#harry is the only one of 0t5 who actually reads & recommends novels

[zot3-flopped]

(it absolutely doesn’t help that many harries like to pretend he’s stupid and inarticulate and “never answers a question”)

👏👏👏👏👏This is so true. He is a bit rambly in interviews, but he’s a person who has had every word analysed - with professionals pulling deliberately bad interpretations, often - since he was 16! I’m watching my teenagers go through their phase of practising how to talk like adults, and the garbage that comes out of their mouths sometimes. But they aren’t afraid. There are no consequences. All in all Harry never had a low stakes environment in which to grow into it. And nowadays, every interviewer wants to catch him out about his love life or sexuality or supposed hatred of OT4. Of course he slows down to weigh his words.

It is really annoying when his fans - his fans! - do him down, because he has a lot of good stuff to say. He answers plenty of questions, in fact, often concisely and directly and a clear insight into the issue. With references to back up his words, or a book you could read on it. Just because the 1D marketing people decided at 16 he was ‘adorably slow’ doesn’t mean he actually is. Sometimes I see ‘lol the Harry we know and love, he obviously wasn’t going to answer that question’ and he DID, he just didn’t give you anything like the practised, pat response he might have given as a kid. Fans sometimes think like magazine articles. All they want is the headline that furthers their fantasy. Easy questions and easily paraphrased answers. They are so boring.

Yes, fans just want soundbite type responses because they have short attention spans. Harry reveals much more in interviews than some Harries and all Larries give him credit for. All this 'he's a blank slate anyone can project on' business is nonsense. He's a complex, well rounded individual with specific interests and passions that he's shared with us.