#anti victor krum

[singulxarity]

Anyone else seriously disturbed by how viktor, an 18 year old dated Hermione, a 14 year old and everyone was ok with it?

And then in the seventh book, he, a 21 year old wants to date Ginny A FUCKING 16 YEAR OLD ?!?!

Disrespectfully, jkr what the fuck

[expectopatronum18]

huh, it truly feels lovely too see it in words rather than random floating thoughts lmaoo

Hello, I want to ask you a question. Do you personally hate Romione and Hinny because of the movies, or you personally don't see the chemistry, or just hate the shippers, or do you just ship Harmony/ Harmione more, or all of it, or other reasons?

Hello, and thanks for the ask!

I wouldn’t necessarily say I “hate” the canon pairings because I do see some potential with them. What I do dislike about them is how they are written. One has a lot of problems to work out while the other is shallow and underdeveloped. If I I were JKR, I would’ve started the Hinny development around PoA or GoF and have Romione start developing around GoF and OOTP, with Ron starting to grow up and help Hermione with prefect duties. Add drama the builds character and relationship development, something JKR lacked badly. But none of that ever happened in the books. We get unwritten scenes of Hermione and Ron resolving their conflicts, Harry’s “chest monster”, Ginny being reduced to “Harry’s perfect wife” and a lot more things that I didn’t like about how the canon pairings came to be.

Some other things I don’t like about the pairings is that there’s no legit reason they like each other, and when people do think of reasons why they like each other, it doesn’t feel like a deep relationship. For Hinny, it’s just 2 hot quidditch players. For Romione, it’s that they both like fighting with each other that they are made for each other. I’ve never seen these reasons being thought of in other relationships in different fandoms.

JKR puts characters down for canon pairings. Krum ends up being a creep, Dean ends up being shamed for being too chivalrous, Lavender gets shamed for too lovey-dovey towards Ron, and Cho becomes disrespected by the narrative as well.

And lastly, a lot of their fans are annoying. People will say their ship is fantastically written even though we never see how those 2 interact one on one with each other for the majority of the story. They’ll say it’s one of the best romances in fiction even though they’re lacking in “missing pieces”.

[headcanonsandmore]

Viktor Krum: (turns up to Bill and Fleur's wedding reception, hoping to dance with Hermione)

Ron Weasley: Oh, not THIS time, beardy!

[shipforshippers]

Quidditch Match that I enjoyed in Chapter 8: The Quidditch World Cup

All that muggle repelling charms does make senses, wizards and witches hideaway but what about all the noise that these events will cause? How can ministry people stop the noise from reaching muggle?

Let me get this straight, if you don't have tickets, you don't get to watch these matches ever! You have to be present to watch these world cup matches, then what about all the other people who couldn't afford or make it to the world cup? Can't a radio station or something broadcast these matches to those people ( aka Molly Weasley)?

Honestly, the Stadium is magnificent!!!

Finally, Dobby is mentioned after a whole year of absence... and Winky is cute! Just like Dobby, I want to hug her!

Lucius Malfoy, this dude has some connections! I think with that donation to the hospital and his familiarity with Fudge, he wants to get back on Hogwarts board of Governors. And if he is doing that then it is a good strategy, Draco should take notes. Speaking of Draco why did Draco not make fun of Weasley and company for their very Slytherin looks during world cup match?

Honestly, Draco should learn from his dad about sass, Lucius has sass!

After reading that this is 422 Quidditch World cup, I am quite interested in the history of Quidditch World Cup...

Veelas are really scary and does that Veela effect has on lesbians and bisexuals as well? Mr. Weasley and Hermione were not affected by Veela, does it mean Ginny was? Does it mean, the text confirmed that Ginny is in fact a bisexual?! I don't care, what people think, I think this confirms that Ginny, is in fact, a Bisexual!!!

I want to write all players' names, but I am lazy and they are useless for later in the story except Krum! I completely forgot that Krum's first name is Viktor. Why do all Viktor-named characters have to be hot? Cue: Victor Nikiforov!

Is there no anti-Veeela spell or charm or Portion? Especially for those referees... And did those Leprechauns show the middle figure to Veela?

I am not gonna lie, it was a really well-done Quidditch match! I am happy Fred and George won the bet!!!

I haven't posted anything in a long time but if you reading this thank you! It means a lot!

[malfoygrass]

Could you write about a instance where either Draco or Astoria gets jealous and how they react?

-Why Not Both-

Draco Malfoy wasn't jealous! He wasn't, really, he had a perfectly good (if vindictive and social climbing) girlfriend named Pansy and he did not envy Harry Potter one bit. Especially not for taking little Astoria Greengrass to Hogsmade for a butter beer.

