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fanfic-lover-girl · 29 days

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Reflections on Luna's Intro Chapters

Luna has to be my fav HP girl. I couldn't care less if the other HP girls died (especially Ginny and Hermione) but I just find Luna so adorable and entertaining. Just some book 5 snippets I find interesting.

“What are you talking about?” said Ginny, who had squeezed past Neville to peer into the compartment behind him. “There’s room in this one, there’s only Loony Lovegood in here —”

I can't believe there are people so desperate for HP femlash that they pair poor Luna with a bitch like Ginny. I can see where the appeal comes from but no, just no. Why are the female friendships in HP so shallow and nondescript??

She closed the door again, rather pink in the face, and departed. Harry slumped back in his seat and groaned. He would have liked Cho to discover him sitting with a group of very cool people laughing their heads off at a joke he had just told; he would not have chosen to be sitting with Neville and Loony Lovegood, clutching a toad and dripping in Stinksap.

Neville deserves better friends. Neville is so Harry's pity friend. I will never forgive Horrid Harry comparing sweet Neville to Peter Pettigrew.

“She didn’t enjoy it very much,” Luna informed him. “She doesn’t think you treated her very well, because you wouldn’t dance with her. I don’t think I’d have minded,” she added thoughtfully, “I don’t like dancing very much.”

I don't ship Runa but Luna and Ron are so cute together. I wouldn't have minded this ship over Romione. At least Luna would not be prone to physically assaulting Ron and underestimating his talents. But I prefer Runa as a sibling relationship.

“Anything good in there?” asked Ron as Harry closed the magazine. “Of course not,” said Hermione scathingly, before Harry could answer, “The Quibbler’s rubbish, everyone knows that.” “Excuse me,” said Luna; her voice had suddenly lost its dreamy quality. “My father’s the editor.” “I — oh,” said Hermione, looking embarrassed. “Well . . . it’s got some interesting . . . I mean, it’s quite . . .” “I’ll have it back, thank you,” said Luna coldly, and leaning forward she snatched it out of Harry’s hands. Rifling through it to page fifty-seven, she turned it resolutely upside down again and disappeared behind it, just as the compartment door opened for the third time.

I love how Hermione is the only person Luna is cold towards. That's my girl!

“Yeah,” said Harry, “but you, unlike me, are a git, so get out and leave us alone.” Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville laughed. Malfoy’s lip curled.

Druna crumbs! Luna is the only person who did not laugh. Maybe because she is the only one with good enough humor to recognize a lame joke. You can do better than that Harry!

“Did everyone see that Grubbly-Plank woman?” asked Ginny. “What’s she doing back here? Hagrid can’t have left, can he?” “I’ll be quite glad if he has,” said Luna. “He isn’t a very good teacher, is he?” “Yes, he is!” said Harry, Ron, and Ginny angrily. Harry glared at Hermione; she cleared her throat and quickly said, “Erm . . . yes . . . he’s very good.” “Well, we think he’s a bit of a joke in Ravenclaw,” said Luna, unfazed. “You’ve got a rubbish sense of humor then,” Ron snapped, as the wheels below them creaked into motion. Luna did not seem perturbed by Ron’s rudeness; on the contrary, she simply watched him for a while as though he were a mildly interesting television program.

Oh Luna, I love you! Nice to see everyone outside the golden trio + Ginny are not brain dead Hagrid stans. What idiots.

Oh yes, another instance of Harry intimating Hermione to agree with him about Hagrid. It's so amusing how Hermione can lash out against Ron but Harry can subdue her so easily. Karma for how she treats Ron. It's so sweet! Pro Harmione! Gives me 'Taming the Shrew' vibes. People complain about Draco mistreating Hermione in Dramione when Harmione is right there in canon lol! Harry putting girlboss Hermione in her place haha!

Runa is so cute!

Ron, get yourself out of Hagrid's ass. At least Ron shows more common sense about Hagrid than dim wit Harry.

