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Spring Term. Harry's off to teach DADA, but he'll have his Floo set up and ready for Draco to crawl through by the evening.

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VEELA [n] … morph into bird-like creatures with elongated, sharp bird faces and long scaly wings that sprout from their shoulders. o

Draco as a Veela (or part-Veela) is a very common fandom trope. There are many interpretations of the Veela form, most involving feathered wings like a harpy. In canon lore though, Veelas have scaled, more leather-like wings like sirens, and I personally prefer this version. Rather than an angelic Veela Draco, let’s imagine a more beastly, monster-like Draco who, regardless, has to win over his mate. His mate will have to look past the monster…and doesn’t that make for an interesting story?

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What do you think Harry and Narcissa’s relationship was post-war, especially once they became in-laws? She may have saved him in the woods but she also got Sirius killed by passing on Kreacher’s gossip to Voldemort. Did Harry ever learn about this? Did he forgive her? And would Draco take a side in that situation?

He definitely knows about it because the only reason we the readers know that she did this is that we see Dumbledore tell Harry about it in book 5. Interestingly, he never really seems to think about this in book 6 or book 7. Out of universe, I think it's because JKR and/or her publishers over-corrected after some people said Harry was "too angsty" in book 5 (which I think was a really dumb criticism) so they didn't have Harry dwell on this in book 6 or blame the Malfoys and then book 7 was just a badly written train wreck where JKR retconned a ton of stuff, forgot to follow up on a bunch of things and introduced a bunch of inconsistencies.

In-universe though we can read it as Harry being mentally resistant to blaming Draco for things or even secondarily associating him with something that upsetting. Given that he forgave Kreacher and that he probably puts most of the blame for Sirius's death on himself due to how much guilt he feels over what happened and given that Narcissa saved his life and is Draco's mom, he probably doesn't blame her as much as he otherwise might. But yeah I doubt things are ever easy between them. Narcissa also never really lets go of her old views so like. There's other issues besides that one. Draco definitely feels alot of guilt over his family's actions (and his actions) and would absolutely take Harry's side in any argument that happened.

I do think they respect each other and they also do both love Draco so they make an effort to get along for his sake. And Narcissa, whatever her private thoughts about Draco's choice of partner, is absolutely ride or die for Harry when it comes to facing the public. Someone wrote a rude and invasive column in the Prophet about Harry one time that upset him even though he acted like he didn't care? Narcissa hates that person forever now and she will make it their problem. A number of the Malfoy portraits want to yell insults at Harry every time he enters the Manor? Not if they don't want to be relocated to the attic they don't. Blood supremacists want to know if she's disappointed with Draco's husband and the kinds of people he associates with? How dare they insult her son-in-law and no, she will not put her wand away till they apologize.

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bored in class so I sketched, harry saw draco play the piano and wanted to try it too 🧡

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just did this in a frenzy for @julcheninred’s draw drarry badly challenge — inspired by one of my favourite scenes in rookie moves 😂

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Spring Term. Harry's off to teach DADA, but he'll have his Floo set up and ready for Draco to crawl through by the evening.

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hp au where he isn't a jock. Loathes physical activity and will trick his way out of fighting if possible.

That's....kinda canon. Harry doesn't loathe physical activity per se but he certainly always tries to trick his way out of conflicts. He's very Slytherin. The person who has trouble backing away from a fight even when he should is Tom Riddle...who is way more Gryffindor imho. Harry always tries to trick or talk his way out of problems or to escape if he can. Even just mundane things. Like he'll frequently pretend to be looking for a book or or make a lot of noise with stuff as a diversionary tactic or else straight up make up an excuse to leave to try to avoid convos he doesn't want to deal with.

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In a desperate bid to get Malfoy to talk to him, Harry Potter slips him an enchanted notebook during sixth year. Five years later, he finally gets an answer.

