#my first post for my drinny side blog

[fiction-fairy]

This is so absolutely true. There are some great dramione fics out there, but I do not get why drinny is not everyone's preferred fic. It makes so much sense.

I guess, I need to start writing some drinny fanfic. @ferretandtheweasel OP, are you up?

Why I ship Draco and Ginny?

Seriously nobody asked for this 😂 tbh this is just my Harry Potter and Drinny journey. Also this is just me posting something to start this blog with. So, here’s how everything went down:

So before anything I want y'all to know that I started reading Harry Potter at like 14? 13? (don’t remember exactly). I was given the first 3 books as a gift. I was instantly hooked and finished them all pretty quickly. And because I am a slut for grey characters, Draco managed a place in my heart even when I low-key hated him (In the first two books lol). He was interesting to me because I wanted to see where his story would go? On the other hand I already had a soft spot for Ginny since Sorcerer’s Stone. I had older cousins who wouldn’t include me in their stuff so I found her adorbs and relatable in the first book and my sympathy for her only grew in CoS. Book 5 Ginny though, was my fav Ginny because she really put Harry in his place and hexed Malfoy. She became one of my favourite side-characters along with Luna and Neville.

Despite my love for her, like most people, Ginny ending up as Harry’s main love interest definitely surprised me. JKR did a good job of convincing me though. I accepted quite easily that Harry and Ginny were endgame but before embracing Hinny, I was a believer that Rowling would make Ginny Weasley end up with Draco Malloy.

Why?

Some might ask and God, I wish there was some proper logic behind this but for some reason, my 15 year old romantic self was sold on the idea that Ginny and Draco are going to be Romeo and Juliet of the Wizarding world?

No, I don’t know why I thought like this 😂😂😂 It just made perfect sense in my head at that time for Drinny to happen, I do laugh now at how cheesy I was as a teenager. I just loved thinking about the wizarding world, imaging about other characters that weren’t the trio.

Anyway, so this revelation of Drinny possibly being Romeo-Juliet happened during Order of The Pheonix, Ginny hexes Draco with bat-bogey hex and for some reason I was fixated on that particular interaction in the book. I used to imagine Draco being flustered that little Weasley had hexed him, it just gave me so much thrill thinking how annoyed he would be that a girl got the best of him, I imagined him being turned on while he was mad at her, or that he would eventually get attracted to her while trying to get back at her. I just imagined them having the enemies-to-lovers sort of relationship and it just made sense.

Now let me tell you when I read Harry Potter, I lived in a small town in Pakistan, not only was internet not easily available there, it never occured to me back then to actually search for the Harry potter fandom online the few times i did get a connection, so I had no idea of “shipping” or “OTPs” and I didn’t know any spoilers. So yeah I used to create scenarios in my head where Draco and Ginny would meet in the Hogwarts corridors and they would argue and have intense sexual tension, or how Draco would want to take revenge on Ginny for hexing him and it would lead to them to having an angry shouting matches which would lead to make out session etc (Yes, I am aware we call these ‘headcanons’ but back then I was not familiar with fandom terminology).

Anyhow, I finally get my hands on Half Blood Prince Book and lmao remember the scene where Harry is spying on Draco, and then Blaise (or someone else? Idr correctly) brings up how hot Ginny is, I was losing my shit because I was like, why else would JKR bring this up in front of Draco? I was sure that she was building up a secret romance between Drinny behind the scenes because we see stuff happeing through Harry’s eyes. Yes i was connecting dots of my conspiracy theory, or at least wishing that that is what was happening.

So y'all can now probably imagine how freakin’ surprised and confused I felt when Harry got jealous over Ginny and Dean in the Astronomy tower? 😂😂😂 Like i did not see Hinny coming, it hit me like a wrecking ball… But ofcourse I accepted Hinny at the time because I also loved how tables had turned and now it was Harry who became obsessed with her, I also loved the whole “But she is Ron’s sister, I thought I liked her as a sister, Ron will be so mad”.