#anti ginny weasley #anti harry james potter #luna lovegood #pro luna lovegood #anti romione #neville longbottom #anti hermione granger #order of the phoenix #harry potter books #anti linny #anti femlash #ron weasley #anti golden trio #anti hagrid #anti rubeus hagrid #hagrid hate #druna #runa

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chaztalk · 2 months

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It’s ironic how angry people get about Harmony because it doesn’t “match with canon?”

The most popular trending ship, Dramione, is the most HARDEST to believe and you really have to write a strong, forgiving fic to convince me that this ship would work. This ship definitely doesn’t match in canon.

Shipping used to be fun without having to justify oneself. What is happening? Let people enjoy what they like 😭

I’m definitely not having a go at you. Just the party poopers that ruin happiness for everyone else.

Yep. I was just in a debate with someone a few days ago where they wanted physical evidence (quotes from the book) to prove the potential romantic feelings Harry and Hermione share but they are A-ok with how Ron and Hermione were written with just some cheap context even tho they aren’t that greatly written imo.

But fear not, that long ass ask was from years ago. I was just attempting to clean up my index box, and I just decided the reply to it because it was comical how long it was. Hate on Harmony is not as popular as you think as long as you’re not on Reddit, Quora, and maybe twitter (which is basically just Romione shippers and Dramione shippers fighting almost every day lol). But most days of Harmony hate are over.

#harry potter #hermione granger #harmione #harmony #harry and hermione #harry x hermione #harry/hermione #ask response

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billsfangearring · 2 years

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So you want to read about 2000s Harry Potter fandom drama

Let me introduce you to my favorite subreddit, r/hobbydrama, by way of posts about some of the most sordid moments in early Harry Potter fandom history.

Content warning: While most of these are amusing Internet dramas, the first one is genuinely awful, as will be clear from the summary.

I've put them in chronological order and pulled the summaries from the posts. Many thanks to everyone on Reddit who put these posts together!

Popular author turns out to be a cult leader (Late 1990s-2015*)

TL;DR: A famous fanfiction author turns out to be a real creep. He uses a lot of pseudonyms and sockpuppets, convinces some of his fans to move in with him, claims to mind-meld with fictional characters, insists his fanfiction is better than Harry Potter itself, and has questionable views on women. Oh, and he was involved in a triple homicide and used the girl's death for fun and profit.

*Edited to fix my "2005" typo. Sorry! Thank you @olderthannetfic for the catch.

The Cassandra Cla(i)re Saga (2000-2016)

TL;DR: The author of the fanfic trilogy that popularized “Draco in Leather Pants” is also a famous YA author, with a long, complicated history involving fandom drama and Ginny/Ron romance fic.

Married to Severus Snape on the Astral Plane: The Story of the Religion of Snapewives (early 2000s-early 2010s)

TL;DR: There was an actual religion centering on Severus Snape, who was portrayed as an eternal and divine being similar to the Christian God. It had theological arguments, early schisms, and its own vows and prayers, which were all taken completely seriously by its followers, the Snapeists.

Bored woman creates 12+ sockpuppet accounts, becomes a fandom celebrity (2002-2006)

TL;DR: Woman wants to be a part of the popular clique, uses a combination of ridiculous lies, made-up fangirls, and Christian strawmen sockpuppets to build up enough fame to join the popular clique. Is eventually exposed.

J.K. Rowling's husband's "fake" appendicitis, symbolic hippogriff romance, evil Chinese abortions, and the genetics of shipping the wrong ships: tales from the Harmony vs. Ronmione ship war (2005-2007)

A not-so-brief, still not at all comprehensive account of some of the earliest, stupidest Harry Potter shipping drama. Many thanks to the archived remnants of Fan Wank for detailing all of this, and to the people who made this extra funny by coming up with some of the most batshit ship names and insults I’ve ever seen. Merlin bless the good ship Ronmione/Romione/Heron/whateverthefuck, long may she sail. And, though the HMS Harmony/PumpkinPie/whateverthefuckelse capsized long ago, may her memory live on.

