#draco is obvious

[daddiesdrarryy]

*Hogwarts First Year*

Pansy: So what’s your opening line gonna be when you first meet with the Harry Potter?

Draco: I was thinking I’d go with “Harry Potter?”

Draco: You know, make it seem like I haven’t been staring at him on the Dailey Prophet since I could read

[rotthepoet]

Invisible String Theory(Slytherin boy(which one? I know! but you dont!) x reader)

Y/N, Dearest, My Love,

Maybe it was fate that brought us together. You’d agree, wouldn’t you? How unlikely was it for you to be in the same picture so many years ago. My last picture with her, and there you are, smiling so prettily in the background. We were eleven in the picture, but I didn’t notice until I was nearly fourteen. I think the muggles have a word for that, y’know? Invisible String Theory.

Fourteen is such a young age to have a crush, “puppy love”, my tutor had called it the summer I came home. My studies never end, you see, my father insists an idle brain is good as brain-dead, but that never made sense to me. Nevertheless, I told my tutor all about you, and she seemed to be excited to meet you one day. I’ll bring you to my summer home. You like the beach, right?

I wasn’t the looker in fourth year that I am now. I was tall but too skinny, not enough muscle on my bones to make me desirable yet. I’m sure you hadn’t even noticed me before(And to be honest, I hadn’t realized the most beautiful face I had ever seen went to my school either), but you found my lost book, and that was the day I realized I had seen you before. That picture, the picture with her, was always my favorite. Yet, when I realized it was your beautiful, beaming face photobombing my portrait accidentally, I fell hard.

I noticed how I saw you everywhere, our classes nearly perfectly lining up. You’re just a good person, love. Spreading so much love, and light, and kindness wherever you go. 

I should introduce myself, but where's the fun in that? You’ve always liked a good puzzle, ever my smart girl. Besides, I've done some things I'm not quite proud of, and it might make you a bit apprehensive. Nothing terrible, of course! I’m not a monster, my love, but I was lonely. Please don’t be jealous, or do, I can’t tell which I find to be more attractive. 

Regardless, I can’t imagine you don’t feel the same way. We’re soulmates after all, and I’ll do everything in my power to prove that to you.

Look forward to my next letter, love. 

-Yours, truely.

P.s. You looked absolutely ravishing today. Wear your hair like that more often for me. 

[itsphantasmagoria]

Eclipse

May Microcreation for the Drarry Creative Collective - Hidden Identities

My Microcreation was inspired by the Venetian masks my mom collected and hung up all over the hallway outside my bedroom growing up. Luckily I thought they were pretty rather than terrifying. I pictured them meeting at a masquerade ball and even though they definitely recognize each other (because they're obsessed of course), they pretend they don't.

[saintsenara]

Absolutely no pressure if it really does make you uncomfortable to talk about but I would LOVE to hear about why dramione pisses you off... first and foremost because I'm a card-carrying dramione hater and there's nothing quite as enjoyable as a fellow hater articulating their haterade. Please. I'm handing you the mic. Go to town. (If you want!)

thank you very much for the ask, anon - and it's very sweet of you to ask whether dramione makes me sincerely uncomfortable [it doesn't, and if there's ever a day when i find harry potter shipping preferences that deep i shall face god and walk backwards into hell]. i subscribe to one belief in fandom above all others - that you can write yourself into, and out of, the most nonsensical premises if you are willing to engage with your characters in their full spectrum and if you have enough nerve. which is to say, there is almost certainly dramione out there that i would regard as interesting and well done, which feels coherent as a premise within which to situate both hermione and draco's canon selves, and which does so by being unsparing in how it deals with the whole "he thinks she's literally subhuman" thing...

but the reason i don't like dramione as a pairing is because i've never actually seen it done in a way that actually is interesting.

i'm on the record as a straightforward hater of fanon!hermione - the preternaturally perfect, incandescently beautiful "brightest witch of her age" [lupin means by this - please, i am begging you all to understand - that she's clever for a fourteen-year-old, not that she's some sort of epoch-defining intellect] who makes you wonder if we've all forgotten the early-00s flame wars over mary-sues. i am also on the record as a hater of the classic draco-in-leather-pants version of the other half of our pairing - draco is an insecure, pointy little dickhead whose jokes always flop, and he is so much more fun in this form than he is as the suavest man alive.

and, obviously, dramione is famous for being beholden to these characterisations [something, if i may, which is really letting harmony and snamione off the hook...]. and that is just so boring! even in a setting in which an author doesn't want to deal with the context of blood-supremacist prejudice - and good for them! why not! - i would much rather see fics think interestingly about how mashing draco and hermione's personalities together would actually go. how would he handle her constant need to debate things? how would she handle his fits of crippling jealousy? how would he handle her stubbornness? how would she handle his self-interestedness?