Why would he care about Astoria Greengrass, really, she was a baby, fifteen to his ( and Harry's) seventeen. Cute as she was and virtually off limits thanks to her frankly scary older sister Daphne, she barely registered on his radar these days. Except Draco was lying to himself and he knew it.

Astoria was different from the other girls in her year, Draco had caught her on more than one occasion smuggling illegal herbs and flowers to and from the dungeons and she as well might have seen him do one or two things he wasn't supposed to do when the 'Potter Stink' badges were distributed. She was secretive, the little slip of a girl, with her wide blue eyes that caught any detail in peripheral vision, silky brown hair, usually braided in a different classic hairstyle each day. She had a habit of following Draco with her eyes whenever they were in the same room, daring him to approach her and find out what she knew, crack open her secrets and maybe, just maybe, make her smile or steal a kiss. Which he didn't because he wasn't aware Astoria Greengrass existed .

Maybe he was fixated on her outing with Potter because she made her make believe look so easy. Little Astoria, daughter, sister, princess. Her circle of friends played the part of a court of storybook characters, the knight, the fairy, the jester, the simpleton, the smart peasant. In her vicinity everything was pastel, everything was pleasant, people drank tea and discussed the weather, classic books and the latest magic breakthroughs. To step into her world was to allow oneself to fall for her fairytale facade where only Astoria was in control of the narrative. Manipulative minx.

How Harry Potter fell for the ladylike princess act Draco didn't know but he wasn't fooled, Astoria was anything but docile under all her social graces, she liked her narrative and wasn't above hexing others to keep her court of roses in perfect working order. In her fairytale (or what she let people believe was her fairytale) everything was perfect and all a princess needed was a prince... Hence the date with Harry Potter.

Why couldn't she have picked him? He was a better bet! Did it really have to be the stupid chosen one. He was marching over to break up the lovebirds..but no, he wasn't jealous.

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Some people thought that Astoria Greengrass was above things like petty jealousy, or stealing someone else's boyfriend. She used to think so too, until she turned fifteen and Draco Malfoy began to notice her when she didn't want him to notice her.

That's when she discovered that no, she wasn't above stealing someone else's boyfriend, especially if that someone else was Pansy Parkinson.

At first Draco's meddling in her affairs had been annoying. Taking her precious Venus Faetrap back to Professor Sprouts greenhouse and subtly blackmailing her with the fact that he knew who had hexed Taylor Featherstone into keeping quiet about her stash of Larkspur and Belladonna.

She showed him she could play the same game, let him stew on his juices when he realized she'd known who was distributing anti Potter merchandise. Let him understand she wasn't to be intimidated when he caught her watching him slip a nasty potion in Collin Creevey's treacle tart. She was quiet not stupid and he wasn't all that he appeared to be either.

She didn't know when watching him had passed from a necessary evil to an entertaining pastime, but as it was, she began to learn his habits. The way he took his breakfast and which subjects he excelled at. For a Malfoy, Draco did hide alot in plain sight, like his love for sweets for example, and his perchance for illegal charms to keep himself perfectly clean and put together. Also Astoria could tell that he didn't care for Pansy, which was unfortunate since Astoria was beginning to care...for him

And she absolutely hated Pansy.

And feeling jealous was annoying, Astoria Greengrass didn't do jealousy as a rule, really, her life was perfectly put together in theory, every step planned down to the letter, plus there wasn't a chance in Hogwarts that Draco Malfoy liked her back.

It didn't mean she disliked Pansy Parkinson any less for getting to kiss Draco. The older girl was a vindictive menace, Ugh couldn't the pug faced cow tell that he didn't liked to be mauled in public?. If anything the day Astoria broke them up, she'd be doing Malfoy a favor. As soon as she figured out how to make Draco aware of the fact that she liked him she was going to push Pansy down a very deep wishing well.

But first she needed to find out if Hermione Granger liked him too. Because the rumors said she did and Astoria didn't have the heart to push HER down a well, Pansy Parkinson at least was decent competition, Hermione Granger was way above Astoria's league. It was like pitting Ron Weasley against Victor Krum.

Hence why she was making an effort to engage Harry Potter into conversation about Hermione Granger and somehow in an effort to get him alone, she'd ended up having a Hogsmade butterbeer with him.

Would her luck ever cease to amaze her?

Harry Potter tough, he was what her father would call a fixer upper. One conversation with him and Astoria was itching to take over his disastrous of life. The boy who lived needed a wardrobe overhaul, a decent magical attorney and a healthy dose of self preservation.

