Tag: victor krum

weasleyismyking540:

harrypotterconfessions:

I headcanon that years down the road, Viktor, and Ron came together over an event or dinner, and Ron finally told Krum about how he felt when they were teenagers. They had a laugh about it, shook hands, Krum told Ron that believe it or not, Hermione’s letters was usually always filled with things about him, and they became friends. Krum always had Quidditch tickets for Ron and the kids (and Hermione whenever she wants to) whenever he wanted to see him play. And Ron would give Krum and his children discounts on Weasley Wizard Wheezes merchandise.

Mine lol

I like the idea that Ron and Krum eventually got along. I hate it when fics just use Krum as a plot device to get Ron jealous (which is ironic, considering that’s the character’s narrative function in the series). 

blackcanarydinah:

Me, a Bulgarian: it’s Victor KRUMOV. KRUM is the first name of one of the most well known and feared Bulgarian Khans from the 8-9th centuries. KRUMOV as a surname means “Of Krum”. BULGARIAN SURNAMES HAVE A SET SUFFIX ( -ov, -ev, -ski) AND A SET GENDER (-ov, -ev, -ski [m] and -ovA, -evA, -skA [f]). THIS GOES FOR ALL BULGARIAN SURNAMES THERE ARE NO GODDAMN EXCEPTIONS. THIS IS NOT YOUR BRITISH SURNAMES WHERE IT COULD BE WHATTHEFUCKEVER. Krum as a surname SURNAME is BRITISH/ WESTERN GARBAGE.

pynki:

weasleyismyking540:

dark-cherry-chocolate:

weasleyismyking540:

kingronw:

harrypotterconfessions:

I feel like Krum doesn’t get the love he deserves. I mean, what a great guy, such a good dude. Solid 9/10, would totally marry if could.

idk man I’m still not over a 21-year-old Krum being romantically interested in a 15-year-old Ginny during Bill and Fleur’s wedding in DH. so yeah I’ll pass

Yup!! That and he was already of age when he started talking to a 15 year old Hermione as well so yeah I dont pay Krum any mind at all. His GROWN self should have been checking out witches his own age

His interest in girls is not the problem for me, it’s all about he’s just nice to them as a real gentleman, the issue is he’s a side character that doesn’t have so much space, just as the hot dude that every girl wants, because he’s sporty, popular and is from

Durmstrang, but really not much about his personality. And in the movie? Just a hot guy who dates Hermione, so that’s probably why I do not give him my love.

His character reads dumb jock to me on the real. Cute, nice, but dumb. And the movies didnt change my mind much on that. Idk. He could have been very smart. But I just always got that vibe from.him, and not because he couldnt pronounce Hermione’s name.

Maybe it was the way Harry described him.

I didn’t have a problem with Krum until DH. When I was in the 10 grade I dated an 18-year-old senior in my school so when I first read the Hermione and Krum thing I was just like “It happens” Now as an adult, I see how predatory it all actually was. 

WIth someone your own age you figuring stuff out together, you’re more or less on the same level. With someone older, its more about them and you might even do things you’re not ready for because it’s something you’re supposed to do at that point in the relationship according to him and he’s older so he knows what he’s talking about.

You think you’re ahead of the game because you’re skipping all that awkward trying to figure out were everything goes stuff because he’s telling you how and what to do. That’s the draw, they see you as a huck of clay they get to mold into whatever they want and you’re too young and naive to realize it.

Re-Reading Krum with my adult glasses on… The way he stalked Hermione in the library. The way he would try to pull her attention away from her friends, I mean, Here I go again with my PDFs

“You haff a water beetle in your hair, Herm-own-ninny,” said Krum. Harry had the impression that Krum was drawing her attention back onto himself; perhaps to remind her that he had just rescued her from the lake, but Hermione brushed away the beetle impatiently…

Fleur was clapping very hard too, but Krum didn’t look happy at
all. He attempted to engage Hermione in conversation again, but
she was too busy cheering Harry to listen.

“What’re we going this way for?” said Harry as they passed Hagrid’s cabin and the illuminated Beauxbatons carriage.

“Don’t vant to be overheard,” said Krum shortly. 

When at last they had reached a quiet stretch of ground a short way from the Beauxbatons horses’ paddock, Krum stopped in the shade of the trees and turned to face Harry. 

“I vant to know,” he said, glowering, “vot there is between you and Hermy-own-ninny.”

Harry, who from Krum’s secretive manner had expected something
m

He couldn’t quite believe he was having this conversation with
Viktor Krum, the famous International Quidditch player. It was as
though the eighteen-year-old Krum thought he, Harry, was an
equal — a real rival — 

 “You haff never … you haff not …” 

“No,” said Harry very firmly. Krum looked slightly happier.

This 18-year-old  takes a 14-year-old to a secluded area to confront him about a relationship he suspects happened between him and his current girlfriend.

Territorial much?

And then there this little gem

“Vot,” he said, draining his goblet and getting to his feet again,
“is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the
good-looking girls are taken?” 

