The Clockwork Monk

Ginny: Oliver, can you please stop stealing our condoms?

I find it really sad how overlooked is the rarity of Harry and Ginny's couple dynamic.

In stories like Harry Potter where the main character is clearly the main character and not just the person who gives us their point of view for the story, it's very common that the love interest isn't an equal to the hero. Usually, the love interest is one of the helpers of the main character which inevitably creates an unbalanced dynamic where a lot of the life experiences of the love interest revolve around the main character. Take Ron and Hermione, they are not equals to Harry. They are equals to each other, they are the only two people who know what it means to be Harry's best friend in the war but the stories/adventures they are involved in aren't theirs. They are not equals to Harry, which doesn't mean they are less or more, just something else.

Ginny on the other end is the only character between the young ones - besides Harry obviously - that is a main character in her own right. She has her own story, her own friends, her own adventures, her own giant trauma, and her own relationship with darkness. She has her own hero story with her leading the rebellion at Hogwarts and her own helpers, Neville and Luna.

She is a main character whose story we don't have the opportunity to read. And Harry is her love interest just as much as she is Harry's one. She may understand Harry perfectly and so be perfect for him, but Harry understands her perfectly too and therefore is the only logical love interest for her.

And even after the books she keeps being Harry's equal becoming famous in her own right with professional Quidditch and then assuming the most influential role in Wizarding World sport as editor of the sports section for the Prophet.

She even has her sort of prophecy with the whole being the first daughter in seven generations and the seventh sibling, something that supposedly makes her quite powerful, something that we see, something that even Slughorn, a man who knows pretty much all the people who are worth being known, recognizes.

To solidify this point, her story is circular like Harry's. If Harry starts this story as someone who needs to be rescued and who is in search of a family he ends it with him protecting other people for a job and having a loving family. Ginny starts her story as a young girl who as such has to hide her true ambitions, as someone who because she wrote in a diary faced unspeakable horrors, and she ends the story with being famous for her talent, the mother of a youngest sibling and girl that she'll make sure will grow up not needing to hide her ambitions and a journalist, reclaiming her passion for writing.

“…We’ve already had it.”

He doesn't say that characters don't have sex. He said it's "hard to imagine" the characters having sex, which is true to anyone who hasn't completely disappeared down the rabbit hole of fanfic. Imagining Tolkien characters having sex is like imagining your parents having sex, it's just weird to think about.

In Tolkien's world, sex exists, but it doesn't function as a character motivation. The characters don't get horny. You hear about Sam having 13 kids, and the tone of the story leads to you believe it's because he loves being a father, not because he's a horn dog who can't keep his hands off his wife.

Like, if we found a deleted scene in Tolkien's notes where Legolas and Gimli bond over describing their maiden sweethearts, how beautiful and graceful they are, that would make sense, it would fit in with the rest of the story.

But if we found a deleted scene where they bond over comparing body counts of wenches they've bedded, that would feel like it's from a completely different book.

If you get confused what country “Karnataka” is in, that’s kind of on you.

If you get confused what country “Kärnten” is in, that’s kind of on you.

If you get confused what country “Bahia” is in, that’s kind of on you.

If you get confused what country “Manitoba” is in, that’s kind of on you.

If you get confused what country “Colima” is in, that’s kind of on you.

“Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?”

Family always in the first place.

Potential futures, ranked from most to least angsty:

Sokka being the Moon's Husband until he dies, bringing the inevitable, tragic yet beautiful until-the-end-of-time parting that ends mortal/immortal relationships.

Avatar-world variant: Sokka dies but reincarnates, and the Moon shines more brightly on every one of his future selves, whether he knows why or not. (Sometimes he does.)

Sokka also ascends to spirithood at some point by virtue of Being The Moon's Husband, and basically becomes the Knowledge Owl Guy's nemesis because he A) is very involved in the mortal world and B) thinks that information should be free.

Variant: Sokka replaces the Ocean Spirit through some convoluted turn of events, making him and Yue the new yin-yang of Water.

Related, but different: Sokka just gets a nice house in a corner of the Spirit World where Yue stays between moonset and moonrise. If Iroh can, why not Sokka?

“So does this mean you don’t hate me anymore?”

What happens to the money you donate at the cash register?

This is where you round up your bill to give to a charity designated by the retailer, and the donation amount appears on your receipt. The store serves only as a collection agent for your gift. Assuming the business is following the law, it will not include your donation as part of its business receipts, or income, nor will it claim the charitable gift as an expense.

I understand there's been a lot of misinformation regarding this, however donating at the register does NOT contribute to a corporate tax write off. In fact, if you save your receipt, it counts as a tax write off *for you.*