Oh Harry Potter was a project waiting to happen, Astoria felt her magic itching to just make his life better, cut his hair, fix his eyesight, feed him red meat.

Finally after making another subtle suggestion about a magical oculist in diagon alley she was getting ready to grill Harry on Hermione Granger when Draco flounced over like an a peacock

"Couldn't you have picked a better candidate for your new prince charming little Greengrass?" Draco sneered "this one is dead meat already, with what is coming for him"

"What did you just say big Ponce?" Harry Potter growled back "one can't even have a butterbeer in peace without you getting into one's business"

"He's not getting into your business Harry" Astoria murmured demurely but Draco saw her eyes flash in rage "he's meddling in mine, and for that I apologize"

"Astoria you are coming with me" Draco wagged a finger at Potter "I never knew the Greengrass house to consort with the rabble and you won't be starting now"

"Look who's talking, why don't you go off and suck face with Pansy" Astoria shot back "I'm sure she's thrilled anytime she gets closer to doing to you whatever dementors do with people's souls" then just to be petty she added "at least Harry Potter is pretty"

"Thanks Astoria" the clueless griffindoor mumbled just before Draco exploded "oh.. now I get it" Harry mumbled quietly to himself as he got what was happening and decided to stay out of Malfoy's lovers quarrel.

"Are blind? Out of all the people in my year you had to pick HIM? I never thought you to be a Potter fan"

"He doesn't have a girlfriend and Papa would love him, bad eyesight and all" Astoria fired mortified "And you don't get to tell me what to do, I can have as many dates as I want, kiss as many boys as I want, go cr... WHAT ARE YOU DOING" She squeaked as Draco pulled her away from her table dragged her out of The Three Broomsticks with as much force as he could

"Now listen listen to me Porcelain, jealousy does not look pretty on a face like yours, this ends now" Draco hissed as soon as they were far from onlookers "you want me to leave Pansy, fine! I will but if you ever let Potter or any boy so much as touch you again..."

"Break up with her" Astoria demanded a little out of breath trying to look him in the eye despite being so much shorter than him "break up with her and you'll be the only boy I will ever allow to touch me"

"You don't make the rules here" he was so close he could almost taste the butterbeer in her breath

"I'm not above kissing him to prove my point and you know it"

"Over my dead body, you're mine" he said just before he kissed her.

It was an impulsive kiss, hard and demanding, Astoria gave as good as she got pulling him by the lapels of his robe until she was out of breath "your jealousy will be the death of me"

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Later after trying and failing to stay away from each other during the subsequent school years, plus the battle of Hogwarts and the aftermath of it all, Draco's inability to let Astoria go and his need to stamp his ownership all over her would make itself known in the form of a particularly binding marriage contract and an over the top wedding.

Not that Astoria minded, after all...she did make him get a magical tattoo with her name in bold cursive.

[aziraphalesangel]

Harry Potter for the fandom ask thingy? And yes please to the explanations (wherever you feel like it)

oh boy, ngl it has been a Hot Minute since I’ve watched or read harry potter BUT:

1. favourite female character; Hermione. obviously. I love that booksmart know-it-all impulsive girl with the bad social skills, teachers-pet no shit attitude. I just love her a lot. also being able to spout the randomest but somehow relevant shit in class was something i did all the time too

2. favourite male character; Sirius. literally mostly because he can turn into a dog, also he’s really chaotic.  HAGRID. fuck yes lets go rescue some illegal animals, and support the fuck out of this random kid and his friends. gentle giant

3. favourite book: prisoner of Azkaban, because animagus, and werewolves, and buckbeak. also the whole thing with the dementors and the plot twist with peter and finding out about Sirius and stuff

4. favourite episode (so I guess i’ll do movie...): I... don’t know. probably one of the first three, the stakes are just a bit lower, and we’re still seeing all this cool new magic stuff

5. favourite cast member: ehhhh, probably emma watson. she seems cool

6. favourite ship: so by the time i got into fandom stuff, i’d sort of for the most part left harry potter behind. so this’ll be boringly canon, but ron and hermione, because it just takes them That Long for them to sort their shit out

7. a character i’d die defending: luna. she’s great. she deserves good things

8. a character i just can’t sympathise with: snape. it didn't matter how many times i finished the series, his thing with lily, and the excuse of having a childhood bully never felt like something that could excuse all his shit

9. a character i grew to love: .............. *forgets every character ever* um. maybe Percy. when i was little he was really annoying, but i sorta understand his situation a bit better now. also victor krum, he ended up being pretty cool

10. my anti-otp: i’m not particularly anti anything tbh

[headcanonsandmore]

This is a good day to remember that Ron being bisexual doesn’t automatically mean he fancied Kr*m. 

