[a-capricious-creative]

rip harry potter, you would’ve definitely won the hunger games. and i don’t just mean because he can go ages without food due to the dursleys’ starvation.

you’re polyjuiced as a muscular, scary wizard running through the ministry? lean into the intimidation and act like a pureblood supremacist and threaten everyone to get them to comply as you get the muggle-borns out.

you need to free a house-elf whose being poorly treated? wrap your sock over the diary knowing lucius will throw to the side towards dobby and hence free him.

you need your shitty relatives to sign the permission slip? tease them about revealing your horridly abnormal identity as a wizard to the guests coming over.

you need to get your shitty relatives to let you go to the quidditch cup? tell them your godfather is a murderer and that you write to him and intentionally leave out the part that he’s innocent.

you need to manoeuvre a literal dragon to get the egg? fly in circles to make it dizzy and back and forth so it can’t blow fire and high up so it’ll eventually move up so you can zip down and snatch the egg.

you’re trapped in the department of mysteries with your friends? get you and your friends to topple all the shelves and make a run for it.

need to eavesdrop on snape and karkaroff’s conversation? intentionally spill your potion and pretend that you’re innocently just cleaning up.

you need to get back to hogwarts after enduring the cruciatus curse and then duelling voldemort? run at full speed, while dodging spells, with an injured leg and the weight of cedric’s body to the portkey and successfully get away.

your friend needs a confidence boost? successfully gaslight him and everyone else into thinking you added a lucky potion.

the new minister of magic is insinuating that you should be more involved with the ministry and use it to become an auror? actually, no, what he’s actually doing is trying to milk my fame to control public opinion into thinking i support them so that they’ll support them.

oh dobby, you say that malfoy always goes up to the seventh floor with other students? actually what’s happening is that draco flinched in the robes shop be cause he didn’t want the person to see his dark mark, and he went behind the desk in borgin and burkes to show the mark in his left arm. oh, and the reason he’s on the seventh floor is because he’s going to the room of requirements which is also why it isn’t showing on the marauder’s map. oh and hermione, that girl who dropped the brass scales, that was crabbe or goyle polyjuiced to watch the door and alert malfoy if the coast was clear as well as the girls who were following malfoy and the one who dropped the toadspawn.

dumbledore wants me to get information out of slughorn? refill the wine bottle so he drinks more to make him susceptible, reminisce about my mother who was his favourite student and guilt trip this member of authority by mentioning his reluctance to help defeat the wizard who killed lily evans who gave her life to save me and emotionally manipulate him by saying he should be brave like my mother and tell him how noble he’d be for doing it.

a true icon.

[notaloverof]

Harry has exceptionally high mental resilience. Any portrayal of him as easily moldable and manipulated is inaccurate.

[bookhermionegranger]

like this is the guy who is allergic to the imperious curse what makes you think he’s going to be manipulated 😭😭

[notaloverof]

It's also the guy who kept his wits and inner strength despite daily dehumanization and abuse from the Dursleys and then constant surveillance and targeting since he got to Hogwarts. People only think he's normal because they're used to his pov, where he doesn't talk about himself like that.

[dcafpaperback]

"imagine if hermione granger used her powers for evil, harry wouldn't have survived a day longer. she is so badass and he trails behind her like a puppy"

funny really, because this is the same harry who killed a grown man in his first year. oh and also volunteered to plunge headfirst into a seemingly dark, bottomless pit. X

this is the same harry who mastered an extremely complex, advanced piece of magic at 13.

this is the same harry who was the only one in his class who resisted being mind controlled by a curse, not once but twice. Both the times it was cast by a far more experienced, seasoned dark wizard.

this is the same harry who taught an entire curriculum of combat magic to an entire year of students. everything hermione granger knew about duelling and defense, Order of Phoenix onwards was because of harry potter.

this is the same harry who battled a whole mob of much older criminals and was the only one who didn't face a setback or got straight up knocked out by the end.

this is the same harry who strangled a man in broad daylight, in a public place.

this is the same harry who cast two unforgivable curses by 17, one on a bank manager to break into the said bank, and one on a death eater who dared to spit on his professor. fking cruciated his arse to hell. also yes, it was him who came up with the idea of escaping the bank on dragon back, not hermione.

this is the same harry who was known to take lead in the books. he led a secret rebel group, and a bunch of people who were to be tried wrongfully at the ministry to their freedom.

this is the same harry whose mere gaze made hermione granger shiver in them boots. she even feared he might hex her at one point.

this is the same harry who fantasized about poisoning a teacher, prayed for the death of another teacher (to hermione’s horror) and was again fine with a giant squashing a group of centaurs to death.

