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I’ve never gotten the appeal of Harry/Draco, or indeed any of the Draco ships, given that his main canon characteristic is referencing his father at all possible opportunities: “My father says…” and “When my father hears about this!” and so forth and so on. He’s also a bully, but at least if he were a bully who stood on his own two feet and fought his own battles there might be something to him. But no! He’s always riding on Daddy’s coattails.
To be fair, I realize that H/D fandom does not write him like this at all. I think Harry Potter may have been the first fandom where the fanworks, rather than the original books, eventually became the source material for a large proportion of fic? (You can see a similar dynamic in 2012-era Les Mis fanworks about the Amis: their primary source material was neither the movie nor the music nor the original book, but other fanfiction about the Amis.)
Actually, I’ve read that Sentinel fandom was also like this, but that was because many people didn't have access to the TV show. IIRC some 1990s anime fandoms had the same difficulty, and there were fans who had only seen a few episodes, or read episode descriptions, or what have you? But that’s a different dynamic than rejecting a freely-available canon and substituting your own.
God, remember how hard it used to be to watch a TV show if your local cable company didn’t happen to show it? We’re truly living in a golden age.
To be fair, I realize that H/D fandom does not write him like this at all. I think Harry Potter may have been the first fandom where the fanworks, rather than the original books, eventually became the source material for a large proportion of fic? (You can see a similar dynamic in 2012-era Les Mis fanworks about the Amis: their primary source material was neither the movie nor the music nor the original book, but other fanfiction about the Amis.)
Actually, I’ve read that Sentinel fandom was also like this, but that was because many people didn't have access to the TV show. IIRC some 1990s anime fandoms had the same difficulty, and there were fans who had only seen a few episodes, or read episode descriptions, or what have you? But that’s a different dynamic than rejecting a freely-available canon and substituting your own.
God, remember how hard it used to be to watch a TV show if your local cable company didn’t happen to show it? We’re truly living in a golden age.
