What's with all the Draco love in fanon?

[John]

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For some reason a lot of people like to ship Draco with Harry, Ginny,
or Hermione.  Maybe I'm missing something here, but Draco (in canon)
is a pompous, gloating, racist nitwit (up until HBP anyway, when he
finally does something without yapping about it) who has been nothing
but horrible to the Trio and their friends.

The comparison I make for the Death Eaters and Draco and Voldemort in
particular are Nazis (particulary fitting since Hitler was part Jew)
or the KKK and their prejudice towards blacks.  If I was black
(Hermione), half black (Harry), or friends with somebody who is black
why would I date somebody who thinks the world would be a better place
without black people around?

Is there any reason besides the actor for the character being handsome
(which Draco in the book WASN'T described as being).  Is it simply one
of those "I can change him" situations that seems to happen with lots
of girls/women?  Would replacing "mudblood" with "n****r", "death
eater" with nazi and "pure blood" with "aryan" in the books yield the
same amount of pro-Draco stories?

John

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