After reading the 7th book in 2007, I decided to give a try to fanart.

In 2015 I started again and here I am. My love for HP just increased since then.

What is your story as HP fan? Are you a fanartist, are you a ficwriter? Are you both?

If you are new to this fandom, welcome, and for those who have been a fan for more than a decade, I’m glad you are still here!

We always talk about how Ginny should've been represented correctly in the movies, and obviously, I agree. But I feel we should also acknowledge that book!Ginny could murder movie!Harry in her sleep and then use his bones as bats for Quidditch.

OMG!!! I forgot about this art!! 🤪 Once upon a time I drew it for the "Dress Up / Transformation" challenge for a fandom event.

My idea is that sometimes Ron and Hermione, Harry and Ginny would switch clothes 💅 Just for fun

I love Ginny's outfits on Harry 😏 I think Ginny had a goth phase or something like that. Not for long, buuuuut 😏😏😏

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“‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like my dad.” Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him. “Got a problem with that?” “No,” said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. “If you’d rather be brawny than brainy – ” “Where’re you hoping to go, seeing as you’re neither?” interjected Sirius.

Sirius, James and Severus in The Deathly Hallows.

“Think my name’s funny, do you? No need to ask who you are. My father told me all the Weasleys have red hair, freckles, and more children than they can afford.” He turned back to Harry. “You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.

Harry, Ron and Draco in The Philosopher's Stone.

The parallels between Harry and Sirius are both beautiful and heartbreaking. As are the differences.

I feel like people dismiss how much of an absolute savage Lily Evans canonically was. “I’ll let him go if you go on a date with me” “I’d rather date the giant squid”. You can’t tell me that’s not fucking iconic!

People talk a lot about how the shoelace tying thing in the film was really OOC of Ginny, but it was ALSO really OOC of Harry. He doesn't like it when people treat him like a little kid. He got annoyed when Fleur called him a little boy, he didn't like Hermione's fussing, and he was angry when the Aurors tried to escort him to the platform in HBP. He would find it condescending if someone tied his shoelaces, and he would possibly be really hurt if Ginny did it--like a slap in the face.

AAAAAnd……that is how I feel about this anon. PERFECT.

Harry hates to be mothered in this kind of way. He appreciates motherly concern and affection, especially from people like Molly who he casts in that kind of surrogate parent role, but he doesn’t appreciate it from people his own kind of age, and he hates to feel smothered. Remember how he reacts to Hermione’s henpecking? Or Dumbledore’s refusal to listen to him in HBP? He doesn’t respond well to being treated as a kid, even though he technically is one.

The thing is he’s actually really independent, mostly because he’s used to taking care of himself. He doesn’t react well to being babied because he knows he doesn’t need to be.

And scenes like that actually really badly misinterpret both Ginny AND Harry’s characters. It’s totally OOC for either of them to behave like that, and it makes my heart swell that there are people in this fandom that recognise what a hash the movies made of Hinny.

I'm curious, how do you think Harry/Ginny was foreshadowed? I always thought it came out of left field.

OKAY LET’S DO THIS

The attention given to Ginny’s crush on Harry.  In the second book, her crush served the purpose (among other purposes) of making Ginny even more susceptible to Riddle’s diary.  But after that, it served no apparent purpose at all, and yet JKR made it a point to call attention to it at least once in every single book.  (I’ve seen it argued that its purpose after CoS was to provide comic relief, but the problem with that argument is that her crush wasn’t always presented in a comical way, i.e., her sadness when she learned Harry wanted to ask Cho to the Yule Ball.)  After Chamber of Secrets, there was no reason for JKR to keep reminding the reader of Ginny’s crush the way she did unless something was eventually going to come of it.  (As a side note, Ginny’s crush on Harry also served the purpose of keeping Harry from really getting to know Ginny before JKR was ready for him to do so, since her crush made her cripplingly shy around him.)

The attention given to Ginny’s love life in general.  Because really, her love life is given an inordinate amount of attention for a secondary character.  At every point in the series, JKR made sure we knew exactly what the status of it was.  We were told (repeatedly) that Ginny had an unrequited crush on Harry.  We were told who her date to the Yule Ball was going to be, and we were even given a glimpse of them at the Ball itself, despite the fact that there were approximately 1 bajillion other things for Harry to notice that night.  We were told when Ginny had given up on Harry.  We were told about her first boyfriend, and we were told when they broke up and why.  We were told about her second boyfriend, about every fight, every tiff they had, and we were told when they finally broke up and why.  Again, that is a lot of attention to be given to the love life of a secondary character.  Indeed, throughout the series, we’re given more detail about Ginny’s love life than we are Hermione’s.  And the only reason there would be to give so much attention to the love life of someone who wasn’t even a main character was because it was going to become important to Harry’s storyline later on.  The only other non-Trio character whose love life is given similar attention is Cho Chang — the other character in the series whose love life was at one point important to Harry.

