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Whenever she spoke to him, he turned the most alarming shade of red.
“Are purple, gold, and white the colors of House Payne, Podrick?” she asked him politely.
“No. I mean, yes.” He blushed. “The colors. Our arms are purple and white chequy, my lady. With gold coins. In the checks. Purple and white. Both.” He studied her feet.
-Sansa IV, A Storm of Swords
Oh Pod. She’s not going to eat you, sweetheart.
Imagine Luna Lovegood and Dean Thomas hanging out and creating beautiful works of art because they’re both super talented at it.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE as HARRY POTTER in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) dir. Mike Newell
tyrion is a rapist and should not be shipped with sansa, a child who has suffered sexual abuse. sandor tried to rape sansa and should most definitely not to be shipped sansa. littlefinger is sexually abusing sansa rn in the story and should never be allowed near sansa. not to mention the age gap in all 3 pairings is huge.
Sansa deserves someone who can love and respect her. Someone who is tall and buff and gentle and strong and loyal and good. Brienne. Sansa deserves Brienne
I think Pod would be good for Sansa, just gonna throw that out there. Hes a gentle soul who just wants to please & protect those around him.
However, she’d soon come to realize that Pod was as frightened of her as she was of his cousin. Whenever she spoke to him, he turned the most alarming shade of red.
how adorable. podrick is the only character who has a crush on sansa without harming her
We need to talk about how Podsa (Podrick Payne x Sansa Stark) is still criminally underrated as a ship for Sansa, despite it being one of the very few good ships for her out there.
Why do people still sleep on their potential?
I still think Dean Thomas and Luna Lovegood would have been such a cute ship. Dean was trapped with Luna in Malfoy Manor, they clearly became good friends, he even helped her by holding her hand to get through Gryffindor Tower tunnel, and was always polite in listening to her, even when he was baffled by her words. They are both also really good artists and really good hearted people.
Luna has such incredible talent as an artist, and she’d probably be a successful one if she wanted. Harry once saw her painting of him, and he was so shocked because at first he thought he was looking at himself in the mirror. Her drawings just came alive to him like magic, that tells me how realistic and detailed her work is. I wish I could see her drawings.
i know it’s been like ??? 6 years but ✧･ﾟ: *✧fuck you, showrunners✧*:･ﾟ✧
I think that Harry and Luna work better as friends, instead of love interests for each other. I don’t get it when people say that Harry should have gotten with Luna, I much like when someone says that Harry and Hermione should have been a romantic couple. A man and a woman should be allowed to be friends without someone thinking that they should have been romantically involved with each other. I am not saying that you can’t ship it, but I don’t get the popularity of Harry/Luna.
I think for me personally I became attached to the pairing because it felt like it was being set up to be romantic as they had such a good base of a platonic friendship to be built into romance. It paralleled Ron and Hermione’s relationship to me with Harry being put off by her odd ball personality at first. But like in the first book with Hermione before she’s friends with Ron and Harry you knew Luna would become a major character because she’s mentioned so much in passing. She outshines Cho and Ginny in the fifth book with how deep her relationship with Harry progresses.
Then there’s the gradual growth where you see Harry really come to appreciate Luna because her critical thinking skills and unwillingness to follow a crowd makes her wiser than others. Then the connection of both losing a parent, seeing thestrals and that moment in the end where she helps him in one of his darkest moments after talking to Nick. For Luna I was happy to see her find friends and learn to be braver.
I would like to note that none of what I pointed out is inherently romantic. I’m aware that none of their relationship is actually romantic in nature. But Rowling isn’t exactly the best romance writer. Based on what I knew of her writing I fully believed that in the sixth book I was going to read about Harry viewing Luna in a more romantic light and so I was completely taken aback by the Ginny angle. I have reread the books multiple times and I can see now that there were very subtle hints that Harry and Ginny might happen in the fifth book but I believe that perspective is colored by the knowledge that Harry and Ginny end up together. Without it I would view their scenes in the 5th book as platonic.
In the 7th book Rowlings struggle to write romance is highlighted as the scenes Harry has with/or about Luna are more profound than with Ginny. I never question that Harry’s attracted to Ginny but I’m never entirely sure why he loves her.
There’s the beautiful scene where Harry walks into Luna’s room and feels a rush of affection for her when he sees the portraits. To me it’s such a beautiful moment because it emphasizes to Harry that he’s loved even when he isn’t being told he’s loved. And just the mutual understanding because Harry and Luna value their friendships so much because they’ve faced so much loss.
