Stop calling Pansy Parkinson and Bellatrix Lestrange ‘lesbian icons~uwu’-the former is an antiblack bullying white feminist and the latter is a fucking fascists.
If you want lesbian slytherin’s to ship with ‘Mione,just use Millicent.
Someone finally said it!
I hate this fandom’s obsession with Pansy and Bellatrix. People have a thing for murderers and under-developed characters but God forbid Ronald Weasley makes human errors and apologizes for his mistakes!
The only female character who is shippable with Hermione is Ginny, because Hermione didn’t really get along with any nice female character who was her age (Luna, Cho, Parvati, Lavender, Fleur, etc.) Other people like Bellatrix, Pansy, are her enemies, so come on.
Okay, but can we agree that if there is one (1) heterosexual person in Harry Potter, it’s Hermione Granger?There are no female characters that are shippable with Hermione because she really doesn’t like girls very much.
I mean. Don’t get me wrong. I am down for everybody is gay now bye. But… I dunno. Maybe commandeer Millie Bulstrode, she never gets any love. Or Daphne Greengrass or Tracey Davis. Not Pansy. Let Pansy be awful. Just once.
Like, I get why people go for Pansmione–‘cause they’re already doing Drarry (bc there are no other boys we might ship Harry with, no, uh uh) and it’s symmetric, and Pansy’s in Draco’s posse because and it’s blatant Crabbe and Goyle erasure, which, don’t get me started. And because there really are no better candidates. Especially when Ginny so clearly has Luna. But you’ve got to seriously rewrite one or both of them to do it or there’ll be murder done.
(You do then get Ron/Blaise, probably the least problematic of the trio-cross-match pairings, actually potentially very interesting depending on your Blaise characterization.)
(To be clear: Individual authors/fans/etc are 100% free to read or portray characters any way they want. It’s just the ubiquity of certain things that gets me down. Erasing Draco’s actual crew. Making Pansy merely assertive rather than actively unpleasant. Like, I am totally aware that assertive women are routinely tarred as b****es, I’ve certainly gotten that. But that doesn’t mean that every b**** is in fact an assertive woman.)
(There’s a lot of really good fic with some really cool Pansy characters. But just once? Can she have her actual canon personality once?)
(BTW, why is there no Crabbe/Goyle fic? Oh, we know that one. They’re not hot. Neither is Millie. Mystery solved!)
Sorry. Went off on a bit of a rant here. I’m just… there’s a couple cliches I’m just a little tired of.
I see and write Hermione as being Heteroromantic/Grey-Ace but that’s just me.
I can’t fathom Pansy having a fling with Hermione, because they are so different. While yes, I do write Pansy as being Bi (have I mentioned I have her in an affair with Charlie the first 2 months after the war ended?) I would see her with so many other women mentioned (fancy some other Ravenclaw, perhaps?)
While I know everyone and their great Aunt Tessie writes her in so many het ships, I can’t fathom her to step off into more than Ron for any reason. (Even if one of my all-time favorite Smutty Claus fics is one that mentions Ron and Pansy for a hot weekend when he and Hermione are on the outs and she spends time with (spoilers!))
There’s some splendid art involving Pansy and Hermione but this Dragon doesn’t see her experimenting with Women. Hermione’s sharp edges concerning people who betray Harry – and Pansy tried to do that, in front of everyone – wouldn’t quite endear her to Hermione post-war.
While many a woman is called a B* (including yours truly) her actions in the 7 books mentioned her beyond assertive. No, it even went pasty catty. (I am assertive but call me the Irish word and we’ll throw down.)
Y’all you do what you do but I personally don’t see it.
Now Ginny and Luna? I see that quite easily. (and my OT3 is Harry/Ginny/Luna)
The bias towards pretty, slim, and hot and not anyone else outside of it (damn, now I want to see about writing Millicent with a woman) (and Crack fic with Crabbe or Goyle)
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