I had no idea what to call the title- as it might come across as rude or offensive and that isn't my intention- but then I realized; there's not really a way to not offend someone with this.
Normally I would consider not writing this then but I'm so tired of coming across people calling Kaminari stupid or saying he has ADHD. Because I find that offensive to people who actually have ADHD. And as you might have guessed by my profile picture, Kaminari is my favorite character and I feel obligated to defend him from people.
So just a warning before I get started; I do not have ADHD, so naturally I do not know a lot about it. Therefore, if anything I say about it is false, I'm sorry. All of my research comes from Google, and while I do know people with ADHD, I'm not even friends with them.
’Kaminari is stupid’
This belief is something I've disliked ever since my start in the MHA fandom, I always felt at unease when I saw people joking about it and just generally talking about it, but I could never place it. But now I understand; it's because Kaminari is not stupid and I knew it.
While some people might defend that too, saying he just isn't academically smart, but no; he's academically smart too. He's just smart in general.
And before you say something in the comments, remember that he got into UA, which is apparently the most prestigious school in Japan, the hardest to get into as their acceptance rate is 0.2%. And they would not let someone in who passed the practical exam, but failed the written exam.
So no; Kaminari is not stupid. He is academically and street smart.
And if you think about it; he's only bad at math (of what we've seen) and you know the people who call him stupid? Bakugou- who's pretty much a fucking genius- and Jirou; who is very smart too, as she was able to teach people instruments within WEEKS (or months? I don't remember.)
He's stupid in a class full of very smart people, but smart in a class full of average people.
I don't even think Bakugou and Jirou think he's stupid themselves; Jirou was teasing him, really just joking, because they're friends. And Bakugou... I think he just thinks Kaminari needs to study, I think he sees Kaminari's potential but that he just needs to study and actually try.
And is Kaminari stupid because he doesn't study a lot? No, because do you like studying?
Kaminari doesn't really try- insert angsty reason here- but he's still smart; a headcanon I have, based on something I saw on Pinterest, is that Kaminari used to be bullied for being smart and trying in school and then therefore decided to start over himself and not try anymore.
’Kaminari has ADHD’
Now it's okay if it's a headcanon you have to perhaps relate to Kaminari, it is, but I'm here to argue why it's not canon and why you would have to change a lot if you give Kaminari ADHD in a fanfiction:
If he's unmedicated (which most make him be) then that is IMPRESSIVE considering he's actually behaving decently in a prestigious school like UA. He is not yelling, not switching seats constantly and not throwing things at all. (Which my classmates with ADHD do.) Kaminari isn't being disruptive at all.
If he was in my class, I would forget he exists. Because he's just so calm, and laid-back, and doesn't yell or disrupt class. Kaminari doesn't do that at all; he's quiet and stays in his seat. Kaminari only ever really acts like he has ADHD when something exciting is going on and let me just tell you this; everybody struggles staying still when they're excited.
I have found an article listing the symptoms of ADHD:
Inattentiveness (difficulty concentrating and focusing)
The main signs of inattentiveness are:
•having a short attention span and being easily distracted
Well, we kind of have seen it; IN ONE EPISODE, I'M PRETTY SURE? One scene that sticks out to me was when we saw them the first time in math class, and Kaminari wasn't focusing at all but there were some others who also weren't focusing! But I never see people saying they have ADHD?
Also, they're teenagers; teenagers struggle paying attention sometimes, especially in Math class.
•making careless mistakes – for example, in schoolwork
We haven't seen it.
•appearing forgetful or losing things
Once again, haven't seen it.
•being unable to stick to tasks that are tedious or time-consuming
Haven't seen it.
•appearing to be unable to listen to or carry out instructions
Haven't seen it.
•constantly changing activity or task
Haven't seen it.
•having difficulty organising tasks
And once again, we haven't seen it!
Hyperactivity and impulsiveness
The main signs of hyperactivity and impulsiveness are:
•being unable to sit still, especially in calm or quiet surroundings
I've already explained why that doesn't fit Kaminari.
Hyperactivity and impulsiveness
The main signs of hyperactivity and impulsiveness are:
•being unable to sit still, especially in calm or quiet surroundings
I've already explained why that doesn't fit Kaminari.
