“Theo’s the only friend I don’t quite understand. The way he looks at me sometimes, like he’s waiting for me to do the wrong thing.”
I have soo much questions! Hermione says it took some time in the beginning for them, I’m wondering has Theo always been weird with her since the start of her relationship with Draco? Or was it around the time when Draco confided in Theo about his marriage?
I imagine Theo was always wary of their relationship, but his suspicions depended once Draco confined in him!
Hi I am currently reading what you think is right for the third time! I absolutely love your style of writing! It pains me to see how much D and H are struggling with their marriage!
While reading I was wondering if you would ever write some chapters in Draco’s perspective? I would love to read his thoughts and what he felt seeing H going through the pain of losing her parents, what he went through to help them, their marriage counselling, his failing business and also when he took the portkey to the jungle and how he made it back home while injured, how he felt waking up in hospital and then later having to deal with his parents in the Manor, the things he told Theo about his marriage and why Theo hated Hermione so much :( his reaction when he finds out how his friends all treated her! There’s so much, I could go on lol. It completely destroyed me when nearly everyone had turned their backs on H.
Also a prequel on how they got together would be amazing! I love dramione so much, I’ve read loads of fics but your story comes back to me every time! Thank you for creating such a wonderful fic, it’s so underrated and not spoken about as often but you have definitely stolen my heart with your work 💞
Hey anon!
This is such a sweet ask—thank you so much. I’m so glad you enjoyed the WYTiR world. So, the short answer is, yes—I actually had always planned to write a complementary fic from Draco’s POV. The long answer is...im not sure when this would happen. I’m working on a variety of different projects rn, including a muggle AU paralleling WYTIR (kind of like how Saints & Sinners was).
I hop I get to write this fic soon though. I’d love to go experiment a bit with Draco’s perspective. I’m honestly so grateful there’s even interest in this! A prequel would be a very fun challenge for me as well.
Did Hermione’s mum ever forgive her? I feel like Hermione didn’t get any closure from her mum ☹️
very good question, anon! I’m sorry to say my answer is less than satisfactory. I meant for that lack of reconcilliation to be purposeful, for the plot to reflect that…Hermione can’t ever really know what her mum felt because of what happened. That’s one of the biggest tragedies of the situation and something H will probably grapple with for the rest of her life.
Hi, sweetie. Here I go again. These days, I have looked for some works of the same type as what you think is right, but I found that you wrote the best. I have been looking through them several times recently. You explain to me last time why Theo was so hostile to Hermione. According to your explanation, I put myself in Theo's emotions to understand this plot, I will relatively less hostile to him, but I still feel sorry for Hermione's isolated state, so I do not forgive him!
This time I have some new question to ask you, 1. In chapter 12, when Hermione hears Draco's friends come to the Manor looking for him, Draco and his friends are happy and in harmony until she arrives at the conservatory. Extrapolating from the later episodes, were Pansy and Theo then explaining to Draco the things they had threatened Hermione while he was in hospital? Is Theo's friendliness to Hermione at that time genuine? Or is it just because Draco was there at that time? As well as the next chapter, the three of them wrote to Hermione in the hope that they can meet with Hermione this behavior, but also because they have changed their mind about Hermione?
2. We all know that Hermione who was not involved in them, in part because of her own, she have to go to parents' home to pack up something, I read another meaning, is Hermione don't want to destroy the atmosphere of joy, because she felt Draco and his friends will be very happy, with her together always very pain, After all, the two of them haven't been communicating well for a long time. I think the two of them are just hiding from each other, from their problems. I don't know if this is accurate?
Last question~ Again from chapter 12, which I really have a lot of questions about this chapter, sorry. Hermione turned down Theo and Blaise's invitation because she was going to her parents' house, at that time Draco ask her “Do you need me to come with you?” Heimione rejected, Draco also did not retain her further, Personally, I felt that Hermione was at her most vulnerable, alone in a house full of her parents' life, and that the memories were extremely painful for her. If Draco really loved her, why didn't he go with her? Was he still subconsciously angry with Hermione at the time? I wonder what Draco was thinking at that moment?
I hit a long list, really very sorry, hope you don't dislike me too much talk🥲But I SUPER like your work. Thank you for your wonderful creation~😘🥰💪
Hey there! I'm so sorry this is so belated. My real life has been crazy lately, but I hope to do your wonderful questions justice:
1. I actually figured Pansy and Theo were just trying to cheer Draco up at that moment, possibly with Hogwarts-era memories (the early years!) or something of that sort. I did not imagine that they were talking about their behavior towards Hermione in that moment. If they had confessed to Draco what they had said to Hermione, he would have been furious.
Theo's behavior towards Hermione is an olive branch of some sort. Both Theo and Pansy had been friends with Hermione prior to Draco's accident, but when push came to shove, there was a clear division of alliances...for Theo, Draco always came first, as a brother, and Hermione was someone who grew to care about because he loved Draco. Hence, his loyalty–though perhaps misguided–was always with Draco, and in his mind, his actions towards Hermione are justified because his ultimate goal was to keep Draco alive, at whatever cost.
