I’m just wondering if harry e styles, niall j horan, louis w tomlinson and liam j payne (and zayn j malik if he’s still on this astral plane) are seeing this shit like . are y’all seeing this behaviour? the absolute embarrassment we’re going thru to validate your existence? any thoughts??
One thing which really annoys me about the film version of Half-Blood Prince is that they make all the girls act ridiculously. In Potions, they all creep towards the Amortentia as if they can’t control themselves, while the boys remain stunningly immune. This never happens in the book. If they had made everyone in the class move forwards like that, it would still have been a bit silly looking, but at least it wouldn’t have been just the girls being all foolish. It’s the same sort of sexism they show in Goblet of Fire when the girls from Beauxbatons flounce in, delicate and dreamy, and the boys from Durmstrang march in aggressive and commanding. It’s most particularly annoying because the Harry Potter books are just full of equality and don’t include any of these sexist stereotypes; as an example, in the books, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are mixed schools and they simply walk into the school after arriving; they don’t have any performances at all.
But back to Half-Blood Prince. When the Weasleys, Harry and Hermione are visiting Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, Hermione and Ginny are found examining the love potions of their own accord. In the books, Fred and George purposefully take them over to the love potions, and it’s clear that they’re reluctant to even examine them. Hermione and Ginny are not the sort of people to use love potions – so why pretend that they are? Because the film makers were conforming to gender-stereotyping. Again.
It just really bothers me that the film makers had this great source material which shows girls/women as equal to boys/men and with characters which are just as diverse – and that they chose to water down the women for comedic effect, to make them more typically ‘feminine’. Harry Potter is my life, and while I love the films, they will never even begin to be anywhere near as good as the books, and this is one of the many reasons why.
I was on the bus thinking about Harry Potter tonight and I remembered the part where the Dementors all show up at the Quidditch game, and I remembered how they were all looking up at Harry, and I wondered why they would all be staring at him, and then I realized that it’s because he has two souls in him.
On this note, wouldn’t that also be a reason why Harry would have had a more negative reaction than his friends (even Ginny)? He was hearing his mother’s voice as she was protecting him, which in itself was his worst memory. but the Dementors were also forcing the piece of Voldemort to relive its worst memory as well… The memory of being ripped apart by the curse that backfired. No wonder Harry passed out so often.
I literally never thought about that.
HOLY
Oh FUCKING HELL, you just made me realize that it wasn’t Harry’s memory that was his father telling Lily to take Harry and run, and it wasn’t Harry’s memory of Lily screaming.
Here I was, just eating a cup of applesauce under the 14-year-long assumption that the reason a small infant was able to remember something was because this was a fictional world of magic, but no, now this entirely reasonable and somewhat less terrifying bubble has burst and I’m never going to recapture that innocence.
I really wanted to animate one of these scenes where Ron and Harry are goofing off, because I think it’s interactions like these that make the books fun.
