lads, can we take a second to talk about how dramione-coded The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is??? like I spent way too much time planning it out but omg it works as such a good freaking dark dramione au????
i'm never going to write this fic myself but ahh i just need to put it into the universe and hope theres some dramione fic writer who is already working on this idea.
let me map it out for you starting with the basics, and how certain aspects of hp could be changed to fit this hunger games dramione au.
coriolanus is our draco, aside from the physical features the two characters share (if you saw the trailer for the movie, you get it), we've got the aspect of both draco and coryo being self-serving, almost obsessive, their desire to maintain appearances and his general kissassery.
lucy gray is our hermione. this one is a bit less of a direct translation in terms of personalities - but we're changing the pureblood/muggleborn aspect to capitol/district. hermione in some dark fics is written as more of a hopeful ray of sunshine and that would work here
sejanus, was the one that inspired me to think of this au idea in the first place. if you read manacled, there's certain similarities between harry potter and sejanus plinth - both are brave and want to do good, but in both stories go about trying to bring change in the most foolhardy ways.
dr gaul is bellatrix - no description needed, theyre both absolutely unhinged
the slytherin kids and other hp characters like ernie mcmillan, cho chang etc as coryo's classmates in the capitol. marietta of course, as Clemensia to mirror the way she is also scarred in canon
billy taupe is ron - now i love ron, but this works best with the idea of old dramione fics with their ron bashing, especially when you can have mayfair as lavender
playing a bit more with hp family dynamics, i'd change the covey's to be the weasley children (basically i'm just destroying the whole weasley family and for what?), with maude ivory as ginny
ma plinth as molly weasley - good food
strabo plinth as lucius malfoy - yeah i know im breaking up lucius/narcissa and arthur/molly but it works with the characterization
these last two characters are a bit tricky, and i need you to stick with me for this. instead of having crassus snow be lucius malfoy - i would actually have grindelwald be draco's father. why? so that we can have the canon aspect of the grindelwald - dumbledore relationship in coryo's father and dean highbottom. i know it would be more intuitive to have dumbledore as a rebel leader but idk this dark dramione au aspect demands a dumbledore thats kinda broken down
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