However, once Draco moved back to the manor to convalesce, Theo had some more time to reflect on the situation, which in turn allowed him to see Hermione's situation with much more empathy. His latent contrition in that scene is genuine. Pansy's as well. They really do want to repair their relationship with her.
2. Yes, you're spot on. Hermione feels like an interloper in that scene. For the first time in a very long time, Draco seems to be enjoying himself. She doesn't want to ruin that.
3. I'm not sure if what Draco felt at that moment was anger, but maybe dejection. I think he was exhausted, in pain, and unsure of how to proceed with his wife. I think he would have accompanied her, for sure, without complaint, but I think he no longer knew if his presence was helpful for her. He no longer knew if she wanted him around, and she no longer knew if he wanted her around. This really is a story about the poverty of language, I think, and the ways we lose each other because of that.
🤩 16! Or 30! (this is for the "unique writing asks🖋️")
Hello friend!!
16. What motives do you give your original characters? What drives them? How much tragedy did you subject them to?
This is such a good and hard question! I do think I’m slightly sadistic with characters, in that I’m always driving them into fraught and morally grey situations. For my original characters, I’m always trying to answer two questions: why do they feel this way and what caused them to feel this way? I think a lot of my OC characters tend to be driven by a sense of disillusionment or a lack of purpose. I wrote once in a personal statement that I am “particularly drawn to the ways in which trauma manifests within families and within communities.”
Admittedly, a lot of my protagonists carry threads of who I am or was in them, mostly because I find it difficult to write about people who I don’t have any insight into. I’m a bit of a loner by nature, so I think aspects of that loneliness also factor into a lot of my character motivations.
30. What is some of the best writing advice you’ve read or received? Why does it work for you?
Ha, my workshop professor said to me earlier this semester. “The problem is, the smarter you try to sound in your writing, the less smart you appear.” And that really stuck with me, because I was going through a misguided period of trying to tie in a lot of critical work into my personal essays. I wanted my work to “mean” more and “speak to” a wider audience, because what are the stakes otherwise? I think it’s a mistake, however, to always be writing towards an audience, at least on first draft. I think that can lead to internal censorship in some ways.
I’ll caveat with one piece of advice an amazing journalism professor gave me: reporting sets you free. Sometimes research is the way to “unlock” a piece, but I think developing the ability to adjudicate when that holds true is central to growing as a writer.
Hello Sweetheart!!! I wanted too tell you that your fanfic What You Think Is Right had a big impact on me and in a good way actually....
You are such an inspiration for the Fandom and your work has touched me in ways I didn't think was possible.... Thank You...
I felt everything that these characters went through ( mostly Draco and Hermione..)
What you see here is no communication in a marriage between then and Draco is trying his HARDEST but Hermione shut him out and that's were they have problems....
This fic has made me cry ugly tears but in a good way because there only been 2 other fanfics that has made me cry....
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Questions!!!
1.) I will say this that I did not like Draco friends in this because they were very shady...
Hermione father was dying and she already lost one parent and about too loose the next and I do not appreciate how they walked all over her....
I also didn't like that Draco didn't stick up for his wife either....
Can we get a one shot can we please have Hermione putting Draco friends in there spots and letting Draco friends feel like shit as well as not being consider an father dying or losing both parents as well...
2.) Did Draco say that he didn't love Hermione anymore or it was hard too love her when they fell too sleep together on the bed crying too one another...
What was Draco and Hermione thought process after he said it....
3.) In the series WYTR do you plan on writing one I'm Draco POV...
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I just wanted too say you are brilliant in what you do and I love your work...
So so so sorry for how belated this is!! Spoilers below!
1. I'm open to the idea of doing some one-shots in that universe, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to. This year has been really crazy for me, in good and bad ways, and I'm just trying to stay on top of my life right now haha.
2. I saw it more as that he was admitting their relationship had been hard, that it had been difficult to care for her in the ways he wanted to, because he felt she didn't want that care for him. I do truly believe Draco had always loved her; that he himself felt he would always love her. Part of why I think they are able to reconcile is that the whole trauma of the story makes it clear to them that love means showing up and actively choosing the person you are with, every single day. I think his speech to her indicates that he's all in on that, on showing up and choosing to be with her, despite the challenges they still face.
3. I am not sure that I have it in me to do an entire story from his PoV, but never say never!
HI! I just read What You Think Is Right, and it absolutely destroyed me (but also put me back together).
I don’t know how to explain this, but I’ll give it a shot. So, I have clinical depression, and I spend so much time in my own head, suffering in what feels like silence. And inside all this, I often start to think, “Why can’t the people around me see what I need????” But while reading your story and the journey Hermione goes through, I wondered, “Why can’t I see what everyone else needs?” It’s so, so easy to get wrapped up in our own lives, ESPECIALLY when things seem impossibly hard, but your fic gave me a much needed, extremely important reminder that I don’t exist in a vacuum. I need my people, but they need me, too. So, thank you very, very much for that. ♥️
Oh, anon. This is such a beautiful note. Thank you so much for writing to me and for letting me know how the work impacted you. I read a lot about the Theory of Mind when I was writing WYTiR, and I think that probably bled into it (I hope). I'm so glad WYTiR resonated with you.