~From chapter 42 of A Page with No Space

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Let me start by saying that I adore your meta. It's some of the most thorough, well-reasoned hp analysis I've come across & you have a talent for tenderly mining and polishing canon connections I've never considered. You've put into words so many of my feelings about drarry, hinny, and the characters as a whole -- why I love them, why I struggle with them, and why they still compel me after all these years. I'm slowly chipping away at your blog and won't stop until I get to page 1 I've found myself very taken with the Slytherins lately--especially characters like Millicent and Daphne, who are either offhand names or caricatures, as well as some of the older Slytherins we see mentioned, who seem to stay largely out of the war (or at least aren't important enough to it for a mention). There are a lot of widely accepted fanon personalities/interpersonal dynamics for the Slytherins, and they're always fun to delve into. But I often find myself struggling to separate canon from fanon. Do you have any thoughts on what we can extrapolate about the Slytherins in canon (apart from "mean, ugly, & stupid/vapid" as jkr describes nearly every Slytherin but Draco)? And if not, do you have any blogs/posts to recommend on the topic?

Wow. What can I even say. I've been staring at this ask since I received it feeling so warmed by your words. Thank you very much for such high compliments. It always thrills me to hear that people get some enjoyment/mental stimulation out of this blog and that my little ramblings are of interest to others.

To some extent, since the other Slytherins aren't that well developed (due to the fact that Harry was too busy constantly staring at Draco to notice anything about them - I mean he literally doesn't even know Theodore Nott's NAME till he sees him spending more time with Draco) there's a lot of room for people to come up with their own interpretations of their personalities.

That said, there is some info in canon we can go off of. For example, we see Pansy hanging out with Draco a lot more than Millicent or Daphne. We also know that none of their parents were Death Eaters. And given that Millicent and Daphne seem to stay away from Draco more later, maybe their families aren't quite as into the whole blood purist stuff as Pansy and her family are. Especially Daphne does not seem to really participate in any of the bullying we see a lot of the Slytherins take part in.

Personally, I always headcannoned that Daphne never liked Draco very much and that while she did hold some anti-muggle and anti-muggleborn biases (similar to those held by most of the wizarding world), her attitudes were more on the level of those held by Fudge or Crouch and she never actually went in for any of the extremist blood purist beliefs or supported the Death Eaters or even had attitudes as extreme as Walburga Black (who thought the Death Eaters mostly had the right idea even if they went about it the wrong way). I also think she didn't much like the pettier behaviors Draco engaged in - the boasting, the bullying, the mockery, not to mention the weird Potter obsession - (or that the people Draco hung out with engaged in). I think she probably found him stuck up and arrogant and vaguely unsavory and tended to avoid him, even if she wasn't as horrified or enraged by him using slurs like Mudblood as someone like Ron or Harry would be.

I like the idea that after the war she and her sister changed their minds about their beliefs about muggles and muggleborns - even if they were never quite as extreme to begin with as those held by some. I headcanon that they two of them were both back at Hogwarts during Draco's 8th year - and that they actually ended up striking up a friendship - once the realized that he'd changed. After all, they were housemates for years. Plus they ran in similar social circles. And they all changed their minds, so that's a common bond. Daphne tells Draco point blank that she always thought he was a stuck up twat and Draco agrees that he was, which breaks the ice.

As for Pansy, I actually think she was more of a hanger on than a true friend. I thinks he and Draco drifted apart in 7th year. I don't especially like characterizations that whitewash the bad things she did - either the bullying or the bigotry or the "rying to hand harry in to Voldemort thing - or that turn her into some ooc mary sue girlboss with no personality other than being a genius who is great at everything and also getting to be mean with no consequences because she's so cool so no one cares I guess. That's not to say I don't enjoy fics with Draco/Pansy friendship if it's done right. But yeah, based on actual canon I see her moving on to the next person once Draco's fortunes were shown to have irrevocably fallen by book 7. Plus it's arguable that she always expected to marry Draco since he was the best match (thru book 6 anyway) but that she always secretly harbored feelings for Blaise. And after the war she got to act on that. After all, in the train scene in book 6 she seems awfully interested in what girls Blaise likes.

For Millicent we have even less. We know she was a bully. I don't like seeing that ignored or seeing her girlbossified. I do like the idea of her going thru her own little redemption arc and trying to make something of herself. I also imagine that she and Draco kind of drifted apart though. I think she ever became a completely nice person, but I like the idea of her apologizing to Hermione and them ending up at the Ministry together and kind of tolerating each other - just one of the many instances of strange, uncomfortable relationships that pop up in the post-war wizarding society as it tries to put itself together.

