[ SECRET POST #1705 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1705 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 10 pages, 241 secrets from Secret Submission Post #244.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 3 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

one of her unlikable characters a bit to fan-friendly

Draco isn't especially fan-friendly, though. I'm not saying it's impossible to like him, he is an interesting character, but he's portrayed in a very similar way to Dudley in canon. Leather-pants!Draco, on the other hand, is fan-friendly, probably because he was created by fans. His woobieness and hawt-factor were ranked up to eleven - when I first got into fandom and read Draco-fic, the character I found myself reading was nothing like the one from canon. I tended to picture Spike from Buffy, in all honesty, even before the leather-pants nickname took off.

Draco ended up as the loveable butt-monkey, Team Rocket, underdog guy instead

Again, this statement feels like it's applied to fanon!Draco, not the character from canon. If anyone got loveable butt-monkey status in canon, I think it would probably be Ron or Neville. It's just strange to me that fanon!Draco seems to be more prominent in people's minds then canon!Draco now. If I tried to keep a picture of fanon!Draco in my head as I was rereading the books, canon!Draco would appear to be OOC all the time because the two are nothing alike. Although, maybe that's why there are so many comments out there saying JKR got Draco "wrong"....

[(Anonymous)]

It's the woobie-fication that drives me up the wall. We can acknowledge that Draco grew up in an environment where maliciousness is encouraged, thus not making him fully responsible in the way he turned out. But let's not make him out better than he actually was. There were others around him who had set up a better example and he still managed to act like a twit towards people because it suited him to degrade others.

Yes, Draco got his redemptive arc. But it doesn't erase all the horrible things he did to people before that. He also didn't try do very much to make up for the shit he did before either (minimal effort), although I'm glad doesn't seem to be stirring up shit anymore.