Seriously, why y’all think my redheaded boy has such bad taste?

[trueishcolours]

My siblings and I accidentally write a Ron/Victor Krum 4th year fix it fic in the group chat

Isabel: guyS

Rewatching goblet of fire

And I have to say

How amazing would it have if

It was a LOT less gendered

And also

If Ron and Krum had got together instead of Krum and Hermione

Thomas: Oh yeah there's so much Gender  

Isabel Ron already basically has a crush on Krum

Would have been great  

Thomas: idk, he's more jealous of him in my opinion  

Isabel: Nah

He has the action figure

He says he's an artist

It's definitely there

Thomas: Tru 

Clare: I mean on a superficial level I liked the Hermione/Krum part because it made me relate that a girl who is usually uninterested in 'feminine' things might still have some anxieties and take some interest now and again, and 'this super hot guy will like You, the Nerd' is standard wish fulfilment, but honestly I could take it or leave it. A grumpy feminist could equally well read it as 'EVEN smort girls like Hermione want to be feminine REALLY uwu'

And that would be a boring analysis but the whole feminine versus not argument is boring and not what we're here for

Anyway

The Krum drama kicks off the Romione subplot and honestly I hate Romione as a ship, to me it feels forced from beginning to end

But Ron/Krum would tie in really nicely to the whole character arc for Ron that JKR started in the first book and then forgot about where he evolves into an amazing intelligent badass without noticing it

Picture: He is dooting along, vaguely bummed because he's nothing special compared to his older bros, then in book four he realises wait he DOES stand out from others because he's gay/bi/whatever but he's not sure he WANTS that because standing out for being a minority is a fucking hassle but by the seventh book he is war hero, chess master and gay icon and vaguely confused about it

Hell, you could even have Hermione go to the ball with Krum, get her girly character development in and have Ron freak out and both of them /assume/ it's about her when it's not

It would just

Be better Thomas: Queer theory saves the day once again

Clare: :D  

Isabel: JUST BASICALLY RON, ALL THE TIME, WITH A BETTER CHARACTER ARC

Thomas: I love this  

Isabel: Honestly decades later I am still just so salty about Ron's lack of development, hell, anti development. I just want everything for him

Clare: Like, not to make it automatically angsty just because it's gay but Ron being Not Straight ties in so well with his typical theme of qualities that he think make him less than Textbook Perfect actually being his great strengths (I read a great analysis that Ron actually achieves all his brothers' goals without trying or noticing)

Ron just utterly stalls as a character in the books

And Harry is a shitty friend to him by the end

She kind of pulled it back with his deathly hallows arc but it was bungled and could have come across as just bashing him

Isabel: HE IS. Ron is so taken for granted.

Clare: God, Ron is SO much less of a dick if his yelling at Hermione in book four is coming out of Sudden Repressed Realisation, not just 'woman I like is doing something I don't like'

Isabel: I watched film 4 last night and just everyone??? Is so horrible to each other??? All the time??? I swear in the books it's so much better handled

Other reasons why bi/gay Ron headcanon is important: - most masculine of the trio/ has a million big brothers so dealing with toxic masculinity/ bucking queer stereotypes in there too - an extra 'fuck you' to the whole pure blood thing which I reckon is really homophobic as it means your bloodline won't get continued or some shit - Krum coaching Ron on Keeping in bad English. Tell me it's not cute. - Ron's a linguist (he learnt parselmouth on like 2 listens)!! Tell me he wouldn't learn Bulgarian?! - just, chaotic bilingual Quidditch talk, all the time, forever?!

Clare: UM your pidgin Quiddich is now my new fave headcanon forever????? You're SO RIGHT Ron is smart, he's just not academic. He would DEFINITELY pick up a language fast if he was using it to talk to his boyfriend/about quiddich

Isabel: EXACTLY

Clare: Plus all the stuff you said about toxic masculinity and purebloodism.

