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reenkaso, while this is related to my last post re: fanon conventions of how/why harry gets that lovin' feelin' for draco, it's slightly more meta (more meta, you say? the horror! the... over-intellectual horror..! um.)
so.
we are wondering why harry would like draco.
why do YOU [you being, a h/d writer/reader in specific] like draco??
why don't you `ship draco with someone who's more likely to like him for the same reasons (um, and who would that be?? don't ask me....)
why do you `ship him with someone who is going to be most likely immune to his "charms" (whatever those charms are. what are his charms??)
do you just think he's cute?
do you like evil blonds (even though that's more lucius' dept., draco's more the not-so-evil pathetic-bastard-who-probably-comes-too-early kind of blond) and all else be damned?
do you like snark so much you don't care he has no heart?
do you think he's secretly yearning for affection?
do you like pain?
do you want to see harry in pain, and gain vicarious pleasure?
do you just have a perverse liking for baddies (and good-guys liking baddies? ooo, naughty).
do you wish you -were- draco, and not the sad, lonely too-nice person that you are? (nevermind that draco's sad and lonely too, in most fics).
i'm not excluding myself here. guilty as charged. yea, i like draco 'cause he's snarky and naughty and pathetic and aww yeah, he needs some loff (kinky loff, if ya know what i mean). and yea, i wish i was more draco-like so that i felt more self-satisfied even though i wouldn't gain any points in the patheticness dept. and so it goes. we fall for the ones we shouldn't, and we want those stupid "mistakes" to actually -not- be mistakes on paper. right? yes, of course :D
but why did we fall for the one we shouldn't have?
i don't think we had these grand cliched reasons. no one ordered the other to kill us (*laughs* one hopes).
does one just go, "ooo, cute," and then it escalates? is it that certain tingle? ha. the physiology is pretty easy.
but still, we think-- as stupid as -we- were, falling for the wrong type (and if you never have, what are you doing `shipping harry/draco??! shoo, shoo! hee), harry wouldn't be that stupid, would he. harry would make draco work for it right? yeah. he'd show draco. he's not easy like that. yeah? yeah.
we're not easy like that. yeah? yeah.
harry's got backbone. harry's got integrity. harry's got pride. malfoy is gonna get what's coming to him. yeah? yeah.
if you `ship harry/draco but not buffy/spike (and vice versa), you're a strange, strange person. that is all.
so.
we are wondering why harry would like draco.
why do YOU [you being, a h/d writer/reader in specific] like draco??
why don't you `ship draco with someone who's more likely to like him for the same reasons (um, and who would that be?? don't ask me....)
why do you `ship him with someone who is going to be most likely immune to his "charms" (whatever those charms are. what are his charms??)
do you just think he's cute?
do you like evil blonds (even though that's more lucius' dept., draco's more the not-so-evil pathetic-bastard-who-probably-comes-too-early kind of blond) and all else be damned?
do you like snark so much you don't care he has no heart?
do you think he's secretly yearning for affection?
do you like pain?
do you want to see harry in pain, and gain vicarious pleasure?
do you just have a perverse liking for baddies (and good-guys liking baddies? ooo, naughty).
do you wish you -were- draco, and not the sad, lonely too-nice person that you are? (nevermind that draco's sad and lonely too, in most fics).
i'm not excluding myself here. guilty as charged. yea, i like draco 'cause he's snarky and naughty and pathetic and aww yeah, he needs some loff (kinky loff, if ya know what i mean). and yea, i wish i was more draco-like so that i felt more self-satisfied even though i wouldn't gain any points in the patheticness dept. and so it goes. we fall for the ones we shouldn't, and we want those stupid "mistakes" to actually -not- be mistakes on paper. right? yes, of course :D
but why did we fall for the one we shouldn't have?
i don't think we had these grand cliched reasons. no one ordered the other to kill us (*laughs* one hopes).
does one just go, "ooo, cute," and then it escalates? is it that certain tingle? ha. the physiology is pretty easy.
but still, we think-- as stupid as -we- were, falling for the wrong type (and if you never have, what are you doing `shipping harry/draco??! shoo, shoo! hee), harry wouldn't be that stupid, would he. harry would make draco work for it right? yeah. he'd show draco. he's not easy like that. yeah? yeah.
we're not easy like that. yeah? yeah.
harry's got backbone. harry's got integrity. harry's got pride. malfoy is gonna get what's coming to him. yeah? yeah.
if you `ship harry/draco but not buffy/spike (and vice versa), you're a strange, strange person. that is all.
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Date: 2002-10-10 12:18 am (UTC)well, like i said to
but i don't think it's possible for harry to like him because draco's so... faulty. harry's... well. then again, it's not the faulty part that bothers him, it's the arrogant, petty mean-spirited bastard part that bothers him.
but yes. i like pathetic-little-schemer!draco and bastard-wannabe!draco, etc.
and am impressed you shipped h/d straight from the books-- that's not very common, y'know.
i like, never ship anything but canon pairings, in books (unless i'm already "subverted" by fanfic). not that even bother to `ship things, in books. i like how harry has these dreams about draco, and worries about impressing him on his broomstick, but-- i mean, i read that stuff -after- i read fanfic. so i have no clue how that'd be if i didn't.
oh wait, i do. i watched the movie before i read any fanfic.
i didn't even -notice- malfoy.
i was all about harry/hermione ^^;; that movie was so h/h, man..! it was. it so was.
*is looking forward to slashy!CoS*
i have this... -feeling- about CoS :D hehehehe ~:D
but yah, if you have an eye for it-- oh baby. poor, obsessed, deliriously in-love little draco :D hahaha :D
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Date: 2002-10-10 01:19 pm (UTC)i didn't even -notice- malfoy.
I was actually surprised at the amount of Malfoy they put in the movie. I mean, they put him in Harry's transfiguration class and charms class, and they don't even have those together in the books. And they did a lot of shots of him that weren't even necessary. Like at the Halloween feast and at the quidditch match.
And CoS is going to be very slashy. I mean, they're putting all this Malfoy stuff in there. It's gotta be slashy.