Harry James Potter not only would survive just fine without Hermione Granger, but if he chose to go evil at any point which would've been decently justified given to his trauma, i think the latter would have a real hard time surviving him.

P.S - not bashing Hermione dw

[a-capricious-creative]

this is the same hermione who is the only child of two dentists in london who can afford ski holidays and afford to send her to a wealthy boarding school in the scottish highlands, that girl likely has never suffered adversity in her life. she became mentally stronger over time but she does not have the mental grit required to even be evil, let alone take on someone like harry. this girl literally cried because someone imitated her one time. she’s also the girl that defaults to harry every time there’s an emergency situation and cried at the idea of torturing a spider in goblet of fire and appointed harry to teach dumbledore’s army when she could’ve easily appointed herself, being the know-it-all she is. she also trusts systems and authority figures and rules way too much to defy them like villains do.

[4rthurfox]

bilingual, biracial, and bisexual baddie

[hjpbambi]

Harry is truly THE fandom bicycle because people will ship him with every man, woman in universe and other shows/ books too. Even inanimate objects and concepts aren't safe from him.

[a-capricious-creative]

“hermione should’ve been the chosen one”

as if the only child of two dentists in london who has likely never heard no in her life, judging by:

1) how content she is with saying no to their ski holidays and spending christmas with them

2) her snotty, know-it-all attitude that she has upon introduction

would have the mental strength for it.

[oppersdorff]

Isn’t Harry highly powerful? I remember him repelling 100 Dementors with his Patronus and throwing off Snape with his Shield. Or when he accioed his broom from afar. I don’t remember other instances or if those even are about power tbh. But one thing is clear, his will overpowered Voldemort’s.

Yes, he is. The only people who deny that are usually the ones who want Harry to seem weaker or more pliable so he can fit whatever power dynamic they prefer with another character. But canon Harry didn't back down even from an opponent who was not only one of the most powerful wizards alive but actively trying to kill him. And you're right about his will, that speaks to emotional resilience. What some dismiss as pure simplicity in his fighting style is actually tactical clarity; the instinct of someone who goes straight into combat. That directness is a skill. I wouldn't be surprised if the people who don't understand that have never played a single sport in their lives.

[oppersdorff]

Voldemort is a genius

Hermione a near genius

Harry more intelligent than average but not as special as Hermione

Ron pretty average

Seamus a lil stupid

Goyle a dumbass

Voldemort is a sort of genius? Fair enough. It carries a range of interpretations. I don't really believe in talent as something purely inborn, but when I say he had an innate pull toward certain skills and abilities, it's because it suits his intellectual bent. It does fit the way his overachieving (and overwhelming) ambition works.

Hermione isn't more special than Harry. She isn't as magically powerful as he is, and he's able to think faster in dangerous situations, combining his power with the kinds of spells that throw his opponent off balance. Also that is not a lack of creativity. That's pure practicality and intuitiveness in a survival mode, the exact sort of skill a top-tier Auror needs, and he does become Head Auror later. Practicality comes from intense training and a certain talent ("innate pull toward") for acting quickly under pressure without letting your emotions take over. And none of that matters if you're not quite powerful to begin with. Harry checks every box. He's built for high-stakes confrontation, fundamentally being a combat wizard with battlefield instincts. He is a soldier.

But if you're saying Hermione is more special than Harry academically and in terms of analytical, book-based intelligence — and meticulous problem-solving — then absolutely, that's where she surpasses him. That is her domain.