MAKE THE SUBTEXT TEXTUAL, YOU COWARDS

Isabel: #giveRonaBoyfriend2k18

Also not around for the lowkey weirdness of Ron and Harry dating CANONICALLY IDENTICAL AND BORING non white girls to the Yule Ball

I know that you can overdo all this stuff but seriously the fuck

Clare: It is a bit odd and icky   

Isabel: Ok so this is what happens

Krum asks Hermione to the Yule Ball and it's like she gets her cute moment with him

But then instead of spending the whole evening being a whiny bish Ron shows un-JKR-characterisation-characteristic maturity and puts a brave face on it and talks to them both

He's upset but doesn't full on ruin their evenings

And then Hermione after the ball, (gradually realising with slight horror that she and Krum actually have literally nothing in common) kind of keeps... asking... Ron to hang out with them

And at first Ron's like lol no way am I third wheeling

But then the temptation to hang out with his literal idol becomes too strong

And he and Krum start hanging out independently of Hermione

(who's probably in the lib helping Harry study for the second task at this point anyway)

The weather is still too cold for Quidditch

Ron thinks

But somehow Ron ends up playing anyway

IN THE SNOW

WITH VICTOR

HE'S GETTING COACHED BY AN ACTUAL WORLD CUP FINAL SNITCH CATCHING PLAYER AND HE IS NOT CHILL

Clare: Hoooooly fuck this is perfect

(except he actually is because it's like -10 and snowing what the fuck Krum) Ron putting his big boy panties on and dealing during the ball, leading to him actually having an in with Krum via Hermione

I love the dynamic of Hermione just...awkwardly asking her friends to hang with them...just to break the silence...

Isabel: YEAH EXACTLY

And then them all actually having a nice evening

Clare: I mean the point of Krum with her was to get that 'YASSSS I'm dating a hot guy!' moment WHILE ALSO showing how easily it fizzles, so nothing needs to change there

Hermione could even do her 'ugh, quiddich and BOYS' routine

Isabel: Awkward because of course it is awkward what is a teenage party without angst but also, fun

yeah exactly! the slow dawning that fuuuuck, I've just brought another stupid quidditch boi into my life oh god why

Clare: Ron still knows more about the history of the game and all the technical terms than Harry so has more to talk to Krum about

Isabel: And then you know Ron and Krum stumble back into the castle with Ron wearing Krum's hat à la Chad and Ryan, and Skeeter doesn't bat an eyelid because it doesn't fit her trashy narrative

Clare: RIGHT I've got to sleep I'm getting a cold but I love this

Isabel: ok go sleep

OK ONE MORE POINT

we almost certainly get the insanely awkward 'think you're in luurve Ron' or 'lol if you love Krum so much you should date him not Hermione'! moment from either Fred or George or maybe Ginny

And there's just a kind of... missing step moment

Clare: I think all of them would do that

I mean they're pretty mean to Ron anyway, especially about love

Isabel: Exactly they're all horrible but MAYBE this would teach them!!

Clare: Exactly! It would rip the rug out from under them and they'd be like wait shit

Isabel: We are actually mean to Ron... a lot

Clare: Especially because in this timeline Ron still gets the hassle from his sibs but unlike in the main timeline where he is just butt monkey forever he has the trump card that he's got a boyfriend who's a world famous quiddich player

Like, if you're Fred, George, Ginny or even Molly you can't really come back from that reveal. Ron wins.

Isabel: Krum actually being a laser focussed guy who gives people he cares about 300% of his attention

And middle child syndrome attention starved Ron just soaks it up like a blooming Icelandic kid under a sunlamp

Ron win evertiem

Clare: Yeahhhhhh. Being a prodigy who's trained from such a young age he's got to nail that work life balance and it's like 90% work 10% life but that life is INTENSE, he's seen too many people lose their relationships because they won't switch off their metaphorical phones during dates, he gets one (1) month a year and about three (3) important people and when it is Person Time it is PERSON TIME

Right bed for eal I'm dying

Isabel: BED FOR EEL

UGH ALL I WANT IN MY LIFE IS THE 50K+ SLOW BURN QUEER 4TH YEAR REWRITE

BUT I LEGIT DON'T HAVE TIME TO WRITE IT AND I DON'T TRUST MYSELF TO GET RON POV RIGHT ANYWAY

Clare: Bebs I wish you could write it

The raw chemistry my goodness

I ship it now

Is there going to be 'you are treating me like an idol not a real person please stop' angst at any point?

Isabel: OF COURSE THERE IS

Clare: Also Krum is like 'I knew I could trust you because you are bffs with Harry Potter and you treat him like he's totally normal you must be so mature and cool he is so so lucky to have a friend like you

Or well, Krum insecurity that people only like him because of his celeb status anyway

Which is probably why he went for Hermione in the first place because she didn't give a shit

'WOULD WE EVEN BE TOGETHER IN THE FIRST PLACE IF IT WASN'T FOR QUODDICH?'

'... I love you.'

