I think I’d like Jily if it was written like Dramione. Because let’s face it, James is basically a Gryffindor Draco, a handsome and rich pureblood who is definitely a bully, the type of person who thinks “I will if you go out with me” is the right response to his crush asking him to stop hurting her friend. They have problems, but those problems are what make it interesting, and a lot of people ignore that to make it super fluffy and cute.
If it was written like Dramione??? Do you mean the part where Draco says she hopes Hermione is the one who’s gonna get killed by the basilisk, or the one where he makes jokes about Hermione’s best friend’s dead parents, or maybe the one where he continually belittles and mocks her for being a muggleborn?
James may have been a bully when he was 15 (although people like to forget that it was literally ONE SCENE where we saw him being a dick), but he was nowhere near Draco’s level. Actually, he bullied people who were.
I just… nothing about this confession makes any sense to me.
Also like, for all that James was a bully as a teenager, he was never a racist piece of shit, and he grew up into a man that Lily could (and did) fall in love with and marry so like. Trying to argue that James is ‘a Gryffindor Draco’? That’s a fucking reach, are you sure your arms are still attached?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and as many times as I need to - James Potter was canonically what many fans would have loved Draco Malfoy to have been revealed as - a rich jerk who was nonetheless brave, loyal and actively anti-bigotry, a man who while capable of immaturity and cruelty was also capable of deep commitment and would do anything for his loved ones. Meanwhile Draco Malfoy was canonically the rich bigoted spoiled bully with little else to recommend him that some fans would love for James Potter to have been nothing more than. His literal best acts are basically being unable to bring himself to actively kill a living legend, and being unwilling to actively identify Harry when Harry is disfigured and a false positive could easily get him punished.
It is entirely true that both were the spoiled only sons of rich pureblood families - that’s about the only comparison that could be legitimately made. Calling James a Gryffindor Draco is literally a compliment Draco does not deserve and an insult to James.
Myth: women of color, particularly black women, abuse the system and are “welfare queens”.
Reality: white women/families are the biggest recipient group and are also more likely to abuse the service and commit fraud.
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does anyone else notice how misinterpreted the houses are?
like why are slytherins refered to as being ‘edgy bad chicks/guys’ and ‘sex gods/goddesses’ when it’s their house, of all four houses, that values traditionalism?
why are hufflepuffs described as relaxed hippies who prefer to chill and eat cookies all day when their house is the one that values hard work?
why do people think ravenclaws are stuck-up and boring bookish nerds when literally the only personality traits you have to possess to be a ravenclaw are creativity, wit, wisdom, acceptance, originality, intelligence and individuality?
why are gryffindors depicted as brash, rude rulebreakers when chivalry is so important to them?
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Harry having his mother’s eyes was such an important part of the story; but when young Lily has brown eyes, that really got me mad. They could have used contact lenses or computer effects or something to make the actress’ eyes match Dan Radcliffe’s.
To the people responding to this confession with variations on the theme of ‘Dan couldn’t wear contacts!’, consider this: we know. Which is probably why the confession didn’t mention their eye color, but the fact that Harry has his mother’s eyes. The fact that Harry has the same eyes as Lily–same color and same shape–is much more important than the color itself, especially because ‘you have your mother’s eyes’ is mentioned in the movies, where his specific eye color is not.
They didn’t even make a cursory effort to get an actress with eyes similar to Dan’s, or digitally correct the color at the very least (which would have been much easier to do with the girl playing Lily because she was in, what, ten seconds of film?), making it particularly egregious when the film literally fades out from Lily’s eyes to Harry’s and they are approximately nothing alike.
That always bothered me too, if this didn’t make it obvious.
I forgot about the fading from her eyes to his. Oh lawd. You know, when each film came out, I would ignore its flaws, thinking “Oh, they can’t fit everything!” but this kind of mistake and the way they got so many characters completely wrong, including the trio. Yeah. I was hoping that since DH was two films they’d correct some mistakes, but they really didn’t. I can still enjoy the films. I’m still an enormous fan of the actors and the sets and many of the scenes, but yeah. This detail would have been so easy to get right and instead they just didn’t give a shit.
Also, the way Voldemort died was so stupid. And I laughed out loud in the theater when they did close ups of him in that silly apparition fight with Harry. Voldemort is supposed to be scary as hell, not a clown.
