#i hope yall like this cos i'm literally already thinking of more

[ashby-santoso]

I’m really here for some queer Harry/Ginny headcanons

Bi Ginny likes flying with the Holyhead Harpies because there are lots of other queer women there. Her mother still doesn’t really understand why it’s important, and her father is supportive but asks millions of questions...but thank Merlin, Harry just gets it. He does a bunch of the admin in the background for her, and jokes around with her team mates, and when she hears about a new sport they’re playing in the states he runs lots of the errands and makes the sign-up sheets while Ginny does all the front-line organising. She is completely psyched for running the UK’s first magical roller derby league.

NB Ginny who was always a tomboy but never thought it might mean something more, who worries Harry won’t want them, who lives under the crushing weight of misgendering every day...NB Ginny is working on getting their shit together. They cut their hair short to try and make people see them right - it doesn’t work so sometimes they still charm it long because they like the way it frames their face. They do what they fucking want thanks. (But it’s lonely.) (And they’re tired.) But since they came out, they’ve had a few old school friends get in touch unexpectedly. Luna’s no surprise, but Dean Thomas? It’s a funny way to reconnect with an ex, but Dean’s been making friends with all the queers in london and they can show Ginny around and make them feel normal again and honestly thank merlin for genderqueer exes.

Trans boy Ginny didn’t know anything about transness. He worried that the masculine aspect of himself was Tom Riddle, still inside him. It was Harry coming out to him as bi that finally made him break down, and the years between his 22nd and 25th birthdays were just a patchwork of fear and pain and loneliness…but also, ultimately, of growth. Every version of Ginny has intrusive thoughts about Tom Riddle, and in the end every version has learned to manage them, even if it was harder for some than others. But anyway, things are better now. He knows where he’s at, mostly. And Harry says his new stubble is cute. (It takes a while for anyone to remember that Arthur Weasley had 6 older brothers, and that this makes trans boy Ginny the 7th son of a 7th son...but that’s another story.)

Trans girl Harry (just like all the Harrys) hates the press, but Colin Creevey’s been moving higher and higher at the Daily Prophet and he does love to write about her. It’s hard to be annoyed when it’s all articles about her latest Quidditch successes and recaps of key moments in the second war, the text still humiliatingly enthusiastic but emblazened with THE GIRL WHO LIVED in enormous print. Ginny buys them all and pins them up in the bathroom to make her laugh. Molly Weasley has taken to knitting Harry fluffy, aggressively pink jumpers with curly H’s on them and she’s not sure how to tell Molly that she’s actually kind of a butch lesbian and her wardrobe is 90% flannel. It’s ok though, Hermione basically lives in Weasley jumpers these days because the unspeakables tend to work long hours in cold rooms with no dresscode. The two of them have this cute little butch-and-femme-best-pals routine going on and it’s fun to give her the jumpers and then borrow them back sometimes.

Ace Harry thought he couldn’t really be with anyone, and it was chewing him up inside. Ron couldn’t see what the fuss was about - “well, could you just date somebody and not have sex with them?” - which was sort of unhelping but also sort of really comforting. Hermione made him worried he might have all sorts of deadly diseases (“Google says it could be a symptom –”) until she found AVEN and figured it out. Harry cried. He and Ginny had lots of conversations, and it was painful but they said everything they needed to and then they got married. A little while later, Charlie talks to Ron who talks to Fleur who talks to Bill who talks to Ginny who encourages Harry to go to France to visit Bill. Fleur declares that she Knew Eet All Along and Bill takes him out to a grotty Parisian bar to meet a motley assortment of other aces and aros with an array of partners, friends and hangers-on. Being Bill’s friends, they are all much cooler than Harry and want to talk about things like French anarchist politics and how to look after facial piercings, but they also make asexuality jokes at every opportunity and they’re obviously keen to make him feel included. It’s…nice. He’s still mostly closeted but now he has a little fantasy of starting up an ace pick-up Quidditch team someday.