'Bro I wouldn't care if you were the worst player in the world as long as we both are fans of the sport together.'

'Bro.'

Isabel: BRUH

Also can I just ask...?

What happens in the second task??!!?

It's already messed up enough under that lake, love triangles all over the place

This would just be the final straw that resulted in everyone just shrugging and teaming up

Clare: Holy shit

Krum just doots along, takes Ron and goes

Harry's like...wait what...OK...um I guess Hermione and Ron are equally important to me so I'll just take her kk

Isabel: Krum and Ron appearing on the surface of the lake like 'fuck'

The most dramatic declaration of intent ever

Turning yourself into a shark and rescuing them from the bottom of a lake

Clare: Everybody in the stands is SHOOK

Dumbledore like dang I did not predict this

With their hair soaking wet they are both at maximum hot

Isabel: Rita Skeeter's quill combusts

Clare: Krum doesn't point her out as a beetle in Hermione’s hair he's too busy with Ron

Isabel: Yeah she's like where is my gossip at??? Nothing is happening over in Hermione's hair

But yeah I feel like Dumbledore would be like, oh darn, looks like I'm gonna have to show queer solidarity with Ronald Weasely or something

KRUM AT THE BURROW VERY SERIOUSLY COMPLIMENTING MOLLY ON HER FOOD AND ASKING FOR BRITISH RECIPES AND WINNING HER OVER IN A TRICE

Clare: Would Krum charm Molly straight away though? He's very surly and shy and, in the books, not very handsome. Wouldn't Molly start out yikes who is this quiddich yob my son has taken up with?

Ginny on the other hand. Comes out as bi a couple of years later, tells Ron she only started to realise thanks to his example, apologises for being a dick about his love life

Isabel: Yeah I guess actually

I think Molly can get fierce

Clare: She's probably got a bit of pure blood/homophobic anxiety that she cloaks as objections about THIS PARTICULAR boy

Isabel: Either she loves you and adopts you right away or she is like /pulling shotgun down from the shelf/

EXACTLY

She's like

Blaming herself, oh I should have paid more attention and NOW look what's happened

Poor Ronald, always neglected

And Ron's like... mum... this is great

I am happy

Is not problem

Clare: Ron is like I AM NOT DOING THIS FOR ATTENTION JESUS CHRIST

I mean he's probably enjoying having the attention of a quiddich super star and I bet he'd even enjoy the celebrity status of The Boyfriend a bit (best friends get sidelined but romantic partners are news) but he's not doing it FOR attention

Isabel: Yeah, and I think the suggestion that he is would just make him so mad

First confused and then mad

Oh the ANGST

Clare: Especially since that's Krums biggest anxiety

Isabel: Mr Weasely would be chill. I feel like in this whole equation he is the chillest

Clare: What would Percy say? Would social climbing or doing the done thing win out?

Also the attention thing is a way for parents to make their child's relationship all about them. Oh you want me to LOVE you more! No mum I'm growing away from you this is normal

I think Ron would get jealous around Bill and Charlie because they'd swing in all oh our brother is rebellious and has a cool boyfriend? Well we are cool rebels also welcome to the family Victor

Isabel: Yeah... I think Percy is probably pretending to be chill with it and being a bit smarmy to Krum then says something awkward and homophobic and it's worse than if he'd just said it straight up

Clare: I think a lot of Liberal but still pure blood families would take the line of, 'it's fine that you're gay...because you're the sixth son so your blood line isn't in danger and making a socially advantageous match is probably more important for you anyway! And Ron is like Y I K E S

Isabel: Yeah exactly, well I suppose you have enough sons Molly amirite

What do we think about the Krum family?

Are they just happy that their son is forming human relationships

Clare: Hmm. How do they feel about celebrity? Do they think Ron is Not Good Enough or are they actually quite a normal family and are glad Krum has an ordinary guy to keep him grounded?

Isabel: I kind of don't want Ron to have to deal with random Bulgarian disapproval

I think maybe a quite normal family who had a kid who was a genius and has been at boarding school/ travelling for years and years

Maybe Krum already came out to them so that drama is in the past

Clare: Yeah and when he brings Ron home for dinner they're just delighted that Krum is home at all and that he's happy

Yeah maybe he did

He's probably had a lot of time to introspect because of his image and maybe he's an only child?

Isabel: And Ron speaks accented but ok Bulgarian by this point and they're like !!!