The consistently positive and/or vivid descriptions Harry gives of Ginny’s appearance, even early in the series.  When she blushes, he describes it as “her face glowing like the setting sun.”  Her eyes aren’t just brown, they’re “bright brown.”  She has a “long mane of bright red hair,” and at one point that long mane of bright red hair even “danced behind her.”  She doesn’t just sit in a chair, she “sits curled up like a cat, her eyes reflecting the firelight.”  Granted, some of these descriptions might not sound particularly special taken by themselves, but they certainly are when you compare them with the way Harry typically describes the appearance of most other characters.  If you pay attention, you can tell when Harry is describing a girl he finds attractive, and it’s pretty clear, especially in retrospect, that he found Ginny Weasley attractive.

Harry is observant and considerate of Ginny from the very beginning.  On his first trip to Hogwarts, he watches her laughing and running after the Hogwarts Express — and he keeps watching her until she’s out of sight.  Later, at the Burrow, he notices when she puts her elbow in the butter dish, even though no one else does, and he doesn’t call it to anyone’s attention so as not to embarrass her.  He gives her all of his Lockhart books.  He notices later in the year that she looks pale and upset, and that she’s distressed by the attack on Colin Creevey.  He observes that her well-meaning brothers are not exactly going about cheering her up in the right way.  He does his best to soothe her when she wakes up in the Chamber.  He’s later desperately anxious to tell the story in a way that doesn’t make her look guilty in any way, and he feels “sweeping, glorious relief” when he learns she won’t be expelled or otherwise punished for the Chamber incident.  And that’s just in the first two books.  As you can see, the all too frequent claim that “Harry never cared about Ginny or even knew she existed until HBP” is patently untrue.

From OotP:  “Did you see the look on Chang’s face when Ginny got the Snitch right out from under her nose?” said Ron.  Just for the record, I love Cho and have always felt a lot of sympathy for her.  But after OotP came out, a lot of people (including me) saw this as a bit of Harry/Ginny foreshadowing, and later, after the final book had come out, JKR confirmed that that’s exactly what it was.

Also from OotP:  “Well, I always thought [Michael Corner] was a bit of an idiot,” [Ron] said, prodding his queen forwards towards Harry’s quivering castle. “Good for you. Just choose someone—better—next time.”  He cast Harry an oddly furtive look as he said it.

Worst Crimes a Female Character Can Commit (By Order of Severity)

10. Theft

9. Tax Fraud

8. Murder

7. Terrorism

6. Violating the Geneva Convention

5. Being impolite (esp. to male characters)

4. Being feminine but in a way that is neither childlike nor sexy

3. Being even slightly "like other girls"

2. Being mildly annoying

1. Being the canon romantic interest of a male character who is more popularly shipped with other men

the thing that really gets me about hinny haters is that most of them have no real reason to hate the ship

they just hate ginny

and that’s something I can’t stand

People frame Sirius leaving GP12 and getting a found family from Potters as a sob story for Regulus who lost his brother but I would argue that fascists don't deserve great brothers

The secret keeper plan

I have a theory/Headcannon that Lily’s letter to Sirius is what sealed and set in motion the secret keeper plan, and that is one of the reasons Sirius keeps it. 

When Harry first finds the letter, the reader is not privy to the last few lines where Lily says that Dumbledore had… 

“ [...] been friends with Gellert Grindelwald.”

From context clues, we can guess that the letter was sent after Harry’s Birthday, so around August/September.

I wonder if even a rumour of a friendship with Grindelwald, a man whose catchphrase was “for the greater good,” caused suspicion towards Dumbledore. 

We know that the Fidelius wasn’t cast until late/mid October from what Fudge says in PoA

“He did,” said Fudge heavily. “And then, barely a week after the Fidelius Charm had been performed — ”

So perhaps Peter capitalised on Sirius’s growing suspicions of Dumbledore especially as the bodies were mounting?

Even when they are at school that gap is irrelevant. High schoolers usually date the people in the grade below or above.

So, I just saw a post where someone listed the fact that Ginny is younger than Harry as a reason why they shouldn’t be together. (I’m not going to do them the favor of reblogging it.)

Harry born July 31, 1980

Ginny born August 11, 1981

That’s 1 year and 11 days apart. Is that really a big deal? Sure, if it were ten years, that would be significant, but I know a ton of successful couples who are further apart in age than that.