Goffick Harry Potter and Fabricated Child Abuse: The Saga of My Immortal (2006-2007, 2017)

Here’s another summary of ridiculous internet drama. This time, it involves Hermione Granger being an emo weaboo who speaks exclusively in broken Japanese, a satanist vampire Harry Potter whose scar has turned itself into a pentagram, a teenage girl’s shitty Mary Sue who gets darker and edgier with every passing chapter, and a YA author desperate to capitalize on the unlikely success of an infamous fanfic published a decade ago. Welcome to the increasingly weird saga of My Immortal.

#harry potter #hp fandom history #fandom history #fandom wank #my immortal #tbh I have no idea how to tag this #enjoy!

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roguespaceships · 4 months

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Limited interaction with the fandom anymore to just my ship but still seeing a stupid amount of beef about the way characters are written for Dramione/Romione/Drarry.

So let's settle this. Ron and Draco are the same fucking height, Harry is shorter than both of them and Neville is taller than everyone except Cormac. (Neither Ron or Draco are 6'5" alpha studs but Draco isn't a waifish fragile victorian boy either. They all play sports it's probably pretty safe to say they're all athletically shaped) there. Fixed.

Everyone is Bisexual shut up about who would never sleep with what gender it's fanfiction.

Every writer is writing Draco out of character no matter who they ship him with because JKR didn't bother to give him much development past Whiny Angsty Rich Boy (Who gets less assholish kinda) LBR here she did not care for his character and if he wasn't a fan fave he most likely would have gotten zilch in the way of development and probably died.

You HAVE to write Draco out of character if you want him to have any character. Which is also true of MOST characters in that series (along with oither things like basic world building and story structure) because....the...author......is not a good writer.

Stop whining about how other people make their dolls kiss.

#dramione #romione #ronmione #drarry #draco malfoy #dhr fanfiction #im just trying to read my Dramione smut and look at dumb posts on the internet stop

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acnelli · 1 year

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Tagging Side Ships

Hello drarry writers,

since AO3 introduced the muting option, I wanted to make a little post about tagging relationships. Please consider this as a suggestion and not me trying to police how you should tag your fics. Every writer is free to tag their relationships however they want to, but this might help you to not land on someone’s muting list.

Browsing through the Romione tag can be a real chore, even if you exclude the obvious tags like Ron Weasley Bashing and Abusive Ron Weasley. I know Romione is a very common side ship in Drarry fics, but it would be so much easier for us Romione shippers to find new fics if you wouldn’t tag your works with Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley in the main relationship tag. A minor/side Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley tag in the additional tags will let your readers know about the side ship without it showing up in our search results.

So, why wouldn’t I just exclude the Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter tag? Very good question. I could definitely do that. But that would not let me see the rare fics that actually focus on both pairings. And that would not let me see a collection of drabbles with different pairings. I would totally rely on other people’s fic recs to find these fics and when it comes to Romione, a lot of the time I’m the one doing those rec lists ;)

What would be the benefits for you, as a Drarry writer, to not tag the Romione ship in the main relationship tag? You might not land on a lot of reader’s muting lists. And should you write not just for Drarry, but for other pairings as well, we might not see your works anymore when we’re searching for a pairing you write for.

How would this benefit us Romione folks? You would spare us a lot of work going through the tag to mute authors. You would give Romione writers a chance for their fics to not be buried immediately by Drarry works.

Thank you to everyone who takes this into consideration next time you publish or update a story. And thank you, AO3 for introducing this wonderful new feature 🙏

#drarry #romione #ao3 tags #hp #hp fanfic #drarry fanfic #romione fanfic #harry potter

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hermiones-amortentia · 8 months

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How dare you ship romione and love Ron! He called her racial slurs and joined a group who were out to kill her and was horrible to everyone... Oh wait... I think that's Draco actually 😂

Oh please. There is no 'dramione'. There is 'we made up an OC and call him Draco then write him fucking another OC we call Hermione'

They literally romanticize and fetishize malfoys racism and bigotry. You think they give af about how he treated her? He is rich, blonde, wears expensive clothes and lives in a mansion. That's enough for them to fap. He has the set up. Now they need to give him a personality transplant bcz even by their standards his cowardice, whiny behaviour and incomptence isn't attractive lol.