•constantly fidgeting
I have seen many people say Kaminari does this. But does he really? No, I'd argue. Because all we've seen him do is massage Ojiro's tail. But what if Kaminari and Ojiro are good friends? What if Ojiro likes it? WHAT IF KAMINARI IS GOOD AT MASSAGING AND OJIRO KNOWS IT? Why can't people think out multiple reasons that aren't ”IT'S FIDGETING, HE HAS ADHD”?
Also; neurotypicals fidget too, you know? So if he does fidget, it's not necessarily an ADHD thing.
•being unable to concentrate on tasks
I don't recall seeing this.
•excessive physical movement
I have kind of already covered this and NO.
•excessive talking
No. (If you deny it, have we ever seen him talk during class?)
And if he does talk a lot, according to you; what if he's just talkative?
•being unable to wait their turn
We haven't seen it.
•acting without thinking
I don't think we've seen it.
•interrupting conversations
We haven't seen it.
•little or no sense of danger
No, that's Bakugou and Deku. But we don't say they have ADHD, do we?
Conclusion
The conclusion is, if you somehow did not understand, that Kaminari is not stupid and does not canonically have ADHD.
And doesn't anybody think it's offensive to call somebody stupid and then say they have ADHD? Am I the only one that thinks that sounds bad? And wouldn't it be offensive to somebody who actually has ADHD, who then has to see people saying a character (who checks barely any of the boxes) has ADHD?
If I saw people say this one character has autism (and I'm using autism as an example because I myself have autism) and this character doesn't fit in to barely any of the symptoms, then I would be offended. Or at least frustrated, angered. I would hate it.
So yeah, Kaminari isn't stupid and neither does he have ADHD.
I guess I'd be happy to.
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It's my baby, Camilo's birthday!
He's so beautiful, isn't he? Also, this isn't my work, credits to the creator.
This really helped with my fanfiction. So, to help you, and myself in the future, I reblogged it.
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So how do the dorms accommodate the ships?
OK so 5th floor first: Todomomo!
Momo is the first to react to seeing Shoto’s room
4th floor: Kirimina and Kacchako! (also Kiribaku)
Mina gets to react dramatically to Kirishima’s (Uraraka reacts to everyone’s and we don’t see Bakugo’s so no word on those two).
3rd floor: Tojiro and Kamijiro
Kaminari reacts to Jiro’s and she critiques his, and Ojiro to Toru’s.
2nd floor: …
I think Deku is specifically stuck on the 2nd floor with characters he isn’t shipped with to avoid making the shipping pattern too clear. Keep up the mystery of who Deku will end up with, you know? (Uraraka does react to his room but she reacts to everyone’s, so while that’s probably the pattern, it’s not made clear).
images courtesy of yutu, retrieved from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/101471797839881626/?lp=true
So does this mean things? Probably not but it’s still fun.
Summary: Okay, the first part was with Scorbunny, now it's with Raboot, (before the apple), so don't expect a lot of comfort. Or any comfort, period.
(This part will either be short or long. I don't know.)
Second time. (Raboot)
”Gah! There are no pokémon here- It's like an abandoned forest!” complained Goh, he sighed. ”Raboot, have you-”
He was about to finish that sentence before noticing that Raboot was walking- not waiting for them. It was not interested in looking for pokémon with his partner.
”Yeah, it is! Like, there's not even any common types!” said Ash. ”Guess, we'll have to part, ei?”
”Yeah, your right,” said Goh, he took out the map and started planning. ”You go right, I'll take the left. We'll meet...”, he searched through the map. ”There!”, and pointed at a location.
”Got it!”, he picked up Pikachu, that started waving. ”See you later!”
He walked away.
(Later)
”Damn, this forest really is deserted,” said Goh, chuckling. ”It's, like, empty. Completely empty.”
His pokémon wasn't listening, Raboot just kept walking in it's normal pace, not even looking back slightly.
Suddenly, quite out of nowhere, he heard a quiet woosh.
”What's that?” asked Goh, getting excited.
Was there something in the bushes?
