#i read all the james herriot books like 900 times when i was a kid and somehow never picked up on any of the interpersonal stuff

[recurring-polynya]

I've been watching the recent Masterpiece adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small and James' romantic rival looked weirdly familiar and he was, he was played by Matthew "Neville Longbottom" Lewis. Like, I knew I should have been prepared for this back when there were all these Buzzfeed "Neville grew up hot!!" articles, but I was not, in fact, prepared.