Another Fic Search...and Rants.

[lzay-niight.livejournal.com]

Hey Guys, I am back with another fic(s) request and a rant to burn off some steam.

So I have another fic search and one that is fairly specific. I am looking for fics out their to add to my growing bookmarks with the pairing Harry/Draco or Gryffindor/Draco, that doesn't have Draco pretty much turning into this suddenly perfect partner for Harry. You all know what I'm talking about. The ones were he suddenly isn't jealous and bitter of the fact that Harry gets all the attention and start to sympathize with Harry and admit he has been wrong, because obviously ever Gryffindor or person on the light side are saints that are just always, always right and can just never do the bad thing. Because you know, it's not like they are human or anything, right?

Yeah, I am not looking for fics like that.

Sadly for me, and lucky for everyone else that is a huge Harry Potter (the character) fan and like to pair him with Draco, these fics are more dominate in this fandom and are easy to find.

I really, really, don't want to read another fic like this again. I get why most people who write HP/DM go the same route I explained above. From the way I see it, Harry is the main character and is on the 'good' side or the 'right' side. That's cool and all, but for a person like me who really doesn't go for the goody two shoes character, it frustrating to see the character seemingly always changing to better fit Harry's good personality.

I get it. Harry Potter = Good guy that could do no wrong.

BUT, I would prefer it if Draco Malfoy ≠ Harry Potter perfect boyfriend/Lover/Pet/Husband after he sees reason that the 'light' side was obviously right from the beginning and the 'dark' side was just so very wrong and had absolutely zero reasoning to begin with.

Why can't they just agree to disagree? Can they not have their own opinion and still be together?

In my eyes, both sides had equal parts were they were wrong and were they were right. You know, I have yet to read a story (with bottom Draco) where the 'light' side and 'dark' side simply compromised with each other other than Oath Breaker. Isn't that one usually tries to do before going into full war and even after going into full war a treaty to end the war or something is sighed.

And this may offend other (which I'm not trying to do, I swear) but I had never seen the fight against Harry and Tom Riddle as a full out war, even when they supposedly declared war. This could likely be to the fact that by the time I got into the HP books I had read some really intense war fics filled with eye widening action and some pretty graphic manga (Naruto, Bleach, Vampire Knight, Code Breaker, and much more) and compared to them what Harry went through to defeat Tom Riddle  wasn't really all that bad. They also kept mentioning on how if Tom wasn't defeated it would effect the whole wizarding world, but the action was kept in Britain and just seemed like a small civil war at most times to me. I don't think the wizarding world would have trouble killing off Tom if Harry didn't defeat him if it really came to that.

While reading slash fics over the years I have become sensitive to all things 'good' or 'right'. I dislike characters that always do 'good' or whatever. I don't mind reading about them if they are partnered with a character like Draco who others sees as a 'bad' or 'not right'.

I don't want to read another fic like that either. The one were Draco 'gets whats he deserve'. He can be punished for what he did in the war, that's fine. It's when people over due it is were I draw the line. Fics that involves him becoming a slave of some sort, and after being tortured and raped, seems to fall in love with his 'master' were I would see him either finding some way to kill himself instead of have to bruise his pride or biding his time to escape and kill. A LOT of authors seem to make him incapable of killing or focus on the word 'coward' because he is a slytherin.

Authors tend to look from a Gryffindor point of view and not a slytherin like I would prefer. Or just a general would be great.

At any rate, rant over and done with I am hoping that their are fics (bottom Draco) out their that isn't written in a Gryffindor perspective, have Draco changing or 'correcting' his views to be with Harry, have Draco punished for his crimes unfairly, or 'light' side Draco period at this point. I would rather him just be on his own dang side or neutral.

Comments

[roadtime.livejournal.com]

Since we started talking about it, here's my thoughts about the subject.

it seems kind of curious as to why over fifty generation of purebloods claim this, and still do so in the present.

Because of the resentment they feel that the muggleborn and Muggle-associated (halfbloods) can share a world that they see rightfully as "theirs". Most pureblood families don't want to wipe out Muggles and muggleborns anyway, they just want them to accept that purebloods are better and establish a better status for themselves by oppressing them. Because of their birth association. Textbook racism. They don't have to want to kill em to be racist, seeing themselves as better than them because of birth association is enough.

