[ SECRET POST #4441 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4441 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, he seemed more sad and pathetic to me personally tbh. Teen edgelord. Like, I'm not saying he's textually sympathetic. Just that I can see why a fandom, especially a teenage fandom would or could see him that way in a way they wouldn't for Eric Trump.

In my experience - generally speaking here, ignoring like the fics written by kids that were just bashing randomly on Hermione or whatever - was going like 'poor little wizNazi, I ttly support your wizNazi tendencies and nobody understands how much better puredudes actually are and you were right all along. Heil puredudes.' Even in most of the woobie Draco stories, what all the writers seemed to pointedly wanted for him was change and redemption, which is where the universe eventually went. I think there's a big step between, like, having a character be sympathetic and not have to change cause hes perfect already, and having a character be sympathetic and then change for the better, which is what a lot of the fics seemed to ... aim for?

[(Anonymous)]

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Someone else said it better below, a majority of the fic was the "I/Harry/Hermione/Whoever can fix him" kind which pre-supposes and acknowledges the character is flawed and NEEDS fixing, and that's, you know, something.

[(Anonymous)]

I get that, and I'm not saying that anyone is doing anything wrong. But I do think that it's very much non-textual, and OP is correct on that point. And I, personally, find it discomfiting and weird to sort of overlook and "write out" those specific components of how and why Draco was unsympathetic.

(But also, I think that stuff was probably easier to overlook and much less detailed during the books 3 and 4 era when all of this fanon really got formulated, so, you know, w/e)