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Death Eater Draco 😈

If evil, why so hot? Huh?….

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im just a huge sucker for charismatic villains becoming sort of pseudo good guys and hanging out with the main characters just because a bigger, more serious threat emerges and i dont think it happens enough tbh. especially when they’re still kind of a dick, i just think its a fun trope

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Like a half hour after taking pain relief meds: oh actually it doesnt hurt anymore i probably didnt even need to take those

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Drew him fancy~

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we are all sinners

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The Remain Nameless sketches

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Inspired by I will die your daughter by Susannah Joffe

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Can you believe how long it took me to draw Durmstrang Draco? Underrated concept imo

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Hello! I've just started a narration YouTube channel and one of my big reasons for wanting to is Lionheart! I used to read it to my friend who does not read fanfiction at all and he loved it! and I really loved reading it to him! I am here to humbly ask permission to narrate your beautiful work to my channel as my first big project! <3

Hey, sure! This is really sweet of you, thank you for asking!

On a more general note: My policy on people making transformative art of my work is that, on principle, I never deny permission for anything legal, i.e. anything that is not-for-profit/zero gross income for the creator. My reason for that is (1) I would feel hypocritical policing fanwork of a fanwork when I myself am doing something the author of Harry Potter wouldn't like, and (2) I really do believe in radical freedom of transformative work. I see requests for permission to create derivative works as good manners, but ultimately not obligatory.

I'm laying all this out because, as you may or may not know, there are already a couple of podfics of Lionheart. I'm not saying that to discourage you; but I don't know the etiquette in the podficcing community, and there was recently an unfortunate situation where someone who had been making a really wonderful podfic for a long time stopped making it because (among other reasons) someone else started a "continuation" of their podfic immediately after their last episode. When I think about it, I find myself caught in this really weird, frustrating place between wanting to encourage freedom of creativity and expression and gratitude for people celebrating my work, and then on the other hand, a sadness that a transformative work I enjoyed isn't going to be made anymore, and a worry that I could have done something to prevent it (maybe I could? Maybe I couldn't? I don't know). I don't pass judgment on anyone. It did make me sad to know that a work I'd really enjoyed would not be produced anymore, but out of respect for that creator and for the freedom of creators in fandom spaces, I'm not going to publicly comment further on that.

Anyway, sorry to turn your question into a jumping-off platform for blabbing about all this. I'd just been trying to figure out a good way to speak about it, and this ended up being an appropriate venue. The TLDR for you, anon, is that all derivative works or adaptations of Lionheart presumptively have my go-ahead. Thanks for your interest! And thank you for your kind words.

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Late night cram was a success

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Hello! I think Im being really dumb because I can't remember but was there a chapter where Hermione created the charm that obliviates 'traitors' of the army? And why did everyone immediately assume it was Draco's handwork? Sorry am trying to go back and re-read but can't find it!

So, no, that's information revealed in the latest chapter - Hermione jinxes the sign-up sheet, but she chooses not to reveal the nature of the jinx to her friends (a plot point that will bear discussion later).

The reason they assumed it was Draco was - well, discrimination, basically. Highly advanced spellwork is assumed to be the work of the titled pureblood, not the muggle-born standing next to him.

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Some Harry Potter stuff

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You updated on my birthday lmao

Happy birthday! I hope you enjoy the (accidental) present.

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Hi!

I have so much thoughts about pureblood families in HP, it's insane how underdeveloped they are. Harry is a pureblood and from a very good family that according to JKR fully upheld pure-blood traditions while being very sympathetic to muggles. Potters were direct descendants of Perevell's and also voting in Wisengamot for ages.

Seems like James was the first person in his family to marry a muggleborn, too. Wonder if that was a consequence of Fleamont and Euphemia being very liberal, and then dying too fast to become deeply uncomfortable with the prospect of their golden boy marrying a muggleborn! Especially with soft parallels between Petunia and Lily marrying up, I wonder if there was a less insane and more charming version of aunt Marge Potter

The Potter family is a cool lacuna in the text, because there's this "Great Dying" that takes place in their family right before Harry comes into the picture. Harry's the last one, and we don't even seem to have an executor for the estate left over from the war, or a trust system in place for Harry; the first time we hear the Potters might be well-off is when Hagrid rocks up and lays it on Harry's eleven-year-old self that he has full fuckin' fiduciary control of the Potter estate, apparently.

I reckon James wasn't the first person in his family to "marry out" — Dumbledore has this throwaway line about how most pureblood families have muggle in them somewhere if you just look for it, which rings true to me — but I would believe he was the first heir to do so. I'd also believe that Euphemia and Fleamont didn't have any qualms about it; we don't see anything in the text to suggest James has blood-related reservations about Lily, and none of their surviving friends indicate that was a problem in their relationship. I think that works on a narrative level as setting up James as the foil to Snape; Snape is closer to Lily's blood status, but he actually has the prejudices that would impede their relationship, whereas James is further away socially, but is progressive and chooses to fight against the pureblood faction in the war. In my mind, that difference underscores the text's stance on prejudice: it isn't something genetic, it's something learned and practiced, and either way, it's a choice with consequences.

So that's the Doylist take. On a Watsonian level, the Potters get married during a war, and they don't live long enough to have a marriage during peacetime, so I guess we don't really know what their relationship would have been like in the long term — isn't it fucked up to think that Lily and James were only together for like, three years? — but it's possible tensions about her blood status would have developed among his extended family/family friends. On a slightly unrelated note I do like the parallel of both Lily and Petunia marrying out of Spinner's End, while Severus lives the same house he grew up in — there's a lot of stuff in there about escapism, denial of the past, and the inability to move on.

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