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Vintage January 3, 2001

Character Summary: Draco Malfoy
aka
"TooSexyToDieGuy"
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Name: Draco Malfoy

Age: We don't know if he's older or younger than Harry, but as they are
the same year, he was born in either 1979 or 1980, and is 10 or 11 when
he first appears, in Madame Malkin's shop

Description: Blond, light grey eyes, pointy features, sneers a lot, well
dressed, or at least wealthily dressed. He has floppy hair on the
Mystery at Hogwarts card, at least in silhouette. Believed by many
fanfiction writers, teenage witches and grown women to look good in
leather.

Job: Student, Slytherin House
Slytherin Seeker, 2nd year forward

Personality: Very sarcastic, witty (yes, it's canon - his comment about
the blast ended skrewts is, at least), pretty good mimic (immitates
Colin in CoA), bigot (CoA. The whole book.), most likely at least
semi-smart (In the KNockturn Alley scene in CoA, lucius implies that he
expected Draco to be top of the class but he was trumped by Hermione),
sucks up to Snape (CoA, while Dumbledore is suspended), violent streak
(although there is some argument that when he "tried" to curse Harry in
GoF, he was just trying to get his attention & missed on purpose),
cowardly streak (ran from Voldemort in PS/SS)

Special abilities:

* Can be transformed into a ferret in a single bound
* Pretty good in potions
* Keeps up on the news of the outside world (he's always
the one with newspapers & magazines in his hands)
* Good seeker. 3rd year, he has a 3-1 record, and likely only
lost to Harry because Harry had a faster broom.

Obsessions:

Harry Potter. The times we see Draco when he doesn't know Harry is
there, namely the Slytherin Common Room scene of CoS, and in Knockturn
Alley, he doesn't stop talking about Harry

Good qualities:

Just because we haven't seen them in the text doesn't mean they're not
there. Or something like that.

Relationships:

Took Pansy Parkinson to the Yule Ball
Son of Lucius & Narcissa Malfoy
Fanfiction pairs him with Hermione and Pansy on a regular basis, one
story paired him with Professor Sinistra, and slash stories pair him
with Harry, Ron, occasionally Snape and once, for some reason, Neville

Questions:
1. Is Draco sexy?
2. Is Draco redeemable?
3. Does he have any friends? I don't mean flunkies or minders, I mean
someone who he can have a conversation with. If not, could he?

4. Professor Snape seems to trust him. In book 4, Snape accepts
Malfoy's statement about what happened when he & harry were trying to
curse each other. *IF* you believe that Snape has Dumbledore and the
Old Crowd's best interests at heart, it is possible that he would
support a completely evil and unredeemable Draco, in the interest of
getting Draco to change his ways and be on Snape's side, but it is
equally probable that Snape does not see Draco as being completely
evil and unredeemable *at this point*. If he's not unredeemable, then
it is possible that redemption and a turning away from Lucius and the
Death Eaters (tm) will happen in the future.
I recommend going to post 8471 and reading the replies to that post, including Caius's, Cassie's, Susan McGee's and

owlman's. And this is a moment when we all should pause and sing

folk's filk.

Now, the issue of right and wrong and stuff. I have heard tell (although I haven't read it myself, having read a random 400 or so posts of the last 1500 on my flist) that there are R/Hr shippers who have been recorded as saying that Ron and Hermione were snogging throughout book 4 or at least book 5 or would, at a minimum, be snogging *during* Book Six that all those who shipped either of those people with anyone else (except, arguably Lav Lav and Vik Vik) should admit they were wrong and didn't read the signs in the books properly, but, of course, anyone who actually thought that there was snogging between the two in Book Five was just as wrong. Right? And those who prophesized after Book Four that Harry and Ginny were soulmates and would shortly fall in lurve and lurve happily ever after but for the interference of You Know Who were also, er, wrong.

In other words, none of us predicted 100% what she was going to do. None of us have a clear line to her brain, and none of us should be slammed or laughed at or criticized for not being accurate with our predictions.

So I'm going to quote

lupinslittlesis on this (although, unlike her, I am perfectly at peace with R/T) and leave it at that, for now:

I feel like I'm expected to be embarrassed or repentent or sorry about loving R/S and not liking R/T. I'm being told they're JKR's characters, and she is Goddess, and if she wants to write it that way, she can. Well, I'm NOT sorry I love R/S, or that I'm not crazy about R/T. Sure, she's got the right to write it any way she wants, but I've got the right to say "that didn't work for me." Given that I'm willing to say I LOVED the rest of the book, and this didn't ruin HBP for me, or the Harry Potter series, I don't see why it's such a big deal that I thought she hashed up one of her minor subplots, but there you go.

You can fill in whatever ship name you want in the above, right?