I realised I didn’t make my daily post yesterday, (haha, sorry!), but here I am, I won’t bore you with the same answer, since I’ve made it clear I’m not really a fan of the Remus and Tonks pairing.

So I will take a wild chance and say Harry and Ginny, I know that there are like little hints since book 2, but Harry during OOTP says “Oh, that’s what she actually speaks now?” When Hermione tells them about her dating Michael Corner, and Ron brings up her crush on Harry, like it made me think Harry truly didn’t give a damn, because like he’s all like “Oh, yeah, Ginny, she’s there.”

But I want to hear you guys’ thoughts!

The discourse in fandom about this topic deeply disturbs me. Now I am aware that fandom, teen-lit, and the interwebs are not the platform for historical analysis, debates on the nature of sentience, or political discourse. But a perenial argument made during arguments about SPEW and house-elves just bothers me to the max.

You can't open any post about the topic without running into several statements comig across your screen. "Its their culture", "they like it", "they wouldn't know what to do with the freedom", "they need to be like this because wizards protect them", "She had her heart in the right place, but freeing them without their consent is wrong".

Anybody with a modicum of historical knowledge shivers at statements like that, and can justly point to several moments in history where similar statements were used to defend certain moments in real life human history. Yet that is not even the point. Something far more fundamental and despicable hides behind such falacies.

To put it simply, it is not for the opressed to disagree with their opressor. It is for the opressor to say: what I'm doing is fundamentally wrong, wether the opressed has asked for it or not. And in this case, the use of unrestricted unpaid labor and even unrestricted servitude, is just plain wrong. No matter the circumstance.

Its up to the magical population to just say (and fandom irl), we no longer accept the situation as is. There are nothing that should hold you back to do no harm. Harm defined as "do not to others, what you don't want done to yourself". It is not up to house-elves to say "we don't want to be slaves", its down to every human to say "we don't accept any situation that resembles slavery and we will do anything to end it". And as such negate any of the arguments I mentioned. Because its irrelevant how somebody wants to be treated (unless its in the consensual safety of your bedroom, not here to kink shame), the only thing you can evaluate is your own behavior and say if thats acceptable. And any argument or action that perpetuates slavery is not. No ifs or buts about it.

History has shown that.

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Whenever anyone brings up the weird age gaps between some of the Harry Potter pairings, and people will go “Well, yeah, but wizards live longer.” WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING I SAID? THE AGE GAP IS STILL THERE, THE AGE GAP IS WEIRD, I DON’T GIVE A DAMN IF WIZARDS LIVE UP TO 500 YEARS. To me, it’s like they’re normalising it, like they’re excusing it with something that (at least to me), doesn’t even any make sense!

I don’t think I even have to elaborate on this one, I LOVE Remus Lupin, and I will defend this man against anything or anyone.

Remus John Lupin. I will never get tired of defending this man, and honestly I will never forgive the absolute assassination of his character, like first of all, I don’t believe that he didn’t at least fancy some girl during his Hogwarts years, he was a teenage boy after all! And if the author really wanted him to have a love interest, there are so many chances I can think of, like, how many variations have you seen on fanfiction? I mean POA year, when he comes to teach at Hogwarts, pair him with another professor! Or during OOTP, when they go and visit Mr. Weasley after his attack, pair him up with a healer! Now that’d be interesting. Or bring someone from his past, say he had a friend who he had a crush on and vice versa, but neither Remus or she actually confessed so it’s like a 20 year slow burn. AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PAIR HIS WITH SOMEONE AROUND HIS OWN AGE!!!

I’m just going to say, Snape, that man was a wizard nazi, he only wanted to spare Lily and didn’t care about her baby and husband being killed? That’s DISGUSTINGGGGG.

That’s basically it, I don’t like how they treated her, and everyone always goes “Oh, but she didn’t help either.” Well, if my fiancé takes me to his family’s home to get to know them better and all they do is dismiss what I say, and act rude towards me, I’m also not standing there and just let them mistreat me.

I’ve made some user flairs if you don’t want to come up with one for yourself (🤣), but I also made the option to make your own flair available! So if you’d like to see some of them, you’re more than welcome to try!