Oh, how excited he was, maybe it was a grass type, normal type, or ground type?
A pokémon he didn't have just yet?
”Come out!” said Goh. ”If your a pokémon, please, I promise I won't hurt you!”
He walked closer to the bushes, wondering what pokémon could be hiding behind there.
”Raboot, could you wait? Please, there's something here, and it can be really cool, can I just see?”
Luckily, Raboot stopped, and looked at him for a short while.
”Raboot.”
He smiled at Raboot, before turning his attention back to the bushes.
He stepped closer slightly.
And he assumed, that he in some way frightened it, because the pokémon jumped up, and backed away quickly.
In front of him was a white pokémon with a horn, it's tail and mane was made out of fire.
It was a rapidash.
And, normally, Goh would have wanted to catch it... But, he couldn't.
Not that he didn't want to, he did!
But he couldn't, he couldn't... He couldn't move.
It was like his legs were stuck in quicksand.
A familiar feeling settled in his gut, a feeling he had wanted gone.
’No, I can't, I haven't had one in so long...’
That was true, he hadn't had one since Raboot, as Scorbunny, witnessed it.
And that was so long ago.
”Raboot?”
It was probably confused why his partner hadn't caught the pokémon yet, that could run away any second.
”I-I,”
He couldn't speak.
A sob was threatening to escape his lips any second, and then any dam that he had left would break.
”Boot!”, it seemed the pokémon was trying to remind him of rapidash.
”I can't...”
Miguel had a rapidash, that he used to torture Goh, to bully him.
Miguel didn't care about other things, he was cold, and did anything. He didn't care that Goh used to beg and cry for him to stop, to tell rapidash to stop using it's abilities on him.
But he never listened.
Goh will always remember that sick smirk he always had.
Always.
He felt a kick at his leg, it was a rock.
In front of him was Raboot, that was looking at him strangely.
”Raboot- Ra?”
It seemed it was trying to ask Goh if it was happening again.
All he could do was nod.
Raboot wasn't stupid, even if he denied, it wouldn't believe him.
It stepped closer to him, and stood under him, it was leaning against his right leg, holding it.
That was the most physical affection Raboot had gave him since- Well, since it evolved.
(Even later, I know I'm lazy)
It was long- Longer than it should have been.
He was at his and Ash's meet-up location.
But Ash wasn't there yet.
Raboot was standing next to him with a reasonable distance.
”Goh!” said a voice happily, it was Ash.
”Ash! Hey!”
”So, did you find any pokémon? Sadly, I didn't... But did you?” asked Ash curiously.
He was quiet, rethinking what to say.
”No, I didn't.”
Summary; Goh carries a seriously hurt Cinderace to the Pokécentre, then tries to find a way to lift it's curse. (This is an idea from @tumblingdowntheway2019)
Goh bursts through the doors of the Pokécentre with Cinderace, but added with blood all over his almost human-like body, and its face was seriously purple.
”Help! Help!” cried Goh, tears running down his face. ”Cinderace has been cursed! Please! I need help, please!”
Nurse Joy rushed over and took the huge rabbit from him, immediately checking its stats.
She ran over to a hospital room, and Goh followed her. Joy placed Cinderace on the hospital bed and rushed to help it in some way.
”What happened?” she asked worriedly.
Though the boy was way too focused on sobbing.
“I went to check out this haunted house and... and...” cried Goh. ”We stumbled across this strong pokémon, I sent out Cinderace, and we were winning until the pokémon cursed it! It saved me!”
The pokémon had aimed an attack on him, but Cinderace saved him, making itself get hit.
”Don't worry, dear- I'll try my best to help it,” said Joy. “Chansey, heal it!”
Joy's panicked tone was not helping Goh, and it was vice versa.
”How about you go wait out there?”
Goh complied, he stepped outside without a complaint- there he sat on one of the waiting chairs.
God, he was so stupid. Why did he decide to go alone without Ash or Chloe?
(Flashback)
He looked around the ruined house, for stuff or maybe even pokémon, but more specifically ghosts.
The house was known to be haunted, and he was set to prove it either wrong or right.
Cinderace was with him.
Then, a shuffle was heard and a pokémon jumped down in front of him.
