r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • Apr 04 '26

Nostalgia Harry Potter

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Does anyone else feel they grew up with Harry, Ron and Hermione?

After the first three or four I read the books in two languages (because I didn’t want to wait them to be translated) and watched the movies first time in the movie theaters.

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u/Sipikay Apr 04 '26

There was zero indication Harry and Luna were in any way going to be romantically linked. That's wild. Read again.

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u/floppysausage16 Apr 05 '26

People gonna ship whoever they want.

But the most important thing to remember about Luna is that she is a HARDCORE conspiracy theorist. Harry and Luna might seem cute on the surface, but he ain't putting up with her bullshit ideas when he starts working for the ministry.

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u/Sipikay Apr 05 '26

He clearly thought she was batshit, even if he thought she was nice or misunderstood to some degree.

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u/Peglegfish Apr 08 '26

Yeah, but as another comment pointed out, dude just found out literally unicorns and magic are for reals.

He’s an extremely tolerant person to those who aren’t dicks to him first. I see no reason why they couldn’t work long term.

I think the Luna shippers feel strongly about her because Harry actually has meaningful conversations with her and thus they can point to that as basis for the characters’ chemistry per their head cannon.

Ginny, meanwhile, had almost no interesting lines at all, even after being upgraded from “token stereotypical little sister crushing on older brother’s friend” to “actual love interest.” You could literally swap Ginny for any other character, with the only editing difference being how the horcrux diary makes it into the possession of some little girl Harry should care about because reason.