That a 15-year-old girl you’re 21-year-old ass his eyeing you entitle little shit.

Why are you even there? Because you and Fleur are such good friends? I love Fleur, she’s top five favs, but let’s be real here she invited him just so she could say an international Quidditch star was at her wedding. Krum went for Hermione tried to charm her with compliments and when that didn’t work he moved on to the next.

pynki:

headcanonsandmore:

You know, we probably could have avoided the whole Lavender situation if Harry had just told Hermione that Ron found out she had snogged Viktor Krum. 

But why would you want to?

I really liked Lavender and Ron. 

I mean… Parvati’s considered the prettiest girl in their year. Hermione’s the smartest and Lavender… is Parvati’s best friend. She’s the only Griffindor girl in her year that didn’t go to the ball with a champion, one could argue that Lavender could have felt a bit in the shadow of her roommates and that’s something Ron could relate to.

Ron being shown the appreciation he deserves was great to finally see.

And TBH I don’t really care that Hermione’s feelings got hurt. Truth be told if Hermione had just been honest about the nature of her and Krum’s relationship from the start it would have been old news and not the bombshell it ended up being. 

Sure they still would have happened, but all those emotions that fueled his urgency with Lavender would have been dampened with time and he might have treated the whole thing with a bit more tact. 

I just think it would have been interesting to see how it played out if Harry HAD just told Hermione. 

I have…mixed feelings on Lavender. On the one hand, she did show Ron some genuine appreciation at a time where he wasn’t getting much (one of the first times she flirts with him is just after Hermione had been ignoring Ron whilst pointing out all of Harry’s fanciable qualities- great move, Hermione, that’s gonna go down well…). Lavender did clearly like Ron a lot, and was clear about her intentions.

On the other hand, Lavender is somewhat grating at times. She’s a bit of the ‘girly-girl’ stereotype, which I think JK Rowling was well aware of when writing the character. Lavender was the polar opposite of Hermione, and therefore JK Rowling went out of her way to show Lavender as annoying, somewhat vapid, and a little over-the-top when it came to her relationship with Ron. 

I actually preferred the way she was written in the books prior to HBP- she wasn’t in the spotlight as much, but still came across as fairly down to earth (albeit a little silly) in much the same way Parvati did. I think Rowling just upped her ‘annoyingness’ factor to encourage us to want Ron to break up with her and end up with Hermione. 

With each re-read of the book, I too find myself less sympathetic to Hermione’s situation during Ron’s time dating Lavender. Really, she brought the whole thing on herself by not showing Ron appreciation and support in the times where he needed it most, not to mention keeping the full extent of her relationship with Viktor Krum a secret from him. 

If Hermione had just been honest with Ron about Viktor Krum, this whole situation could have been avoided, or (like you say) Ron’s relationship with Lavender would have been less based on urgency and might have ended better for both of them. 

Hermione kept it from Ron and, when he discovered it, it hit him like a ton of bricks. He had insecurities already, and now he finds out that his worst fears about Hermione and Krum were, in fact, confirmed. And the news was delivered to him by his younger, more popular, sister (who also happened to be their mothers’ favourite) while she virgin-shames him for his lack of romantic experience. 

The whole event could not have been any worse for Ron’s already-minuscule self-esteem.

i fully believe that Ron was saving himself for Hermione. By sixth year, he was more aware of his growing feelings for her, and was starting to get hopeful that she might see him as more-than-just-a-friend. She invited him to Slughorn’s party with her (of course, Hermione made it clear that it wasn’t really a date, but it was something). 

When he discovers that Hermione had already kissed Krum, it made it seem like she had only asked Ron to the party because she pitied him. Not because she liked him as anything more than a friend. After all, she’d been going on about how fanciable Harry was, and she’d already snogged Krum- she must have a thing for really good Quidditch players. And, after Hermione made it seem like she thought Ron could only be a good keeper using a luck potion, well…you can see the way Ron would put two-and-two together…

And speaking of Viktor Krum, does anyone-else find it quite significant that (when Ron suspected that Hermione was dating Krum) he still remained friends with her, and didn’t go on at her about it? By comparison, when Ron starts dating Lavender, Hermione reacts by physically attacking him with a flock of ravenous birds (which leaves lasting scars and cuts), and then refusing to talk to him. Even when he’s trying to speak to her after the Christmas break, she still shuts him out and calls him by the derogatory nickname ‘won-won’ whenever she’s referring to him. She even flares up at Harry when he tries to get the two to reconcile (something which, after the Christmas break, Ron would have been happy to do). 

And Hermione had the nerve to say Ron has the emotional capacity of a teaspoon….

I’m sorry to go on a rant about this, but I really dislike the way that JK Rowling wrote the whole Lavender-subplot of HBP. She referred to it as her way of ‘making Ron worthy of Hermione’. Which, considering how much this already-self-hating character is put through the mill during this subplot, leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. 

