Dude, I KNOW. I was wandering about the streets of New York on Saturday with Cassie and Josh and Clio shouting 'DARK CHOCOLATE LOVE GOD!' in an emphatic sort of way. I do not believe I will ever be able to write fic without explicitly saying that Blaise is hotter than Draco. (It's a creepy compulsion of some kind. And speaking of creepy compulsions, when am I going to be shouting about love gods on the streets with you, woman?)
I thought Blaise was interesting in HBP, though the only thing that really surprised me was the explicit and canonical Slytherin hotness - by sheer chance I had a similar enough idea of him already. One, yes, he's sexualised to the point where one is led to believe he's sexy. And he's confident. He has a famous mother and he's part of Slughorn's special coterie. He's got all the markers of a leader but (as we do see in the train scene) he's not a leader. Draco, who is by all known measurements demonstrably less cool, is quite clearly the leader. (as even Harry recognises - his low-grade hostility towards Zabini is just a case of 'Random Slytherin #5... glare')
Blaise comes off as friendly with all of them in that scene, but he is the only one who directly challenges Draco with a reminder that his father's in jail, his status has fallen, why would Voldemort want an untrained kid? Practical points all, and his take on Ginny struck me as greatly practical too - totally hot, but he's not touching that. And of course he comes from the house of great ambition, so I wondered vaguely all the way through the book, while Blaise was watching his stock rise with Slughorn's favouritism and Draco was very obviously FALLING TO PIECES - how'd that affect the power dynamics down in the dungeons? I have ideas...
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I thought Blaise was interesting in HBP, though the only thing that really surprised me was the explicit and canonical Slytherin hotness - by sheer chance I had a similar enough idea of him already. One, yes, he's sexualised to the point where one is led to believe he's sexy. And he's confident. He has a famous mother and he's part of Slughorn's special coterie. He's got all the markers of a leader but (as we do see in the train scene) he's not a leader. Draco, who is by all known measurements demonstrably less cool, is quite clearly the leader. (as even Harry recognises - his low-grade hostility towards Zabini is just a case of 'Random Slytherin #5... glare')
Blaise comes off as friendly with all of them in that scene, but he is the only one who directly challenges Draco with a reminder that his father's in jail, his status has fallen, why would Voldemort want an untrained kid? Practical points all, and his take on Ginny struck me as greatly practical too - totally hot, but he's not touching that. And of course he comes from the house of great ambition, so I wondered vaguely all the way through the book, while Blaise was watching his stock rise with Slughorn's favouritism and Draco was very obviously FALLING TO PIECES - how'd that affect the power dynamics down in the dungeons? I have ideas...