#when i talk about being annoyed—it’s mainly postwar drarry fics

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Hey this is anon from the drarry ask

I would love to read it if you decide to post honestly I really like your characterisations.

I feel like I’m opening a can of worms but I am sorry I’m just really curious, so if don’t mind could you tell me what started annoying you about Draco’s characterisation.

welcome back, anon! here’s the ffn link to it, along with another little drabble. i was gonna post it here but the writing is—way too 2017 for my tastes rn hehehe

(if u do read, don’t forget to come back and tell me what u think :p it’s very, very rough bc of how old it is but i don’t completely hate it 🙈)

and ahhh, i’m not exactly sure how to put it because it isn’t…any one thing but it’s like. draco is often written as this defanged, misunderstood victim and harry is treated so harshly for no reason. like, harry’s sectumsempra leaves him guilt-wracked and apologising profusely years after the fact and draco’s use of a crucial/letting DEs into a school etc etc are totally ok? and the way harry is written as this—bumbling, thick idiot. idk. harry kept getting shat on so much to prop draco up in a lot of the stuff i was reading and it began annoying me to the point i only looked for fics tagged ‘magically powerful harry potter’ 💀

of course, this isn’t a blanket statement on all drarry fics. there’s many i quite like, and some of the smut is absolutely top notch, not to even mention the beautiful art but—yeah. not a huge fan of how draco is treated with kid gloves in direct contrast to slapping harry around, yeah?