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[nilefreemans]

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[hillnerd]

13 for the fanfic asks?

13. Name three favorite characters to write.

Ron is my very fave. I’m just the most familiar (obsessed) with him, and he’s so casual about everything that it makes it very easy to slip into his head and write. Plus he’s funny, and I like writing funny characters. He’s just so full of love and fire- and so natural and wholesome- I keep considering writing parts of that australia fic Waking Up from his perspective simply because it’s easier- since he’s doing so much and is just very natural to write. That’s probably why I write SO many stories that either have him in it, or star him. He’s just... SO great. :) 

Hermione is a another fave. I like her because it’s a bit more of an exploration and trying to understand her- in some ways I get her- I was a meticulous fussbudget child myself and was always the ‘brightest kid in the room.’ But on other levels I don’t understand her- how withholding she is at times, that level of darkness she achieves- I dunno, She’s a very interesting character to write. Trying to nail her particular brand of fearsome/caring proud/insecure is a cool challenge. 

Percy is another case of interesting. I almost put Angelina or George here, as they were really a pleasure to write- but Percy, man, it’s just plain fascinating tackling him. He has all this fire, passion, wit, and insecurity- and he hides it so deep beneath layers of rules and societal expectations. I won’t lie, writing Percy is exhausting sometimes. He’s in such a dark place in Reunión Familiar - and it’s weird writing the Weasleys home as a distant uncomfortable place- writing Weasleys who AREN’T quite one big happy family? It hard. He’s grieving and so estranged from everyone, and trying to find his way- it’s hard, but I really enjoy it- and have been working on the next chapter of reunion.

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[lytefoot]

I believe you ship Drastoria? Could you talk about it and why it interests you? I don't really do OC ships but I want to know your Astoria. I also want to know if there are solid reasons for shipping Draco with good people. Reasons that aren't, "She fixed him and Draco got his redemption arc!" (Also take your time. I'm in no rush.)

I do!

(This is super-long, so I’m going to throw a “Read More” on it.)

My take on Drastoria is hugely influenced by @littlerose13writes and per_mare_ad_astra on AO3 (whose tumblr I don’t know), who are inspired by Cursed Child, and @thediariesofastoriagreengrass, whose opinion on CC I don’t know. (In particular, this thread of Jamie’s did a lot to shape my thinking about Drastoria.)

So in my main timeline, Draco came out of the war not knowing who he was, and with nobody really liking him very much. Lucius went to prison for a surprisingly small number of years, Narcissa went to the south of France until England cooled down a little bit, and Draco got a cheap flat until the Ministry decided how much of the former death eaters’ assets they were going to seize. (Spoiler: not too much actually. Old Money still talks, even after the war, no matter how mad Harry gets about it. Draco gets to keep the manor, though if you want to be technical Lucius is stripped of it.)

So Draco’s young, rich (once the Ministry decides to let him have his money) and at loose ends. What is there to do except step into the swirl of pureblood society? But nobody likes him much. The ones whose families were full-on DEs don’t like him because he got away with it while their people didn’t (never mind the fact that Draco’s getting off involved naming quite a few names in court). The ones with pureblood supremacist attitudes don’t like him because the DEs, having lost, are now an embarrassment to their position. And all of them don’t like him because he got away with it, just like his father did after the first war, just like Malfoys always do, the slimy f***ers.

And all of a sudden Draco is an outsider, and he’s seeing this world he grew up in with an outsider’s eyes, and it’s gross. He doesn’t like it. He doesn’t know who he is, and he doesn’t know who else to be. He wants to be a better person, he wants to be himself, but he doesn’t know what that looks like. Post-war Draco is done with ideology. He doesn’t go from anti-muggle to pro-muggle. He goes from fanatical to apolitical. His reform is more personal in nature. He does realize that, on a personal level, he’s been an a**hole, mostly as a result of meeting much bigger bullies than him. And he’d rather not be an a**hole any more, if he can figure out another mode of interaction.

That’s where he is when he meets Astoria. Oh, he’s met her before--they were Slytherins together, after all--but she’s a couple years younger than he is, and there’s a sense, in Society, that she’s somehow Defective. (I have absolutely wholeheartedly adopted CC’s “blood curse” thing, as filtered through the authors I mentioned above.) They never really interacted very much--how much did Harry interact with non-Weasley Gryffindors that weren’t in his year? Like that. He meets Astoria at a party where nobody’s spoken to him all night, and she wanders over and says something like, “Terrible party, isn’t it?”

So my Astoria. Astoria is bluntly honest, delivered in a way that ends up being funny. She does not have time for your bulls***, and she’ll say so. “Listen, I’m going to die before I’m thirty, this isn’t worth my time.” Astoria is adept at using weakness as a weapon. She definitely weaponized weakness during the Carrow year: they couldn’t really touch her, because anything they did had a decent chance of killing her, a risk they couldn’t take with her bloodline. And she weaponizes it in order to be able to live her life the way she wants to, and call things as she sees them. She’s also just intensely Slytherin. She can manipulate with the best of them, she’s intensely loyal to her family and her people, and her fierce ambition is to stuff as much life into the years she has as she possibly can.

