raptorific:

the best part of the Harry Potter movies’ approach to teenage crushes was the scene where Ron and Harry are talking while they fall asleep and Ron is like “why are all these boys into my sister” and Harry clearly finds Ginny attractive and wants to talk about it with Ron but at the same time doesn’t want to actually TELL Ron, so he tries to think of an answer that simultaneously acknowledges her attractiveness while making it seem like he’s Never Thought About It Before and he comes up with “she’s got nice skin”

and Ron is like “you think all these boys are dating my sister for her skin…?!” and Harry is like “dude I don’t know I’ve never looked at your sister before and I definitely don’t have Mr. Harry Potter-Weasley written on the inside cover of my trapper keeper”

and then there’s like five seconds of silence before Ron, who’s clearly attracted to Hermione and wants to talk about it with Harry but at the same time doesn’t want to actually TELL Harry, says “Hermione’s got nice skin!” as though he’d TOTALLY never taken notice of Hermione or her skin until Harry mentioned Skin Niceness as a metric for attractiveness

and then they both go to bed without ever actually discussing the thing they wanted to discuss

which is like 98% of sleepovers I had as an adolescent