So anyway I go move on with my life and finish Deathly Hallows but ofc Harry Potter series felt like my childhood ending and I couldn’t accept it. In my head, even when I had embraced Hinny, I still felt the love for Drinny and saw their potential, by this time I was finally allowed a phone. (Yeah I got a mobile phone when I was almost 16 😂) and while searching for random hp related stuff online I came across Fanfiction…

I started reading fics because I wanted to know what happened between the time when the war ended and when epilogue happened. I also wanted more answers about all the characters. However, I used to find most stories/character ooc, so I used to leave most fics in the middle and move on, very few fics could satisfy me because few writers nailed JKR’s Harry.

Anyhow exploring the world of fanfics to read something that I actually like, that’s when I was introduced to the giant that is dramione. Dramione introduced the idea of fanfiction deviating from actual books, so I gave them a try but then there were so many Dramione fics on Fanfiction.net but their fics pretty much very early on put me off of that ship, and then I altogether gave up on it because the disrespect to the Weasleys especially Ron was astounding to me. Also people turned Hermione into a mary-sue character in fics which also put me off. I feel like people dont know how to seperate Emma Watson from Hermione. Anyway that is a rant for another day…. So yeah, It was then when I randomly decided that maybe I should check out if anybody wrote Draco and Ginny fics and it was like magic 😍

ff.net had some great Drinny fics Some of them were post series, some of them during their Hogwarts years. Some were pure fluff others K I L L E D me with angst! I still have issues with fics where in order for Drinny to happen they show how bad/abusive Harry-Ron-Hermione are. I leave them instantly, or fics where Ginny is ashamed of being poor (i feel like she loves her parents and everything they’ve done for her) or fics where I find them ooc… but over all Drinny is a ship which has given me some great fics and those fics have helped me deal with personal stuff and cheered me up when I was down.

Also reading about them gave me an insight on how healthy a relationship between them can be where they can both provide each other with validation, comfort, love and passion.

Reasons why i think they work:

1) Ginny and Draco are opposites but they compliment each other rather than repel. Eg: Ginny and Draco both belong to ancient pureblood families yet the environment and ideology they grow up with completely opposite, their values are opposite even when their world is the same. That gives a lot of foundation for both of them to learn from each other.

2) Ginny is fierce, talkative /bubbly (Ron mentions how it’s strange that she’s quiet around harry because usually she won’t shut up), stands up for those she feels are being unfairly treated (Luna, Neville), she’s quite popular as harry realises in year 6 that she has her own friends, she even gets invited to the “slug club”… I think this works so well with Draco who hides his emotions, is under control of his feelings… He’s also somewhat of a bully in early years which just goes so well because can you imagine how explosive their encounters would be in the great hall? Draco saying mean things to Ginny just to wind her up and her reacting and never backing down. I think Ginny is really one of the only ladies who can match him inch by inch and call him out on his bullshit. Maybe wind him enough to lose control even.

3) They both play quidditch, can you imagine the friendly rivalry? That is one thing they can bond over, they can also bond over their ancient families and their respective experience of growing up in wizarding world post voldemort… It can be similar and different. They really have the potential to be attracted like magnets. Sorry dramiones, but the angst and enemies to lovers that Drinny delivers… No other hp ship does it for me.

So yeah guys Drinny is my guilty pleasure and I think Draco and Ginny could have worked out really well as a couple but off course I understand that JRK wasn’t writing a romance 😂. There is just so much to explore in their dynamic though and I am glad for all the fanfics and fanarts are out there because they really satisfy my curiosity and love for them.

