Elkins' Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame. Yet

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Northsouth:

>The question though, is why? Why is there so much sexually 
attractive 
>Draco in fanon, when there isn't so much of Ron or Harry, for 
>example, or Neville or Percy. Why are they not twisted into, say, 
>sexilysensitive!Neville or cool,dangerous!Percy or something, while 
>Draco is. (or StrongandSilent!Goyle. Adorablyloyal!Crabbe. 
>OldFashoinedGentleman!Flint. Wickedlyseductive!Peter.) 

Just guessing here, because I've stayed far, far away from fanfic, 
but I have a feeling most of the Draco-love fanfics were written 
after the movies came out.  Tom Felton is quite the little hottie and 
the younger crowd could be quite desperate to make him into a hero.  
Draco in the books is rather a nasty little cockroach, but Draco in 
the movies can make girls' hearts go pitter-patter.  When I was a 
teeny-bopper, I fell madly in love with Damien from the Omen movies.  
Now, the son of Satan has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, but I 
thought that actor was just so lovely...  I'm sure I wrote plenty of 
little fantasies about turning him from the dark side.  Attraction 
and good sense can be on very opposite sides of the spectrum.  Also, 
when you mentioned sadism, it's very true that danger can be very 
stimulating, which is part of the attraction of the bad boy.  Good 
guys are so predictible - they buy you flowers, they say nice things, 
they'll wait until you're ready, they rarely surprise you...  But the 
bad boy might grab you, press you up against a wall and plant one on 
you at an inappropriate time... very exciting. 
BTW, "Wickedlyseductive!Peter"?  EWWWWWWW!!!!  Bad boy, yes.  
Attractive, no!!  

Nicky Joe