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Pros and Cons of making things

Pro: Thing

Con: Make

alphagodith

you summed up the struggle of all creators ever so nicely

stellalemon

You seem to be a big hinny fan. I know a lot of people debate this, but what do you think Hinny’s height difference is?

Ah, quite a controversial topic! Personally, I think they’re totally a high difference couple.

I know a lot of people don’t see Harry that tall and only view him as 5’9 to 5’11, but he was described as tall multiple times in the books, and I can’t imagine someone who’s under 6 foot being described as tall. I also was always under the impression Ginny was quite short. So, I put them a little under a foot apart. I think Harry is a solid 6’1 at least, but I see him as 6’2, and I think Ginny is around 5’3. In HBP, ginny is able to hug him and he can rest his chin on her head. I love that. I also love the thought of her having to get on her tip toes and him bending down a bit to kiss each other. They’re just adorable.

allisonilluminated

Okay but hear me out: the second and the third chapters are the hardest in the entire book.

Everybody complains about chapter one and endings, and I get it - that's your big money moment, make or break. That's what matters the most to the reader. But I think in terms of sheer difficulty for the writer, in terms of individual chapters, the very beginning is where projects live and die.

Chapter one is an idea. I have probably thirty or forty chapter ones sitting in my computer that never went anywhere, or were cool thoughts but didn't have a plot behind them. They were scenarios with no inertia. One chapter a story does not make.

But the second chapter, that's where things start to change. Chapter two, in most books, is pure setup. You're not just writing the immediate aftermath of the first chapter, you're writing the whole damn book in a few thousand words. That's hard. It takes a LOT of mental energy and requires you to do the actual work of plotting, whereas chapter one you can just dash down whatever inspo you've got whether it goes somewhere or not.

That's tough as hell, but I don't count two chapters as a story either. Two chapters is still nothing but an idea. Chapter three is where the character takes their first action influenced by the inciting event, makes their first move, goes from a person to a protagonist. Chapter three is where you stop telling the reader what could be and start showing them what is. I think you can have the best idea in the world, but if it can't carry itself to chapter three, it's not a story. Certainly not a novel, yet. And that's why the beginning of a project is so critical, because you're mega frontloading and roadmapping a lot of what comes later right at the very beginning.

So when you're starting your next WIP, don't make your goal be to reach the end of the book. Shoot for chapter three. I promise you, once you've got three chapters down in your word processor, the rest of the book will be a whole lot easier.

dankmemeuniversity

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I SHOULD NOT HAVE LAUGHED

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tvshowscouples

Reblog if you are Team Harry&Ginny

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I WILL REBLOG THIS EVEN IF I DIE

addicted-to-hinny

No one, literally no one

Book Harry at 12: Ginny's face is glowing like the setting sun.

Movie Harry at 16: She's got nIce skIn.

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YES YES YES I WILL REBLOG THIS UNTIL THE WORLD KNOWD THAT HINNY IS THE BEST SHIP AND THAT THE HP MOVIES SUCK

thegirlwhowrites642

Does the dance scene in DH 1 make sense?

We all know the infamous dance scene in the DH part 1 movie between Harry and Hermione. Now putting aside the opinions of intellectually dishonest harmione shippers, there are people who like it and people who don't. Some say that it was just a cute friendly moment and some say that it was the millionth tentative of the movies to push the idea of a love triangle in the golden trio that we all know was never there in the books. While I appreciate the ingenuity of the first category I have to agree with the pessimists. And I need to add that there's a reason why a dancing scene, even with a purely platonic vibe, wasn't in the books. It's because if there's something out of character for Harry and Hermione is that dancing scene. In the book they basically don't talk to each other when Ron is gone. Trought the entire saga if there is something that is obvious is that when when it comes to each other Harry and Hermione have zero communication skills and they have no idea of how to comfort the other. The reason why they end up caring about each other is certainly not common interests (unless you count being in love with a Weasley) or compatible personalities. They care about each other because they have been trought a lot together, which is why I've always belived it would be way more appropriate to define them as siblings rather than best friends.

Now one could argue that while all of this is true, it's also true that book!Harry and book!Hermione have very little to do with their cinematic counterparts so despite the fact that the scene is out of character for them, is it for movie!Harry and movie!Hermione? I admit that this is not something I'm sure how to answer especially because, considering how plain and one dimensional their personalities are in the movies, I'm not certain it's even possible to decide what is out of character for them. All I can say is that as someone who watched the movies before reading the books there wasn't a time in which that scene didn't weird me out.

But the summary is that if that scene made any sense in the movies than it was absolutely pointless to have Ron go away and return. We could have just skipped the episode altogether because Ron going away has some very specific narrative purposes.

1. Creating a bit of drama and angst. Yes this is the obvious one and less fundamental but it's still there. Maybe the only one that was slightly respected in the movie even if because of the dancing scene the whole business had way less emotional impact.

2. Carrying on the fundamental subplot that has been there for at least the last three books, Ginny being Harry's primary source of comfort and the person he leans on when he is at his lowest, even when she is not physically with him we discover this time around. This is a fundamental subplot because it ends up flowing into the main plot with Harry's death scene (well at least the book one).

3. Establishing once and for all the importance of Ron in the trio. The author shows us what happens if Ron is not there, something that was already obvious to any analytic reader, Harry and Hermione simply don't work as a duo. Ron is the glue of the trio. Harry might be the hero and Hermione the one with the encyclopedic knowledge but Ron is the one that makes them a group of friends.