It was a normal-sized, black pokemon with dark pink stripes, along with long, thick and scary-looking horns as the same color of the stripes.
It had blood red eyes and sharp fangs that could easily draw blood if given the opportunity.
And Goh just guessed that it was a darkness or ghost type pokémon.
He picked up his rotom phone to find out what it was.
”No data exists for this pokémon.”
Omg, a new kind of pokémon?!
It looked like the pokémon wanted to battle, so Goh got out Cinderace, who looked ready to battle.
”Cinderace, use Pyro Ball!”
Cinderace used the move but the pokémon dodged it.
The pokémon used some attack, a new one, which made a ball of darkness come at Cinderace, which it quickly dodged.
”Cinderace, use Quick Attack!”
Cinderace ran towards the pokémon quickly and kicked it, hurting the pokémon.
”Bell- Bellace!”
Goh smirked, and got out a PokéBall, ready to catch the new pokémon.
”Bellace, huh?”, he threw the PokéBall. ”PokeBall, go (goh)!”
Bellace dodged it,
(Later)
Joy stepped out of the hospital room, and went up to the distressed boy.
Chansey's healing powers hadn't worked, it seemed Cinderace's curse was too strong- and if they didn't get the pokémon to reverse it, then there was a chance Cinderace could die.
He had tear marks on his face, that was messy, and he was hugging his knees.
“Goh,” said Joy. ”I'm afraid you'll have to find the pokémon again, and have it reverse the curse. Because even without the curse, Cinderace has very bad injuries.”
Goh sighed and stood up, then nodding.
The frowning boy stepped out and made his way to the lab.
(Drizzile's POV)
It threw another water ball, Drizzile was training. Now was the perfect time, nobody was there, as it was late.
The sky had a redish hue.
”Driz-!”
It was training to become like Inteleon, and make Goh proud.
But then suddenly, it started feeling like someone was watching it. Drizzile turned around and saw Misdrevous.
”Mis, drevous-” said Misdrevous, saying ‘something has happened’. ”Misdrevous- mis.”, saying ’Cinderace is hurt and Goh is sad’.
Drizzile was shocked.
And suddenly it had many memories about Cinderace- it had always been so nice.
It had to help them.
”Misdrevous,” said Goh, suddenly, and he looked like a mess. ”We have to go back to the haunted house.”
Drizzile looked up at Goh, determined.
”Drizzile!”
Goh looked confused.
”Drizzile, you wanna come?”
It nodded quickly, and Goh put it in its PokeBall.
(Later)
On the way to the haunted house, they had seen Chloe and Eevee. And somehow, Chloe had seen he was upset. He told her and she insisted on coming with.
”You don't stand a chance towards that pokemon alone,” had Chloe said, eagerly. ”But Eevee and I can stand our ground- and together we could actually do some damage.”
Chloe was right.
Then, when they got there, it was cold and empty.
”Bellace! New pokemon! Hey-y! It's the dude with the fire Pokemon you fought!”
Chloe sighed at Goh's foolishness. (Though, she understood he was desperate.)
”Ee-Eevee!”
Eevee exclaimed on Chloe's shoulder, jumping up and down.
Suddenly, a familiar (to Goh) pokemon jumped down, and they both gasped.
”Bell-Bellace..?” muttered Goh, shocked.
A scared and sad look was evident on his face, before he shaked it off, now looking determined.
”Reverse Cinderace's curse!”
He brought out Misdrevous and Drizzile, that looked very ready. While Chloe chose Eevee, that also looked determined.
”Drizzile-”, its voice had a not so noticable spark in it.
It was ready to fight.
”Misdrevous, use Shadow Ball!”
The pokemon used the move, but Bellace dodged it, though then Eevee did the same move and it hit.
Snape;
People have many different opinions on Snape- some think he's a stalker, a creep and that he's terrible- and some think that he's the bravest man ever, and that Lily should have married him instead.
Both are right. Because it all depends on how you see it- I mean, Snape did seem pretty obsessed with Lily. He was in love with her. And Snape-haters can deny it all they want- but he was brave. Brave because he was a second agent, he managed to stay loyal to Dumbledore, while still staying on Voldemort's good side. But he was a terrible teacher.