Yeah, honestly, how little Kloves & Yates gave a fuck about keeping true to the books, even to the spirit of the books, is pretty evident in how many tiny, easy, details the consistently get wrong. The color of Hermione’s dress at the Yule Ball (was giving her a pink dress so important? we know she’s the girl, guys, we get it, but her dressing gown was periwinkle blue, and she looked damn fine), her hair even. Harry’s hair! (He has, since HP, notably shown up in movies since looking much more like Harry Potter than he ever did in the films.) The lines they took from Ron and Ginny and gave to Hermione, for no real reason except to paint Hermione as Harry’s perfect girl and make Ron seem like the comic relief and Ginny flat as cardboard. (I’m still angry about them taking one of Ron’s defining moments in book three, when he stood up on his mangled leg clearly in pain but he didn’t care because if Sirius Black was going to get to his best friend he was going to have to get through him to do it, and gave the line to Hermione while Ron was whimpering in the corner.) Calmly. And so on.
I used to make excuses for them too, like ‘oh there’s only so much they could do, we’re lucky to get movies at all’, but these days I’m just…. no. They didn’t care about the books. They didn’t make even a cursory effort to keep true to the spirit of the books, never mind the letter, and forget about keeping the characters fundamentally who they were if their name wasn’t Hermione Granger (and tbh even she suffered because by giving her everyone else’s good qualities and taking away all of her flaws, or framing what flaws they let her keep as her being in the right, they butchered her character as badly as Ron’s, just in a different way).
In the end, the movies are fun to watch, somewhat entertaining and aesthetically appealing (and whoever their set designer was? A+ job, all across the board), but they just aren’t Harry Potter. There is none of the magic that made the series so memorable, so moving. And it’s really sad, because they could have been so much more.
Bingo. By the time it hit GOF, it was painfully obvious that everyone in charge of the movies would have loved to have just called the movies “Hermione Granger and the…” and be done with it.
Besides, didn’t they ask JK about Harry’s eyes not being green, and she responded ‘yeah that’s ok as long as he has his mother’s eyes, that’s what matters, his eyes being green only matters because hers were’? And they couldn’t even manage to get that right in the very scene which shows us why it mattered to start with!
can we please destroy the culture of cis hetero marriages where the guy acts like he’s getting dragged into it? it’s misogynistic as fuck, it’s rude and disrespectful to everyone involved, and it’s a huge middle finger to everyone else who would kill to get the privilege that you’re throwing around like it’s 25 to life
if you’re going to act like getting married is the end of your life then your wife deserves so much better than a shit-stained moist saltine cracker of a husband
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jaden smith is out there wearing a dress and talking about how clothes should be gender neutral and it’s so great to see such an influential young person being so educated and being fearless and free to express themselves and all the media want to do is treat him like ‘hah ha stupid teenager’ because they don’t understand his twitter and because he was born into fame i mean fuck that honestly
meanwhile grown people are making fun of him on social media and news portals while this is the only place where people acknowledged how important what he did was
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Has anyone else tired of the grim realism “anyone can die” thing in television? There is a point, I believe, at which character death and violence ceases to become meaningful or even provocative, and just becomes senseless.
Killing off important characters, when you first do it, is daring. It takes tremendous artistic and creative confidence to believe that your audience will keep watching. But when such deaths become the defining part of a series, what does that tell us? Not to commit to anyone. That the story we’re watching is pointless, because the characters’ lives are ultimately meaningless.
I’m tired of nihilism in 2015. I am no longer shocked; I am merely bored.
Besides that, it’s never even true. Most things that brag “anyone can die” have characters wearing obvious plot armor. (I’ve been surprised a few times when a person who seems to wear plot armor dies, but most of the time I can correctly pick who’s in no danger of dying.)
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If Goldilocks tried three beds, then Momma Bear and Daddy Bear slept separately. Baby Bear is probably the only thing keeping the family together.
You ain’t have to put those people business out like that.
Y’know, the story straight-up tells us why Mama Bear and Papa Bear sleep in separate beds: they have very different needs in terms of mattress firmness, and those fancy responsive mattresses that can be soft on one half and firm on the other hadn’t been invented yet. There’s no shame in valuing your spinal health.
The fact that they’re secure enough to admit that they’re better off in separate beds probably indicates that they have a very healthy relationship built on a foundation of mutual love and respect.
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I hate when people are like “the world’s a cruel place, just get used to it.” That’s a terrible mentality! Never accept cruelty and brutality and unhappiness as the norm. The world is a cruel place, so get out there and make it a little less so.
The world’s shit. Go change the world.
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White couples that adopt non-white kids
If you’re getting mad at someone for adopting a parentless child and bringing that child into a loving home because their skin color doesn’t match then you need to take a good hard look at your priorities, evaluate your life, and ask yourself how you sunk this fucking low.
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