Progress Update (you knew the next one I posted was going to be a long one)
SO... I got through chapter eight (projected 15 chaps altogether) and had to mostly start over rework basically everything because it just wasn’t fucking working. Which is why I hadn’t posted a progress update - it kept feeling off.
Here’s the thing... Lucius isn’t a nice, jolly fellow - but he isn’t Voldemort or the Dursleys either. Draco is his only heir, his only son, even if it’s not the son he wants.
Book Two of my little thingy is going to have a lot of Lucius and Draco angst because when I try anything else, Lucius Malfoy pops the fuck up and gives me a giant finger.
The main thing I had to tackle with this one is Lucius being responsible for the Chamber of Secrets being opened. Like I did with The Incident, I am exploring why a grown-ass, seemingly intelligent adult would do such a thing. I had originally planned on sticking the canon Lucius motives...
What are those, you might ask?
Glad you did, because since I won’t be able to explore it in my story, I’mma post them here - in another post, in case all you care about is the progress update.
Anywho, that has now since changed completely. Lucius’ motives are tied directly to his concern and opinions of his son as he is in this fic. As such, I’m having to write an entirely different first chapter because, try as I might to avoid it, I need to lay the basic groundwork for it.
Serious question - who here cares if the first chapter features mostly Draco’s home life, a little bit of ‘where’s Harry?’, and a bit of Ravenclaws thinking they’re geniuses just to have their families/Slytherin friends point out their idiocy?
Because if we go this route, I think I can close off the summer by the end of chapter two. Even so - this new angle will create additional scenes between Draco and his father as well as Draco with the Slytherins. The projection is 17 chapters. Also a serious question - is that okay? Or would you guys prefer I find a way to trim that and focus mostly on Harry/Draco. ( Also, Harry/Draco is still in there. This new angle actually creates the opportunity for Harry to see family in a way he never did in canon and makes him be the only one who’s like, ‘He’s your dad, Draco. You’d regret it if you don’t try’.)
Third serious question... How do you feel about the following:
This new angle will not color Narcissa in the usual badass-actually a good person-misunderstood person most good!draco fics do. I can’t really find a way around it.
This will be my take on it, though - Draco in this really is a good!draco. He had such a horrific trauma experience not to be. Therefore, he’s not entirely in this gray area but over there in the ‘Light’. As such, Lucius will represent the ‘Dark’, and Narcissa will represent the ‘Gray’. I don’t want to spoil anything, so I’ll say taking this angle will result in a conversation between Narcissa and Draco at either the end of Two or the beginning of Three that will basically lay out three main things:
Sometimes it is healthiest for oneself not to save someone.
Sometimes it is healthiest for someone to take the ‘easy’ route because that is literally the only thing they have it in them to do anymore.
And, basically, just because someone wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire doesn’t mean they would just let anyone burn.
So yeah. That’s where this is. Reply, message, answer in a reblog, just let me know! (Even if you don’t, I’mma progress where I am anyway, so no pressure)
Otherwise, sorry... Don’t blame me, blame Lucius.
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