Ace Ginny takes years to figure it out. When she finally does, the really important things between her and Harry don’t change - the late-night conversations, the stupid Quidditch jokes, being there when he comes home from therapy every week. Knowing she’s ace makes her happier, calmer, more centred - but sometimes the weight of the world comes down on her shoulders, the weight of every book and film and conversation telling her there is something wrong with her. Then she doesn’t feel like touching him, doesn’t want to curl up and cuddle like she usually does - but this is nothing new for them. Harry has bad days of his own sometimes and so they already have their own little language of fist bumps instead of hugs, blown kisses and cups of tea and giving each other lots of personal space in a way that adds up to saying, I love you. Ginny starts volunteering at a wizarding LGBTQIA charity, and she doesn’t really talk about her personal life in the Daily Prophet interviews she does but she makes sure all the people who matter know where she’s at, and she makes sure everyone knows what she thinks. She supplies Harry with hundreds of shiny pamphlets to put in the back of his Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom, so all his students will know it’s ok to be queer or ace or trans. The pamphlets disappear startlingly quickly, and he says it’s the only time he’s really proud to hear hero-worshipful teenagers saying Well HARRY POTTER told me or Did you know that GINNY WEASLEY says...

[yesokayiknow]

I'm not usually a fan of sorting House person (I know! for shame!!) but I am intrigued that Thirteen reads like a Slytherin to you. I love the idea, can you talk more about it?

i’m literally 100% up for talking about anything at any time so jot that down but also i’ve got a bit of a headache so idk how much sense this’ll make?? but yeah ok Reasons I Sort Thirteen (And Other Doctors) Slytherin Instead Of Ravenclaw Yes I Know I’m A Heathen (aka i don’t know what yall are talking about, thirteen is dark):

(i mean ok first of all to be fair the houses overlap a lot bc yeah this system isn’t perfect like at all)

(also this got long bc of course it did gdi also it could’ve been way longer but my head’s starting to hurt so)

the doctor lies. a lot. thirteen less so actually, but she still takes pretty great care to hide her true self from her friends. which is uh. still technically lying?? making sure that your friends are never around to see your true self?? waiting until they’re not looking before you grin at your enemies?? yeah that’s kinda lying. plus like uh that moment in arachnids in the uk where she’s about to go back alone in her tardis and she’s Very Obviously Sad? like i don’t wanna say manipulation but uh. manipulation. and thirteen is very good at this, especially bc she’s so open. every emotion is on her face, how could she lie?? except that’s kind of the point, isn’t it? every emotion on her face except for when she’s staring someone down. and then she goes very very still. no need to be the alien puppy if you’re trying to scare someone, after all. and honestly i don’t think she’s always doing this on purpose but like? grinning at her fam when she told them she never lost hope during the ghost monument? undercutting serious moments with little quips (like saying laters after dressing down the kerblam! worker)? thirteen is very loudly happy and excited and annoyed except when she isn’t, and they’re always the moments when her human friends aren’t looking too closely.

(i wonder if there’s a reason why when she was alone the doctor boasted and insulted and taunted the dalek before warning it to leave, but when she was with her friends she warned it almost straight away? and double checked with them to make sure she’d done the right thing?)

so like? that moment in the special where she doesn’t close the door?? you know she could’ve okay. she could’ve just snapped her fingers, but she couldn’t take the chance that the dalek would survive. the interesting thing being, if ryan’s dad had died would she have allowed them to keep thinking it was an accident? bc i think she would’ve. it’s weird how these little accidents keep happening huh. weird that tim shaw’s teleporter failed and took him halfway across the universe to a nearly dead planet. weird that there was no way to delay the kerblam! robots from exploding and killing charlie (and it’s not like her friends were touching the robot head she used to teleport them all. in fact, she was the only person touching it. so she couldn’t have widened the teleport’s areas and made it only include organics? really?). weird that she didn’t notice ryan taking the temporal displacer off her after she explained in detail how it worked to him (Better be nice to me, cos I’m your best chance of getting out of this time-zone now, she says to krasko. funny that it basically ends up being true, huh?). weird that it takes the tardis so long to take her new friends home that they’ve already become too attached to leave.

and oh the hypocrisy.