Yep, I've admitted it, finally- Snape was a terrible teacher. Snape-haters say he was, and they're right, because he was. And don't even try to deny it, because he was completely unfair. He was nice to the Slytherins, but terrible to every other house, and especially the Gryffindors.
Snape looked coldly at Hermione, then said, ‘I see no difference.’ (When Hermione's teeth were hit with the Densaugeo hex, Goblet Of Fire.)
‘I don’t remember asking you to show off, Miss Granger,’ said Snape coldly, and Hermione went as pink as Neville. ‘Longbottom, at the end of this lesson we will feed a few drops of this potion to your toad and see what happens. Perhaps that will encourage you to do it properly.’ (When Snape was threatening to poison Trevor, Neville's toad, Prisoner of Azkaban)
And I could show more examples, but I'm lazy.
Snape was a terrible teacher, he was unfair and played favorites, and he was often just cruel. Tell me, would you want a teacher like Snape teaching your child?
Being brave doesn't excuse what he did towards his students. He definitely traumatized some of them, because who would forget such a teacher? I wouldn't. And do you remember how Neville's boggart was Snape-? Let that sink in.
A boggart represents (turns into) one's greatest fear. Like how Ron's was an acromantula, and how Harry's was a dementor. But Neville's was Snape- that's his teacher, no they don't have to have a student/mentor relationship people love, but if you're a teacher and one of your student's worst fear is you, then you need to revaluate your teaching abilities.
So in short; I don't really know how I feel about this character.
Petunia;
Now, are we going to deny that Petunia is a good mother? Because she is, not to Harry of course, but she is to Dudley. She's kind of a good example of gentle parenting, the no-discipline kind of parenting. I mean, Dudley has probably never been grounded before. With her hugs and kisses, and cringy but affectionate pet-names in every sentence, it's made clear that she loves Dudley. Even though Dudley is pretty hard to love.
But is she a good aunt? Oh absolutely not. She has never been a good aunt, clearly doesn't know how to do it. She was terrible to Harry, downright terrible. In fact, all the Dursleys were. They were abusive, and I don't want to hear any comments saying the opposite, though I doubt I'll get any.
Let's just get this clear- in the Philosophers' Stone, Harry wasn't just small, he was malnourished. Because growing up, he barely got any food. The Dursleys starved him. That includes Petunia, she overfed Dudley, but barely gave Harry any food. And what's the difference between Dudley and Harry? One is her son, one isn't.
Sure, she loved Lily, but what does that excuse? Does that excuse her abusing Lily's kid? I mean sure, she likely saw that it just came out of nowhere- like ’Oh, your sister's dead, here's her baby.’- but that doesn't excuse anything. She didn't have to treat Harry like that, just because she missed Lily so much.
And what was her whole thing with hating wizards? I mean, it was understandable in the Goblet of Fire, when the Weasleys tried to floo to their house. I'd be pretty mad too, if someone practically blew up my living room. Yeah, after and before that it was just unreasonable. But in the Goblet of Fire, I've got to admit, it's reasonable to react like that.
It was understandable when she was kid, but it stopped being understandable the second she became an adult. When she was a kid, she was jealous and therefore pushed everything that reminded her of it away, and that's understandable because kids do stuff like that. But when you're an adult? It's just childish. And that doesn't mean she should abuse her nephew.
And is it just me, or do Mrs and Mr Evans kind of seem like bad parents? Oh my god, is this anti Mr and Mrs Evans? Well, that's a tag I doubt exists. But seriously, they never noticed the feud between Petunia and Lily? Because they were so proud of having a witch in the family? They could have noticed, I doubt either Petunia and Lily made their feud secret. And clearly them being so proud of Lily, made Petunia feel inferior because she was just a muggle.
And what is it with the theory that the Dursleys were so mean because they were around Harry, who was a Horcrux? That's dumb, if you think about it. Firstly, it excuses the Dursleys terrible treatment of Harry, so just victim-blaming, basically. ’Oh, it's Harry's fault he was abused, because he was a Horcrux and that affected the Dursleys.’ And secondly, Ron and Hermione were around Harry even more than the Dursleys one could argue, and they never got in a bad mood from that, did they? No. So many other people were around Harry more than the Dursleys were, and they were never in a bad mood.