[weasleyismyking540]

Hi! First, sorry if you’ve already been asked this before. But I was just wondering why you ship drinny? I don’t mean to be rude I’m just honestly curious about how that ship came to be if it’s what I’m assuming (that being draco/Ginny). Again, sorry if you’ve already answered this or if I come off as rude, I don’t mean to, I just want to understand. I would never hate on a ship unless it was actually harmful

Sure!! And I understand wanting to know.I had already made a blog post on why I ship Drinny, but I’ll list my reasons again lol. I'll just copy and paste that blogpostKeep in mind that when I write Drinnys, I take out his bigoted characteristics, because that’s something that I cannot write in good conscious and then have him be with such a good character. 1. Ginny is a bad bad bish. She needs a bad boy. And Draco is most definitely that.2. Ginny and Draco can relate to each other because they both were forced to do something by Voldemort. Ginny was possessed, while Draco was ordered. They both have that darkness in them that they could help each other cope with. 3. Ginny is a low key Slytherin lol. I would like to think that she had a Harry Potter moment and chose Gryffindor over Slytherin. 4. Draco needed a woman to put him in his place and not treat him like the prince he felt he was. Ginny would have been perfect for that. 5. Draco was hard to approach and even though Ginny is a blood traitor to him and a Weasley, I feel he would let her in for the fact that she wouldn’t put up with his ish, she would match wits with him, and she wouldn’t give up on him, not matter how stubborn he acted, as she was just as stubborn as he is, if not more. 6. The fact that their parents didn’t agree and would want them not together would push them to be together even more. They are rebels and don’t really like to conform.7. They would have some steamy moments. They are very fun to read about as well as write, and the angst is just through the roof lol. 8. Ginny could have been his saving grace. She would have tried to help him see the light quicker and think for himself. It would have made for so much conflict. They would have been like Romeo and Juliet, minus the suicide. Queen Rowling missed an opportunity. 9. Draco didn’t need a submissive woman like Pansy (come on, yall know she can be submissive). He needed someone that was strong and encouraging, not someone that would go along with him just to please him. He needed to be told no. He would more than likely enjoy being told no. 10. Ginny seems the type that would want to see the good in someone. I could see her making Draco her little project and trying to help him see that he is more than his family’s beliefs and more than a potential Death Eater. He needed that love that his parents wouldn’t give him. She would have been perfect.A "headcanon" that I made up for them is that Ginny and Draco formed a weird bond over the Bat Bogey hex she gave him. He was both scared and impressed by her power. They started a low key friendship where they would write each other over the summer and speak in whispers during his sixth year. Ginny knew something was wrong with Draco, but he would t tell her what. Draco fell for her, and was deciding not to do what Voldemort ordered him to do, until he saw Harry and Ginny kissing. It pisses him off. He felt betrayed, so he was like eff it and did what he was ordered. When the whole letting the Death Eaters ordeal went down, he instantly regretted it when Ginny flagged him down before he left with Snape and the others. They didn’t talk again until Draco saved Ginny from being tortured by the Carrows one night and they started getting their friendship back and eventually established a relationship. The war started, Draco chose to stay on the good side with Ginny, Harry won, but Ginny decided to stay with Draco and not get back with Harry. Much to the disappointment of everybody.In conclusion, Drinny is a fun, angsty, drama filled, romantic, steamy, interesting, funny, and unique ship with endless possibilities to real and write about. If ever you do want to check it out, here are some recs:Serpent’s Bride by reiko https://www.fanfiction.net/s/610745/1/Serpent-s-BrideDiamonds And Rubies by WeasleyIsMyKing540 (yeah shameless plug lol) https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11937834/1/Diamonds-And-RubiesRescue Me (another one by be lol) https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11955496/1/Rescue-MeThe 7 Signs Of Madness by ForbbidenTreasures https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2716530/1/The-7-Signs-of-MadnessThe Sacred 28 by petthecat https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12242806/1/The-Sacred-28Through Poison by ingsception https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11939527/1/Through-PoisonAnything by idreamofdraco. https://www.fanfiction.net/u/761665/idreamofdracoCharm School by night.drive https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10026221/1/Charm-SchoolPandora by Boogum https://www.fanficA-Phoenix-Does-Not-Fear-AshesTutoring Services by TigerLily8806 https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5203614/1/Tutoring-ServicesHow To Seduce A Weasley by cuddlebear 992 https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8364802/1/How-to-Seduce-a-WeasleyA Day In Court by MemoriesFade https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7417941/1/A-Day-in-CourtA Phoenix Does Not Fear Ashes by HeyyTylerhttps://www.fanfiction.net/s/5530828/1/A-Phoenix-Does-Not-Fear-AshesThese are many different categories. From humor to angsty, ultra good to dark, super fluffy to smutty. Pick your poison, and have fun reading!!

