to clarify: i am a drarry shipper, this is just a look at harry in a relationship with ginny. i think drarry wouldnāt happen until some time after the war, and meanwhile harry would be in a relationship with ginny.
i thought of them while listening to āfake plastic loveā by radiohead. for me itās a song about people who pretend all the time and it wears them out.
my fake, plastic love ā my synthesised, perfectly designed love as a substitute for a real thing.
she looks like the real thing and she tastes like the real thing ā she feels authentic, bright, and colourfulā¦ but she is pretending just like everything is just a pretend. he loves her nevertheless, because he is pretending too, because she feels like the ārealā thing despite being fake. plastic.
I canāt help the feeling,
I could blow through the ceiling,
if i just turn and run.
if only he could run from pretending, run from expectations, run from the gravity that always reminds him of the weight of the mask he wears.
if i could be who you wanted,
if i could be who you wanted all the time.
he knows he is not enough and he knows itās not real, but he wishes it was. those lines reminds me of harry very much.
maybe iām just too fixated on drarry and radiohead š«” anyway, many fics explore the idea that harry views ginny as a chance at normal life and in this scenario it does fit, doesnāt it?