So in short; I hate her character.
Dumbledore;
So I know I might possibly get cancelled for this, but I actually like Dumbledore.
Yes, yes- I know- terrible as most people nowadays are anti Dumbledore, but I'm not. Not really, anyways. Sure, some of his actions were questionable, but he's not a manipulative villain that didn't care about anybody. He genuinely cared about Hagrid, and Grindelwald, and Harry.
Harry and Dumbledore's relationship wasn't really that toxic, as people like to say, it was just kind of cute. Because Harry loved Dumbledore, and Dumbledore loved Harry. People say that in the books Dumbledore ’raised Harry like a pig for slaughter’, but nobody thinks about that Harry was practically made to be a pig for slaughter because of the prophecy.
And Dumbledore didn't want to, he delayed telling Harry about the prophecy because he cared about him. He reckoned 11 was too young, which I'd say it was, and 12 is barely different. Too young. And wouldn't you say it was kind of Dumbledore to keep this from Harry, so it wouldn't weigh on the boy’s mind?
Now the thing I hear Dumbledore being called the most is manipulative. Basically, he knows how to get his way, which is a good thing. And he is a powerful wizard, and important, shouldn't he know how to do that?
’Played everyone like a chess pawn’, well it was war, so who could really blame him? You have to do things you don't want to do sometimes in war. Sometimes you have to do everything to make sure the war ends, which sometimes means people have to be used a little bit. War is not an ideal situation to be in, and it's not a good situation to follow all of your morals.
Something I've always appreciated about Dumbledore is that he's so odd it's funny. He likes candy, so much he decides the passwords to his office after them, and always says such things so calmly. But you can't underestimate him because of that, as he's also very powerful.
He's a great wizard, and Hogwarts was only attacked after Dumbledore died (and conveniently, Dumbledore didn't have his wand on him then.)
Now another thing I hear people both talk bad about AND joke about it; about how much Dumbledore gives points to Gryffindor, how he wants them to win. Which I do disagree with. Because tell me: if your students prevented a powerful terrorist from coming back, would you, or would you not, give them points?
Ron got given points for doing a smart move, and winning a chess match against one of the professors (who I'm pretty sure is canonically really good at chess?) Because chess is a hard game I couldn't understand to save my life, and to be really good at it, you have to be smart. Ron got given points for his intelligence (and excellent chess skills), something they do give points for. ’… for the best-played game of chess Hogwarts has seen in many years, I award Gryffindor house fifty points.’
Hermione basically got given points because she made a smart move, she was smart. Which do they give points for regularly. ‘Second – to Miss Hermione Granger … for the use of cool logic in the face of fire, I award Gryffindor house fifty points.’ She was in a stressful situation, yet used great logic. She did good, basically, and it's understandable for Dumbledore to give points to that.
Harry was the one who actually prevented the return of the most feared wizard/powerful terrorist, Voldemort, in this case. He also stood tall, in front of said terrorist. At 11. And I don't know about you, but I would give points for that. ‘Third – to Mr Harry Potter …’ said Dumbledore. The room went deadly quiet. ‘… for pure nerve and outstanding courage, I award Gryffindor house sixty points.’ For being a true Gryffindor, basically. And that sounds like something the professors would give points for.
‘There are all kinds of courage,’ said Dumbledore, smiling. ‘It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. I therefore award ten points to Mr Neville Longbottom.’ He was brave, that's why he got points. He proved he was a Gryffindor at heart, and probably somewhat earned the respect of Dumbledore.
Recent events do matter, and should be taken into account, as Dumbledore said.
And in the Chamber of Secrets, I'm pretty sure they won the house cup again, and I've got only one thing to say; are you saying you wouldn't give points to students for saving someone's life?
I won't go into it more, because I know I'll probably get something about in the comments- if I get any, of course- and I'll definitely defend my opinion. Because in short; I like Albus Dumbledore's character.