If anything, it seems to me like Ron is getting punished for going out with the ‘wrong’ girl, despite the fact that Lavender actually showed him appreciation and was clear about her intentions towards him, in contrast with the ‘right’ girl who gave him mixed-signals at best, avoided showing him appreciation because she was worried about her feelings surfacing, and hid her relationship with someone-else from him. 

Because how dare Ron Weasley look for some appreciation from girls aside from the authors self-insert who seemed to think that Ron should just know that she liked him? (Word of advice, Hermione- he’s not a mind reader, and he’s too self-doubting to make the first move. Stop worrying about being too obvious and SHOW HIM YOU LIKE HIM ALREADY!)

I’m don’t hate Hermione as a character- she is one half of my OTP after all- but sometimes her attitude towards Ron drives me up the wall. 

hillnerd:

headcanonsandmore:

reserve-seeker:

headcanonsandmore:

I’m guessing Harry never told Ron that Viktor Krum was eyeing-up Ginny at Bill and Fleur’s wedding. 

Because otherwise Ron would have probably apparated over to Bulgaria to unleash some serious arse-kicking. 

It makes me wonder if Harry was a bit concerned that if Ron found out he would much rather have Viktor date Ginny. It would get Viktor away from Hermione so Ron could be with her, and it would put Viktor in a position where Ron could be civil or even friends with him. I know it’s never mentioned but I just have this feeling that Harry was worried he could lose his best friend AND his best chance at being with the girl he loved in one shot. Plus maybe a small part of him thought Ginny might like Viktor better because he was described as handsome and he was obviously better at Quidditch than Harry. Poor bb Harry.

Hmm. Interesting hypothesis. I always thought that Harry was pretty much the only bloke that Ron was okay with Ginny dating. Ron really couldn’t stand Viktor Krum (mostly for what happened with Hermione), and probably wouldn’t take kindly to the twenty-one-year-old Krum eyeing up Ron’s fifteen-year-old sister. 

I think that, by DH, Ron had gotten used to the idea of Harry and Ginny being in love. The only time he got angry at Harry over it in the seventh book was when he was worried that Harry was messing around with Ginny’s feelings (that bit where Harry kissed Ginny despite them breaking up a couple of months previously). 

I think it might go down like this:

Hermione mentions Viktor, and Ron of course makes a face, but then Harry does too. Both her boys are looking really put out.

Hermione asks what’s up with them. ‘Not you now Harry!’

Ron glances over and is surprised to see Harry trying to school his features from a glare to something more neutral. For .2 seconds Ron’s old insecurity of H/Hr pops up- but then he dismisses it. 

He’s now just as curious as Hermione. Harry has always gotten along fine with Viktor.

With both of them haranguing him, Harry confesses at the wedding Viktor was checking Ginny out. Hermione is a bit amused, and Ron is LIVID.

‘WHAT?! SHE’S SIXTEEN, THAT PERVERT!’

Harry’s like *THIS!*

‘Ron!’ Hermione cries out in chastisement.

‘What?! Wait a moment…. She was fifteen at the wedding…” At first Ron is disgusted then starts laughing. “Oh my GOD, Hermione………………………… VIKTOR IS A PEDERAST!”

Hermione is like ‘OMG That’s not! I mean- She’s only a year younger than us! And—’

“OHHHHHH HE IS!!!!” He is beaming. Hermione is silent. Ron knows he has won. He has defeated the Krum. Krum will forever be tarnished and known as the pervert weirdo Ron always knew he was. 

Hermione leaves the room ‘you are unbelievable!’

And Ron is like:

Later:

‘What was it like to know you’ll never hear about Krum again?’

This is awesome, @hillnerd– thank you so much for this addition! 

reserve-seeker:

headcanonsandmore:

I’m guessing Harry never told Ron that Viktor Krum was eyeing-up Ginny at Bill and Fleur’s wedding. 

Because otherwise Ron would have probably apparated over to Bulgaria to unleash some serious arse-kicking. 

It makes me wonder if Harry was a bit concerned that if Ron found out he would much rather have Viktor date Ginny. It would get Viktor away from Hermione so Ron could be with her, and it would put Viktor in a position where Ron could be civil or even friends with him. I know it’s never mentioned but I just have this feeling that Harry was worried he could lose his best friend AND his best chance at being with the girl he loved in one shot. Plus maybe a small part of him thought Ginny might like Viktor better because he was described as handsome and he was obviously better at Quidditch than Harry. Poor bb Harry.

Hmm. Interesting hypothesis. I always thought that Harry was pretty much the only bloke that Ron was okay with Ginny dating. Ron really couldn’t stand Viktor Krum (mostly for what happened with Hermione), and probably wouldn’t take kindly to the twenty-one-year-old Krum eyeing up Ron’s fifteen-year-old sister. 

I think that, by DH, Ron had gotten used to the idea of Harry and Ginny being in love. The only time he got angry at Harry over it in the seventh book was when he was worried that Harry was messing around with Ginny’s feelings (that bit where Harry kissed Ginny despite them breaking up a couple of months previously).