If you put that hideous dancing scene that basically says "well we are a bit sad but it's not that bad" then you throw out of the window the whole narrative purpose of Ron going away.

You would expect that someone who lives off of writing would know this.

Right Kloves?

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HELL YES. That dance scene makes me so angry, it's literally so out of character. It looks like there was a moment harry and hermione would have kissed, but then they went like "oh yeah but Ron and ginny". UH NO. THAT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. I honest to God hate this scene. Hermione was bawling her eyes out, and harry, was staring at the map because HIS ONLY SOURCE OF COMFORT WAS GINNY. Also, the scene completely disregards Harry's trauma, because Harry's trauma shaped a huge part of his personality (because he is a normal human being) and his trauma is one of the reasons why he is unable to comfort people when the other person is in a similar situation like hermione. That's why it didn't work out with Cho as well.

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Ginny, at age 11: *accidentally shoves her elbow in oatmeal and falls off her chair*

Harry, at age 12: "her face glowed like setting sun"

iamnmbr3

Harry describing Draco: that gleaming white-blond hair tho. those glittering pale grey eyes tho. that smirk and that swagger and that drawling voice tho. that pale skin tho. that faint blush tho.

Harry describing Ginny: red hair

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What ACTUALLY happened in the books (gonna use actual quotes):

Harry describing draco: “Malfoy, who had a pale, pointed, sneering face, was in Slytherin house.”(from POA)

“And from behind the six large figures before them came a seventh, smaller boy, smirking all over his pale, pointed face. It was Draco Malfoy.”(from COS)

“Draco Malfoy was standing there with his wife and son, a dark coat buttoned up to his throat. His hair was receding somewhat, which emphasised the pointed chin.”

Idk, but receding hairline, sneering face, pale and pointed don’t speak “love of my life” to me.

Now, about ginny.

Harry describing ginny: “a pair of bright brown eyes”(from COS)

“her face glowing like the setting sun.”(from COS)

“blushing to the roots of her flaming hair.”(from COS)

“blissful oblivion better than firewhisky”(from DH)

“She was the only real thing in the world”(from DH)

Idk about you, but this seems really poetic and romantic, just saying.

thegirlwhowrites642

Ginny and Harry, two main characters

I find it really sad how overlooked is the rarity of Harry and Ginny's couple dynamic.

In stories like Harry Potter where the main character is clearly the main character and not just the person who gives us their point of view for the story, it's very common that the love interest isn't an equal to the hero. Usually, the love interest is one of the helpers of the main character which inevitably creates an unbalanced dynamic where a lot of the life experiences of the love interest revolve around the main character. Take Ron and Hermione, they are not equals to Harry. They are equals to each other, they are the only two people who know what it means to be Harry's best friend in the war but the stories/adventures they are involved in aren't theirs. They are not equals to Harry, which doesn't mean they are less or more, just something else.

Ginny on the other end is the only character between the young ones - besides Harry obviously - that is a main character in her own right. She has her own story, her own friends, her own adventures, her own giant trauma, and her own relationship with darkness. She has her own hero story with her leading the rebellion at Hogwarts and her own helpers, Neville and Luna.

She is a main character whose story we don't have the opportunity to read. And Harry is her love interest just as much as she is Harry's one. She may understand Harry perfectly and so be perfect for him, but Harry understands her perfectly too and therefore is the only logical love interest for her.

And even after the books she keeps being Harry's equal becoming famous in her own right with professional Quidditch and then assuming the most influential role in Wizarding World sport as editor of the sports section for the Prophet.

She even has her sort of prophecy with the whole being the first daughter in seven generations and the seventh sibling, something that supposedly makes her quite powerful, something that we see, something that even Slughorn, a man who knows pretty much all the people who are worth being known, recognizes.

To solidify this point, her story is circular like Harry's. If Harry starts this story as someone who needs to be rescued and who is in search of a family he ends it with him protecting other people for a job and having a loving family. Ginny starts her story as a young girl who as such has to hide her true ambitions, as someone who because she wrote in a diary faced unspeakable horrors, and she ends the story with being famous for her talent, the mother of a youngest sibling and girl that she'll make sure will grow up not needing to hide her ambitions and a journalist, reclaiming her passion for writing.

Harry and Ginny are basically two main characters with a lot of secondary characters in common who happened to find each other and get married. It's basically a cross-over between two stories it's just that we've read only one of the two.

dadstielkline

you don't like ron because you think he bullied hermione so instead you ship her with draco who canonically called her slurs and wished she would die.

you think ron doesn't appreciate hermione's intelligence so you ship her with snape her literal teacher who called her an insufferable know it all and takes points when she answers questions.

you think ron is abusive to hermione so you ship her with bellatrix the woman who literally abused and scarred her or even worse voldemort a man who literally wanted her kind dead.

you think ron made of hermione so you ship her with fred and george who canonically made fun of her for being a no fun rule follower.

you think ron and hermione are like brother and sister so you ship her with harry who literally said she was like a sister to him.

you think ron made Hermione cry too much so you ship her with draco, harry, snape, bellatrix, fred, george, etc all people who have made hermione cry because hermione is an emotional character.

i don't want to hear "ron doesn't belong with hermione" ever again.

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SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE ONES IN THE BACK