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Introduction.

Hello, my name is Rio. I go by they/them, and am pan. I’m deaf, have been my entire life.

I write purely for fun, and I hope that one day I can share some of my original works. For now, though, I’ll be focusing on several projects I’ve been working on for some time within the Harry Potter universe.

NOTE: I do not, in any way, support JKRoach. I am a part of the fandom, anything that TERF says has no importance in my blog. Fuck her.

Harry Potter Rewrite.

I decided to rewrite the entire Harry Potter series. I’ll be fixing plot holes, diversifying, and overall bettering the story as I see fit.

I would love and appreciate it if you guys could help me out! Have any specific headcanon for any character? Let me know! Have ideas for an Era? Comment, Ask, or PM me!

I want to hear about any and all suggestions you may have.

NOTE #1: I used to identify as Anti-Snape, but I no longer do. I decided to interact with some Snape stans with an open mind when I made the choice of humanizing Snape. Now, I’m very neutral about young Snape, however, I won’t defend him as an adult. Hope that’s understandable. If you’ve got any headcanons on Snape as a young boy/teenager, feel free to send them over.

NOTE #2: Due to my personal headcanon that the Potters are Indian, I will be referring to Harry as Hari (I can elaborate on this, if you’d like).

Social Media.

I’ll be posting the rewrite (and maybe some other works) on Ao3 and Wattpad. You can subscribe and follow in the meantime.

You can follow my progress with the rewrite on my Twitter. I will be interacting with everyone there, and will be holding votes on different matters every Friday (ish).

If you’re looking to befriend me, you can follow me on Instagram and TikTok.

Progress on Writing.

Marauders’ Era: Rewrite.

Were the Marauders Really That Popular?

Humanized Severus Snape.

Sirius Black Headcanons.

Remus Lupin Headcanons.

Marauders Headcanons.

Lightning Era: Rewrite.

Harry Potter Rewrite: Help!

My Opinion on Percy Weasley.

Draco Malfoy, What Do I Think?

Next Gen Era: Rewrite.

Grandpa Arthur.

Overall Rewrite.

Harry Potter Rewrite: Religion.

Harry Potter Rewrite: Disabilities.

Harry Potter Rewrite: Google Form.

Harry Potter Rewrite: Is It Okay To Include Muslims?

Published.

Reasons to Stay: Book One.

Someone to Stay: Epilogue. (Wattpad || Ao3)

Someone to Stay: Chapter One. (Watt. || Ao3)

Someone to Stay: Chapter Two. (Watt. || Ao3)

thesoftrainbows

Hi, what are your thougths about Draco Malfoy? I really like your rewrite, but I always feel like Draco could be like, the catarsis of a familiar chain. The one who survived his family toxicity and became a better person. I'm just saying he had potential.

Hey Anon! I apologize for taking a bit to respond, I haven’t been on Tumblr very much. But this is an excellent question, so thank you for the opportunity to discuss it!

Draco Malfoy is a complex character. He comes from a rich family that are proud members of the Sacred Twenty-Eight, who followed the Dark Lord until they couldn’t anymore. From afar, many would think that they’re the perfect example of evil people. However, as we look closer, all we see is fear.

We see Lucius trying to protect his son whenever Voldemort put him on the spot. We see Narcissa going behind the Lord’s back to protect her child. We see Draco being forced to do a lot of things out of fear and out of wanting to keep his family safe.

I believe that Draco really was as obnoxious as we meet him as in the first book/film. But, like all children, he grew up. As the war intensified, his actions became less about getting a reaction out of Hari and more about keeping himself and those around him alive—which is something that Hari fails to see at first.

I like the idea of Draco getting a redemption arc, but I don’t think it would be easy for him. I mean, sometimes I imagine him attempting to disappear into the muggle world for a few years where he learns a lot more about the world and himself. Who knows what he might have done during that time? Worked at a bakery shop? Maybe.

In my visions, though, Draco always comes back to the wixen world and becomes a Healer. He apologizes for his wrongdoings and is actively looking to make things better.

Do Hari and Draco become friends or more? I’m not sure yet, but it certainly doesn’t happen until a couple of years after the war’s over.

On a somewhat different note, this is one of the things I love about the rewrite. I get to explore so many different family dynamics and how the kids respond to it. Some people change for the better, others for the worst, and others don’t change at all. It’s interesting to see how I slowly watch them unfold and bloom.

freesuitwerewolf

I apreciate your respond, because I really like your rewrite of Harry Potter. I want to do one my self, but I don't know how or where to start, or even where I can publish it.

Draco Malfoy is one of my favorite characters, mostly because it complexity and his potential to become better.

