One of the funniest things about harry potter is how jkr accidentally made harry incredibly bisexual.
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| Title: | one of the funniest things about harry potter is how jkr accidentally made harry incredibly bisexual. |
| Creator: | transpoe |
| Date(s): | 2016 or earlier? |
| Medium: | tumblr post |
| Fandom: | Harry Potter |
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one of the funniest things about harry potter is how jkr accidentally made harry incredibly bisexual. is an untitled tumblr post by user transpoe, which now has over 54 thousand notes.
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one of the funniest things about harry potter is how jkr accidentally made harry incredibly bisexual. she forgot that the average straight teenager does not have an inner monologue about how attractive his opponents, friends, and godparents are. and thus we were blessed with bi harry.
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[svlvzvr]
This is honestly one of my favorite things about the books
[sameatsbird]
Wait, do monosexuals never think “this person is attractive” about someone who is not their preferred gender?
[harricislife]
I agree with Harry being bisexual, but all of those are not his inner monologues, because he is not the narrator of the story. The story has an omnipresent, omniscient narrator, and there is a great post somewhere on tumblr that goes into detail about that, which I reblogged but am too lazy to go and find.Bi Harry is canon, but he is not an oblivious or unreliable narrator, because he is not narrating the story, period. :)
[evanwiggleswade]
Harry is not the narrator. But the narrator of the HP series is not omniscient nor omnipresent either, nor is it unreliable. It’s a limited third-person narrator. The narrator only follows Harry around*. We don’t get to know what anyone else is thinking, the only person whose thoughts we know, is Harry. We don’t get much objective information about things, it’s always Harry’s perspective, and other character’s opinions are not told us objectively, but in the way Harry sees and hears them, how he perceives them. Many times are we as readers hinted there is more information available about certain matters, but because the narrator is limited, we are not told.
*I know there are exceptions to this in few chapters. In those chapters we see a different narrator. But it doesn’t change the fact, that for most parts of the books we do not have an omnipresent, omniscient narrator.
[meandminniemcg]
Just like she made Remus and Sirius appear 100% like a couple and then claims they weren’t in love with each other…
[classaturd]
jk gonna see this and be like “i did that on purpose”
[daddyslittleftm]
I kinda… disagree? One of the things I loved about it was how it normalized a straight guy being aware of and comfortable with other guys’ attractiveness. It’s the kind of thing we see all the time from a girl’s perspective, but almost never from a boy.And while I would never tell someone that Harry is definitively straight, I’m much more interested in a Harry who is comfortable with identifying and acknowledging when other people are handsome, beautiful, cute, or pretty, than a Harry who only recognizes those things because he’s specifically attracted to them.
It IS normal to see hot people and know they’re hot, and to be affected by that. For everyone. I don’t find it useful to pretend like that only happens in boys if they’re bisexual.
If you HC Harry as bi, that’s totally rad! I completely understand identifying with his thoughts in a very bi way! But please let straight boys notice hot guys without implying it has to mean something more.
[happy-foram-queen]
you do realize that technically it IS possible to appreaciate someones looks without being sexually attracted to them right?an inner monolouge about how good someone looks is by no means an indicator of someones orientation? ^^
[luvtheheaven]
This is both fun and silly… and yet also frustrating, annoying, invalidating, and dismissive of many people’s experiences. You can be aware of attractiveness without being attracted to them and yes Harry is not really that clearly straight in so much of the books - he could literally be argued to be any orientation, and I do mean any - but regardless of Harry Potter stuff, yes even a fairly large percentage of aroace people notice and think about when someone nearby is attractive. Yes plenty of gay or straight people can notice this in people of a gender they’re not attracted to. Yes even bisexual and pansexual people might notice someone is attractive but in this particular case they are not actually sexually attracted to them. Etc!
[magenta-storm]
My favourite example is Bill, because he’s such a minor character it’s like all he’s there for is for Harry to call him attractive. It’s practically the only thing we know about him. It’s just so hilarious.
It’s just like ‘here’s Bill. He’s so hot. And awesome. Molly’s trying to chop off his ponytail. Anyway so Bill is really hot now on with the actual plot.’
[snakebitcat]
OP’s assumption that no heterosexual male ever notices when another male is attractive is weird.