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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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[partly-bouncy.livejournal.com]

Everything I've been told by some Harry Potter fans is that a lot of other Harry Potter fans don't understand Draco or use Draco as a Draco Sue, writing him into characterizations that don't make sense and that are not recgonizable from the canon Draco...

So if they think a bully needs redemption, than well... goes with what I've been told above.

Erm, ignore me. Outside LJ staying out of fandom.

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

It's not Draco's bullying tendencies that piss me off, it's his classism (Daddy bought him the Seekership of the Quidditch team?--fuck, he's the wizarding world's George W. Bush in training), his racism (judging from Ron's reaction when he first hears Draco use it against Hermione, "Mudblood" is clearly the wizarding equivalent of "kike" or "nigger"), his out-and-out glee over Cedric Diggory's murder, and the fact that some of the very same people who jump mercilessly over other folk's AU characterizations in other fandoms have no problem whatsoever with making Draco the poor widdle hurt-comfort teddy bear who only acts this way because he had a bad chiiiiiiild-hooood. In other words, it's the Alex Krycek Syndrome all over again. Face it, ladies, he's a prick.

It's also amusing that all the Harry/Draco 'shippers like to conveniently forget that Harry's first thought upon meeting Draco and listening to him whine is, "He was instantly reminded of Dudley." Oh, sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you! LOL.

[orangekoi.livejournal.com]

Eh, this is why I've stayed out of such internet fandom for the past couple of years. I'm easily drained, and the call for "Yeah, fuck you, too!"s grew excessive.

[meimi.livejournal.com]

All things aside, I think the name of the group should have warned you ahead of time. ^_~ HPForGrownUps? *sniggers* I'm 23 and I'm not -grown up-. Haha!

Have yet to read the HP books, the first one is sitting on my night stand and gathering dust. ~_~ I have no time to read... I need to finish fics. So really, I have no thoughts on Draco's character though I did sorta like what I saw in Silver's fics but somehow I get the feeling he's not all that in the books. Such a shame.

^_~ Anyway, I'd join your friends list but I don't think I fit in there anywhere...