As for Crabbe & Goyle, I really hate how often fandom seems to forget or gloss over the fact that both of them were actively participating in torturing other students and seemingly very into it. I think the way Draco treated them - as henchmen/servants - always grated on them but they accepted it due to the relative statuses of their families. When the power dynamic between them shifts though, starting book 6 but really post book 6, they seem to revel in Draco's degradation and fall from grace (and we even see hints of that earlier, like them laughing when Draco gets beaten up by Harry in book 5 and not intervening). I find that super fascinating, and I think they are darker, more twisted characters than people tend to give them credit for. Given all this, I don't see Draco and Goyle staying friends post war and I never get why Goyle having been an enthusiastic participant in the Death Eaters' crimes (in a way that Draco never was) so often gets forgotten. Usually post war he gets reduced to a simple minded sad boi who Draco needs to look after. And I'm just like ??? Where?? Especially given that the alternative provides so much more interesting story fodder.

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Damn, you answered this so quickly. Executive function goals, tbh

I'd never considered Tom sorting Gryffindor until I started reading your blog, and now I have a mighty need. The villain of the series exemplifying so many of the ideals attributed to heroism (which are almost universally lauded in both a Doyalist and Watsonian context) is delicious. We know JKR drank her own kool-aid with house stereotyping & it's fascinating to pick apart.

One particular resorting I've been taken with lately is Hufflepuff Draco. My thoughts are 50% vibes and no textual research, but his loyalty, tenacity, and tendency towards groupthink/othering of "the wrong sort" make me wonder why the hat sorted him so quickly. (Also, IMAGINE Lucius and Narcissa receiving that owl. They would spend so much time riling each other up and talking each other down before sending Draco a reminder that they love him and this is no excuse to let his grades/dignity slip)

Sirius is also fascinating because fandom tends to paint him as this fun-loving, rebellious, immature-but-dependable-in-a-pinch kind of guy who would've risen to the occasion and been the ideal guardian for Harry. Which is just...not what we seen on page. He's full of so much complexity and hurt and anger and impotence and lack of remorse for his mistakes (with the notable exception of trusting James to Peter). His baggage makes him compelling and tragic in turns, but that nuance is so often stripped away to lay the fault for his circumstances at the feet of others (the Ministry, Dumbledore, etc). Him being in a cage that's partially of his own making is honestly such good food. I love your metas on the topic. No notes :)

Also: give us Alphard headcanons forever pls and thx

Don't mind me sending back-to-back questions. No pressure to answer, I just have a lot of feelings lol One of the most compelling things about hp is that both the heroes and the villains (with a few exceptions) are complex, with both surprising strengths and visible flaws. Have you pinged any particularly interesting flaws or strengths for the characters during your reading/ruminations?

I don't mind at all! I always love getting asks. Sometimes it takes me longer to reply than other times but I'm always happy to get them. You all always put such interesting stuff in my inbox. It's part of wht makes having this blog fun.

This is an interesting question. I suppose the characters whose flaws/strengths I find most interesting on here are the ones I tend to talk about a lot - Harry, Tom, Draco, Sirius, Snape, Narcissa, Alphard (yes he's totally a real character in canon; he IS xD), Regulus etc. One thing I really like about Tom is his bravery and how Gryffindor he is (I will die on the hill that he ended up in the wrong House) and his perseverance; no matter what he never, ever gives up. I especially like that these are traits usually associated with the heroes of stories, which Tom definitely is not meant to be. It adds a lot of interesting complexity to his character and role in the story.

And I like how on the one hand Sirius can be very loving and selfless and is also a very good and intuitive read of people who is able to empathize with others and really get into their mindsets and who would do anything to protect Harry and make him feel loved and safe. But on the other hand Sirius can be tremendously violent and has a real cruel streak where he can not only be callous, but outright enjoy inflicting suffering on others. Not only do we have his treatment of Kreacher, but also his treatment of Snape. He relishes tormenting him in the SWM scene - and also plotted to kill him - and never shows any remorse for it. Years later he still seems to think Snape deserved it and that the only thing wrong with what happened that day was that Sirius and James acted a little too arrogantly. He rejects his families blood purism, and yet he only really viewed James - the wealthy purelbood - as his equal in their friend group and was fine with using Lupin as a tool to kill Snape, even though that would have ruined Lupin's life too.