#hermione granger #harry potter #anti dramione

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discoveredreality · 7 months

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Hey, welcome to my blog!

okay i only got tumblr a few months ago and idk how to do this.

this is mostly for reblogging but i also occasionally post stuff

about me i'm @discoveredreality on tumblr. i also just got a pintrest accound here

my pronouns are she/her. i'm a straight cis girl but i try my best to be an ally bro life is hard in a fandom where 99.9% of ppl are queer

i am from an indian background but i live in australia. my hogwarts house is ravenclaw and my star sign is cancer. ♋

i am a minor so pls no weird stuff and if u have a problem with that dni ty <3

i do not support terfs, jkr or any of her behaviour and i always try my best to make sure my blog is a friendly place for eveyone <33

my music taste i love taylor swift, olivia rodrigo, conan gray and lana del ray mostly. also i'm indian so bollywood music and like arjit singh, badshah, javed ali, etc

fandom i'm mostly part of the harry potter fandom and marauders fandom but i also love love love reading. i'm obsessed with drarry. and i mean obsessed. i also ship wolfstar and i'm slowly starting to like jegulus. plus random marauders shit.

also hermitcraft, empires and the life series. and i'm low key in love with keefe sencen. i've also just read percy jackson and heroes of olympus and im starting to see why everyone is obsessed.

all of my ships:

drarry, romione, linny, blinny

wolfstar, marylene, dorlene, jegulus, jily

narlie, tarcy, telle

sokeefe, diana

solangelo

please interact with me i love interacting with everyone so please please please send asks and tag me in tag games if you can <333

shout out to all my mutuals ily so so much and all of you have been so nice! also pls say hi to me first im shy

my pfp is obviously the makowka picrew (here)

that's it thank you <3333

#intro #introduction #blog intro #intro post #idk what else to tag #how do you do this????

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itsgrangerweasley · 2 years

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Ron: There are 20 letters in the alphabet, right?

Hermione: No, there are 26, Ronald.

Ron: Ah, I must have forgotten U, R, A, Q, T.

Hermione: That's cute, but you're still missing one.

Ron: You'll get the D later ;)

#ron weasley #hermione granger #romione #incorrect harry potter quotes #hp universe #ronald weasley #hermione jean granger #incorrect hp quotes #hermione x ron #incorrect romione quotes #romione quotes #everyone ships romione #romione headcanons #ron always wants hermione #hp headcanon

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comradekarin · 2 months

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What made you get in Ron defense mode and back into Romione lol

hey bestie!! tbh, I don’t even know actually??? like I switch between fandoms all the time and I never rlly linger in one too long, but I saw that cute romione fan art and wanted to gnaw on glass actually… I love them so bad!! they’re definitely one of my top ships. as for my ron supremacy agenda… even though I read all of the books when I was in middle school, he’s still my absolute favorite! and I’m in college now lmao. I get really defensive though because he gets so much hate and he’s bashed by virtually everyone from all corners of the fandom and it sucks because book!ron solos all of their favs LMAOSKKS

also it’s kind of annoying that he gets bashed (or even romione) while other canon characters have done way worse shit. won’t get into specific characters because we’d be here all day, but essentially, ron’s flaws always get exaggerated and his good traits are attributed to someone else, and I hate it so bad lol. I feel like ron is amazingly fleshed out and incredibly well rounded; he was kind, he was funny, he was loyal, and he was brave while also having a temper, being jealous, lacking awareness at times, having insecurities and so forth. now that I think about it, he’s probably one of my favorite book characters! it’s just sad he’s not all that appreciated.

rambling aside, to actually answer your question fully: I fandom hop a lot, and rn I’m stuck on my ron agenda! can’t wait to see what the fest produces 🌞👍🏾

#new bestie acquired #flaming-brown-witch #ask #ron weasley #romione

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ladyfenring · 3 months

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Tag game: tag 9 people you'd like to get to know better

I was tagged by @solinarimoon, thank you!