and i think something quite striking could actually come of this... as i've noted elsewhere, draco's narrative mirror is ron, who is obviously a ride-or-die hermione stan, and there is - therefore - a way set out within the arc of canon for thinking about how hermione and draco might interact. it could be a genuinely fantastic piece of enemies-to-lovers fun, but this would involve both hermione and draco's canonical characteristics being thought about [and harry and ron's: the former always seems to come around to dramione really quickly, while the latter is written as a death-eater-adjacent boor who doesn't want the woman who "belongs to him" to be happy], and i'm afraid that the vast, vast majority of dramione writing seems to have no interest in doing this when "just make him suave and her perfect" exists...

but, of course, there is a second major objection which i know many people have to dramione: that he is a member of a terrorist organisation which believes in eradicating people like her, and that he believes wholeheartedly in that organisation's beliefs.

and my feelings about this are more complicated.

because, to be frank, as someone who has - only this week - written harry having a sensual little snog with his parents' murderer, i can't really get up on my high-horse about people shipping the heroes with the villains. and, indeed, i won't - another fandom [and life!] principle i have is that the potential of redemption for everybody is one of the most important things about humanity; that even the most evil people can repent and repent sincerely; and that love is strange and unpredictable.

i do think something interesting could be done with draco having to unlearn literally everything about his life, and with both him and hermione grappling with their personal limits when it came to remorse and forgiveness as they realise that, against all the odds and no matter the heavy weight of the past, they want to make something together. but, once again, the standard move in dramione seems to be a sort of "nooo, he didn't really mean it!" or a "hermione gets over it immediately because he didn't rat them out when the snatchers caught them!" [no - he didn't rat harry out. he doesn't seem to have a problem with hermione getting tortured by bellatrix...] or a "well harry using sectumsempra means i'm over the fact he called me a mudblood" or "uwu he was sixteen". and, once again, i think it's dull!

and this, of course, brings us to the other category of dramione - the one in which she's a dirty little fucktoy for a sadistic pureblood lord. while this is at its worst in other hermione/death eater ships, we've all seen the fics: hermione is given to draco as a forced bride; hermione is given to draco as a sex slave; hermione is given to draco to be degraded etc.

i have no moral objection to people wanting to read and write this stuff, because i'm neither a cop nor a priest. my objection, once again, is that this is dull.

i think there is something really, really interesting which could be done with draco finding himself attracted to hermione despite what he's been raised to believe about her, above all for the way this could be used to play with the gendered dynamic we might expect to find when this trope is used.

discrimination is justified by societies - again and again throughout the course of history - with the claim that it protects women [and men's claim to them]. we can imagine easily that this is the same in the wizarding world because voldemort literally tells us so - in the opening chapter of deathly hallows he explicitly equates tonks' marriage to lupin as the cause of the "rot" in the black family tree, before he goes on to murder charity burbage while accusing her of supporting miscegenation.

what we see less frequently is the idea that men need to be protected from the other - societies are much more amenable to seeing men's behaviour as hypocrisy [and tolerating this] rather than moral corruption, and we can assume in the wizarding world that it would be perfectly acceptable for a pureblood man to have a muggleborn mistress or a half-blood love-child in a way it never would be for a pureblood woman.

so how does draco justify his attraction to hermione to himself? how does he keep her a secret? how does he think of women more generally, if he has a pureblood wife at home and a muggleborn woman he cheats on her with? does he see nothing contradictory about sneaking off into broom cupboards and then strutting into the slytherin common room and telling pansy parkinson that hermione is a digusting mudblood dog?

or, does he get the other side of the coin? do lucius and narcissa think he's being corrupted? is his temptation all-consuming? will he lie about hermione attacking him to save face? will he turn on the tears and place her in unimaginable danger and then feel only the slightest hint of regret?

and i just think that has so much more potential than your standard "draco's sadistic but, more importantly, he's hot" stuff.

because i will read things that are objectively baffling if they are, at least, interesting. dramione nation, i'm begging you... just be interesting.

[furrypandacollective]

One thing I hate about the marauders fandom is how everyone acts like walburga is some monster who's only goal is making her kids life hell like Sirius slept in her room why are yall acting like that??? Same thing with draco istg if see another person say that the Malfoys abuse draco I'm gonna kill myself you trying to tell me mr "my father is going to hear about this"is abused???

[dracolizardlars]

homophobia is so insane like literally you hate love... you hate people being in love and loving each other and making each other happy...??? disney supervillain ass trait...

[elisedonut]

concept

ok so time travel au

but like more then one person who have completely unrelated reasons for being in the past

For example

Draco goes back while trying to fix the cabinet in a freak accident and so gets sent back into his younger body

while Percy plans and plans and does it on purpose after the war in an attempt to save Fred specifically

so now both are just very confused about why the other is the only one not acting how they're expecting them too

like that conversation in the hallway in Draco's second year changes entirely and both are left going ????? about it because most other interactions happen more or less how their expecting with the caveat that they haven't changed anything about it so now their both going what the hell did I do??

[dark-elf-writes]

The desire to write Harry being courted in the way befitting of a pureblood heir but no one ever bothered to tell him anything about Magical culture so he is even more oblivious than normal and the person courting him is losing their damn mind because they’re doing everything right what’s happening

[greenerteacups]

Could you see Draco and Hermione as part of a Challengers dynamic or is that sacrilegious?

