reenka

I agree with most of this, if not all, and am too lazy to re-read for parts that I disagree with. :D However, I think that you underestimate the fact that people like Antenora and I have been saying since the beginning of time that Dark!Harry isn't a (*have forgotten the word for ____!things*, is it incarnate? anyway), but very much a part of who canon Harry is and always has been. The one thing that thrilled and delighted me about OOTP was how plain it made our perceptions of his character. Part Two of LUW is where I have always planned to really bring out that darkness in him and now I kind of wonder if people will think I'm taking him darker just to fit with new canon prescription; but I know, and you know, that the ones of us who have always written Harry as Dark will see new canon not as an obstacle for H/D so much as a vindication of how we've always seen the pairing, ideally.

However, one thing i think OOTP *does* make more difficult: ideally all my H/Ds end in happy endings. Bonus ending is one preferably with Lucius dead and Draco not mourning. :D That I can see as a legitimate obstacle. This new Harry getting it on with Draco, however? The only question really is whether or not he'd bother to bring lube. :D