itโs almost the end of 2024. can we drop this absolutely inane fanonical idea that harry james potter is โobliviousโ or โunobservantโ or โaverageโ?
fuck your fanon harry. fuck that soggy tissue who doesnโt inspire confidence in others. fuck that lummox who cannot string a sentence together. fuck that hothead whoโd lash out in anger and throw punches at every provocation. fuck that namby-pamby who canโt read clues or between the lines or come up with a plan of action. fuck that sheep who canโt function without hermioneโs direction. fuck that neanderthal whoโs a messy eater, messy writer, messy speaker, and has poor manners.
who the bloody hell is that? thatโs not harry james potter. why are you twisting and malforming him into a bloody clown?
why are you undermining the main character of his own series? boy has an abysmal self-esteem, stays quiet and lowkey, bottles up his truest feelings and thoughts (that we as readers are privy to, but not the other characters!), and has a calm and composed mien so you think you too can dismiss his character easily and strip him down to a skeleton of his canon self and instead carve out huge character growth, redemption arcs, and love letters for everyone else?
you wish to evoke sympathy for draco by making lucius out to be an abusive father and crafting a pitiful childhood for draco when they have an affectionate parent-child relationship canonically, but downplay harryโs abuse? you realise that tom riddle, sirius black, james potter, and hermione granger are acknowledged to be the brightest of their generation, yet forget harry potter and tom riddle are two sides of the same coin, even sharing a similar appearance, and reduce harry to a silly caricature? you make harry magically powerful but wrest his smarts away to highlight someone elseโs big brain?
you make him out to be a short dork with a shorter fuse and no idea whatโs going on around him when harry and tom are both described as woe-ridden orphansโwith all that entails from constant hunger to cold sleepless nights to hypervigilance to the forced, quick maturityโbut treat tom true to canon as tall, cunning, and clever, then do an about-face to conveniently slap the malnourished, oblivious, and slacker labels on harry to make him as lesser than?
when he picked up the impervious spell simply from having seen hermione perform it once, when his closest friends have difficulty gleaning his thoughts, when his anger is cold and sharp like dumbledore (ootp was a study in ptsd, next!), when heโs just as tall as his father, was just as ill-treated as a house elf, and rightfully brilliant as the son of lily and james potterโthe two powerful and talented individuals who once had voldemort trying to recruit them to join his cause?
the sheer disrespect on his name. the sheer mockery of his character. the absolutely mind-boggling erasure of his most defining traits.
who do you think sussed out most of the big clues, and stowed away all the little, random bits of information in his memory bank, to ultimately piece the puzzle together at the final showdown every end of the school year? who realised as a mere firstie that quirrel was the man hagrid blabbed to about fluffy and the dragon egg? who noted that ginny was withdrawn and unlike herself? who had an inkling fleur had taken a fancy to bill? who picked up on what was brewing between ron and hermione before their own selves? who noticed that hermione cast a confundus on cormac mclaggen during the match? who caught on instantly to the change in tense used for the diademโs existence and confidently tracked it down? who cottoned on to lunaโs longtime disappearance from her cold, untouched bed and the layer of dust? who did voldemort consider his equal? who actually has an uncanny sense of intuition? who calls the shots when the trio gets into a pickle? who?
mcgonagall? flitwick? draco? hermione? blaise zabini? no!
excuse harry for that one time he did not look deeply into the mental workings of a grieving girl because heโs not equipped to deal with them, and has in the first place never been taught to process his own emotions properly because he didnโt grow up in a healthy environment, prohibited from expressing his feelings, let alone vulnerability, and voicing his thoughts!
letโs bury this annoyingly stupid narrative for good. go read the books and refresh your perspective. stop doing him dirty. youโve already butchered sirius blackโs character into a pathetic sisspot. and now you want to assassinate harryโs too.
