Speaking for myself, I loved Cho from the second in PoA when she slammed her broom into Harry to stop him getting the Snitch and then just grinned when he turned to glare at her. Does she care that she's playing opposite the Boy who Lived. Does she fuck. Cho wants to WIN. I dug that. (Also, Katie Leung is freaking awesome. I was browsing her twitter the other day and she was liveblogging her thoughts on A Very Potter Musical. My fave? "Yes I know Draco is a she...but still, I would.#DAMN
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ME TOO. I also loved that she was the only girl Seeker and wasn't she the only girl on the Ravenclaw team? And plus she's seemed really genuine and sweet all the time, even after Cedric died. AND I LOVE KATIE TOO! It kills me that she knows about the rampant Cho hatred in fandom and acknowledges it omg.
Oh, dude, totally. Some day I will articulate my thoughts more on Pansy, but honestly, what do we know about Parvati? She's a Gryffindor, she's beautiful, she likes Divination, she has a twin sister and in sixth year, her parents almost didn't send her back to Hogwarts... and that's it. I understand that it's Harry who, unless someone really gets under his skin doesn't pay attention to them (like how much do we know about Crabbe and Goyle? They didn't even have distinct personalities, ffs) but I still hate the way they were treated.
Also, FLEUR. I do genuinely get the feeling that JK likes Fleur, because she gets development and softer moments and the best one-liners, but I wish it would show more strongly within the text.Oh, yeah,
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OMG GREAT MINDS BECAUSE I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT! And I also found it interesting that Pansy calls her "Parvati" and not "Patil" because IIRC, she calls Hermione by her last name, so I always felt like she and Pansy had a "history" of some sort. And also can we just talk about how I was so impressed with her re: Harry's tomfoolery during the Yule Ball? All she did was say, "Are you going to ask me to dance at all?" after HOW much time spent watching Harry moon away and then she managed to snag some French fox? Well. Played. Miss. Patil.
Ugh I love your Patil canon.
Also, this is one of the BEST Cho Chang slash Harry/Cho fics I've read ever.
I do dig her ever so. And HBP, where she's all long-suffering and "Lavender, honey, I love you dearly but if I have to spend another second around you and Won-Won, I will rip your hair out" - I HAVE BEEN THERE. That long-suffering cringing friend is me
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being around the twins calmed him down because they were about the same age as Harry and he could could close his eyes, cuddle one and pretend his whole world hadn't gone to shit. :( dead inside at this dear god
Whenever Remus Lupin veers douchey in canon, I remember the days after the War ended for him - James and Lily dead. Peter dead. Sirius dead to him as the worst kind of traitor. All his friends who survived shell-shocked and walking wounded.
Harry out there somewhere with Lily's bigoted bitch of a sister when he knows James and Lily would have wanted him to step up but Dumbledore says no and anyway what the fuck can he give a child when he can't keep a roof over his own head and food on his plate without the charity of friends? When no-one will hire a werewolf because they fought on the wrong side and even those who would hire him have their hands tied as the likes of Umbridge push through harsher measures against his kind and now he has to sign his name on a Werewolf Registry so he can be monitored even though he's never done anything but try to be a good man.
And he's so angry all the time, and so tired and so sad.
One day, I will write this fic. Remus Lupin's Year Zero.
UGH I LOVE YOUR HEAD CANON AND THIS ENTIRE COMMENT BECAUSE REMUS. But ugh omg I am so in love with your head canon and like I wish I could do more than just flail about it because now I want to write Parvati and Padma centric fic for the rest of my life using that canon and also my own and also there would be Lavender since I loved her and ughsfhfhfshsfhsf.
You may borrow Kali and Rajiv whenever the urge strikes you, m'love.
Poor Remus. He really got shafted more than anyone I think, overall, and he didn't deserve it. Snape got fucked over too but he was an architect of his own misery, Remus just ... got fucked over for being one of the good guys.
Oh, totally. Like, Snape I do kind of feel sorry for, but it was his own goddamn fault that he hung out with prejudiced kids even though his BFF/the girl he was in love with was one of the people they were prejudiced against. Like, sorry you let a racial slur slip, dude, but I can't blame Lily for calling him on it and then not taking him back at all.