Last song: I can't remember exactly what it was but it was by Heilung because I needed to put my head in a pillow and scream

Currently watching: I'm rewatching Glee 😔

Three ships: I never know how to answer this one. I feel like. Everyone knows by now. and if you don't. anon is on.

Favorite color: purple 💜

Currently consuming: raspberry rose poppi my beloved

First Ship: the first ship i ever sought out fanfiction for was romione but i just remembered the time i got into a heated argument with my babysitter about leia ending up with luke because i a) was 5, b) had not yet seen rotj, and c) was a shameless liar, and i described in great detail the plot of a movie (that did not exist) where han died and they got married.

Relationship status: single and vocally unwilling to mingle, but the cashiers at my local 7-11 keep entering what I can only describe as a baffling competition for my affections. This is what I imagine it must have been like to be a maiden who has taken a vow of chastity only to have the knights in the realm ask to wear her favor when they joust. I will grant this token (discounts on my sparkling water), but to what end?

Last Movie: Unfortunately I think it was Promising Young Woman, which was quite honestly the worst movie I've ever seen

Currently working on: trying to get back into writing my novel - I took a longer break than I anticipated but I feel refreshed and ready to go

tagging @skatingthinandice, @purplesigebert, @abnerkrill, @gudvina, @imagineagreatadventure, @gablehood, @talesfromthecrypts, @garunsdottir, and @kingslionheart!

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saintsenara · 1 year

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ship ask game, Boring Edition, because I truly don't think you could be boring if you tried.

Hinny?

having rashly promised you i was going to answer this weeks ago, here is now is...

i have now found myself friends, entirely by accident, with lots of hinny girlies [shout out to @whinlatter, who's in the trenches]. you are all trying your best to win me over, but i will not be moved.

so let's do this.

why don't i enjoy hinny?

let's get some common objections to the pairing out of the way, because i think a lot of them are quite unfair and i can see why they bother hinny fans:

i don't think there's anything inherently less interesting about liking canon ships. the fact that hinny are endgame in the books doesn't make their fandom less imaginative or talented, and i think those of us who prefer non-canon pairings need to get over the superiority complex about our creative genius which i have seen a lot of. i like many of the other canon couples a great deal - romione, remadora [which, in an unpopular move, i actively prefer to wolfstar], bellamort [if ya nasty] etc.

similarly, i have no objection to het ships [see above], and i do think those of us who largely read and write slash need to be very careful to avoid a tendency to portray queer pairings either in a tokenising way or a heteronormative one, particularly if we want to say queer ships are just as plausible or supported by canon as the books' het pairings. that said, i do definitely prefer stories in which harry identifies as queer - the fact that he's bi/pan is canon, fight me - and, while that could [and should!] feature in het pairing stories, it almost never does. hinny authors are not the only - or the worst - offenders on this point [i've had some really illuminating conversations with remadora enjoying friends about the way that anti-wolfstar feeling has erased both lupin and tonks' queer-coding in their fandom], but i think hinny is the main victim on this point of my active refusal to engage with harmony.

come on lads, harry doesn't have an oedipus complex. red hair comes in more than one shade, and since lily doesn't have a personality in canon it's impossible to say whether she and ginny are alike. harry does have daddy issues though, which might lead him into the path of men who are also tall, thin, and dark-haired...

ginny is not a deranged fan who stalked harry. she was eleven with a crush and she acted embarrassingly, exactly as - i'm willing to bet - the vast majority of us did at that age. by the time she was fifteen she was out of her blushing era, and good for her. i loathe the way she gets slut-shamed, both in the text and the fandom, and i hope when her relationship with harry ends she fucks literally everyone in sight.

now, the big one: their relationship doesn't come out of nowhere. there are signs even in order of the phoenix that harry has started to notice ginny, and ron has been shipping it for years before they get together - but, also, even if it does start very intensely, that is the case for lots of teenage flings.

so, why don't i back hinny?

