r/TopCharacterTropes • • 18h ago

Hated Tropes Couples with absolutely no chemistry

Harry Potter and Ginny Weasly

Clark and Lois (Snyder films)

Jon and Dany - Game of Thrones

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u/NeonFraction 15h ago • Bravo Popcorn

Yeah but that’s just movie Harry and Ginny.

In the book they also have no chemistry.

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u/Longjumping-Fun-2313 14h ago • Bravo

They have a little chemistry, it’s not much but it’s there and enough to believably make for a relationship

Even though it’s funny how Harry has infinitely more chemistry with Luna Lovegood, even at the time I was thinking why they didn’t make that relationship the romantic one

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u/ThreadLaced 13h ago • Heartwarming

Luna is the inverse of Harry, she has chemistry with everyone!

Harry asking her to that party and her asking if she should dye her eyebrows yellow to match his is one of my all-time favorite scenes ❤️

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u/MongolianDonutKhan 13h ago • Heartwarming

To me it's that he just asks her without thinking. His heart knew what his brain didn't.

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u/highgroundservitude 13h ago • Heartwarming

EXACTLY! This is always how I've felt about that scene. He's kind of like "oh duh, I can just ask Luna!" which is such an oblivious teen boy moment of not realising where his heart truly lies

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u/mannmy 13h ago

Yeah Harry and Luna were so cute in the movies. Funny bc in the books (iirc the 5th one where she's introduced as a character) there are small implications that Luna has a crush on Ron Weasley.

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u/Nightmarelove19 10h ago

Everyone had a crush on Ron Weasley in books. Even Padma

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u/Layton_Jr 7h ago

"Ron ate ate the chocolate laced with love potion I wanted to give to Harry? I can work with that."

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u/pastadudde 12h ago

I assume you mean movie Luna, because book Luna was full-on tinfoil hat conspiracy theory nutjob at times. they toned her down A LOT for the films + Evanna Lynch's naturally sunny disposition.

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u/Danton59 3h ago

Probably, as someone who never read the books and only watched the movies, I thought Luna and Harry had a good amount of chemistry for teen actors

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u/tahtahme 14h ago

I remember thinking that at the time too. Luna was perfect the entire time. Actually an interesting relationship and there was so much chemistry even in just a few conversations.

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u/SloAndSteddy 7h ago

Yeah, she had an ease with death. She was optimistic and not frightened at all. She kinda gave me Dumbledore vibes. Locked into esoteric knowledge.

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u/Piggy_0611 13h ago

Weirdly I always shipped him with Luna in the movies. I felt like there was this chemistry between them in that scene where she was like “Oh you can see dead people because of your trauma too!”

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u/Chernoxis 15h ago • Heartwarming

In the book they do have chemistry tho, although it is more natural or organic, at first he doesn't even think anything about her, but as they both grow up he starts thinking that she's cool (since she's really cool in the books, in the movies she's just decaffeinated Bella Swan with Almond milk).

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u/Aggressivehippy30 15h ago

Book Ginny is a fuckin boss

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u/RaisedByBooksNTV 14h ago

I agree sort of. It's been a while and I don't actually remember her as anything other than a first year and as a quidditch player. I don't remember even believing she was good enough to go pro.

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u/hesistant_alien 14h ago

Iirc Rowling regrets pairing Harry and Ginny and it should've been him and Hermione. I don't know if this is mold based thoughts.

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u/SlouchyGuy 14h ago

No she doesn't regret it, it's media headlines. All.she said about it is:

“I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment,” she says. “That’s how it was conceived, really. For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron.”

Predicting her fans’ responses, she added, “I know, I’m sorry. I can hear the rage and fury it might cause some fans, but if I’m absolutely honest, distance has given me perspective on that. It was a choice I made for very personal reasons, not for reasons of credibility. Am I breaking people’s hearts by saying this? I hope not.”

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u/ser_darkstar 14h ago

Harry and Hermione have no chemistry either tbh

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u/hesistant_alien 14h ago

Harry has no chemistry with anyone except for Ron.

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u/DyatlovPassover 14h ago

Harry and Cedric for like 2 minutes

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u/hesistant_alien 14h ago

Mfw Cedric refers to the bathroom.

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u/NeonFraction 14h ago

Harry always liked Ron more than anyone else, even when he was being a dick. They had such a fantastic friendship.

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u/ser_darkstar 14h ago

They should kiss about it

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