But yeah I like most of the characters and fine them interesting and complex. I think that's the greatest strength of the story and why I still like to think and blog about it today - even if some of this complexity was probably not intended on JKR's part.

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What do you think a wizarding wedding would look like, and what do you think Lucius' and Narcissa's specifically looked like?

The book does show us Fleur and Bill's wedding, but that was a wartime shotgun-ish wedding in the peripherals of the story's focus. I'm also not ever sure how much of the details there are things joanne really thought about and decided to include in her representation of a Magical wedding, and how much of it are just modern social customs she might have considered the forever universal default and put in the book.

Narcissa and Lucius also seem to be the rare fictional couple who'd actually enjoy all the pedantry and tradition and specificities in a wedding to me. Seeing as you're writing a fic with them in it, I thought you'd probably already thought about this aspect of worldbuilding/character writing, so I hope you don't mind me asking abt it. Thanks and have a great day!!

Okay, I love this ask, and I'm going to lay it all out, but first I want to lay out my Reasoning.

Here are my rules, when it comes to expanding on/filling in the Harry Potter world building:

ONE: If we’re dealing with any sort of political or social structure, my reference is England, year 1700. 

This does make sense with the backstory we get: the Wizarding World split away from the Muggle world in the late 1600s, wizards live a really long time, and wizards also didn’t need an industrial evolution (because magic filled the place of tech) so they wouldn’t have gotten any of the social changes that happened as a result of the industrial revolution. 

Also, this particular time period generally fits with what we see on the page. Education, politics, the police force, mental health care - it all seems to work in a very 1700s way. We don’t have any electricity, there’s no industrialization. (Like, Umbridge’s pamphlets are made by hand. I mean obviously they’re made by magic, but an individual’s magic, they’re not assembled in a magical factory.) So when Draco brings up a “museum”...  it makes sense to me that he’s not not thinking of a modern museum with a ticketing department running off grants and public funding, full of typed-out little plaques written by scientists and historians, telling you the provenance of whatever you’re looking at. If we went to a museum in Wizarding World, I would expect it to be the type of museum you saw in 1700: a cabinet of curiosities assembled by one wealthy collector, arranged in some eccentric way, handwritten labels or no labels at all, very probably in a wing of a private house. That feels correct and in-universe to me. So… whenever someone asks me something like ‘how do taxes work in the Harry Potter universe,’ I take 1700 England as a starting place, and go from there. 

TWO: If we’re dealing with aesthetic details or inventions, I draw from England 1700 - 1880

There isn’t much that’s Victorian in the world building… but there’s plenty in the set dressing. We see lots of 1800s fashion: women wearing hats with birds and flowers on them, men wearing bowler hats and top hats. There are 1800s hedge mazes, most of the holiday decorations are from the late 1800s, we’ve got radios and trains… and I’m completely fine with all that. It seems to me that if you’re a wizard walking through the Muggle world, it’s a lot easier to see someone wearing a cool hat, and say ‘I would like a hat like that’  - versus walking around and picking up the concept of, idk unions. Cameras are okay: they’re 1800s. Note that Rita Skeeter’s photographer Bozo has a magical version of a 1850s camera

while Muggle born Colin Creevey has… a modded 1930s camera? To communicate that he’s got a foot in both worlds. 

My point is that, if you saw someone riding a bicycle in Harry Potter, you would assume they brought it in from the Muggle world. Bicycles showed up in England in the 1880s, so that’s slightly too late. It’s important to the feel of the world to keep up a good chunk of separation between the aesthetics of the Wizarding World, and the aesthetics of the muggle world, so it's obvious when the younger generation/muggleborns blur that line on purpose.

THREE: Gender politics/gendered customs basically don’t exist

This is one of the things that makes Harry Potter a J. K. Rowling fantasy world. Obviously, JKR the person has a lot to unpack about gender politics, and there are all kinds of Doylist differences you can point to about how male and female characters are treated in the Harry Potter books. But in universe, there is no Watsonian benefit to being a guy or being a girl in any particular situation. We get gendered bathrooms (although the prefects’ bathroom and the locker rooms seem co-ed), gendered fashions, gendered dorms… and that’s basically it.  

