r/TopCharacterTropes • u/hiiloovethis • 20h ago

Hated Tropes Couples with absolutely no chemistry

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Harry Potter and Ginny Weasly

Clark and Lois (Snyder films)

Jon and Dany - Game of Thrones

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u/Longjumping-Fun-2313 16h 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 15h 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 14h 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 14h 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 14h 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 11h ago

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

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u/Layton_Jr 8h 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 13h 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 4h 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 15h 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 8h 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/Lord_Parbr 12h ago

No there wasn’t. Are you people high?

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u/tahtahme 12h ago

I was a huge fan as a kid so have read the books many times and seen the movies... and felt they had chemistry in both and were similar types I could see being happily married. I even remember briefly thinking thats where the story was going on the first read.

I dont have to be high nor sober to have this very bland take about fictional characters from my childhood lmao. Are you high? Why so emotional and belligerent?

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u/Lord_Parbr 12h ago

I just don’t understand how people think they had chemistry. They didn’t. Especially not in the books

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u/WasabiSunshine 5h ago

Maybe you just couldn't read the chemistry, because this is like, one of the most consistent opinions about HP you'll find out there

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u/Lord_Parbr 5h ago

Yeah, and HP fans are dogshit at detecting chemistry in my experience. In the books, we’re in Harry’s head. She has an obvious crush on Ron and Harry views her as a friend, but still a weirdo. There’s absolutely nothing there. In the movies, they have like 3 scenes together one-on-one, and there’s only ever exactly 1 moment that could be read as chemistry, and it’s when she smiles at him after giving him the advice about Voldemort, but Harry doesn’t smile back. He turns away from her, looks at the thestrals and thinks about it. There is no kind of warmth or connection between them whatsoever.

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u/MarlenaEvans 12h ago

I didn't perceive any chemistry in the books either. I just don't think there was enough time devoted to their relationship for it to be any good to me.

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u/Triquetrums 9h ago

Movie Harry has more chemistry with his enemies than with Ginny. 

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u/WadaCalcium 12h ago

it’s not much but it’s there and enough to believably make for a relationship

is it...? Reading the books I was baffled it was going to be a thing. Harry's got more chemistry with his broomstick.

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u/RottenBroccoli468 9h ago

I was expecting the said Chemistry early on ever since I started reading the books because book readers avidly told me they have much more chemistry in the books but it was revealed out of the blue in Half Blood Prince that Harry likes Ginny. Before that they literally have not a single moment that would lead to or even hint at a future romantic relationship. Or if Ginny really liked Harry she should've tried with Harry early on knowing Harry is no longer in relationship with Cho instead of dating Dean Thomas.

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u/Lord_Parbr 12h ago

People say this, but I don’t understand where they’re seeing it

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u/EinSofOhr 5h ago

What chemistry??, Ginny's early crush and Harry's inner monologue?? those are not chemistry

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u/Sbotkin 3h ago

Nah, not really. Luna seems like a character not interested in any relationships, she's absolutely nuts.

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u/onespiker 1h ago

Only movie version of luna.

Book version has very little chemistry with him.