And ugh thank you so much, love, I am totally borrowing them for my Patil sister fic <333
Here's another thing that deff happened in my Patil-verse - their garden is full of things that are all kinds of fucking deadly (he's a scatter-brained academic, she's a Healer with a fixation on dangerous shit and they got married and procreated when they were young and real-life!dumb, go figure) and Parvati went into cardiac arrest when she was five because she ate a handful of Doll's Eyes (white baneberry) from the garden on a dare.
That's Padma's Boggart, btw. The other half of her, prone and shaking and foaming at the mouth, eyes rolling into the back of her head.
That's Padma's Boggart, btw. The other half of her, prone and shaking and foaming at the mouth, eyes rolling into the back of her head. omg :'(
My head canon of them is yours except Kali was friends with Mrs Parkinson and so Parvati and Padma were childhood playmates (not necessarily friends) of Pansy, Draco, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott and the rest of the Slytherin gang (the boys by proxy because I can just see big play dates between Pansy, Draco and the Slytherin "elite") when they were children, hence Pansy saying, "Never thought you'd like crybabies, Parvati" during their first flying lesson. Pansy always secretly liked the Patils because they were both so spunky and clever and brave, traits she'd always desperately wanted for herself, but she treated them with passive aggression because she was jealous, but whenever Draco or Theodore talked shit about them behind their backs, she was the first to defend them and it always leaves Draco baffled
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LOL I'M WRITING THAT RIGHT NOW COS IT DIDN'T FLOW WELL WITH THE REST OF THE FIC I JUST POSTED and omg why is Harry in distress so much fun to write I don't even know.
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Oh, dude, totally. Some day I will articulate my thoughts more on Pansy, but honestly, what do we know about Parvati? She's a Gryffindor, she's beautiful, she likes Divination, she has a twin sister and in sixth year, her parents almost didn't send her back to Hogwarts... and that's it. I understand that it's Harry who, unless someone really gets under his skin doesn't pay attention to them (like how much do we know about Crabbe and Goyle? They didn't even have distinct personalities, ffs) but I still hate the way they were treated.
Also, FLEUR. I do genuinely get the feeling that JK likes Fleur, because she gets development and softer moments and the best one-liners, but I wish it would show more strongly within the text.Oh, yeah, ( ... )
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Ugh I love your Patil canon.
Also, this is one of the BEST Cho Chang slash Harry/Cho fics I've read ever.
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Harry out there somewhere with Lily's bigoted bitch of a sister when he knows James and Lily would have wanted him to step up but Dumbledore says no and anyway what the fuck can he give a child when he can't keep a roof over his own head and food on his plate without the charity of friends? When no-one will hire a werewolf because they fought on the wrong side and even those who would hire him have their hands tied as the likes of Umbridge push through harsher measures against his kind and now he has to sign his name on a Werewolf Registry so he can be monitored even though he's never done anything but try to be a good man.
And he's so angry all the time, and so tired and so sad.
One day, I will write this fic. Remus Lupin's Year Zero.
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Poor Remus. He really got shafted more than anyone I think, overall, and he didn't deserve it. Snape got fucked over too but he was an architect of his own misery, Remus just ... got fucked over for being one of the good guys.
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And ugh thank you so much, love, I am totally borrowing them for my Patil sister fic <333
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That's Padma's Boggart, btw. The other half of her, prone and shaking and foaming at the mouth, eyes rolling into the back of her head.
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omg :'(
My head canon of them is yours except Kali was friends with Mrs Parkinson and so Parvati and Padma were childhood playmates (not necessarily friends) of Pansy, Draco, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott and the rest of the Slytherin gang (the boys by proxy because I can just see big play dates between Pansy, Draco and the Slytherin "elite") when they were children, hence Pansy saying, "Never thought you'd like crybabies, Parvati" during their first flying lesson. Pansy always secretly liked the Patils because they were both so spunky and clever and brave, traits she'd always desperately wanted for herself, but she treated them with passive aggression because she was jealous, but whenever Draco or Theodore talked shit about them behind their backs, she was the first to defend them and it always leaves Draco baffled ( ... )
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