Of course there are some very old and baked in gendered things I doubt JKR even thought about… a woman taking her husband’s last name for instance. (Honestly - I would have loved a posh doubled-barreled name for Draco. Draco Malfoy-Black sounds quite sharp and public schooly.) There’s a thing where Dumbledore mentions that the Blacks prefer it when a guy inherits… but in the same breath, he’s completely convinced Bellatrix is about to inherit, so clearly that isn’t that important.

The only other example I can think of is the way we’re told the unicorns prefer the female students. But, the boys in Professor Grubbly-Plank’s class unanimously think this is bullshit, and I would argue that the framing of the book supports this read. We haven’t seen magic work like this before, so did Professor G-P get it wrong. And/or just doesn’t want to deal with the boys? Presumably this is why we are happy Hagrid is coming back

FOUR: There is basically no organized religion/spirituality in the Wizarding World. 

The narrative does a lot of work to not tell us who the random officiant at Dumbledore‘s funeral and Bill and Fleur‘s wedding is. Who is he? Who does he represent? How do you find him? How does he have authority to do this? Not important, doesn’t matter, keep moving along. We are definitely in a world where there is a holiday named Christmas… but it’s like the women taking their husband's name thing, that seems too baked in to JKR’s worldview to question. But there is no mention of any religious dimension, it’s just presents and feasts and balls. 

If I’m writing something that’s interested in what these guys consider to be the sacred underpinnings of their world (like something focusing on a wedding, for instance…) then I think I would end up expanding on important magical rituals. I’m thinking Fidelius, Unbreakable Vow, sacrificial magic. Not for nothing, but considering how much importance the moment where Severus and Narcissa make an Unbreakable Vow is given by both the narrative and the characters… it feels more like a wedding than the wedding does, and I’m not even a Severus/Narcissa shipper. 

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So when it comes to weddings… I’ve honestly found it uniquely difficult to research the history there, because a lot of people are very motivated to suggest that every wedding tradition has some deep, meaningful ancient origin - or that it was just kind of always that way. Take the concept of a “best man” and the term “best man" for instance. That starts showing up in the 1780s (so it’s a social custom that doesn’t make my 1700s deadline.) Harry is of course filtering everything through his POV, but if I were writing a wedding thing, I’d say Sirius is filling a different position. Like “godfather” seems a very legally important role in the Wizarding World, so lean into that.  Maybe the “best man” equivalent at a wizard wedding is the person who you’ve picked to get custody of your kids if you die. 

We also see things like white wedding dresses and matching bridesmaid dresses being treated as an absolute given at Fleur’s wedding, when both of those things pretty much only exist because Queen Victoria did them in 1840. One interesting thing is that JKR doesn’t seem to do an exchange of rings, and she’s changed up the vows slightly to make it more reminiscent of (I think) a handfasting ceremony? Which is fine, I can work with that. (Also rings are just treated very negatively in the Harry Potter books. No idea why.)

But, in-universe, the Bill/Fleur wedding is really hard to use as a model for what a typical pureblood Wizarding wedding looks like. For all the reasons Anon mentions: It’s war time, it was put together very quickly, Harry is not paying the most attention, we don’t get to see the whole thing. I would also add in the fact that the Weasleys are political radicals, and at that point especially would be very politically motivated to have a wedding that looks more Muggle. 

Okay.  If I were writing a pureblood wedding… like Lucius and Narcissa’s wedding… what would I do.

First, I don’t think I want a typical wedding from the year 1700. I want 1700 does renaissance/medieval. (Kind of Sir Walter Scott.) I like this because it brings/explains in the Merlin thing - the pure bloods all use ‘Merlin’ as an oath, so I guess Merlin (and Arthur, and that kind of romanticized middle ages) is important to them culturally. Also, medieval influences are going to make your wedding feel impressive and established… which is exactly what the Malfoys are after. Make sure everyone knows what an old family they are. All these pureblood families have crests, so put them everywhere, front and center. The decorations should be banners and flags with the crests of everyone attending, no florals.