That's interesting! Not sacrilege — my philosophy is to ship anything any way you want, uphill, both ways, in the snow — but my Dramione have always been a tightly pair-bonded codependent couple, and there's not a lot of breathing room in there for a third. If possible, the other leg of that triangle would have to be equally unhinged and intense, and I can't think of anyone who would fit the bill. Ron just isn't the type.

Pansy, though... hm. Maybe.

[daddiesdrarryy]

Draco: Wow, look at Potter strutting around in Hogwarts like he owns the place

Pansy: Don’t be jealous, Draco. It’s not a good look on you

Draco: I’m not jealous, Pansy. I’m gay

[styrofauxm]

i just saw an instagram reel talking about how frustrating queer bait is and someone in the comments got 7,000 likes on remus lupin and sirius black (harry potter) and just no???? You made that shit up in fanfic. I read those books 17 times and if you genuinely think that JK Rowling even considered that queer people existed while writing them then you need to touch some grass.

[crunchycrispy]

Magic That Lingers | Explicit | 39.9k | Harry/Draco | Casefic | Paired Together | Potions Accident | Slow Burn

Assigned theme: lost; opposite theme: found

Written for @hp-lawofattraction-fest.

In which the Minister’s best Unspeakable, Harry Potter, never gets asked to work on a difficult and dangerous case with his childhood rival. At no point in this story does he absorb a very mysterious magical residue that drains his magical core. He never develops any sort of dream link that causes him to share his nightmare-turned-vaguely-intimate-dreams with anyone, and he certainly never begins to find Draco Malfoy attractive… … or does he?

Read Magic That Lingers on AO3!

my deepest, sincerest, most heartfelt gratitude to @itsjamethyst and @lagerloutfic for putting up with my constant stream of self doubt. as usual, the two of you were absolute darlings with your constant cheerleading, insightful advice, and genuine support throughout the actual months of writing this <3 <3 <3

[lunas-radish-earrings]

for @drarrymicrofic's december prompt: sneaky 🎄

It’s their third Christmas together and Draco’s up to something. Like old times, Harry thinks, lacing up his boots for a mission that will drag him away for days. If Draco had just waited, he wouldn’t have had to act so suspicious. But then again, he’s never exactly been sneaky.

[fatestouch]

"It's nice to see you again, Your Highness. It's been a while."

"I suppose it has been... you look well, Draco."

"As do you! I do wish these were better circumstances, though... be sure to not overwork yourself, okay? I--well, everyone worries about you."

"Smooth." Mutters under his breath.

Kicks Seth's shin hard, still smiling at Typhon. "If you need anything, please don't hesitate to put us to work, alright?"

These brothers were odd, as always... "Right..."

[pendinganchor]

facing my fear of sharing my writing real quick 🫡

note: idk the exact timeline for this fic yet . i’ll worry about that if i ever actually write it . also *insert i hate jkr statement* but as a trans man i feel that should go unsaid

Draco was trying, and failing, to remain focused on his book when he felt someone sit next to him. He still didn’t feel like he belonged in this house so he was keeping to himself. “You seem to have something on your mind.”

“Sorry?” he asked as his attention moved from the book to the man who spoke to him.

“You haven’t turned a page in over ten minutes. And you’re usually quite the fast reader.”

“Oh.” Draco glanced at the page number then carefully shut the book. He shifted his body to be more comfortable— he hadn’t noticed when his back started hurting because of his position. He gave his former teacher his full attention. “Observant are we?”

“When you’ve experienced the things I have, you learn to be.” Draco nodded in silent agreement— he did know. “So, what’s got you distracted from a good book?”

“Normal angsty teenage things.”

“Care to share?”

Draco made a face. “I hardly believe you care about this sort of thing.”

“I was an angsty teenager once. An outside perspective might be helpful, try me.”

“It’s about my love life.” Or more accurately his lack of one.

“Ah. Not sure I can help, but give it a shot.”

Draco paused for a moment, deciding if he should say anything. “How do I get rid of this stupid pull I feel towards him?”

Remus let out a soft laugh— like he knew what Draco wasn’t saying. “I fear it’s in your genetics, Draco. You can’t get rid of that.”

“What?”

“You aren’t the first Black to fall in love with a Potter. You’re not even the second.” Draco opened his mouth to protest— to say he wasn’t in love with Harry. But stopped when Remus gave him a pointed look. “I am all too familiar with the look of love on a member of the Black family.” Draco followed the man’s gaze to Sirius— who was waving his arms around as he said something to one of the Weasleys. Draco couldn’t tell which one from this distance.

“Is it worth it?” He felt a sudden urge to cry. An urge to say never mind, he didn’t want to know the answer.

“Is what worth it?” Remus asked as they made eye contact with each other again.

He thought about not elaborating. Just walking away. “Falling in love with a Black?”

“Every second.”

[fandomnatic]

god Draco would have been SUCH a good redemption arc