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Running into each other in the elevator post breakup 🥺

(don’t worry, they get back together. Look at Draco, he’s just about to word vomit his feelings out 🤗)

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Luna has a special surprise for Theodore 😏💜

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Let me preface this by saying I have always shipped dramione. However, I’m re-reading the Harry Potter series for the first time in years. In that time I’ve become a lot more educated on racism (and it’s many forms, etc...) Also, this is my first time reading it where I didn’t think of mudblood as some made up word for muggle born wizards, but the wizarding world equivalent of the n-word. Given all that, my feelings about the dramione ship have shifted. (1/2)

I often wrote off Draco’s violent racism as the fault of Lucius not Draco, but at what point does it become Draco’s fault. It is chicken soup for my souls when I see racist teens being denied or expelled from schools because of using the N-word or doing something equivalently racist. They probably learned it from their parents as well, but I still blame them. I don’t know what my question is. I just wanted your thoughts

I have a lot of thoughts and here they are in a stream of consciousness format

one is that I think you’re right to recognize that “mudblood” is the wizarding world’s n-word and in a lot of ways there are problems with the dramione ship that we have to be careful about. there’s a reason, for example, that I never write draco using the term “mudblood” in a romantic or sexual way (I really don’t understand why people seek that out) and also a reason I never write historically untenable situations, such as the nazi officer and auschwitz prisoner prompt someone asked for a few months ago. I do think you’re right that there’s a layer of distance we’ve taken advantage of in romanticizing the relationship; it’s hard for us to make the connection to white supremacy because the potterverse is an imaginary world—which is important for children! we feel safe within this world because our imaginations are supposed to be safe and they are children’s books. also, the decision to cast a pretty white actress named emma watson meant that for a lot of us, issues of racism seemed like very distant parallel. should we realize differently now? yes, probably, maybe. I’m still working through my feelings on this, so we’ll come back here

point two: this is the problem with so-called cancel culture, though, that you seem to be implying that at some point draco’s “racism” becomes unforgivable. but it’s not just within the dramione ship that he realizes his wrongs—canonically he shows evidence of awakening, if not actual repentance. isn’t the idea that we want people to wake up and realize they’re wrong, regardless of how long it takes? I would LOVE for donald trump to wake up tomorrow and be like oh shit I’m a racist misogynist, fuck!! that’s obviously not going to happen and it wouldn’t undo anything he did prior to that—but the whole point of dramione is to write draco’s process of 1) realization and 2) contrition. I would argue that every dramione fic (certainly every dramione fic of substance) involves him facing his prejudice and perceiving his error. does it matter that he doesn’t figure this out until his life is threatened at age 17? I mean yes, of COURSE you can blame him for his prejudice (and his prejudicial actions) whether it starts with his parents or not. 

but isn’t THE WHOLE POINT that he changes his mind? 

I mentioned in our AMERICANAH discussion that I think the author was right—the only way to “cure” racism is romantic love. “Not the kind of safe, shallow love where the objective is that both people remain comfortable. But real deep romantic love, the kind that twists you and wrings you out and makes you breathe through the nostrils of your beloved.” I think the dramione ship has this concept at the root of it: that draco falls in love with hermione and in valuing her over himself (which is what love is!), he begins to not only understand her trauma and the way he caused her pain but also begins repenting for it with his choices. this is always at the heart of it. we always want draco to feel that crushing devastation of knowing exactly what he’s done, and then we want him to be on her side, unconditionally.

is it EXTREMELY ICKIER when you think about this within the frame of a nazi loving a jewish woman or a white supremacist falling for a Black woman? YES, immensely so, I hate it and I would never write an AU for either of those scenarios. I would absolutely not touch that at all. so I think that distance I mentioned earlier is pretty crucial here, because yeah, this is a fake world with magic that doesn’t exist and “mudblood” isn’t the n-word because it isn’t preceded by centuries of slavery, imperialism, or punitive institutional bias. well, there’s obviously institutional bias once voldemort pops up and wrecks shit, but historically? it’s unclear

—which is not to excuse anything. I do think intellectually there is a line to be drawn between these comparisons, though it’s a fine one. if I could choose to unship this at this point in time... maybe I would. personally I have always been diligent about the way I address morality in my fics, but was I ever considering it in terms of racism? no, not really. would I have romanticized this relationship if it felt even remotely like a real prejudice that existed in the world? I don’t believe so, no.

