#greylady

I made this because I just realized Harry and his enemy both have the same taste in women and I think it's funny. 😂😂😂

Even though, they are the hero and the villian, I think it's very interesting how they are so very similar and stuff like this is why I ship them. 🤭

I also would like to clarify I do believe Tom Riddle/Voldemort is gay. 🌈

His taste in women is obviously not romantic. 😖

But I noticed that when he has any interest in women his taste is very similar to Harry. 😲

The female characters featured here are:

Ginny Weasley

Lily Potter

Cho Chang

Nagini

Romilda Vane

Bellatrix Lestrange

Moaning Myrtle

The Grey Lady

I appreciate these are strong female characters.

Obviously, there are tons of women in Harry Potter.

But I like seeing some actual variety in it.

Usually in stories with male leads, they get involved with very generic, stereotypical types of women. 🙄

So I always give the Harry Potter series credit for showing relationships with people of different races, aesthetics, sexualities, ages, mentalities, etc.

It's cool how Harry and Tom have both had contact with different types of women from all walks of life and also women from beyond the grave. 😆

Clearly, these guys are very open minded. 🤣

I’d planned a third one - “Cradlesong” - but the sales of the first two were so poor that nothing ever came of it beyond the “three chapters and outline” stage.

However, now that self-publishing is more respectable than it used to be (Google for “vanity publishing”), it’s likely to be written after all, and since I used some of the material during e-book revisions of the “Book of Years” series,  writing “Cradlesong” will make sense of a few unexplained comments in those books.

However - and long before GoT’s final series wound up with numerous frequently-mentioned elements unresolved; significant prophecies and significant eye colours are just two - I knew the rule about Chekhov’s Gun.

Set-dressing is fine, description is fine, but if one thing gets more attention than the rest, that thing either is or starts to seem important (think of how a movie/TV shot lingers on something) and its importance must be revealed or resolved before the end. If it’s not important, don’t make it appear so.

I was careful not to raise a lot of “what did he mean by that?” questions by making the comments in “The Book of Years” seem too much like “previously, in The Clan Wars”.

This Saturday we talk about the wives of King Henry the 8th, and other spirits in the Tower of London.

Slytherin: Happy Belated Loser--I mean Ravenclaw Day.