[weasleyismyking540]

Why do you ship Pots N pans? What's your favorite headcanon of them. Same for Drinny.

I started shipping Harry and Pansy after I wrote a fic called The Royals, that starred Harry and Pansy. I don't like Canon Pansy (same as I don't like Canon Draco), but I like to give characters I write about a fair shot and I thought what if Pansy's actions were just a facade, and she really was a good person. I like the idea of her being redeemed and trying to do the right thing, and Harry being interested in her. She reminds me of a mix between Ginny and Draco. A girl that can be biting, a b***h, conceited, heavily flawed, cod at times, and nasty, but at the same time caring, sweet, funny, strong, and deserving of love. In my AU. Pansy may be that b***h, but there is more to her than she puts off. Harry catches a glimpse of it, and likes what he sees, and is intrigued to find out more. I headcanon Pansy apologizing to Harry about her actions like a couple years after the war, which Harry accepts, and it makes him wonder if there is more to her than meets the eye. He tries to get to know her, but Pansy doesn't really see herself as redeemable, so she shrugs him off. She calls him names, and is shocked when he bites right back, and it intrigues her because she always thought he was just some goody goody hero boy. And they go on from there, in secret at first, because no one would accept them dating or even talk I g for that matter. As for Drinny, I started shipping them after reading a Romione that had Drinny in the background. It was fun and it intrigued me, so I began reading Drinnys , starting with Serpent's Bride. A very very good and funny Drinny I must say. I had already made a blog post on why I ship Drinny, but I'll list my reasons again lolKeep in mind that when I write Drinnys, I take out his bigoted characteristics, because that’s something that I cannot write in good conscious and then have him be with such a good character.1. Ginny is a bad bad bish. She needs a bad boy. And Draco is most definitely that.2. Ginny and Draco can relate to each other because they both were forced to do something by Voldemort. Ginny was possessed, while Draco was ordered. They both have a darkness in them that they could help each other cope with. 3. Ginny is a low key Slytherin lol.4. Draco needed a woman to put him in his place and not treat him like the prince he felt he was. Ginny would have been perfect for that. 5. Draco was hard to approach and even though Ginny is a blood traitor to him and a Weasley, I feel he would let her in for the fact that she wouldn’t put up with his ish, she would match wits with him, and she wouldn’t give up on him, not matter how stubborn he acted, as she was just as stubborn as he is, if not more. She could thaw his icy heart. 6. The fact that their parents didn’t agree and would want them not together would push them to be together even more. They are rebels and don’t really like to conform.7. They would have some steamy moments. They are very fun to read about as well as write, and the angst is just through the roof lol. 8. Ginny could have been his saving grace. She would have tried to help him see the light quicker and think for himself. It would have made for so much conflict. They would have been like Romeo and Juliet, minus the suicide. Queen Rowling missed an opportunity. 9. Draco didn’t need a submissive woman like Pansy (come on, yall know she can be submissive). He needed someone that was strong and encouraging, not someone that would go along with him just to please him. He needed to be told no. He would more than likely enjoy being told no. 10. Ginny seems the type that would want to see the good in someone. I could see her making Draco her little project and trying to help him see that he is more than his family’s beliefs and more than a potential Death Eater. He needed that love that his parents wouldn’t give him. She would have been perfect.One headcanon for them is that Ginny and Draco formed a weird bond over the Bat Bogey hex she gave him. He was both scared and impressed by her power. They started a low key friendship where they would write each other over the summer and speak in whispers during his sixth year. Ginny knew something was wrong with Draco, but he would t tell her what. Draco fell for her, and was deciding not to do what Voldemort ordered him to do, until he saw Harry and Ginny kissing. It pisses him off. He felt betrayed, so he was like eff it and did what he was ordered. When the whole letting the Death Eaters ordeal went down, he instantly regretted it when Ginny flagged him down before he left with Snape and the others. They didn't talk again until Draco saved Ginny from being tortured by the Carrows one night and they started getting their friendship back and eventually established a relationship. The war started, Draco chose to stay on the good side with Ginny, Harry won, but Ginny decided to stay with Draco and not get back with Harry. Much to the disappointment of everybody.

