Harry and Hermione ALPHABET → PARALLELS
The mermaid in the prefects’ bathroom was laughing. Harry was bobbing like a corkin bubbly water next to her rock, while she held his firebolt over his head.
“Come and get it!” she giggled maliciously. “Come on, jump!”
“I can’t,” Harry panted, snatching at the Firebolt, and struggling not to sink. “Give it to me!”
- Harry’s dream before the second task.
He turned back to Hermione, raised the jagged rock and began hacking at her bindings too — At once, several pairs of strong gray hands seized him. Half a dozen mermen were pulling him away from Hermione, shaking their green-haired heads, and laughing.
“You take your own hostage,” one of them said. “Leave the others…”
“No way!” said Harry furiously - but only two large bubbles came out.
- Harry during the second task.
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“Actually I’m highly logical, which allows me to look past extraneous detail and perceive clearly that which others overlook.”
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I’ve well and truly soaked myself in Potter this week - mainly because I am being so nostalgic; rereading DH, rewatching DH1 and it’s literally everywhere on my dash (and I am in no way complaining)
This boy grew up in a cupboard. A cupboard. He lived with people who either feared him, despised and resented him or associated far too much pain to him to treat him like a normal human being - probably all three on most occasions (Petunia, my dear, I’m looking at you). How Harry can even function as a person and string together a coherent sentence is nothing short of a miracle (don’t get me started on the sheer oversight of the Harry-Dursley relationship apart from the obligatory chapter in the first sections of the books - how Harry didn’t murder them all, bury their bodies in shallow graves with lime and set Privet Drive on fire I’ll never know. Anyway.
I’m getting off point).What does this scene mean for me: It’s not in the books, no - but at the same time, it is. Romantic slants aside (and I admittedly struggle to separate that from this scene), this embodies the emotion of them both. This is about searching for hope, finding hope in distraction. They’re not happy, they’re miserable. They’re not focused and purpose driven, they’re in discord and lost. There’s this huge gaping hole, and a daunting task that neither of them feel equipped to do, but are nonetheless ingrained in the solution (Harry because this is really the only path he’s ever known since his awakening in the wizarding world and Hermione because she feels bound to not only the morality but also to Harry as a person).
But at the same time, Harry has never ending hope. He refuses to settle for things the way they are. He doesn’t want to accept that things are shit - he wants things to be different, he wants there to be a reprieve. Hermione has unbelievable trust. In not only herself, and the calls that she makes (while I don’t agree with some of the calls/decisions she’s made
and that’s yet another story) but Harry. Alot of it is unspoken, but it’s evident. And that is what draws me to them both, that potent combination. It doesn’t make me resent other characters, or hate on them - but it does pull me one way more than others.
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my top 20 otp’s → Harry & Hermione
“I suppose you’ve all been having a real laugh, haven’t you, all holed up here together” | Such a powerful wave of relief swept through Harry that for a moment he felt light-headed. | Harry and Hermione moved instinctively together peering through the trees. | “Oh yes, I forgot— if it was darling Hermione’s idea…” | “[…] And it might have been a good idea to mention how ugly you think I am too…” Hermione added as an afterthought. “But I don’t think you’re ugly.” | Did you kiss?” asked Hermione briskly. | Harry moved his head over on the pillow. In the bed to his right lay Hermione. Moonlight was falling across her bed. Her eyes were open too. She looked petrified, and when she saw that Harry was awake, pressed a finger to her lips. | It was the first time she had ever said Voldemort’s name, and it was this, more than anything else, that calmed Harry. | Hermione made a loud tutting noise. She reached up and pulled Harry back into his seat. “Honestly!” she said. | Harry couldn’t understand how he hadn’t spotted it before. | “It’s not Quidditch that’s popular, it’s you! You’ve never been more interesting, and frankly, you’ve never been more fanciable.” | Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. “…then I declare you bonded for life.”
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The way she looks at him is so heartbreaking, hopeless, intense and sweet, goes beyond words!
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EMMA WATSON: It is full-on. [Harry/Hermione Kiss] Actually, I forgot how full-on it was until I saw the movie, and I was like, ‘Blimey, where did that come from?’ It was really full-on.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: To be honest, it wasn’t too awkward. It was quite enjoyable. I quite liked it. She [Watson] was very good as well, I might add. It was passionate. I thought it was going to be a slow, soft shy kind of thing, but no, that went out the window very quickly. It was vigorous. It was great!
EMMA WATSON: Dan is very funny and talkative and we could just have a laugh about it. Kissing Rupert, he’s slightly more quiet so I was like, ‘Oh, God, what’s he thinking?’ Whereas the whole time with Dan I knew exactly what he was thinking, so that helped.
SEATTLE TIMES: Watch the raging chemistry on display between Emma Watson’s Hermione and Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry in this movie…
WIRED.COM: If you are the sort of person who reads smutty Harry-Hermione fan fiction, a still from this scene is going to be your desktop background for at least the next 12 months. If you’re a parent who unwittingly took a 5-year-old to see the PG-13 Deathly Hallows (and you didn’t walk out after the brutal murder in the first 10 minutes), you can’t say you weren’t warned: This scene is in the book! Oh, sure, it’s just Voldemort’s Horcrux coming to life and playing on Ron Weasley’s deepest fears and insecurities, but, hey, his loss is our gain. The thing he least wants to see is worth the extra $5 for an Imax ticket.
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