Top 10 worst relationships in Harry Potter
Yes. I will start the rank from Meh (10) to WTF this is Abuse (1).
10. Harry Potter x Cho Chang: It is the typical example of teenagers who like each other but are not compatible in terms of values, emotions or temperaments. Here, both are quite nice people, and yeah, Harry is a bit insensitive but nothing worst then that. Cho really needs a shoulder to cry on while Harry is too busy with Voldemort.
9. Lavender Brown and Ron Weasley: Yes, another member of the Golden Trio. A bit of manipulation on Ron’s part and the infatuation is quite one sided. Lavender is quite smitten by Ron, which he is by the end only mildly tolerent of. Typical teenage immaturity.
8. Hermione Granger x Cormac Maclagen: We get a bit more towards the red flags here. Hermione dates him to make Ron jealous, but Cormac is such a jerk that he scares her off and she does everything in her power to get rid of him.
7. Severus Snape and Lily Evans. Yes, the fact I have to put them there is quite...striking. They are best friends and the affection here is one sided. They argue a lot. On Snape’s part, you have the fact he hangs around with Death Eater wannabe’s while Lily is Muggle born, although to his defense, he is forced to share at the very least a common room with them, and called Lily a “Mudblood” without meaning to. He also completely misses most of her social cues and seem to have a very limited idea on how to be in a healthy relationship. Lily, on the other hand is embarrassed at his friendship, refuses to trust him and after their friendship ended she started dating his main bully and doesn’t seem concerned despite clear signs that he is at the very least a delicate position. Plus, she did defend him against James. They were just not compatible, but they cared about each other, kinda. Plus, Snape respected her and loved her enough to continue protecting her son long after her death.
6. James Potter and Lily Evans: Yes, the second pairing with Lily. This time, we are going into serious red flags. This relationship is at least potentially abusive, lacks communication and is quite perverse. James Potter acts like a jerk to her, threatens to hex her (fifth year) and as soon as he stopped hexing people at random, they started dating. However, he still continued to hex her ex-friend behind her back, even though she repeatedly expressed that she didn’t like that. Plus, according to J.K Rowling, she did flirt with him subconsciously while he publicly stripped Snape. You know, really healthy stuff. Oh, and it gets better by the fact he was a jerk to her sister and brother-in-law. However, things did improve over time and he eventually came to care for dear Lily enough to die for her. Oh, and they were both 21 when they died and they married just after they left school, making the relationship super rushed on top of everything else. However, they did care about each other, which is a lot more than the other people on this list.
5. Rodolphus and Bellatrix Lestrange: First of all, this is an arranged marriage that didn’t even fulfill it’s purpose to produce pureblood babies. So, there is no reason for them to be together. Secondly, Bellatrix cheats on him by being in at the very least an emotional affair with heavy sexual undertones with Voldemort. So basically, the guy has his wife sleeping with his boss. Bellatrix doesn’t care one bit about her husband, never even mentioning him. Lovely. However, they do work effectively as a team to our knowledge, as shown in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which is a lot better than the other entries. Plus, they shared values and their awfulness has nothing to do with their relationship and any bad luck they face is not caused by their marriage but their own respective awfulness.
4. Mr. and Mrs. Hagrid: Rubeus’ mother abandoned him and her husband, leaving the poor man as a single dad to an oversized child. Obviously a bad move.
3. Bellatrix Lestrange and Voldemort (a.k.a Tom Elvis Riddle): We have a relationship between two evil people. This is a deeply abusive and one sided relationship. Voldemort is a heartless psychopath who uses Bella’s obsession with him to make her go on missions. Bellatrix is so obsessed with him that she searched for him after his disappearance, which led her to torture the Longbottom couple, which lead to her incarceration. So basically, this relationship got her into torture prison. However, this isn’t Voldemort’s fault. In later books he humiliates her, punishes her for things that aren’t her fault with distance and frequently rejects her affections unless they are convenient for him. Bellatrix knows Voldy is dangerous to her and can kill her if he’s in a bad mood. Bellatrix is devoted body and soul to Voldemort, and he doesn’t return. He also uses her vault to hide his Horcrux. Does he show appreciation for this. No. He also clames he’ll reward her, which he does by getting her out of Azkaban, but that’s really it. He also brainwashed her, which you know, relationship goals. However, he isn’t shown physically abusing her, unless I miss something.
2. Tobias Snape and Eileen Prince: Yes. In the few moments we see, he shouts at her in front of their young son, and she COWERS. One wonders why. Like, Eileen is shown as afraid of him. According to Severus, he was rather moody and didn’t like anythign much. You know, lovely fellow. It’s also heavily implied he was physically abusive to his wife and if you consider Pottermore canon than to also his son. Lovely.
1. Merope Gaunt and Tom Riddle Sr. All relationships in the above where consensual. Maybe with skewed power dynamics, but still relatively consensual. This one isn’t. The fact alone they created Voldemort should be enough to qualify but I’ll tell the main problem. Merope drugged Tom Riddle so she can marry and sleep with him. And when she stopped feeding him love potion, he understandably left and returned back to his old lifestyle. So yeah, this one has actual rape. Plus, her family pranked him. So you know, lovely thing.