There's also the resentment they've nursed over the centuries, because witches were burnt in the middle ages, and they punish the Muggle and muggleborn of now, who haven't done anything to them and don't deserve it one bit. Purebloods justifying hating Muggle and Muggleborn by stating the execution of witches in those centuries is a case of oppressors woobifying themselves and excusing their prejudice.

Wizarding world would survive without purebloods. In the world JKR created, there are only 28 pureblood families left. They're very few, compared to mixed/halfblood population. Old blood doesn't carry the magical gene, purebloods don't carry the wizarding world's next generation single handedly, otherwise all halfbloods (i.e. by far the bigger part of wizarding community) would have become extinct without procreating with purebloods and procreating within themselves, because as you well know, purebloods usually don't intermarry. Even if all pureblood families died down, wizarding world would go on.

Old blood carries the magical gene is pureblood propaganda. Anyone magical can, a muggleborn has the same odds of carrying the magical gene as a pureblood does. Having magical parents doesn't even guarantee that the kid will be magical, hence the Squibs. I expect Squibs are very hush hush in pureblood families, because it's the direct disproof of their beliefs.

I also know that the racism goes BOTH ways, and dislike when author's try to pretend that it doesn't. Purebloods are more vocal about there views, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out how the wizarding world see all things 'dark'

Oh no, it doesn't. Racism is always the powerful privileged of the society oppressing any other social group based on birth status. If, say, there ever comes a time where the muggleborn had privileges over purebloods (in terms of law, social standing, finances etc), then muggleborn oppressing purebloods would be racism. And I think a situation like that isn't going to happen anytime soon in HP universe, because even after Voldemort's fall and thus Voldemort sympathizers' disgrace, people's prejudices won't change much at large, only the worst offenders will be imprisoned. Nothing will happen to the racist person who didn't join Voldemort's ranks in the war and the prejudice will go on, because racism takes generations to die down.

About what you said about dark magic; people shunning dark magic sympathizers can't ever be racism because it's not related to birth status. It's shunning people because of what they do, not because of what they are. It can be a prejudice, yes, but given the nature of dark magic, how addicting it can be, and the fact that it always disregards to consent of someone, I do think it's plausible to be worried about it. At most it's more a matter of people being too totalitarian/forbidding, not racism.

When it comes to Harry, of course his opinion isn't the end all, be all to everything. Harry's not always right, and that's how I like him, I don't want to read about no perfect dude. But about racism, he's right. I don't want Harry to be with someone who (even secretly) thinks about his mother and his friend as a mudblood (the wizarding world equivalent of the N word). That said, given that Draco has repented of his racism, I don't want his personality to change one bit for Harry. Because Harry can certainly love him that way :)

[internet-self.livejournal.com]

Hello there! I know this debates a little old but I was just browsing for some much needed in character Draco when I saw this and was rather intrigued by the conversation. I hope either of you don't mind me sticking in a couple of thoughts of my own that I thought about when I read this?! :D

"Because of the resentment they feel that the muggleborn and Muggle-associated (halfbloods) can share a world that they see rightfully as "theirs". Most pureblood families don't want to wipe out Muggles and muggleborns anyway, they just want them to accept that purebloods are better and establish a better status for themselves by oppressing them. Because of their birth association. Textbook racism."

I get the whole oppression thing, completely right, however I've always looked at the purebloods hatred of muggles and the muggle world ect as contempt at the muggles dominance of the wider world and in a way the repression of the magical community. When you think about it for centuries, since the time of Merlin, witchcraft was something shunned and demonised so much so that they literally have to hide entire communities from the muggle world. They are forced to secret themselves away and while in the wider world deny who they were born to be: magical and shit. They even have laws for it! Magic in front of a muggle, being your true self in front of a muggle and it's askaban for you! I don't see it as them wanting to establish a better status (because they already think they have that) but as having the ability to not hide away. But that's just my thought.

Oh and just a little side note on the racism thing, it definitely does of both ways.

Thanks for your time ^_^ ice been wanting to get that out for a while now!