Ehehehehehe Sooooo. I'm having this feeling like if you wrote H/D, it'd be fluff~:))) :D :D!!
Heh. Probably.:-D
I don't know how Harry would react to that--something tells me next to nothing that could happen to Draco would make Harry react -positively-, but... in a way, Draco having his own story is more important to me than H/D is.
I can't ever really think of what *happen* in canon cause it just never occurs to me to try to predict--I just wait to see what I'm given (I get the feeling you're the same way), but what I do sometimes do is look at what we have in the beginning, and what questions it raises, and think about what might be answered. And the one thing we get with Draco that hints at possible issues to be resolved is the whole, "Your father and Snape are just like you and Mr. Malfoy." Draco's the student linked with Snape,Snape seems to have an interest in him, he was friends with his father, Harry wouldn't ever want to be friends with him, he thinks Malfoy would deserve what Snape got in the Pensieve blah blah blah. The Sorting Hat sings about how sad it is since Slytherin left, leaving the school basically with three houses.
I don't think that means they're the same or equals, obviously. But it does seem like a LOT of Snape's story and the Marauders story in general was about how dangerous it can be to just go on being an asshole, whether you are Snape or MWPP. Even with James his big heroic moment thankfully falls short--Snape *hates* that James saved his life and when Harry tries to throw it in his face we're immediately told it wasn't as heroic as Harry imagined.
So it seems like the thing that canon Draco does have is he works on that level--and that level is *important.* Snape and James didn't seem to even interact much after school--Snape hates him for fifth year, not from his time as a DE, which he may have been nudged into because of his reactions to James. The incredibly stupid schoolboy stuff wound up being the only thing that mattered 20 years on--we never hear about anything the actual Order did or what Snape did. What's important were who was friends with who and who had a grudge against who and all that.
Although Draco and Snape aren't the same I think sometimes Snape fans can be unfair to Draco by comparing him to the adult Snape. Presumably if we were reading about MWPP it would be a shock that Peter turned evil or that greasy Snivelus of all people wound up being a spy for Dumbledore against Voldemort--I suspect Snape would come across even worse than Draco in realistic MWPP canon. Not Goth, not cool, not witty and sarcastic but just as pathetic and repulsive but in a different way. He might even seem worse because rather than leading his own gang he'd hang around with big dogs.
Harry&Co. presumably won't get that chance because Voldemort will be defeated 7th year. So it could wind up that the world takes care of Draco for Harry and he never has to think about him again, but that seems pretty weird considering Snape's story. It just seems like that should be addressed somehow, especially since...the weird thing about canon is it seems like JKR *consistently* writes things as grey and then has them get taken as black and white in canon, and that in turn is picked up by fandom. People like to say OotP introduced "shades of grey" but sometimes when people say that what they really mean is it rearranged the black and white because they've been missing the shades of grey that have been there all along and still are. Maybe JKR actually thinks Draco comes across different than he does to me in his early scenes, but if that's the case it makes me want to say, "Couldn't you just have written him the way you wanted me to see him?" It seems almost cruel, like it's not enough the character gets punished, I have to pretend he deserved it in ways he didn't. Because I put that together with MWPP and it seems like there just has to be a purpose to it. She has to have been doing it this way for later revelations.
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Heh. Probably.:-D
I don't know how Harry would react to that--something tells me next to nothing that could happen to Draco would make Harry react -positively-, but... in a way, Draco having his own story is more important to me than H/D is.
I can't ever really think of what *happen* in canon cause it just never occurs to me to try to predict--I just wait to see what I'm given (I get the feeling you're the same way), but what I do sometimes do is look at what we have in the beginning, and what questions it raises, and think about what might be answered. And the one thing we get with Draco that hints at possible issues to be resolved is the whole, "Your father and Snape are just like you and Mr. Malfoy." Draco's the student linked with Snape,Snape seems to have an interest in him, he was friends with his father, Harry wouldn't ever want to be friends with him, he thinks Malfoy would deserve what Snape got in the Pensieve blah blah blah. The Sorting Hat sings about how sad it is since Slytherin left, leaving the school basically with three houses.
I don't think that means they're the same or equals, obviously. But it does seem like a LOT of Snape's story and the Marauders story in general was about how dangerous it can be to just go on being an asshole, whether you are Snape or MWPP. Even with James his big heroic moment thankfully falls short--Snape *hates* that James saved his life and when Harry tries to throw it in his face we're immediately told it wasn't as heroic as Harry imagined.
So it seems like the thing that canon Draco does have is he works on that level--and that level is *important.* Snape and James didn't seem to even interact much after school--Snape hates him for fifth year, not from his time as a DE, which he may have been nudged into because of his reactions to James. The incredibly stupid schoolboy stuff wound up being the only thing that mattered 20 years on--we never hear about anything the actual Order did or what Snape did. What's important were who was friends with who and who had a grudge against who and all that.
Although Draco and Snape aren't the same I think sometimes Snape fans can be unfair to Draco by comparing him to the adult Snape. Presumably if we were reading about MWPP it would be a shock that Peter turned evil or that greasy Snivelus of all people wound up being a spy for Dumbledore against Voldemort--I suspect Snape would come across even worse than Draco in realistic MWPP canon. Not Goth, not cool, not witty and sarcastic but just as pathetic and repulsive but in a different way. He might even seem worse because rather than leading his own gang he'd hang around with big dogs.
Harry&Co. presumably won't get that chance because Voldemort will be defeated 7th year. So it could wind up that the world takes care of Draco for Harry and he never has to think about him again, but that seems pretty weird considering Snape's story. It just seems like that should be addressed somehow, especially since...the weird thing about canon is it seems like JKR *consistently* writes things as grey and then has them get taken as black and white in canon, and that in turn is picked up by fandom. People like to say OotP introduced "shades of grey" but sometimes when people say that what they really mean is it rearranged the black and white because they've been missing the shades of grey that have been there all along and still are. Maybe JKR actually thinks Draco comes across different than he does to me in his early scenes, but if that's the case it makes me want to say, "Couldn't you just have written him the way you wanted me to see him?" It seems almost cruel, like it's not enough the character gets punished, I have to pretend he deserved it in ways he didn't. Because I put that together with MWPP and it seems like there just has to be a purpose to it. She has to have been doing it this way for later revelations.