well, a lot of the reasons are to do with harry. none are canon, but i do think they can be justified by the text in a way that allows the crashing-and-burning of harry's canonical great love to feel logical, even in otherwise canon-divergent fics:

harry spends the books never seeming to see ginny as a real person. and sure, teenage boys are self-centred, and he may very well have matured as an adult, but it's incredibly easy to write a hinny break-up where she points out that he's only ever seen her as "harry potter's wife"; that he's paternalistic [i'm thinking here of a great conversation with @ashesandhackles about how harry never seems to acknowledge that ginny spends deathly hallows as a resistance leader in her own right - and if i were her i would never forgive him for not including me in plans for the horcrux hunt]; and that his saviour complex canonically drives him to reject other people's input and feelings [even as he matures across the series].

the trio are intensely codependent, and while i think it's plausible that they expand to a quartet/ginny becomes harry's priority once they're together, it's also entirely - and i would even say much more - plausible that they don't.

in canon, ginny is the person who generally initiates their romantic encounters. sorry, babe, he's just not that into you.

harry's all-or-nothing approach to life means that he could very easily become suffocating or neglectful, depending on how you want to write him. the idea of auror potter spending the majority of his time at work, because he won't let evil roam free, leaving ginny at home, makes sense, i'm afraid to say.

and a tomarry-specific reason, because why not: harry literally doesn't give a shit about ginny's experience with tom riddle. i know, i know, he remembers it in half-blood prince, and that's progress from order of the phoenix, but he still sees ginny worrying about the prince's book and totally ignores her concerns. if you're the sort of person [gestures at self with thumbs] who wants to take harry's canonical interest in the mystery of voldemort, canonical belief that he understands voldemort, and canonical belief that his connection to voldemort is a good thing [snape’s right - harry does think it makes him special!] and run with it, ginny is going to be pretty rightfully pissed, and, even if you're not, harry's lack of interest in ginny's own trauma isn't a great foundation on which to build a relationship.

ginny deserves a hot quidditch star partner with precisely one braincell, and i will always make sure she gets them.

they're just never harry.

#asks answered #asenora's opinions on ships #hinny

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adenei · 11 months

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It's Time To Go

My Second Submission for Era #2 of the @cruelsummer-ficfest (had to get this one done because if the next eras are what I think they are based on the hints, I need to be READY!)

Song: It's Time To Go

Album: Evermore

Ship: Tedoire (lol, somehow I managed to throw Romione in there too because I can't help it)

When the words of a sister come back in whispers

That prove she was not in fact what she seemed

July

Sobs echo down the hall from Victoire’s room, where she lays curled up on her bed. It’s the same story every night since she found out the girl she thought was her friend was only using her to get closer to Teddy.

Victoire has no one to blame but herself for the pain. It’s all her fault. She invited Carla to join their study sessions. She introduced them. But Vic never divulged her silly crush to Carla. Because how can you tell someone that you’re falling in love with your best friend—who you’ve known your entire life—when you won’t even admit it to yourself?

There’s a soft knock on her door, but Vic’s not in the mood to talk. “Go away.”

The door opens anyway, only it’s not Maman or Dominique. It’s Aunt Hermione. Sitting up, she wipes the tears from her eyes and apologizes. “Oh, sorry! I didn’t realize it was you.”

Hermione offers a soft smile and closes the door. “No need to be sorry. Can I sit down?”

Vic nods and gestures toward her desk chair. She’s close to her aunt—most likely because of their shared love of knowledge—but not ‘sit on the bed for girl talk’ close.

“Now, I’m not trying to throw your sister under the bus, but she told your mum what’s going on, and your mum told me. They thought maybe I could help.”

Vic feels as though a bucket of ice has been poured over her. As if her former friend/dorm mate stealing her crush and best friend wasn’t bad enough, her sister divulges her deepest, darkest secret? Naturally, the only thing Vic thinks to do is lie about it.

“Whatever she said, it’s not true.”

Hermione chuckles. “She only said your dorm mate recently started dating Teddy and you feel as though you’ve lost your best friend.”

“Oh, well, yeah. That’s true.”

“I completely understand.”

Vic looks up with questioning eyes. Is she just saying she understands, or does she actually understand? “You do?”

“Don’t you pay attention when George and Ginny love to give your Uncle Ron a hard time?” Hermione says through a laugh. “Although, my dorm mate and I were never exactly friends when she decided to snog your uncle in the middle of the common room for everyone to see.”