Ron;
So, stating this will not give me hate like my opinion on Dumbledore will, but; I frickin love Ron Weasley.
Now some who have only watched the movie might say stuff like: ’Why? He was a terrible friend to Harry’ or ’All he did was eat though’. Or they might not, and I just need to stop saying ’say stuff like:’
Maybe people have finally stopped hating on Ron, and I'm just stuck in the past of Anti-Ron, but I'm still going to defend him here. Starting by debunking my first example of what someone might say.
’Why? He was a terrible friend to Harry’ Sorry, are you saying Ron stood-in-front-of-a-believed-murder-on-a-broken-leg-for-his-best-friend Weasley is a bad friend? In the movies it may have been Hermione who did that but I call bullshit. Because this is what happened in the book;
’No, Harry!’ Hermione gasped in a petrified whisper; Ron, however, spoke to Black.
‘If you want to kill Harry, you’ll have to kill us, too!’ he said fiercely, though the effort of standing up had drained him of still more colour, and he swayed slightly as he spoke. (When the trio were in the Whomping Willow with Sirius, Prisoner of Azkaban.)
And then debunking my second example; ’All he did was eat though’ which is also kind of people saying Ron loved food. WHICH he did not, or at least I don't recall him loving food that much in the books. Specifically him loving chicken, which people think he loved so much there's a ship called ’Chickron’ (Ron x Chicken.)
I can't mention instances in the book because that's just that: there aren't any. Ron ate at breakfast, lunch and dinner and that's just that. Did he eat a lot then? Maybe?? oMg HoW dArE hE eAt A lOt, NoBoDy ElSe DiD (cough cough Harry cough cough) Yeah, Harry ate a lot too but I don't see anybody calling him a ’foodie’ or ’food-lover’ or whatever they call Ron.
And for people to say he doesn't deserve Hermione: he begged to be tortured in her place, and if that isn't love, then nothing is. Was he a douche sometimes? Yeah. Was he also, conveniently, a teenager then? Yeah. People are douches sometimes, when they're teenagers, and can't always treat someone right. They bickered, they disagreed. Which only really proved that Ron listened to her, and then gave his opinion. Nobody else did that, and especially not Harry. He's what Hermione needs; somebody to kind of put her in her place yet support her and comfort her when she's upset. Ron is right for Hermione, and trust me; she thinks so too.
Something else people often bring up was the situation in PoA, or the Crookshanks/Scabbers situation? I don't know what people call it but time to put my opinion out there; I think Ron was in the right. Tell me, if one of your best friends’ pet ate your pet (or at least, allegedly with very believable proof) and then refused to apologize or even acknowledge it, would you get mad? Just because Scabbers turned out being Peter Pettigrew (which I'll probably talk more about another time) does not mean Hermione was in the right. Did Ron act kind of shitty about it? Yeah, but he was 13. Honestly? I act the same way when I'm mad at someone.
Was he in the right in GoF? No. But do I think that's when he realized his feelings for Hermione, didn't know how to deal with it, so took it out on her? Because he was probably thinking; No I can't have feelings for her, she'd never even like me back. Also, he was 14, were you expecting him to be really mature? And also; it wouldn't have been the best night of her life or something, it was just prom. (But maybe don't listen to me about that, I've always been anti-prom.)
And about the ’Hermione, you're a girl’ comment; I kind of think of it a little bit differently. I think it was more, a start of asking her out, like ’Hermione, you're a girl. And I'm a boy. Wanna go to the Yule Ball with me? J-just as friends!’ I think he had wanted to ask her out for a while- and wondering why he wanted to ask her out- and that he had been building up courage, because asking somebody out takes a lot of courage and he's also really insecure. He just didn't know how to do it, and maybe it came out a little wrong.
And something else he gets a lot of hate for; leaving Harry and Hermione in the Horcrux Hunt. But he was under the control of the Locket (a Horcrux made by Voldemort), which affected him most presumably because of his insecurities. (Seriously he should have gotten help for that) and also, it was more that he was stepping out for a breather but just forgot about the charms, whatever they're called. Was it still a mistake? Yeah, but are you telling m you've never made mistakes (especially in bad times)? ALSO, NO MATTER WHAT, HE DID NOT- I REPEAT: HE DID NOT- SAY HARRY HAD NO FAMILY: ‘Oh, you’re sure, are you? Right then, well, I won’t bother myself about them. It’s all right for you two, isn’t it, with your parents safely out of the way –’ ‘My parents are dead!’ Harry bellowed. ‘And mine could be going the same way!’ yelled Ron. ’ To me, both were in the wrong in that situation.
