HP: oh, the unsexy of it all....

So um... I was thinking about 'Good-bye to Yesterday', the latest hd_holidays fic while I was out-- specifically its Draco & Harry characterizations. The Harry in it is especially unsympathetic (in a mostly believable way that I enjoyed, because it wasn't unbelievable in a grating way and more in a way that made me think). I guess I'd say it's a valid interpretation of canon that I think works for the story but is still essentially incomplete/incorrect (in an interesting way); doesn't matter, 'cause the story was really about Draco, who was so great :> What I'm saying is, Harry's seeming refusal to see Draco as a 'real person' -has- been a problem in canon; it's just that he's likely to do 'the right thing' but not in a blind way, if that makes sense.
    The end of HBP showed that Harry's not blinded by his dislike of Malfoy when presented with new evidence.... So if Draco in fact was a good boy during the rest of the war, Harry would reclassify him as 'okay' while still thinking he was a nasty poncey git, I think. But this is a fine point of interpretation that would've prevented the whole plot from happening if followed :P Mostly, I feel if Harry did open up even a little, talking to Draco or even just using him to say stuff he couldn't stay to his friends, it would be meaningful to Harry also just because he doesn't do that sort of thing easily/lightly. I'm torn on whether he'd fuck him without a real transformation in the way he sees Malfoy (more than what happened in HBP); on the one hand, no, because he's so closed-off, but on the other hand he's been known to think with his uh, inner 'monster' :P Btw, I speak so frankly/easily about this 'cause I'm pretty certain I know who the author is & I'm also certain she wouldn't mind.

( ...inevitably, more H/D blather no one cares about ^^; )

Anyway, while I -love- them (adore, even) as characters, I don't have anything particularly invested in them romantically for myself the way I do even in Heero (from Gundam Wing) or Blair from The Sentinel-- I mean, I'm not in love with them either, but I'm a lot more attracted to them being 'cool' in their different ways. I like them to be cool (though in character); with Harry & Draco, I actually get off on their uncoolness, sorta. Usually, I'd think 'oh well, Snape is really the one who's my type anyway' and that'd be it, but-- Snape doesn't do it for me either, not really. Even 'translating' him into a more palatable (to me) closest related romantic archetype doesn't really -work-, 'cause he's just too... SNAPE. Thinking about why this is got me kind of carried away :>

    ( ...blah-romantic-protagonists-blah. ...I hope no one expects a well-structured rational argument or something -.- )

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In other news, I thought I knew fannish pain, but I definitely wasn't ready to innocently open an S/R fic and actually see the dreaded 'Siri' in a decently-written fic. Oh man. When you sort of think 'maybe this one will be okay' and then you find out it's horridly OOC with a 'Siri'... that is a special kind of SOUL PANE, ya dig. -.-;; Although at this point in the fandom development, one wonders how you could not realize it's just LAME through sheer osmosis. It's stuff like this that made me soooo very romanticism/fanon unfriendly in HP *facepalm*