My headcanon tho is one that is very popular and un popular around the HP fandom and Draco's fans too, because I think he was abused. Let me elavorate:

I don't think Lucius was ever phisically abusive with Draco, even with healing magic you need training, so I don't think he would dare the risk of anyone knowing, and because Narcissa never would allow such a thing. It suit more for him to be emotionally abusive, use psicological games and manipulate his son to do as he please, make Draco crave his atention and do what ever it takes to make his father proud or at least get him to pay atention to him.

I think it was a bad move to not use Lucius more in the story, since he was an important man and had some influence in the school, she could have use him as a threat more since we knew he was one of Voldemort most loyal death eather; he was like his right hand man, he would have done pretty bad things to achieve that.

Emotional abuse is something that keep with you, that make you wonder if your parent love you because is all about manipulation, so is never constant; the abuser treat you well for a day or two, to make you do something they want, and then come back to the usual silence treatment and insulting and critique everything you do they don't see as good.

I think Lucius was like that because I always go that Draco was craving for his father atention, for his aproval, for his love; I can't think of him as a loving father, it never seem that way to me, it never seem he never really cared for Draco until they were in the midle of a war and Draco could really die. Abusers know what they're doing, but they always justify it, even to themselfs, as like they are doing the best for theyr child, that they only doing it because they think it is what would make theyr child be best. It takes extreme situations and confrontation for them to even aknoledge what they were doing was abuse and not just being extrict. Even after the war the only one of the Malfoys who changed was Draco, so I'm not so sure Lucius and Narcissa learned anything about the expirience.

I know Lucius and Narcissa married for love and that Lucius taked Narcissa's thoughts about not wanting Draco far from home, and because of that he didn't go to Durmstrang. To me this doesn't make too much sense, because in rich familys marriage is a political move, and since the wizarding world is like the victorian socity in many things, this could be just one of them. For me it make more sense that Narcissa convenced Lucius with talk about tradition and family, because the Malfoy family was in slytherin for centurys too, so it would look good that Draco go to hogwarts and get sorted into slytherin to keep the Malfoy and Black tradition of being in slytherin, since Draco is also the only Black heir alive (Regulus died, Sirius was in Azkaban and was disowned, Bellatrix was in Azkaban too, and Andromeda was disowned too, so it only leave Draco as heir since he is Narcissa's only son). I'm not saying they were fighting everytime or that they were a bad marriage, but I think they weren't in love.

I'm not saying Narcissa was abusive, I don't think so since she did always show care and love for her son, the counted times she show in the books and movies she seemed to care deeply for him. But since she came from an abusive house hold, I think is pretty acurate she had a similar mind set to Lucius; she wasn't going to permit her son to be phisically abused, but didn't see anything bad about Lucius means to make Draco work harder, "it couldn't be so bad after all" is what parents say when they are asked "why you just watched while my father/mother yelled at me?" because they too have that idea about theyr own childhood.

I see this things in Draco and think it explain his behavior, but he did do bad things, he was a bully and those were his choises alone, but we can't deny the influence the enviroment have in the behavior of people. Draco deserved a chance at redemtion because he showed regret and unwillingness during his service to Voldemort, but I think he deserve that try at redemtion because I think is not in his nature to be that way, that in a diferent enviroment he could be diferent. He isn't good or sweet, he's not soft and he don't have a heart of gold inside, but he can be good if he got the chance after learning that all his parents teached him was bad, was wrong, and that what he did to others was bad too and he has to at least say sorry.

I like the idea of Draco going to the muggle world after the war and getting in the goth scene, because it seems similar to what he knows but it is so diferent; is all about forbidden books, forbidden ways of thinking, is all about the beauty in darkness. I like to think that dark magic is not all bad, that magic is not bad or good, people can use it to do bad or good things; I want him to use darkness for good, I want him to accept his heritage, accept what he did and being ashamed and regretful of that, but explore the other side of darkness; the side full of stars and the moon light, and show that to the world.

I like goth because the clothes and fashion in general is very classy, but that doesn't mean expensive, and that is all about the things the victorian socity was afraid of; freedom, science, arts, music, and death. I think is ideal for Draco to explore the muggle world and get into goth, just imagine him with make up and nail polish, use his back suit some day, but use combat boots, skinny black jeans ripped, and baggy black jakects and leather jakects; or use a combination of both, boots, black pants, black button ups (or dark red and green), with suit jakects, or leather jakects. I imagine him geting piercings and tattoos and going back to Hogwarts for 8th year, and everyone except Pansy, Blaise, Theo and Goyle (they getted closer because of Crabbe's death; but I like to think Pansy, Blaise and Theo were alredy Draco's real friends, because I want slytherin redemtion too) get shocked, Pansy getted in the fashion with him but the other couldn't find the atractive. I can just see the Golden Trio's faces with this.

