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It’s weird how a lot of the fandom keeps these character in perpetual teenage stasis when they discuss anything about their potential lives post-canon. How many of y'all are still the same person you were in high school? People grow, especially over a period of freaking decades. Claims of how it doesn’t make sense that a character is a better person now, or how this or that relationship wouldn’t work based on behaviours those people exhibited as 17-year-olds seem silly to me.

There are a lot of things I don’t like about the Cursed Child, but one of the things I DID like was how it felt so right that Harry would mature enough to have reasonable interactions with Draco and Dudley. Throughout the series they were mainly enemies, with Draco and Dudley doing awful things to Harry and him sometimes returning it in backlash, but near the end Harry glimpsed alternate sides to them both (and same with Percy Weasley), and that, I think, is important to understand about Harry. He’s not the type to hold the grudge if he can help it, and I think that would get even more true as he grew older.

The thing about Harry Potter as a character is that he is insanely observant when he actually cares enough to pay attention. Meaning 90% of the stuff he deems unimportant flies over his head, but he makes these huge leaps of logic and intuition when he bothers to focus. Like in the books when it comes to anything relating to Voldemort or Death Eaters or People Not To Be Trusted (Draco, Umbridge). Growing up, he had to be able to see when a situation was going south long before the frying pan or Dudley’s fists came his way. But he also had to be able to ignore and tune out the constant flow of shit and neglect he was treated to.

If you think about it, for all the better aspects of Hogwarts, it still followed this same basic pattern. He had to pay close attention to the things trying to kill him (even classes took a back seat to this), but find a way to ignore and not acknowledge all the rumors and staring and people thinking he’s a prat or the heir of slytherin or a liar. I think this is why the arguments that Harry is a mushroom and notices nothing, and the arguments that he is deductively brilliant can exist side by side. He’s both. It’s also why, in my opinion, he tends to be ridiculously observant of Ginny once he starts to notice her as something important. She barely exists in the early narrative other than Someone to Be Saved. It’s also why Ginny can sometimes feel like she ‘comes from nowhere’ in the narrative. As far as Harry is concerned, she did come from nowhere. The switch in Harry’s brain went from Doesn’t Matter–Ignore to Very Important–Pay Close Attention, and BAM, there she was. Everywhere.

a boy and his dogfather

So this happened yesterday!

A very cool bucket-list thing to happen: The very kind Farrah Penn from Buzzfeed asked me if she could interview me and share my comics! Thank you to everybody who has come from buzzfeed to follow me and welcome to my tumblr!! 

I can’t wait to share more work with you all! <3

I’ve always loved those comics, and I’m glad they’ve been recognized now ❤️

Check these comics out if you haven’t already, they’re beautiful.