*CLINGS* THEY MAY TAKE OUR LIVES, BUT THEY CAN NEVER TAKE OUR HEADCANON!

(I am much more upset by this than I should be. And it's totally illogical, because I can cope with reading/writing fics where they die even though I'm convinced that they survive and grow old in a cottage together. But the idea that they aren't early twenty-somethings who were at boarding school together only a few years ago? COGNITIVE DISSONANCE, IT ACTUALLY HURTS.)