Now is there anything I should adress about Ron? Well, in that case:
Malfoy;
*deep breath*
I FUCKING HATE THIS RACIST, STUPID, DEATH AND RAPE-WISHING TWAT.
Seriously, how does anyone like this guy?
Oh wait- They don't; they only like Tom Felton, who they think is hot. And if Malfoy was played by someone else, someone ’less attractive’, then nobody would be liking him. Trust me.
And as an ex Draco fan- yes, I admit to the part of my past I'm deeply ashamed of- I know how his fan-part of Tiktok looks like; all edits of Tom Felton (more specifically, him playing Malfoy) and no talks about Malfoy's character, or why they like him other than ’He's so hot’ and ’The boy who had no choice’.
Now to addressing the ’The boy who had no choice’ nickname; it's actually quite ironic, because in most of the series, he did have a choice. Chose to bully Harry, Hermione, Ron and Neville and probably countless other people. He chose to be the racist bully who wished death and rape upon people (Hermione, to be more specific.) Now I don't really know about how he wished rape upon Hermione, as I've only seen one person talk about it, about how Malfoy wished she would get her panties revealed in the incident at the Quidditch World Cup.
'Granger, they’re after Muggles,' said Malfoy. 'D’you want to be showing off your knickers in midair? Because if you do, hang around . . . they’re moving this way, and it would give us all a laugh.'
No, that's not him 'warning her', that's him wishing sexual assault on her. Having something as private as your panties revealed against your will is sexual assault; and that's what Malfoy wished would happen to her.
Stop seeing him in this distorted, rose-tinted view and start seeing him for what he is: a racist (him calling Hermione a m**blood, which is basically the wizard version of the n-word), stupid (Lucius, his father, said he was getting bad grades) death-wishing (multiple instances where he wished Hermione would die), rape-wishing (or at least sexual assault-wishing) twat.
So yeah, if you have not yet understood; I hate him.
Molly Weasley;
Watch Mikaila's video on her, called 'In defense of Molly Weasley' as she expresses it much better, in my opinion.
BUT I do not like how she has so many children even if they were poor just because she wanted a girl: Once I saw a Tumblr Post, saying that Molly didn't actually want a girl (or at least that there was no proof of it) and that it was just the locket saying that to Ron BUT if she didn't, why did she stop at Ginny? Did she, after seven kids, think 'Okay that's enough kids' NO, presumably, she was satisfied; she had gotten what she wanted. A girl. Also, what the locket said was based on Ron's feelings and he would definitely know if Molly had wanted a girl all along.
Arthur Weasley;
I've seen a couple of people here on Tumblr talking about how he's selfish for not trying to get a promotion when his family is poor just for his 'muggle fascination.' Now I do have to say this; I don't think he wasn't aiming for a promotion, rather that he just wasn't getting one. He got a promotion in the sixth book, if you remember, and why would he be aiming for one then? Exactly. He wasn't getting a promotion all those years, that's it. He was stuck in his position (that presumably didn't pay as much.)
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I might make a Part 2, talking about more characters. Just tell me what more characters you'd like to hear my opinion on, and I'll do it.
I'm sorry if the last part of it is a little bit bad, I was just tired when writing that and honestly just wanted to get this posted to move on to other stuff.
Little outstanding nail right there.
list 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you!
Thanks for the ask, I guess? Gah, this has never happened to me before! 5 things that make me happy, in no particular order:
•My grandparents' dog
•Making fun of fictional characters
•English in general
•Stranger Things (a show whose fandom I recently joined- yes, this is me coming out as a Stranger Things fan!)
•All the other shows I like
I might write stuff for the following fandoms; Harry Potter, MHA, Encanto, Pokémon Journeys and Stranger Things.
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