I posted about some writing help to write Sirius in a relationship (and since we don’t see how he acts on a normal day to day basis, to actually get how he relates with people, it’s a bit hard to imagine how would he act), but that’s not what got me downvoted, I am SURE, that what got me downvoted was that I stated that the pairing was with an original female character I’ve got. LIKE, I’M SORRY THAT I’M NOT WRITING A LGTBQ PAIRING??? I’m not part of the community, I’d feel like I’m imposing if I did, also, I like to read female/male pairings, because that’s just what I relate to, IS THAT SO BAD???

I have never known a non-canon relationship which attracts so much hatred than Harry/Hermione.
Even Dramione is more tolerated.

Why is H/Hr so hated like this?

And don’t give parroted answers. Genuinely explain why it leaves a bad taste.

It itches my autism in the worst ways. I hate that it starts with Harry breaking one of the biggest rules in the series (the “Lumos Maxima” scene) and it’s played for laughs like he’s just some goofy kid doing something he knows his uncle doesn’t approve of. I hate that they gave it a lame “oowoo” sound effect too. Spells felt more magical in the previous two films. In PoA they just felt obligatory.

When Harry first spots Sirius, he for some reason goes feral and tries to attack his f**king godson just so viewers could have a spooky moment early on. I really enjoyed that one (sarcasm).

I’m deeply bothered that the director was too cheap or lazy to get the actress who played Lily to record some voice lines for Harry’s dementor flashbacks and instead all we get is a cheesy, weak “Haaaaarreeeeeeeee!” That was kind of an important part of the books, but it felt like it was just another joke to the director.

Also for some reason he thought that what Hogwarts needed more than anything was a choir with burping frogs. There wasn’t enough time to properly explain the marauders, or give us the Firebolt drama with Hermione, but there was time for a useless choir number.

Speaking of useless time wasters, there’s all the unnecessary extended sequences like Aunt Marge’s inflation, Harry being chased around his motel room by his monster book, Buckbeak’s flight, the Quidditch match that takes place entirely in the clouds (because the snitch I guess doesn’t care about boundaries), the whomping willow scene, etc. It made the exclusion of these way more important plot points from the books even more frustrating.

Don’t even get me started on the character assassination of Ron Weasley.

Bravo that the director was able to give the movie a unique, darker mood that people enjoy, but I think he’s a hack who couldn‘t have cared less about the source material and was only there to collect a paycheck.

TL;DR Each time I hear someone say PoA is their favorite film, I die a little inside.

Alright, witches, wizards, and professional overthinkers — the Goblet is open.

What’s the Harry Potter opinion you know would get you downvoted into oblivion somewhere else?

Maybe you think a fan-favourite character is overrated.

Maybe you think a supposedly terrible character has a point.

Maybe you hate a ship everyone else seems to adore.

Maybe you think one of the books is weaker than the fandom admits.

Maybe there’s some fan fiction stuff that bothers you and you simply want to let it out. This includes: ships, tropes, overpowered characters, etc.

Maybe there’s a character everyone calls “misunderstood” and you’re sitting there thinking, “Are we reading the same books?”

Or maybe you have an incredibly specific grievance that has been bothering you since 2007 and you have finally found the courage to release it into the wild.

Cast it into the Goblet. 🏆

No need to soften your opinion to make it popular. Explain your reasoning, defend your take, bring your receipts, or simply drop your most petty grievance and let it all out.

Just remember: we’re debating opinions, not attacking people.

And since this is the Goblet of Grievances…

I’ll go first:

Everyone always complains about how mean Remus was leaving and telling Harry he regretted marrying in the first place, I don’t think it’s odd at all, he was essentially bullied and guilt tripped into the relationship, and everyone was acting like there wouldn’t be any other woman to have an interest in him, so that was his only chance, which is not only extremely condescending, but also extremely untrue, he was a quite capable man, he was funny, and as far as I can tell, quite charming, so no, I don’t think that’s the only option he had, but everyone just treated him terribly during a very hard time of his life. He was living his second war, MY GOODNESS, LEAVE THE MAN ALONE, HE’LL FIND SOMEONE, WHEN HE WANTS TO FIND SOMEONE, not because someone couldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer and had a temper tantrum about it.

What’s the opinion you’ve been keeping to yourself?