I like Drarry and Harry to be the bottom, being him all bull (the fics with this are gems) but the idea of him being soft and femenine and a bottom instead of the manly hero everyone expected him to be; like, he is a small bean and a pretty boy, and be all shy and cute, but still get all sassy and angry and being so powerfull he can kill you with just a wave of his hand. Like, Harry was never seen as cute, pretty or handsome like Duddley with the Dursleys, and he wanted to be pretty and have pretty things.

I respect that you don't think like I do, that's why is a headcanon in the first place. I liked your answer, it maked me think. I respect your opinion, and I love your rewrite of the HP series.

Thank you💙

thesoftrainbows

Hi again!

I have to say that I throughly enjoyed your take on Draco Malfoy and his family. There are things that I hadn’t thought of, and agreed. Others, not so much.

Firstly, if you want to publish your own version of the rewrite, go ahead! It’s a difficult task, for sure, but it can also be so much fun. Also, you said you weren’t sure of where to publish it, I recommend you do it on AO3 since it’s a platform made specifically for fan fiction and they don’t get any kind of profit so it protects you as a fanfiction writer and them. Hope this helps!

Now, on to your view on Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy.

For the longest time, I believed the same thing as you did. But it wasn’t until very recently that I changed my mind a bit. I think that Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy were the products of generational trauma—this is not to excuse their failings as parents and people, don’t misunderstand—, just like everyone else in the Sacred Twenty-Eight. They are people who grew up in an environment where they are forced to give up all control over their lives (they cannot even choose who they marry), they’re taught so many vile things throughout their childhoods—actually, they don’t even get to be kids. There’s just so many things wrong with these people.

But I do agree that Lucius might’ve been emotionally and mentally abusive, and it really would explain Draco’s desperate need to make him proud. However, I don’t think that means that Lucius didn’t love his son. I simply think that Lucius was stuck in a cycle he couldn’t or didn’t know how to break. This parenting style that Lucius uses is likely the same one his parents used when raising him, which would be the same his grandparents used on his parents and so on. It’s an endless loop of children learning that you have to hate a group of people for no reason and marry your cousin to keep the family line “pure” and gain as much power as possible because only then will you be deemed respectable. And Lucius clearly wants Draco to become respectable a young man in the wixen world, to have such an easy life such as his own.

Narcissa, on the other hand, I believe to be much more gentle and nurturing towards her son. She’s also stuck in a cycle, but she’s also seen firsthand what happens when you break it and what happens when you don’t. Narcissa had two sisters, Andromeda and Bellatrix. Andromeda disappointed her family to the point of being disowned—which, I should remind you, is the worst that could happen to you when you’re from a family like theirs—when she married a muggleborn and renounced her place as a Black. Now her family doesn’t acknowledge her existence unless it’s probably to discuss how much of a disappointment she is/was. Then you have Bellatrix, who followed the steps so many had carved before her, but it probably cost her her sanity with the way she behaves. But Bellatrix is the gem of the family, and she’s doing so well, she’s so respectable; she married a cousin who’s rich and very convenient and follows the Dark Lord and became a part of his inner circle. And this is without bringing her cousins, Sirius and Regulus, into this mess. Who would you follow?

As for whether Lucius and Narcissa married out of love or not: I think it started out as the typical arranged marriage, but they slowly fell in love as their relationship continued to grow. I like to think they’re the perfect example of a couple growing in love rather than falling. And I believe that this love and mutual respect that they share in this marriage would explain why Lucius listens to Narcissa and often does as she asks. You’re right about Narcissa using tradition to convince her husband to allow Draco to attend Hogwarts, but Durmstrang is also a very well-respected school of magic—especially amongst dark wixes like themselves. But Lucius knew that Narcissa wasn’t ready to have her only child live so far, and gave in.

With all of that said, I like to think that Draco knows what love should look like. He knows how to treat his lovers (regardless of gender), and he knows that communication, respect and love are the keys to a successful relationship. I would even dare to say that he was a romantic at heart, even if he didn’t show it. Draco might’ve been a bit soft, as he was a child growing and trying to make a name for himself while the world changed around him constantly. His views were sick and twisted due to the environment he grew up in, but this can all be changed over time.

Draco probably had a very complicated relationship with his parents, because they weren’t the best but I don’t think their mistakes were from lack of love—more from lack of acceptance. Draco is allowed to be angry and distant, he’s allowed to leave his parents to rot in Azkaban for all the hardships he’d had to endure because of them. But as someone who grew up in a toxic environment, it’s difficult to keep that mindset when you know the love was there and that your parents were working with what they knew and thought to be right, even if their views were misguided.

Also, I’d never thought of Draco being into goth until you brought it up and honestly, I’m really digging it. So thank you for that!

Finally, I have a love-hate relationship with Drarry mostly because I love my personal headcanons on Hinny and Drastoria. Not to mention that a part of me prefers Albus and Scorpius to be together rather than Draco and Harry.

Anyways! Thank you! 💞