ultimately... I stand by the way I have written this ship. can I stand by the ship in general? I think that’s much more questionable, and also the reason I have avoided so many dramione fics and tropes in the past. because sure, you can romanticize the bad guy for the thrill of the angst, but at a certain point there has to be a moment where we question what, exactly, we’re romanticizing. while I do think there’s an argument for making the intellectual distinction (again, these are children’s books, and also as a first gen immigrant american who was neither british, white, nor magical, I already felt extremely distant from literally everything in these books, so at 11 years old I would not have made the connection between the n-word and “mudblood”) there is also a strong argument for being more conscious of what you read. if you seek out fics where draco is the one who saves hermione, are you seeking something akin to a white savior narrative? if you like fics where draco fetishizes muggle culture, is that the same as fetishizing Black culture? or are you just normal and horny and interested in reading fantasy romance using characters you already know from a fiction series you grew up with??

in conclusion: I think, as in all things, there are gradations to the morality of what we romanticize, and being aware of what we consume and why we consume it is what’s important right now. on a broad scale, however, there are no definitive answers as to whether something is wrong or right, and I will definitely have to think about this when I approach it in the future.

#i couldn't have said this better ohmygod

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What can a female character do without being criticized mercilessly?

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The Auction palette 🌌🌘🖤

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“But I remember you dancing in autumn when we met 

There was something about you I struggled to forget 

My blood was rushing down to you…

 You were leadin’ me back from the darkness like you do.

dhr: persephone & hades AU, requested by @jackwhitesgirl

Life was not something he was accustomed to.  For a while now, he’d grown numbly accustomed to the monotony of death; it’s predictability and inevitability.  Having seen so much of it, it no longer held any interest or curiosity for him.  Boredom often led him away from his duties.  Such was the uniformity of death.

But life.  Life was in itself one grand curiosity.  And she the keeper of its secrets.

“Persephone.  My name is Persephone.”

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Universes Collide p.4 /// [p.3] [p.2] [p.1]

“The joy and the chaos, the demons we’re made of I’d be so lost if you left me alone.”

“Your husband is pouting again.”

A spoon stilled in its dutiful stirring, yet the milk in Hermione’s tea continued to swirl a lazy galaxy at the window sill.  Hermione paid it no mind, and looked up, frowning, from the book on her lap.  

Her tranquil moment alone had ended sooner than even she’d expected; she’d just settled in after a grueling Order meeting, not even a paragraph of the essay read.  It was, so far, four years of nonstop walking and apparating - from meeting to meeting, from battle to battle, from safe house to safe house.  Four years of nonstop building - building up Order recruitment, building up camp sites for the recruited, building up morale and hope.  Her feet, her hands, her throat were screaming for some kind of reprieve that only came just in time to leave again.

She peered up from her comfortable spot in the kitchen window seating, and there was Harry leaning at counter - oblivious to the peace he’d stepped on.

“Pouting?” She regurgitated, eyeing Harry suspiciously.  His lips were perked up just a little too highly above his mug; Teddy’s colorful doodle of himself and his godfather smiled and waved at Hermione from the ceramic.  Both of them looked far too mischievous.  “What did you do now?”

Harry snorted.  “Nothing,” he swore, taking a sip to keep his intentions contained.  “Yet.”

There was a slap as Hermione closed her book; the galaxy in her cup shook and dissolved.  She sighed, and scooted off the bench.  “Harry-”

“He’s the instigator- king of the sofa,” he defended himself with a gesture to the doorway, challenging Hermione to take a peek, “mumbling insults at anyone who dares enter his dwelling.”

Rolling her eyes, Hermione approached the doorway to the common room and peeked out to see him.

Her husband.  

Draco. 

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#mood

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@hogwartsonline creation event | Archetypes

The Golden Trio + Archetypes

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“I just… I just need you to understand,” muttered Draco hesitantly, pulling in a deep breath. And then he began. “I’m never going to be a man who tells you how lucky I am to have you, even though I know I am. I’m never going to be a man who tells you that you’re beautiful everyday, even though you are. And I’m never going to be a man who tells you I love you everyday, even though I do. And I really do, Granger.” (x)

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Back in September 2020, as I was writing the Epilogue for LIATOTZA, I thought I’d see if @gildedshivers was available to take on a commission. Yanno, to commemorate the end of the fic. I think I might have made my inquiry at just the right time. There was a free slot open! This was the first time I’d ever commissioned anything, and SWEET MERLIN, I am over the moon happy with how it turned out. There are several marvelous versions of this piece, but this one scratched all my itches. It’s so beautiful. The whole commission process was such a pleasure.

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#just started reading this aND OHMYGOD #MALFOY'S ZOMBIE FIGHTING GET UP DHKSNDKDKSKS

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Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010)