[ferretandtheweasel]

Why I ship Draco and Ginny?

Seriously nobody asked for this 😂 tbh this is just my Harry Potter and Drinny journey. Also this is just me posting something to start this blog with. So, here's how everything went down:

So before anything I want y'all to know that I started reading Harry Potter at like 14? 13? (don't remember exactly). I was given the first 3 books as a gift. I was instantly hooked and finished them all pretty quickly. And because I am a slut for grey characters, Draco managed a place in my heart even when I low-key hated him (In the first two books lol). He was interesting to me because I wanted to see where his story would go? On the other hand I already had a soft spot for Ginny since Sorcerer's Stone. I had older cousins who wouldn't include me in their stuff so I found her adorbs and relatable in the first book and my sympathy for her only grew in CoS. Book 5 Ginny though, was my fav Ginny because she really put Harry in his place and hexed Malfoy. She became one of my favourite side-characters along with Luna and Neville.

Despite my love for her, like most people, Ginny ending up as Harry's main love interest definitely surprised me. JKR did a good job of convincing me though. I accepted quite easily that Harry and Ginny were endgame but before embracing Hinny, I was a believer that Rowling would make Ginny Weasley end up with Draco Malloy.

Why?

Some might ask and God, I wish there was some proper logic behind this but for some reason, my 15 year old romantic self was sold on the idea that Ginny and Draco are going to be Romeo and Juliet of the Wizarding world?

No, I don't know why I thought like this 😂😂😂 It just made perfect sense in my head at that time for Drinny to happen, I do laugh now at how cheesy I was as a teenager. I just loved thinking about the wizarding world, imaging about other characters that weren't the trio.

Anyway, so this revelation of Drinny possibly being Romeo-Juliet happened during Order of The Pheonix, Ginny hexes Draco with bat-bogey hex and for some reason I was fixated on that particular interaction in the book. I used to imagine Draco being flustered that little Weasley had hexed him, it just gave me so much thrill thinking how annoyed he would be that a girl got the best of him, I imagined him being turned on while he was mad at her, or that he would eventually get attracted to her while trying to get back at her. I just imagined them having the enemies-to-lovers sort of relationship and it just made sense.

Now let me tell you when I read Harry Potter, I lived in a small town in Pakistan, not only was internet not easily available there, it never occured to me back then to actually search for the Harry potter fandom online the few times i did get a connection, so I had no idea of "shipping" or "OTPs" and I didn't know any spoilers. So yeah I used to create scenarios in my head where Draco and Ginny would meet in the Hogwarts corridors and they would argue and have intense sexual tension, or how Draco would want to take revenge on Ginny for hexing him and it would lead to them to having an angry shouting matches which would lead to make out session etc (Yes, I am aware we call these 'headcanons' but back then I was not familiar with fandom terminology).

Anyhow, I finally get my hands on Half Blood Prince Book and lmao remember the scene where Harry is spying on Draco, and then Blaise (or someone else? Idr correctly) brings up how hot Ginny is, I was losing my shit because I was like, why else would JKR bring this up in front of Draco? I was sure that she was building up a secret romance between Drinny behind the scenes because we see stuff happeing through Harry's eyes. Yes i was connecting dots of my conspiracy theory, or at least wishing that that is what was happening.

