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This thread on HPForGrownUps is starting to get on my nerve. It's entitled "Draco's redemption".

Now, I'm not fond of Just%isunderstood!Draco either. I agree that he's a jerk. But for fuck's sake, 'redemption'? As of now, Draco hasn't really done anything he should 'redeem' himself for. He's a bully, yeah, but speaking as an ex-bully-ee, That doesn't make him evil. Am I overreacting or something? I dunno, it just seriously pisses me off that they'rre judging someone by what he's like at 14. I'm weird. Ignore me.

But while I'm venting, I'd like to send a hearthy "Yeah, fuck you, too!" to the fraction on HP4GU that is of the opinion that the whole SexGod!Draco idea is to blame on fanfic and that no one writing fanfic can have a decent discussion about canon and it. pisses. me. off.

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Harry is a walking target for a whole host of people's jealousy, insecurity, grudges, ambitions and paranoia...in other words, he's a celebrity. LOL. And it's a rare child who hasn't bullied *someone* over *something* to a greater or lesser degree, so that's not the problem (for me, anyway) with young Master Malfoy...as you note, if that were the beginning and end of it then a smack upside the head might do a world of good.

"I think that Harry, deep down, just wants to be *liked,* and therefore if Draco ever offered a sincere apology, Harry would probably accept."

He'd have to offer them to Ron and Hermione as well, before Harry would accept--Harry is a loyal kid and the thing's Draco's said to his friends have actually been far more insulting and cutting than what he's said to Harry (if only for "political" reasons...all else aside, getting someone with as much powerful magical potential as Harry into a Slytherin alliance would be a coup of obviously epic proportions). And I don't think Harry wants to be "liked" as much as not unjustly maligned and *suspected* by everyone he comes into contact with--first the Dursleys, then all these people in the wizarding world. Poor kid can't take a step without someone thinking he's plotting something...

Of course, I speak as someone who utterly adores the Weasleys--all seven of those gosh-darned neurotic redheaded kids--so every time Ron gets it in the teeth from Draco I go all maternal and wish to attack. LOL.

"Also, at this point, I really don't see glee in Draco after Cedric's death. Stunning disrespect, and a weird, chilling disinterest, in the sense that he really only brings it up to threaten Ron and Hermione and thus Harry-- yeah. But not actual, active glee. Woo! Watch me split that hair, baby!"

Ah, so you *admit* you're hairsplitting--well, that's all I really wanted. ;-) I interpret it as glee, I mean, he's *shouting* at Harry that "you backed the wrong horse!" and Ron/Hermione that "you'll be next!" Chilling is indeed the right word for it...especially if JKR begins developing the Hitler's Europe parallels any more deeply than she already has. I look forward to reading many, many posts from the hardcore Draco apologists about the *sensitive* Pureblood junior SS kommandant...kidding, just kidding. Well, no I'm not.

That said, I'll read anything that's good, including Harry/Draco--but please, a little *realism* of character here. (Wonderful, now I'm in a weird mental place where Harry is Clarissa Harlowe and Draco is Lovelace...the scariest part of all being, it might actually work.)

"Dudley/Harry, anyone? Come on, it's perfect. You've got the snotty kid for Harry's love to redeem, plus since they're cousins it's kinda got that twincest edge. Let's go, people, this could be the next big thing!"

[backs slowly away, laughing nervously and clutching Sirius and Harry poseable action figures protectively to bosom] Oh, shit, the mental pictures. The pain. The itching and burning. You are *very* mean.

And don't you be dissin' my twincest, neither--I have *tried* to write Fred and George without them sounding like an old married couple, and it is absolutely one hundred percent impossible. Huzzah! ;-)