my official stance is a pregnancy is whatever the pregnant woman wants it to be. if it’s a 4 week old clump of cells and she wants to call it a baby it’s a baby. if she’s 20 weeks and she wants to call it a parasite it’s a parasite. if she’s 39 weeks and calls it a fetus it’s a fetus. “why are you so sad about miscarrying at 6 weeks it was literally just an embryo” because that was her baby. “how can you get an abortion at three months” because that wasn’t a baby. hope that helps.
This is pretty much the only take that makes any sense to me.
"It's just a lump of cells!" Doesn't matter, so am I and so are you. Abortion is morally acceptable not because of relative lumpiness but because of bodily autonomy.
Harry Potter/Viktor Krum is what Drarry shippers need to consider because Viktor is everything they have to change Draco’s character into to make their ship be non toxic while keeping many of the elements that make people want to ship Harry with Draco in the first place.
-First and foremost, Viktor is nice to Harry’s friends (CANNON). I can only imagine how important it is to Harry that Viktor gets along with his mates and Viktor is never anything less than pleasant even if the language barrier makes things difficult. Hermione drills him about what Durmstrang is like (What’s your curriculum? What’s your library like? How are your exams done?) and Ron learns a few nifty hexes off him that Hogwarts doesn’t teach.
-Viktor was a world star seeker WHILE IN SCHOOL and yet was incredibly humble about his fame (much like Harry) and even complemented Harry’s flying abilities after the first task (CANNON). These two would totally have flying dates.
-Harry is very comfortable sitting in silence together, which is great since Viktor is a little insecure about his thick accent and gets irritated when he can’t articulate himself properly.
-Viktor wanted to duel Luna’s father for wearing Grindelwald’s symbol during Fleur and Bills wedding but held off since he didn’t want to ruin it for them and just verbally confronted him about it instead (CANNON).
-Tried to make small talk with Harry not knowing he’s in disguise at the wedding. Just wanted to chit chat with someone (CANNON). Gives me good vibes.
-Hermione helps him learn to pronounce English words correctly and he teaches her the Bulgarian pronunciation for basic spells.
-Viktor was considered the champion of his school and proved himself to be a very magically skilled and creative during the Triwizard tasks (CANNON).
-VICTOR IS AN ACTIVE ANTI FASCIST: "...this is his symbol, I recognised it at vunce: Grindelvald carved it into a vall at Durmstrang ven he vos a pupil there. Some idiots copied it onto their books and clothes thinking to shock, make themselves impressive — until those of us who had lost family members to Grindelvald taught them better." Quote lifted from the Deathly Hallows. (CANNON.)
-Viktor’s grandfather was killed by Grindelwald (dark wizard) (CANNON), I suspect him and Harry would be able to relate to one another even if their tragedies are different.
-Both Harry and Viktor are so relived to have some one to finally be able to about being famous without seeming “ungrateful” or haughty (Hermione is bad at showing empathy and Ron gets obviously jealous even if he tries to hide it).
-Despite being a pureblood attending a school (which by-the-way didn’t admit muggleborns, making his crush on Hermione even more indicative of his character) ran by a Death Eater that emphasised the teaching of dark arts and having a huge amount of adoring followers (and presumably lots of money from his Quidditch career) Viktor Krum was described as being pleasant to speak to and fought against those who supported tyranny (CANNON).
There is no way Harry would ever pick Draco over Viktor. It’s a non question.
Even of you discounted their personal history (which imo would never allow them to date, Draco fought against them in the war, called for Hermione’s death countless times and bullied the trio all throughout school, Harry would find it difficult to not glare at him in public), Draco stands against Harry and the people he loves at an ideological level. Harry would never love someone who would hurt his loved ones.