So y'all can now probably imagine how freakin' surprised and confused I felt when Harry got jealous over Ginny and Dean in the Astronomy tower? 😂😂😂 Like i did not see Hinny coming, it hit me like a wrecking ball... But ofcourse I accepted Hinny at the time because I also loved how tables had turned and now it was Harry who became obsessed with her, I also loved the whole "But she is Ron's sister, I thought I liked her as a sister, Ron will be so mad".

So anyway I go move on with my life and finish Deathly Hallows but ofc Harry Potter series felt like my childhood ending and I couldn't accept it. In my head, even when I had embraced Hinny, I still felt the love for Drinny and saw their potential, by this time I was finally allowed a phone. (Yeah I got a mobile phone when I was almost 16 😂) and while searching for random hp related stuff online I came across Fanfiction...

I started reading fics because I wanted to know what happened between the time when the war ended and when epilogue happened. I also wanted more answers about all the characters. However, I used to find most stories/character ooc, so I used to leave most fics in the middle and move on, very few fics could satisfy me because few writers nailed JKR's Harry.

Anyhow exploring the world of fanfics to read something that I actually like, that's when I was introduced to the giant that is dramione. Dramione introduced the idea of fanfiction deviating from actual books, so I gave them a try but then there were so many Dramione fics on Fanfiction.net but their fics pretty much very early on put me off of that ship, and then I altogether gave up on it because the disrespect to the Weasleys especially Ron was astounding to me. Also people turned Hermione into a mary-sue character in fics which also put me off. I feel like people dont know how to seperate Emma Watson from Hermione. Anyway that is a rant for another day.... So yeah, It was then when I randomly decided that maybe I should check out if anybody wrote Draco and Ginny fics and it was like magic 😍

ff.net had some great Drinny fics Some of them were post series, some of them during their Hogwarts years. Some were pure fluff others K I L L E D me with angst! I still have issues with fics where in order for Drinny to happen they show how bad/abusive Harry-Ron-Hermione are. I leave them instantly, or fics where Ginny is ashamed of being poor (i feel like she loves her parents and everything they've done for her) or fics where I find them ooc... but over all Drinny is a ship which has given me some great fics and those fics have helped me deal with personal stuff and cheered me up when I was down.

Also reading about them gave me an insight on how healthy a relationship between them can be where they can both provide each other with validation, comfort, love and passion.

Reasons why i think they work:

1) Ginny and Draco are opposites but they compliment each other rather than repel. Eg: Ginny and Draco both belong to ancient pureblood families yet the environment and ideology they grow up with completely opposite, their values are opposite even when their world is the same. That gives a lot of foundation for both of them to learn from each other.

2) Ginny is fierce, talkative /bubbly (Ron mentions how it's strange that she's quiet around harry because usually she won't shut up), stands up for those she feels are being unfairly treated (Luna, Neville), she's quite popular as harry realises in year 6 that she has her own friends, she even gets invited to the "slug club"... I think this works so well with Draco who hides his emotions, is under control of his feelings... He's also somewhat of a bully in early years which just goes so well because can you imagine how explosive their encounters would be in the great hall? Draco saying mean things to Ginny just to wind her up and her reacting and never backing down. I think Ginny is really one of the only ladies who can match him inch by inch and call him out on his bullshit. Maybe wind him enough to lose control even.

3) They both play quidditch, can you imagine the friendly rivalry? That is one thing they can bond over, they can also bond over their ancient families and their respective experience of growing up in wizarding world post voldemort... It can be similar and different. They really have the potential to be attracted like magnets. Sorry dramiones, but the angst and enemies to lovers that Drinny delivers... No other hp ship does it for me.

So yeah guys Drinny is my guilty pleasure and I think Draco and Ginny could have worked out really well as a couple but off course I understand that JRK wasn't writing a romance 😂. There is just so much to explore in their dynamic though and I am glad for all the fanfics and fanarts are out there because they really satisfy my curiosity and love for them.