Draco is fascinated by this girl who just takes no nonsense from anyone, and Astoria’s taken with this boy who’s just as Done with this crap as she is, who’s trying to figure out how to be someone that he likes since anyone else liking him is a lost cause. They do this adolescent rebellion thing together, and just, they have fun.

Astoria is a positive influence on Draco, but not in a “love will fix you” way. She’s someone who knows how to have fun and doesn’t care who sees her doing it, and Draco needs a role model for that in his life. Mostly, though, she’s a positive influence because he has to stand up to his parents to be with her. She doesn’t make him do it, and she doesn’t make him become a better person--it’s his efforts to become a better person that she’s attracted to, among other things. But Lucius and Narcissa do not approve of Astoria. Astoria Greengrass is not the pureblood wife you want to marry in order to make a bunch of pureblood babies. Draco’s willing to grow a backbone, tell Lucius he frankly doesn’t care about the Malfoy lineage, in order to marry Astoria.

It isn’t true, of course. Draco does care about the Malfoy lineage. There is all sorts of Drama associated with the production of baby Scorpius that I’m still working on--there’s a lot to unpack there to make it go down in a way I’m satisfied with, that doesn’t do the thing where a woman’s suffering is all about the men in her life, which Bothers Me about the Astoria Greengrass story.

Draco loves his wife, to a degree he kind if didn’t realize he was capable of. When her health is declining, he’s present for her until the very end--sometimes in ways that shut his son out. Her death damages him in ways he’s unlikely to recover from.

On the other hand... Draco Malfoy is not a strong person. He struggles, every time, to stand up to his parents, whom he loves very much despite the fact that they’re horrible people. Draco is not good at being a buffer between Lucius and Narcissa, barely-reformed wizard nazis, and Scorpius, whose mother raised him to respect people. (My Scorpius was quite well-developed before CC came out, and he bears very little resemblance to CC Scorpius. He’s a much sharper person, inherited a core of iron from his mother and a sarcastic wit from both of them and he and my Albus initially bond over trolling the s*** out of the blood purists that still infest Slytherin house.)

So, yeah. I like happy-Drastoria, when they’re young and in love and laughing together. I like cute-Drastoria with adorable baby Scorpius. I like Astoria not putting up with any s*** from Draco’s parents. And I like tragic-Drastoria when she dies young and he’s lost and kind of broken without her. (No link for that last one, because I’m mostly interested in my own take on that story, which is a work in progress.)

[morganapendragon]

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[smalltownboymp3]

Unpopular opinion: Draco Malfoy is allowed to confront his bad actions and get a redemption arc but that sure as hell does not mean that the Hermione Granger is obligated to forgive him and/or date him. A meaningless, implausible and problematic romance cheapens his redemption arc and does great disservice to his character.

Agree, and while we’re on the topic: No matter how much you redeem yourself, the people you bullied, discriminated, and tormented on a daily basis do not owe you forgiveness. EVER. Do better, be better, sure. 

Don’t expect forgiveness. Don’t demand a second chance. They don’t owe you one. Not everyone needs or wants to grant forgiveness to move on.

[aliferousdreamer]

Ron/Hermione. Ron/Harry. Draco/Apple for the ship thing :)

thanks so much for the ask!! <3

Ron/Hermione:

OTP: i have to be honest- i don’t really ship characters per say (i have no idea why, but it’s hard to connect to romance), but these two fit together really, really well. they balance each other out and clearly have fantastic times when they’re alone together. they sometimes bicker, belittle each other and act petty- but it’s all stuff they manage to work through, and at the end of the day they would 100% die for each other and care so much for the other.

i do have to say though, when jkr says that they might need some couples counselling, i’m completely for that. from experience in therapy (both on my own/ with family members), i could definitely say that their communication skills would improve. therapy only works if people want to get/ be better, and i believe that ron and hermione would do it for themselves and each other, though it may take time.

Ron/Harry:

BROTP: they’re amazing best friends with lots in common, and although they fight (usually when ron makes an assumption- when it comes to loyalty/ insecurities- about something, begrudgingly confronts harry- who then blows up, gets defensive/ aggressive and tells ron to piss off)- they are so incredibly “ride or die”. tbh, i could totally see them as OTP material and their romantic ship is very, very sweet; it just wasn’t set up that way in canon, with there being so many other love interests for each respectfully. 

Draco/Apple

BROTP: it’s harder for draco to bully a green juicy fruit, but i wouldn’t go quite as far as a romance. i know eating an apple is symbolic for villains being bad guys, but the apple is too good for him. maybe if he had a redemption arc where he didn’t eat the apple like a fucking villain, drapple would be The OTP.

[takaraphoenix]

Favorite book moment/scene? :)

Thanks for asking! ^-^

Mmmmh... Favorite scene. That’s so hard. There are legit a lot of good ones.

But due to my utter love for Clarisse la Rue and her friendship with Percy, it has to be the Demigod Files scene when Percy realizes even Clarisse has fears and wants friends.

[booksociety]

Have any of the admins read Circe by Madelline Miller? I'm confused about something that happened in the books. Pls let me know because I don't want to spoil it for anyone.

Hello! Sorry but neither of the admins read Circe. However, feel free to contact our member Isa // @softcritiques who has just finished reading it yesterday or Marisa // @kuweiyulbo! 😊

- Nickie