The hesitation Vic had been feeling transforms to relief. “Did she know you fancied him when she did it, too?” Her hand claps over her mouth. She didn’t mean to give that away.

“Don’t worry. Your secret’s safe with me.” A knowing look crosses Hermione’s face, but is replaced with a hint of sadness as she reflects on her experience for Vic. “I thought I was obvious about my intentions—to Ron, at least—especially after I’d asked him to attend a party with me. But you can never assume the male species will pick up what you’re putting down. Lavender, however, I think knew even though we had never spoken about it, but chose to go for him anyway.”

Anger begins to simmer under Vic’s skin.. “Why do girls do this to each other? I don’t get it. Carla knows how close I am with Teddy. I thought she was just looking for study partners when she tagged along with us to the library. She wasn’t acting all flirty or anything at all! But then she went behind my back and invited him to the last Hogsmeade weekend without me. Teddy didn’t know. He thought I was joining them, so he told me they’d be at The Three Broomsticks. And when I walked in, I saw her snogging him in a booth. I haven’t spoken to either of them since.”

Another treacherous tear escapes her eyes, forging a path down her cheek before she wipes it off.

“Are you planning to give Teddy the silent treatment all summer?” Hermione asks.

Vic folds her arms over her chest, her sadness shifting into defiance. “I—well, I’m certainly not going to speak to him first.”

“Well,” Hermione replies with a sigh, “I suppose that isn’t a terrible idea, but what if it doesn’t work?”

Even though she says it’s not terrible, Vic doesn’t believe her aunt. She’s totally lying.

“Why wouldn’t it work? If he has the guts to snog Carla in the middle of the busiest pub in Hogsmeade, he should have the guts to at least tell me he’s dating my best friend.”

“Yes, but if he doesn’t know why you’re mad, you won’t receive the reaction you’re hoping for.” Hermione gets up from the chair and joins Vic on the edge of her bed. “Victoire, you and Teddy are close. Do not be like me and let someone else try to take that away from you. Even if he doesn’t feel the same way, it’s not worth losing his friendship over. If Ron hadn’t almost died, I can’t honestly say if we would have ever recovered from that.”

“But you did.”

“We did. And you can too—only much faster if you seek him out first. Sometimes giving up is the strong thing, or running out is the brave thing. But you have to decide if walking out is the one thing that will find you the right thing.”

Vic laughs. “You sound like a Sphinx.”

Hermione leans over and nudges Vic with her shoulder. “I know. Just know there’s always another way. You’re a smart young woman, Victoire Weasley. I know you’ll do what’s right for you. And you and Teddy will work your way through this. I just don’t want to see you hurt the way I was.”

“Thanks, Hermione.” Vic wraps her arms around her aunt’s torso.

She appreciates the conversation and having someone who knows what this kind of heartbreak is like. Maybe she can even allow herself to feel hopeful. Especially since Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione obviously figured it out in the end.

But even though she knows Hermione is probably right, Vic needs some time and space. So for now, she’ll choose to run. Even though it may ruin her summer, she’s not ready to face Teddy. At least not yet.

—

Or that moment again, he’s insisting that friends

Look at each other like that

August

“Ted?”

“Huh?”

Teddy had been pushing the food around his plate and staring off into space, not paying attention to the conversation around the dinner table. He was thinking about Victoire again. And he really shouldn’t be—at least not in that way—since he technically had a girlfriend.

Who you’ve avoided seeing all summer.

Ginny chuckles. “Harry asked you if you’re excited for seventh year. But if there’s something else you’d rather talk about, we’re all ears.”

“It’s fine, Gin. Don’t press him,” Harry covers for him.

“No, no, it’s fine.”

Shaking the haze from his mind, Teddy does his best to focus on Harry and Ginny. It’s the last time he’s going to see them until Christmas. The least he can do is engage in conversation. His meager teenaged concerns can wait.

“I—yeah—I can’t believe it’s my last year already. Can’t wait.” He tries to bite back a grimace, knowing that he’s trying too hard, and hopes to Merlin that his hair hasn’t shifted to a sandy brown.

