for the drarry trope/scenario, may i suggest my most beloved one - (EWE) second chances? i’ve read about this playing out in so many different ways and it always always gets me. would love to hear your thoughts!
hi!! thank you for this! procrastinating packing to think about this, haha.
as we already know, i love when the second chances happen with some time between hogwarts (including 8th year) and meeting again. i love when they re-contextualize each other as adults, whether because work brings them together, or the teddy and andromeda connection, or mutual friends.
actually my favorite headcanon is probably the last one, because i think they can coexist on parallel lines in their lives professionally and even with teddy (though i absolutely adore teddy bringing them together) but when there's a gryffindor/slytherin pairing that paves the way...yes.
i guess my favorite progression is enemies-> wary acquaintances-> maybe friends-> lovers but tbh only the first two are important to me; you can swap the order of operations otherwise. the messiness of becoming lovers quickly and perhaps prematurely is always good to me.
harry is attracted to the ways draco's changed; draco is attracted to harry because he can finally see him in a new light that's not resentful or spurned. if there's already attraction, i love the idea that the second chance is actually about placing them in scenarios where that attraction is viable, it can go somewhere. it's sort of like going from being attracted to a celebrity (as a pure hypothetical, ignoring harry's celebrity) and your lives shifting around where it's not out of the question that something can happen. the attraction changes, then, becomes less abstract and more realistic. they let themselves feel things in a more practical, satisfying way than before.
i read this as pure getting together vibes but applying this trope to getting back together (my actual favorite) is sooo good. i really love playing around with the idea that the love can be there but the timing is off, or there are too many outside factors for it to work, and they have to call it and go through that pain to later get a good second crack at things. i love getting back together for them because of the layers of history and contexts, of the possibility of a third chance, and how precious that is; the stakes are higher because how many people get a third shot like that?
send me drarry tropes and i’ll respond with five related headcanons!!