Plus so much more can be done with this! Have Harry and Viktor be professional quidditch rivals that fall in love. Have them dance at Fleur and Bills wedding. Have reporters SWAMPING them at the Yule Ball. Have them be resistance fighters together. Have them reconnect after the war because Harry can’t handle being in England after the The Battle of Hogwarts and so decides to take a gap year in Bulgaria. Have Draco be Harry’s abusive ex that Viktor helps him move on from. Have Viktor be dark prince royalty that desperately wants to get away form it all and finds solace in Harry, a knight travelling through his kingdom in search of the dark wizard who killed his parents. Have a muggle boxing au where Victor looks at Harry’s small frame and decides to pull his punches, get’s his ass handed to him and promptly falls in love. Have Oliver Wood at their wedding absolutely losing his mind. Have Dumbledore move Harry to Durmstrang in a convoluted plan to keep him safe. There are so many ideas for these two!!!
Please feel free to take any of the ideas I wrote above. Don’t even credit me. If I wrote a list of five hundred ideas and it convinced one person to write a Harry/Krum 100 word microfic or a create a simple piece of fanart then I’ve got all the recognition I need.
Edit: I’m proship and don’t think anyone should be bullied for their ships. I’m actually a huge sucker for toxic/abusive Drarry because I love the angst. This post is for people who think that Drarry would/could ever work as a HEATHY and FUNCTIONING relationship with the cannon characters.
Edit2: cannot believe I’ve been misspelling “canon” for years and only now someone points it out.
Less on topic edit under the cut (mostly opinionated Draco bashing):
All of the cannon information on Draco is also why I think Dramione or Dron (or any resistance fighter/Draco) ship would be inherently toxic. I only used Drarry for this post since it's the most popular but Dramione is DEFINITELY the most toxic paring.
Even a post war Draco that “redeems” himself would be unable to escape his past.
His bullying of Harry Potter (the saviour of the wizarding world TWICE) was a well known thing among the Hogwarts population. He frequently and publicly tormented Harry and his friends. He used blood supremacist slurs in front of other students.
After the war it’s probably a well known that the Malfoys were hardcore fascist Death Eaters.
He and anyone willing to associate with him in public would probably be harassed (which quite frankly I would consider cosmic retribution and karma).
Draco would have to leave the country if he didn’t end up in Azkaban with his family (where he belongs, in my opinion).
You CANNOT separate art from the artist when the artist is still alive and producing new media to profit off.
So on that note, do NOT watch the new Harry Potter series. Do not hate watch it. Do not watch it because “it’s going to be my childhood remade”. I do not care. Do not watch it. This is a direct move to erase the original trio who have all stood against jkr.
i’m so appreciative to suzanne for reframing the rebellion from the original trilogy as a “they saw their moment and took it” type situation and showing us that they’ve been trying, over and over, with so many failed attempts, to break the arena and incite a rebellion for decades. in this current political climate never giving up hope is so essential. haymitch wasn’t the first nor the last, and they kept going even when it seemed completely futile, and that’s what counts, and what ultimately saves them all.
jean describing neil as "that malfunctioning cretin that existed to cause trouble for everyone in a thousand-mile radius" might be my new favorite way jean calls neil so far lmaoooo
the fact that kevin and jean have so much riding on this interview & it’s so high-stress yet they’re both like “and in equally distressing news, Jeremy is applying to law school” is so funny
there's something very funny about wymack recruiting neil and seeing him as this jumpy, cagey asf kid with alarmingly absent parents and then watching him befriend the monsters, speak three languages, start fights with riko moriyama, be incredibly apathetic to violence, join the perfect court and reveal that he uses alcohol as pain reliever because it's too dangerous for him to go to a hospital, unite the team and fall in love with wymack's other problem child, all for him to turn out to be the son of kengo moriyama's right hand man.
obsessed with neil josten being too stingy to buy clothes for himself but instead opting to spend his fortune on a fancy sports car for his boyfriend and to put a hit on jean’s abuser
I’m reading the sunshine court and i love how in chapter two jean and kevin are having the most stressful conversation of their lives meanwhile neil and andrew are outside making out 😭
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