , that’s how I always perceived it
That’s why it doesn’t make any sense. Because in the last scene, Harry looked genuinely angry at himself for treating Ron like that. Harry beats himself up about it, but then is apologetic to Hermione rather than the person he actually yelled at? Why even bother with the scenes where Ron defends Harry and then gets chewed-out by him, if they weren’t going to have Harry understand that he needed to stop being rude to the only people who supported him?
It’s such a bad bit of scene-building. There’s build-up for at least three scenes before this, but there’s no pay-off! What was the point? If anything, it’s just wasting screen-time on stuff that doesn’t do anything for Harry’s mini-character-arc.
Okay, so in the last scene Harry yelled at Ron and was visibly angry at himself for doing so. Why is he apologetically asking this to Hermione instead of Ron? Wouldn’t it make more narrative sense to have Harry trying to make amends to Ron?
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