Seriously?
Jul. 5th, 2010 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labellementeuseOK, look, as a mature adult and a slash fan I have come to appreciate Draco a lot more over the last few years. I even enjoy post-series Harry/Draco now, although I pretty much blame ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blythely for that. However, since as we all know HP fandom is the size of a blimp and like everyone my age I know the canon backwards, I enjoy taking a refreshing dip into giant-squid-infested waters every now and then when I'm between reading fandoms.
But seriously. SERIOUSLY. You know that period during sixth year when Draco was trying to kill Dumbledore and instead nearly kills a couple of other people, you know, Ron and Katie? THAT WAS ACTUALLY HIS FAULT. Like, yes, he was under pressure and that's horrible and sad and I generally wouldn't approve of the idea of being super-punitive towards a sixteen-year-old boy. BUT HE DID HAVE A CHOICE, OK. The thing about Draco is that he is CONSTANTLY being given choices by everyone around him - more choice, frankly, than either Tom Riddle or Harry fucking Potter ever had. And he certainly had more resources than some of his fellow Death Eaters at Hogwarts (Crabbe and Goyle, for example.) Everyone around Draco reaches out to him particularly doing sixth year.
So you don't get - I mean, you really do not get to just say "Oh, Katie Bell's being awkward around you? How horrible of her! That wasn't your fault!" I mean, seriously! a) IT WAS HIS FAULT and b) Even if it WASN'T his fault, come on! Why shouldn't she be awkward! He nearly killed her! He placed her under the Imperius curse, an "Unforgiveable" (har har har) may I add!
Seriously!!!!!!!!!
It's still weirdly easy for me to get het up over HP. I have no idea why.
blythely for that. However, since as we all know HP fandom is the size of a blimp and like everyone my age I know the canon backwards, I enjoy taking a refreshing dip into giant-squid-infested waters every now and then when I'm between reading fandoms. But seriously. SERIOUSLY. You know that period during sixth year when Draco was trying to kill Dumbledore and instead nearly kills a couple of other people, you know, Ron and Katie? THAT WAS ACTUALLY HIS FAULT. Like, yes, he was under pressure and that's horrible and sad and I generally wouldn't approve of the idea of being super-punitive towards a sixteen-year-old boy. BUT HE DID HAVE A CHOICE, OK. The thing about Draco is that he is CONSTANTLY being given choices by everyone around him - more choice, frankly, than either Tom Riddle or Harry fucking Potter ever had. And he certainly had more resources than some of his fellow Death Eaters at Hogwarts (Crabbe and Goyle, for example.) Everyone around Draco reaches out to him particularly doing sixth year.
So you don't get - I mean, you really do not get to just say "Oh, Katie Bell's being awkward around you? How horrible of her! That wasn't your fault!" I mean, seriously! a) IT WAS HIS FAULT and b) Even if it WASN'T his fault, come on! Why shouldn't she be awkward! He nearly killed her! He placed her under the Imperius curse, an "Unforgiveable" (har har har) may I add!
Seriously!!!!!!!!!
It's still weirdly easy for me to get het up over HP. I have no idea why.
