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Harry ignoring Olivia on the red carpet and while they were sitting down to watch the movie etc. feels icky to me. Like until what, a week ago(?) she was at all of his shows and they were going strong (I don’t think they are dating for real but you get my gist), but now it kind of gives me the vibe he’s trying to ignore her to distance himself from her and the bad press she’s been getting. Even though he was totally fine to play up their (fake, I think) relationship for press or as a bearding situation or what have you. Which is fine, but i feel annoyed that he doesn’t just suck it up now and act like a supportive bf or at least a friendly coworker(!!) when things are weird and tense. I’m explaining this badly but it just makes me shake my head and saw grow the fuck up Harry and do or say something real and don’t just weasel out of a situation that is maybe uncomfortable now when this is a person you’ve been spending significant amounts of time with for over a year and reaping the benefits of the public relationship. Does that make sense?

I've got a lot of anons about how what Harry did in Venice. I'm going to respond specifically to this one about Harry ignoring Olivia an then I'm going to respond to a bunch about the dynamic more widely.

I saw a lot of this sort of comment - and I genuinely don't understand it. As I understand it there were three people who didn't interact with each other in the formal events: Harry, Florence and Olivia. But fandom has talked about it as if Harry ignored Olivia (always with the undertone that this was bad for Olivia) and the Florence and Olivia ignored each other. Nothing about Olivia also ignoring Harry and Florence and Harry ignoring each other.

I think the most likely explanation for what happened is that Harry and Olivia and their teams and the movie's PR people all decided that any interaction would be too heavily surveilled and high risk and it'd be best not to interact. I could be wrong about that.

Whatever happened both Harry and Olivia actively made a choice to pursue it. The fact that so many people (for very different reasons) have turned it into something Harry did to Olivia is interesting - but it also must be rejected by people who are interested in understanding what happened.