Then there’s Dobby. It’s such a painful moment for Harry and once again Luna is there when he needs someone most saying all the right things and doing all the right things.
Finally, the scene at the end. Luna just knows what Harry needs and distracts others so he can leave. She’s such a safe space and look I may have just gotten out of an 8 year relationship so take my words with a grain of salt but that is a BIG DEAL. Humor, attraction, and having fun are really important in a relationship. But finding that person who you feel safe enough to be with to get out of dark corners from and gives you hope and light back….there’s just no words. (And this can totally be platonic btw but if you do have someone like this in your life that you could be romantically attracted to Go For It).
So that’s a very long post on why I am attached to this pairing. I think other have argued it but if Harry and Luna had ended up together he would still have a platonic relationship with Hermione so the girls and guys can be friends angle would have worked.
I do feel bad for Hinny shippers because ultimately I recognize Harry and Ginny could be a wonderful couple but are victims to poor writing. Rowlings rationale of just wanting Harry to be part of the Weasley family lead to a rushed romance and lack of in depth character development that Ginny sorely needed to not come off as a Mary-sue in the 6th book. Coupled with Daniel and Bonnie’s complete lack of chemistry it just collapsed for me. I had been attached to Harry and Luna before the movies came out but the chemistry between Evanna and Daniel just really exacberated my love for the couple.
Hit the nail on the head and reminded me again why I've always rooted for Lunarry. The relationship is beautiful whether platonic or otherwise. I love seeing people express with such depth why Lunarry makes sense. ❤
I think that Harry and Luna work better as friends, instead of love interests for each other. I don’t get it when people say that Harry should have gotten with Luna, I much like when someone says that Harry and Hermione should have been a romantic couple. A man and a woman should be allowed to be friends without someone thinking that they should have been romantically involved with each other. I am not saying that you can’t ship it, but I don’t get the popularity of Harry/Luna.
It’s because Luna never saw Harry as “famous Harry Potter” unlike almost everyone else in his life. To her, he was just Harry, the boy who was nice to her and didn’t see her as a weirdo loser. She also was the first to reassure him that there were people who believed his account of what happened. She openly supported him when most of the school didn’t, and when it was dangerous to openly support Harry when a government official was terrorizing the school. She even used her Father’s paper to get his side of the story out there, while every other paper was attacking him and being scrutinized by the government. This was risky for both Luna and her Father. Also, how would him ending up with her support the idea guys and gals can’t be platonic friends? If they got together, then that would make both Hermione and Ginny his…wait for it…PLATONIC FRIENDS.
Also, it could have shown that it’s ok if someone like Ginny has a crush on someone, and then they end up just being friends. “Just friends” is treated like such a bad thing, so it would have made a nice lesson, especially since Harry’s relationship with Cho went so downhill in comparison.
Well put.
“don’t reduce this female character down to a love interest” does not translate into “this female character shouldn’t have a love interest.”
preventing female characters with strong, compelling narratives from experiencing love, intimacy, and affection is just as regressive as reducing them down to sexual accessories for male characters. it assumes that women must choose between a romantic interest and depth of character and ignores a far more productive message: that women are capable of possessing both.
no offense but am i the only one who feels like this post is not half as “progressive” as everyone thinks it is
specially when its literally DIFFICULT to find female-led stories without romance
this literally sounds like “female characters can be badasses AND stay in touch with their feminine side 😌🌸”
hi. im OP. i made this post a really long time ago (years ago at this point), so im actually in total agreement with you that there’s a lot of other context and conversations with this topic.
so that you know, this was literally me venting about a badass woman from a cartoon i watched that was being accused by fans of having a regressive character arc bc it was suddenly focusing on her romance with another character. so i was like “i don’t think that’s regressive at all, women are multifaceted and it’s ok to write them that way.”
but folks for months have added to say “it’s also nice when women DONT have storylines that include romance bc it always feels like a woman must constantly be in want of a relationship.” and I totally agree, I wasn’t even thinking of that when I made the post. again, this is a fandom vent post that happened to get really popular.
the intention wasn’t to be progressive or try to make some profound point, so i agree with you. there’s probably a way to rewrite this now so that it makes a much more impactful point and starts a better conversation. but i appreciate the reblog anyway and you sharing your thoughts.
OP you shouldn’t feel bad. Cuz what’s progressive for some women won’t be progressive for others.
Like the strong black woman trope often comes without a love interest. So black women being soft vulnerable and in love is actually v progressive even if white feminists don’t feel that way b/c of their lived experiences.