By the time Harry and Ginny hit their 40s, 1y+11d won’t even be a blip. Even in their 20s, it won’t make a real difference. Wizards routinely live past 100 years old. When Ginny is 115 and Harry is 116 will it matter?

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Fandom Problem #4793:

You know what’s bothersome?

When queer people on Tumblr feel the need to justify liking “het ships” by pretending that those ships are actually queer. Or claiming that a “het ship” is only good because it’s “like a queer ship.”

I get that a lot of folks say that as a joke or meme or whatever. Of course, everyone’s entitled to their headcanons, and fictional romances involving opposite-sex couples (especially as a subplot) are often poorly developed because of heteronormativity and toxic gender stereotypes. BUT I also sense an undercurrent of heterofatalism on this site. There seem to be a lot of people on Tumblr who believe that straight men are generally incapable of genuine love and empathy.

It’s like all these Millennials and Gen Z folks have bought into the Boomer narrative that all straight couples are miserable because men and women are just incapable of understanding each other. It’s pretty sad.

I always hear 'Ron wasn't intelligent enough for hermione' this post is not about the couple's compatibility. This post is about Ron's intelligence. So bear with me.

Ron defeated Mcgonagall at chess when he was 12.

He casted a nonverbal spell *almost* successfully at the age of 12 when malfoy called Hermione a mudblood. That too with a broken second hand wand. Yes. 'Eat slugs' was a nonverbal spell in the books.

He got more O.W.Ls than Fred George combined without studying properly.

He got 7 O.w.Ls. and 6 exceed expectations in top 6 subjects and he didn't study like Hermione.

He could produce a corporeal patronus at the age of 15 when many grown up wizards and witches struggled with it. Even Hermione the brightest witch of her age struggled with this charm.

He fought the deatheaters in the 5th year and 6th year.

He saved Tonks' life during the 7 potters scene. Even Tonks, a qualified auror was impressed with his skills.

He deceived the snatchers in the DH and survived WITHOUT HERMIONE for many weeks

He disarmed bellatrix at malfoy manor. He took down greyback with the help of Neville. He fought in the battle of hogwarts.

He became a successful auror after the war.

Also he came up with the idea that tom riddle killed moaning myrtle, he told Harry to use Felix felicis, he discovered how to get back to Harry Hermione even though they had strong protection spells around their tent, He mimicked harry's parsletongue successfully, he came up with the idea(in the DH) that the basilisk's fangs could destroy horcruxes, He told Hermione to use her wand when she was panicking under pressure, he was the best liar among them. He easily fooled lucius and other deatheaters at the manor by mimicking Peter.

Not to mention his wit!! His one liners were unmatchable. Many times he was even funnier/wittier than Fred George.

Dear Hp fandom, academic intelligence is not the only form of intelligence. Try to understand it. Don't dismiss someone's intelligence just because he is not studious.

HP cast as Hinny shippers

“Harry and Ginny, is all absolutely love’s young dream. Harry is completely besotted with her, and it’s that kind of all-encompassing love that you have where nothing else matters.” - Daniel Radcliffe

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“I’m very happy to end up with Ginny” - Daniel Radcliffe

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“I’m sure they’re perfectly happily married” - Daniel Radcliffe

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“I think Ginny and Harry are really meant for each other. They can be themselves when they’re together which is obviously very important in a relationship.” - Bonnie Wright

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“[Ginny] very much understands the responsibility that he has against the Wizarding World. She is there as a loyal friend and girlfriend and that’s a massive thing for her and I think she always sees Harry for who he is and never this “chosen one” person and she’s very honest in that way.

I think what’s really special in their relationship is this kind of quite unlikely young teenage romance, it’s not this crazy fancy screaming girly giggly way, it’s actually pure and actually something long-lasting and we obviously know at the end, it is long-lasting.” - Bonnie Wright

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“They’re happily married with their three children. Having a wonderful life. With great jobs… I think they make a good pairing.” - Bonnie Wright

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“They’re a cool couple" - Bonnie Wright

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“[Harry] needs someone feisty like Ginny, because she can like, kick him into gear and make him get over himself…  I think Ginny is good for Harry and they keep each other in check.” - Evanna Lynch

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“Harry has been through so much in his life and he really deserved peace. He deserved happiness and peace and Ginny was the only one who could bring him that and she did you know. So yeah I thought the ending was perfect, it made sense. Harry spent so much of his life focusing on what he needed to do and what his destiny was and at the very end he was finally allowed to focus on what he wanted, which was to have a family and to be with Ginny.” - Evanna Lynch

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“I think Harry and Ginny are great together. I imagine they have a really stormy sort of thing. They might argue, they might shout, but it’s because they’re so passionate and I think Harry’s much more about the passion, so he should be with someone like Ginny.” - Evanna Lynch