What's with all the Draco love in fanon?

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 153184

> John
> 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?  


Magpie:
No, it's not the actor. It was around before the movies and even since 
then I don't think the actor is so important in himself.  I'd say the 
reasons for it are as numerous as the number of people who like the 
character. There are probably some "I want to change him" people in 
there, but there's no reason fans of one character should be reduced 
to dismissive stereotypes more than any other.

Draco's always been a character in an interesting situation.   Many 
people argued long before HBP that his situation and set up meant he 
had to play a part somewhere.  There aren't a lot of kids in canon 
that have any characterization that are in his type of situation; he 
offers a lot of things for a fanfic writer to explore.  Fanon can do 
different things with a character so that people can keep things they 
like, lose things they don't like, shade things one way or another.  I 
mean, the funny thing about all the "why would people write about 
him?" is that of course ultimately the author was one of them.  He's 
not the hero of a fanfic story or anything like that, but her story 
definitely echoed plenty of Draco fics (though given fanon's obsession 
with romance, in fanfic it was more often played out via shipping).  
Iow, many Draco fanfic authors were interested in the same things 
about the character that seem to interest the author.  

-m