Clare: I think one aspect of the large family thing that WOULD affect Ron is its just that much harder to have a private word with your parents so confiding about yourself, especially when you're not 100% sure, just isn't part of the family culture

And there's no time for introspection when you're jockeying for position with six siblings

So Krum is out to his parents while Ron isn't even out to himself

Plus Krums just that bit older

Isabel: No, when you ask for a word it's all 'yes Ron' a bit exasperated

Clare: Krum’s family are just delighted that Ron speaks Bulgarian and is a normal guy who likes their son for himself

Isabel: Maybe they have some kind of cool engineery job and Ron goes out the back and is like well my dad likes cars I will try and help

Uses his mathsy chessy knowledge

Clare: Re. Homophobia I think it is important that it's not all YOU'RE GOING TO HELL like the Muggle brand but instead is very focused on producing pure blood children. Also with the smallness of the pure blood community I bet there's a lot of, not official arranged marriage, but kind of assumed marriage, like in Pride and Prejudice or what may have happened with Prince William and Kate, like, there's three girls your age who your family's on speaking terms with who aren't your first cousins and it'll massively throw off everybody's plans if you don't marry one of them

Yes Ron helping with engineering

Isabel: Headcanon of the Krums as magical engineers with a side passion for quidditch

Clare: I bet he picks up arithmancy that way. Can't learn it in the classroom, can learn it in the garage. And he comes home from the holiday able to actually help his dad with the car and thenceforth Mr Weasley is on board

Isabel: Yeah exactly... they're a bit 'sigh ok this means you're not gonna marry bertha from the bakery but hell at least it's not a veela'

Clare: Also wizarding society is inherently conservative, they haven't even updated their writing system, so anybody doing anything different is looked askance at unless they can play themselves as a genius eccentric like Dumbledore

Isabel: So yeah then Ron turns out to be WHOLESOME af and Krum’s family are like... ok fine. this is fine. In fact yay!

Ok I have to go do some work but this has been almost as good as having the fic itself

Clare: Maybe I'll put a summary on my tumblr and see if anybody wants to adopt it

[tom-arvology]

My inner krumione is dancing. ✨

What I love most about Krumione is that Viktor was content to just be with Hermione in that moment. He was content to watch her study or briefly dance or for her to write to him occasionally. He didn’t need for her to be his, he just wanted her to be happy and to just be in her presence when he could.

Ron was always so possessive about Hermione that he didn’t enjoy the time he spent with her; he was too busy insulting her and spazzing out about every male that looked in her direction. They never genuinely got along but she seemed so happy when she was with Viktor.

[fanficspringboard]

Snitch

Status: Complete

Wordcount: 17k + media of ~10k words

Rating: Teen

The war has ended and Viktor Krumm retired from his sports career. Now he spends time uncovering remnants of blood purist and Death Eater activity across Europe. A series of anonymous letters leads him to new investigation path.

This fanfiction is driven by plot - we follow Victor through his travel across Europe trying to unravel the sudden spike in anti-muggle sentiments and discover the author behind the letters and cryptic notes. The read is highly immersive through inclusion of various forms of documents - letters, postcards and newspaper articles.

I liked that a background character like Viktor Krum plays a leading role and is portrayed free of detective clichés. The story engages also in speculation on how Voldemort's lead to ripple effect across Europe and how Death Eaters were avoiding justice. Once both mysteries are revealed, the solution is surprising and satisfying to the reader. A solid, enjoyable mystery story

9/10

Link to AO3: click

Image from Unsplash by Arthur Ogleznev

[sofiaxkrum-blog]

❝ Where there is kindness, there is goodness, and where there is goodness, there is magic. ❞ Sofia Krum, Maisie Williams, Fifteen, Incoming Fifth Year, Hufflepuff, Cis-female, Halfblood, She/her

I. Family

From the time she was just a little thing, Sofia was close to both her parents. She didn’t really take after either of them though - she wasn’t interested in Quidditch, although she did like flying itself, and few things could calm her down like going out with Papa on a broom. And though she had certain artistic abilities, she wasn’t an artist like Mama, but she loved to go to the atelier with Evangeline and stay there all day, entertaining herself while Mama worked. Sofia idolized her parents and thought they were the most amazing people in the world, and hasn’t grown out of that yet. Even now that she’s fifteen, she has yet to be embarrassed by them. Sofia is in contact with them on a daily basis - texting, phone calls, etc - although she’s trying to cut the apron strings a little. It’s just that she loves her parents so much and wants them to know everything that’s going on in her life. She’s equally close to Evgenia though; she thinks Evgenia is the best person in the whole world and often goes to her for advice or just to chat.