You were new. I have to lay down the rules if someone’s new. Also, don’t quote that back to me. My rules change all the time.

funny that. breaking the rules is what the doctor does, but don’t you dare break hers. no guns, not even when they would delay a creatures suffering (bc yeah bargain bin trump had bad intentions but those spiders were in pain and why is it for the doctor to decide when that suffering gets to end? and how? do you think the spiders care about the morality of certain weapons?), but bombs are okay. can’t shoot robots but you can fry their systems (and wow, she can stand back and watch ryan, who literally has dyspraxia, to go out into sniperfire to teach him a lesson instead of just setting the emp off before? even though she already knew it was there?). don’t change the past, but i don’t think she ever ended up checking where krasko ended up, did she? don’t hurt people but oh you can antagonise someone into attacking you bc you know it will cause their neural chip to go off and hurt them (and there was no need for that. she knew he had the chip and he knew he had the chip so why did she need to set it off?). don’t ever kill, but locking someone up in a prison for all eternity is fine. although hm, don’t remember anything being said about killing the dalek. or about the fact that it was always her plan to kill it. and in such a painful way, too.

the doctor cares of course, good god does she care, but it always just. takes a little moment to kick in, doesn’t it.she didn’t try to reroute the tsuranga before she met all the patients after all, and she never asked if her friends were alright. doesn’t ask before taking ryan’s phone because she needs it (and yes i know, she didn’t see what we saw, that he processed his emotions through his youtube channel, that he’s one of the few people on this show who actually called the police. we know he lost his mum and that his father left and that, not long after, his nan dies, and i wonder? how many pictures of them were on there? how many memories? ryan’s phone is important to him and she destroyed it without thinking). doesn’t think to tell the humans about the translation implants or why it would bother them, like she didn’t explain in full about the dna bombs that were implanted into them.

so i know gryffindors are meant to be the leaders but it’s actually slytherins who value leadership and the doctor is unquestionably always the leader (and when they’re not, something tends to happen to the current leader. though that hasn’t really applied to thirteen yet. though. hm. it’s proabably just a coincidence that the two people who try to take charge on the tsuranga are the only people who die huh. sure is weird that the doctor didn’t argue harder to check the side of the ship she wanted to. or that she never learned how to neuropilot ships when the doctor has such a love for flying machines of all kinds and she literally has a telepathic connection with her own ship. but never mind huh).

okay, so even with all that, the doctor’s thing is learning right? they’re usually the most intelligent person in the room and they adore finding out all they can, so why not ravenclaw? well, if the doctor was only concerned with finding new things out, then why would they go to places they’ve already been before? and yes of course they take people to see new things so they can see their faces when they learn and explore, but that’s not the only reason, is it?because as much as they need to know things, they need to see other people seeing how much they know things.

(I’m being extremely clever up here, and there’s no one to standaround looking impressed! What’s the point in having you all?)

sometimes they take people places to impress them or to intimidate them (and like man, don’t even get me started on ten taking martha to new new york) or to read their intentions (re: pretty much most of 12 and clara’s trips post danny). she takes yaz to see her family and seems shocked when she wants to change the past, even though they’d already been through this before with rose, even though they’d changed the events of the time war.

and actually though, for this series, the doctor hasn’t really done a lot of intentional exploring, has she? she’s responded to distress signals and she’s chased after the tardis and she’s gone to see new years celebrations and she’s ended up on a hospital ship (after looking for spare parts) and she’s tried to see an (ex? ish?) wife’s coronation.

and also like. wanting to know everything (and save everything and always be right and always be loved) is an ambition, after all, and it’s not like the doctor goes after it in a very nice way. the only thing is, thirteen doesn’t really seem to have that ambition? she wants to not be alone, and that’s pretty much it.

(and that’s probably a good thing. ten unravelled into the time lord victorious when he was alone. eleven spent so long alone that he started stalking a completely oblivious clara. twelve spent 4 billion years looping alone out of spite, then brought gallifrey to its knees. he was barely alone after and he tried to wipe bill’s mind. i shudder to think what thirteen would do if she was ever truly alone, but i don’t think it would be good for the universe)

tldr; imo yes the doctor does have quite a few ravenclaw ends, but reaches them all in slytherin ways. she’s manipulative, cunning, resourceful and ambitious (and also if you think about how dark the doctor is then like! yikes! yikes!)