[a-capricious-creative]

the way draco is probably really ugly due to all the inbreeding in his family to maintain the pureblood heritage over the past three hundred centuries.

[endlessburningdarkness]

I really don't think Harry "Don't start crying again." Potter is the endlessly kind cinnamon roll some parts of fandom makes him out to be.

[a-capricious-creative]

this is how i describe the golden trio.

hermione would warn to not touch the hot stove and then scold you afterwards.

ron would warn you too to not touch it but would laugh afterwards.

harry would just watch you touch it and then laugh afterwards.

[butterflysmusings]

Tom Riddle is not unemotional. He is fucking ruled by them.

Color me a skeptic when I come across depictions of Tom as this stoic, stone-cold ice prince of Slytherin.

That was what he tried to project himself as, but at his core, Tom Marvolo Riddle is like a ripe fruit, almost about to burst with pent-up emotions.

I fully endorse the headcanon that deep down, Tom takes after the Gaunts more than the Riddles.

He did a grand job aping their distinguished disposition and glacial aura (his aristocratic looks helped too), but scratch the surface, and he's a Gaunt, a slave to his passions.

Apathy is not his Achilles heel. Avarice and arrogance are.

He's not immune to emotions. On the contrary, he's at their mercy. He's not the type to hide his emotions for long. At the first opportunity, he will make sure the world knows about his feelings, whether it wants to or not. Have you seen him monologue his entire life story and unresolved daddy and mummy issues to his prophesied enemy?

There’s nothing measured, controlled, or austere in my Tom.

He is prone to excess. Just as his Gaunt forefathers thoughtlessly squandered their immense wealth, he too wasted his brilliance, his genius, and his remarkable talent and shredded his soul to pieces in the pursuit of immortality.

Far from being unsusceptible to desire, he wanted so much and got so greedy that he ultimately orchestrated his own destruction.

[scripturienting]

I’m not a big fan of how in many tomarry fics Harry’s character suffers in favour of making Tom Riddle seem cool.

Like y’all. I don’t care how much of an overachieving genius Tom was, that man is canonically a patchwork of the worst character flaws anyone could ever have. I love him because he is a loser. He is beautiful and smart and over-emotional and egotistic and cruel and antisocial and it ruins his life.

Fics tend to write Harry as surly and reacting with anger, but in canon the only time we see him genuinely get angry after all the shit he’s been through is 1) when he has to deal with Umbridge, and 2) after Sirius dies at the Ministry. I’d go so far as to say that he is less emotional than Tom.

Harry’s levels of idgaf are so unapologetically high that he literally sees no point in pandering or lying to anyone about anything. He goes to formal networking events with outcasts, breaks rules on the regular, blows up his aunt because she pissed him off, casually murders his DADA professors on a Tuesday afternoon… he literally asked the Minister for Magic to sign his Hogsmeade permission form and crucio’d a Death Eater for spitting on McGonagall.

There’s no realistic scenario where Harry James Potter would be submissive or overly insecure.

Tom’s too self-conscious about preserving his reputation and people liking him to actually be himself. His ego is a castle of cards, dependent entirely on his Slytherin heritage, his high grades, and his utter lack of scruples. If any of those are cast into doubt, he loses his temper and becomes completely unhinged.

[a-capricious-creative]

“harry potter is an attention seeker”

yeah and hating on him gives him attention you dumb fuck.

[dutchbabey]

I’m an ugly Draco Malfoy truther. You’re telling me this pure blood fucker who has generations of inbreeding in his blood is good looking? Come ON. The only reason we think he’s attractive is cuz we got Harry’s gay ass narrating the whole thing.

[sunnysaystuff]

harry james potter being criminally underrated in his own series will never fail to piss me off IMMENSELY my boy's been through it and for WHAT

[a-capricious-creative]

i really hate when people are like “harry should have been nicer to lupin” - if one of my dead father’s friends, who knows i exist, has just been frolicking around and living his life whilst i’ve been dealing with all this trauma, and not even contacting me or trying help or build a relationship with me, for the past thirteen years, i wouldn’t be nice with them either.