But Lily only solidifies his fears when she points at him with wide eyes. “Ooooh, Teddy’s hair changed colors!”

Damnit.

“You know, I think I forgot to pack all the stuff we got at Diagon Alley today. I better go do that.”

He slides his chair back and leaves the table without being excused. It’s not like he’s that hungry anyway. Teddy bounds up the stairs two at a time, and shuts the door upon entering his small bedroom. After flopping on the bed, he covers his face with a pillow.

This was supposed to be the best summer yet. He and Vic had so many activities planned. She was going to take him to the sea, show him Shell Cottage. They were going to study together, vowing to get a head start on their work so it wouldn’t catch up with them during the term. Teddy was going to show her the ropes for Prefect duties—he was that certain she’d be named one. And with all that extra one-on-one time, he was hoping to finally decode her—to figure out if her heart beat just as fast when they’re together.

But then Carla snogged him and everything changed. He was trapped in a relationship with a girl he didn’t have feelings for and no way to get out of it.

And ever since Vic has been radio silent. Avoiding him at all costs. They stopped talking and studying together at the end of June, and Vic hasn’t owled him to follow through on any of their proposed summer plans. He thought maybe they could talk at one of the giant Weasley family gatherings, but Vic was always surrounded by Fleur, Dom, or her aunts.

A knock on his door tears him from his thoughts before Harry enters.

“Hey. Er, you sure everything’s alright?” His godfather runs a hand through his ever-messy black hair and leans against the back of the door.

“Yeah. I just don’t think I’m looking forward to the year as much as I thought I would be,” Teddy admits, his voice muffled by the pillow.

“Ah.” Harry pauses for a moment before continuing cautiously. “Does it have anything to do with Victoire?”

Throwing the pillow off his face, he sits up and offers Harry a bored, yet sheepish, look. “Is it that obvious?”

“It’s hard to miss.”

“I don’t know what I did wrong. Everything was fine before Carla and I started dating.”

Harry purses his lips and tries to hold back a snort, but fails. It comes out like choked laughter instead.

“What?” Teddy narrows his eyes in annoyance.

“Nothing. Nothing. You just remind me of—never mind.”

Teddy groans. “Seriously, Harry, this is not a Ron and Hermione scenario.”

He’s heard enough stories about the seven year lead up to their relationship and all the bumps they hit along the way. But that wasn’t him and Vic. They were just friends…until they weren’t?

Shit. We ARE Ron and Hermione 2.0.

Harry simply raises an eyebrow at him. “Ted, I know I may not be the best person to talk about this with, but trust me. Just because I don’t like to talk about these things does not mean I haven’t noticed. I’ve seen the way she looks at you. And the way you look at her.”

The urge to deny everything takes hold and Teddy shakes his head.

“You’re mental. We are just friends. Friends look at each other like that. Especially friends who’ve known each other their whole lives.”

It’s a weak argument, but his stubbornness gets the best of him. He’s not about to admit anything. Not when he’s fucked it up so badly by letting Carla in.

“Right.” “What?”

Harry shrugs. “Nothing. I can’t make you see what you don’t want to, but can you promise me one thing?”

Teddy watches Harry for a few moments. The man has never led Teddy astray before, so what has he got to lose? “I’ll try.”

“Talk to her. Figure things out. And don’t be as thick as Ron was.”

Teddy takes a moment to let the words sink in. He knows Harry isn’t saying it to make the holidays a little less tense. Harry just wants Teddy to be happy. He always has. And so, Teddy nods.

“I’ll try.”

Because losing Vic isn’t an option.

Before his mind begins to swirl with all the ways he can get his best friend back, Harry interrupts him once more before leaving. “Gin’s taking the kids to the Burrow in a bit. Want to join?”

“Think Vic’ll be there?”

“Maybe.”

“Okay. Yeah.”

Harry nods. With a single glance back, and perhaps a hint of a smile on his lips that Teddy can’t quite see, he says, “I’ll let you know when it’s time to go.”

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