II. Personality

Sofia has her head in the clouds. Sofia’s work has shown great improvement this year. Sofia needs to pay more attention in class. Every report on Sofia from school is an odd mix of praise for how hard she works and rebuke for her absent-mindedness. This duality has always characterized her; from the time she was little, she was always willing to put her all into any task she had to undertake, but was very easily distracted from what she needed to do. When she’s passionate and invested in a project, she works on it with her whole heart, but otherwise, she’s flighty and easily distracted. Aside from that, she’s very much a Hufflepuff, through and through. She has always been loyal to a fault, and a hardworker (again, when she’s invested in something), and keen on ensuring things are as fair as possible. Once she makes a friend, they’re her friend for life, and it takes a great deal to lose her trust - and even with that, Sofia is optimistic enough that she rarely cuts someone out for good.

III. History

Although she grew up with the knowledge that Papa was a Quidditch player, it wasn’t until Sofia was nearly ready to go to Hogwarts that she truly realized he was famous. She was sheltered enough from the side-effects of fame and absent-minded enough that she simply didn’t notice the fans who clamored for his attention or the newspaper articles about him (Sofia, reading the newspaper? laughable). But when the family went to Diagon Alley for the trip before she began Hogwarts, she did take note of the eyes and whispers that followed them, especially when they stopped by the Quidditch supply store (not for Sofia, thank goodness, because she did not like Quidditch). Even her lack of attention only extended so far, and she stared right back at the people who watched them - until Mama told her to stop. After that, Sofia became more aware of what it meant to be a Krum - both because of her father and her mother. Though not as many people seemed to be aware of her mother, there were still those who took note of her. Victor and Evangeline sat down with Sofia and talked about what it meant to be famous, and how easy it would be to take advantage of it, and why Sofia should never do that. She took that lesson to heart and has always done her best to downplay her surname, introducing herself simply as Sofia unless she’s forced to add Krum.

Is your character involved in any summer programs? Do you wish for your character to be a Prefect, Head Student, or a member of the Quidditch team?: None! (Sofia is . . . not a good fit for a prefect, she’s too absent-minded and a bit of a pushover. And she’s not interested in Healing or the Ministry or Quidditch)

By submitting this application, you are pledging that you have read the guidelines and will follow them. Most importantly, this includes the rules about not engaging in abusive behavior and not being racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, anti-semitic, ableist, etc. You are also promising that you will not plagiarize anyone’s work, ideas, and/or characters. If you are found to have done any of these things, you will be promptly removed from the roleplay. Do you agree to these terms?:Yes / No

Anything else?: I just love this rp so much. Also I have some musings and things here

[academy13]

Realized today at work that I could probably write an essay about The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and fascism, I mean there is a lot to unpack with that given you know like... European history in the 20th Century. Victor Krum’s family would’ve been targeted by Nazi’s I’m sure of it, particularly if they were targeted by the wizard equivalent. 

I mean, you can make so many arguments about anti-Semitism and Voldemort (if that guy wasn’t taking notes from what Hitler and the Nazis were doing I’ll eat my shirt), let alone the IRL implications of the goblins and how Rowling freaking wrote them (and gods above I was learning about the Holocaust at just about the same period as the books were coming out, how did we not cover anti-semitism then?!) and just... there is so much to unpack about the fictional world and the real world implications (and considering I assume much of real world history happened in the fictional one, we are talking a lot to cover.)

Like I really need to find my books so that I can dissect them chapter by chapter.... and I really need at least copies of the Fantastic Beast’s scripts or something to dissect them scene by scene, because I know I’ll have A LOT to say about the Dumbledore one.

[headcanonsandmore]

You know what, I’m tired of being silent about this, so I’m just bout to come out and say it.

There is no way in hell that Hermione would have caught Krum’s eye if she wasn’t JKR’s self-insert.

I said what I said.

[headcanonsandmore]

Me, everytime V*ktor Kr*m starts eyeing up Hermione and Ginny: 

[headcanonsandmore]

*At a Bulgarian Ministry function*

Vikt*r Kr*m: Ah, I see you and Hermione are married now.

Ron Weasley: Yep.

Vikt*r Kr*m: Fair enough. *turns to a friend*

Vikt*r Kr*m: *in Bulgarian* What does he have that I don't?

Ron Weasley: *in perfect Bulgarian* The ginger hair is a big plus.

Vikt*r Kr*m: ...

[headcanonsandmore]

You know, when you really think about it I feel like Ron was perfectly justified with not wanting Hermione to be with Krum considering the fact that he was an adult and she was 15/14 at the time

Exactly. Ron had good reason to be concerned; it baffles me why (in-universe) none of the teachers were worried.