I also love the idea of fossilized fashions, old-fashioned clothes that don’t come out except for during a very ceremonial, traditional occasion. (Think of the ways that veils used to be a pretty normal part of a lady's wardrobe, but now you only see them during weddings.) I’d have it so that during a wizard wedding… all the ladies bring out their long, draping, evil enchantress sleeves and the guys are supposed to wear half-capes and swords. It’s also a good excuse to bring out all the really old family jewelry, of which I am sure the Malfoys have buckets.

I also want this to be a very magical wedding. Like, there are parts of it you straight-up could not participate in as muggle, because I think (sadly) that would be the vibe during the timeline of the main books. Weddings are for showing off, and part of that would be showing off your magical prowess. I’m thinking - light the dance floor on fire before the first dance, and then the couple has to perform a Flame Freezing charm. This tradition started as a screw-you to the Muggles after the witch trials… but now everybody just kinda does it because it looks really cool when the newlyweds dance on a bed of flame. Oh, and we’re definitely doing medieval-style palm-touching dances. No waltzing for the first dance at a traditional Malfoy wedding.

And they’ll go all out for the wedding feast, which will be long. The 1700s and middle ages were both really into food that did stuff - food that transformed, or food that looked like other food, or food that had birds flying out of it. So  just lean into that times a million with magic.

I am also such a sucker for slightly sentient magical houses, and Harry Potter absolutely has some of that, with the way Hogwarts (the building) has various ways to fight back against enemies and infiltrators. So I think a Malfoy wedding would definitely be taking place at Malfoy Manor, and that the house itself would be a part of the proceedings in some way. Like it’s got to accept the new family member (we know, from little moments like Umbridge being barred from Dumbledore‘s office… that sometimes magical buildings just reject you.) Integrating a new person into the new space would be a kind complicated, multi-step process. Maybe there’s a ceremony where they present the new person with the family spell books, and another one where they present them with keys to various parts of the house, etc.

You could tie this in with the idea of a bedding ceremony (which also hits my medieval + 1700s markers.) Maybe the house changes in some way when the couple first sleeps together, like it redecorates with the belongings of the person moving in, or grows them a rose garden or observatory so they feel more at home. I bet it’s fun for the guests to stick around and watch this change happen. (A trope like this might be especially fun in an arranged marriage or marriage law type story.)

I’m thinking this would also be a very long wedding, and the wedding party is probably staying at the house for a week or so beforehand. That’s part of the flex, the family’s ability to adequately pay host to so many people for such a long period of time. Like that’s what a house like Malfoy Manor for, there’s a reason all those places were functionally small hotels. If at the end my old-school pureblood wedding feels like a modern muggle wedding... I don’t think I’ve done my job. A Muggleborn who’s been invited ought to have culture shock.

And yes. It goes without saying that Lucius and Narcissa would have eaten up all this pomp and circumstance, with a spoon.

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I feel like Harry and Ginny both like the idea of each other rather than actually knowing each other. To Harry Ginny represents normalcy and safety - the life he longs for but may never have, the world where he has no special destiny and can just life a regular life and have a regular romance. He doesn’t really respect Ginny or bring her into his life or seek strength for her the way he does from Ron or Hermione or Luna. She’s an idea more than an actual presence in his life.

and for Ginny Harry is the Chosen One TM. This larger than life hero that she’s obsessed with being worthy of. The scene in the end of book 6, where she says that she always knew he wouldn’t be happy unless he was hunting. Voldemort just shows how much she puts him on a pedestal and fundamentally does not understand him as a person. That scene is also notable because she doesn’t cry, even though we learn later, she is extremely upset, but hides it from Harry - because she’s made her whole identity about becoming the person she thinks she has to be for him.

Also not to make everything about drarry, but this stands in sharp contrast to the way, Draco always understands that Harry doesn’t like his fame or the way that even though he literally saw Harry speak parseltongue right in front of him immediately knows Harry’s not the Heir of Slytherin.

Harry and Draco always just get each other on a fundamental level and see right through each others performances and masks. The opposite of hinny imho.

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Sometimes it's useful to look at your dialogue and ask yourself, "would a real human being talk like that?" But it's also good to ask the follow-up questions of "would the way a real human being talks sound good here" and "does this character actually talk like a real human being or are they weird about it."

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