You shouldn’t feel the need to defend what you said. As you stated there’s a lot of other context attached to this conversation.
Agreed with all of this! As a black woman, I can’t see myself in the context of what white women consider feminism. To a lot of women of color being seen as desirable and worthy of love is progressive as we - in particular Black women as I’m speaking from that perspective - have have always been portrayed as Strong™ and never really allowed vulnerability or love.
Do people tend to forget that Ron and Hermione were Harry’s last thoughts before he was attacked by the dementors? I think that just shows how much he loves his two best friends.
As a Ron stan, I’m embarrassed by the rest of us right now. There seems to be a Hermione hate train going through the Ron Weasley defense squad mainly on TikTok. And it’s perfectly fine to call Hermione out for her wrongdoings and criticizing her, but saying stuff like ”Hermione would grow up and be abusive to her kids”, or ”Hermione was horrible friends to Harry and Ron because she never helped them with their work when they needed it”, and I’ve even heard ”Hermione was to blame when Sirius died bc she told Harry he had a ’saving people thing’ which made him go to the MoM which got Sirius killed” …WHAT? It’s okay to not like Hermione, but you don’t have to pull things out of you butt to make her look evil. And it’s also on tumblr and Quora. I’ve heard multiple Ron stans say they wish she would’ve died in the Battle of Hogwarts, and one person even said they wish she died in her mother’s uterus. It’s a little much. And their reasoning is always ”Everyone used to hate Ron so why cant we hate Hermione?” It’s gonna be a repetitive cycle bc then someone will say ”Oh well Ron stans hate Hermione so why can’t we hate Ron?” And then Hermione stans will start hating on my baby boy Ron. Am I the only person that stans both Ron and Hermione? Why do we have to bash one to uplift the other? It’s stupid.
It’s absolutely ridiculous and immature. Yeah, you can not like Hermione, but maybe point out actual flaws instead of being pathetic about your dislike by inflating her flaws as demonic in nature.
I am tired of people saying that Emma Watson was too pretty to be Hermione. It seems like they believe that just because Hermione was described as having bushy hair and big teeth up until the 4th book she must be either ugly or plain. I always thought that Hermione was supposed to be pretty, it was just that many people didn’t notice it because she didn’t really care about doing things like fixing her hair up. That is why when she does put more effort into her looks like she did at the Yule Ball, people end up acting shocked, they are realizing that Hermione is actually quite pretty. Besides the only people I really remember saying something against Hermione’s looks were people like Rita Skeeter and Pansy Parkinson who I wouldn’t really trust the judgement of because they are quite petty and cruel.
Hermione was never ugly. The very fact that the only thing she needed was a new hairdo and a cute outfit speaks for itself.
I don’t think it’s talked about enough how horrifying and traumatic it was for Harry to have been kidnapped and taken to the graveyard. This fourteen year old kid was kidnapped, watched a friend die in front of him, then was tortured until he wished for death by a psychotic murderer, all the while a bunch of adults surrounding him are laughing, cheering it on. I couldn’t imagine going through that as an adult, much less as a child. Then to be forced to go home to an abusive family after that?
I’m never going to get over people attacking Harry for experiencing realistic emotions after what happened to him. Like after he was tortured, and nearly killed by a psycho, he then is taken into a secluded room by a Professor he trusted, only to find himself nearly murdered again, by this same professor.
Harry was clearly going through ptsd and people want to come at him for not handling his emotions “more maturely,” like first off he’s a kid, and second, he’s a kid who just went through traumas even grown folks would find difficult to handle.
Try going through half the shit he did and come out better for it. Literally after all that, he spent half the year with the fucking government gaslighting him and calling him a liar and punishing him for speaking the truth, while his other mentor Dumbledore kept information from him and leading him to believe he’d been abandoned at one point.
So if his emotions ain’t exactly sweet, there is a perfectly good explanation for it. He has never deserved to be called annoying or “capslock” Harry for it. I mean, if you hate Harry just say that. But don’t give me that capslock Harry shit. Just say you don’t care to empathize with the trauma he faced, regardless of how ignorant you look, because you don’t like him, simple.
Everyone acts like Umbridge was the worst teacher ever but I think most of Dumbledore’s DADA hires were even worse. Quirrell and Crouch worked for Voldemort, Lockhart tried to put a debilitating memory charm on students, and Lupin was a dangerous werewolf. Snape was a good choice at least.
Not the Snape sneak chile.
That's how you know Umbridge was awful. She wasn't a Death Eater, but she might as well have been one.
