It's the end of the world as we know it. Break out the emergency underpants.
There's nothing three-dimensional about him and in order to make him more interesting people in fandom have to give him a depth that he doesn't have either in the books or onscreen
Which would explain the vastly different characterizations of him. There's a lot of backstory ascribed to him, mostly to make him tragic (which, okay, is classic fangirl) and all designed to make him very sympathetic. Some of it I get (I imagine being LM's child is Not Good; even if you get what you want a lot of the time, you are also subject to the whims of a sociopath) but other very common bits I don't get because they're out of the realm of what's possible (Draco secretly isn't a blood purist, Draco hearts Hermione and calling her "mudblood" is just pigtail-pulling, etc).
I try to avoid Draco-centric stories because I find him so deadly boring, but I am reading one that features him that doesn't make me ill. It's along the lines of the stuff that you rec'ed to me last June, and although it's WIP, I'd certainly rec it to you: A Year Like None Other.
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Date: 2005-04-10 05:31 pm (UTC)It's the end of the world as we know it. Break out the emergency underpants.
There's nothing three-dimensional about him and in order to make him more interesting people in fandom have to give him a depth that he doesn't have either in the books or onscreen
Which would explain the vastly different characterizations of him. There's a lot of backstory ascribed to him, mostly to make him tragic (which, okay, is classic fangirl) and all designed to make him very sympathetic. Some of it I get (I imagine being LM's child is Not Good; even if you get what you want a lot of the time, you are also subject to the whims of a sociopath) but other very common bits I don't get because they're out of the realm of what's possible (Draco secretly isn't a blood purist, Draco hearts Hermione and calling her "mudblood" is just pigtail-pulling, etc).
I try to avoid Draco-centric stories because I find him so deadly boring, but I am reading one that features him that doesn't make me ill. It's along the lines of the stuff that you rec'ed to me last June, and although it's WIP, I'd certainly rec it to you: A Year Like None Other.