Father Knows Best

Have just been having fabulous conversations on other journals about chan as a kink. This interests me because while I don't much like chan as a kink I am very interested in one of the biggest sources of chan in HP, which is obviously L/D. I love this relationship in canon. I think it's full of hints of things painful and hurful and disturbing which make me love Draco oh-so-very-much, obviously. It also deals with things I think I'm very bad at trying to do in my own writing, something I'm trying to work on. My own instinct is always to make parental characters good. They may make mistakes or drive their kids crazy but they are almost always basically supportive and respecting of their children. This is not always the case in reality, but I have a hard time writing about it realistically or well. This is something I would like to do better--need to do better, really, at the moment. ( There's more, of course... )