First off, I'm loving how much fun people are having with this meme. People are somehow taking a single image and turning it into an entire collective fanon AU with its own ancillary lore, like Dumbledore using Dobby for his anger issues (or his sadism, who knows), McGonagall being a veteran who has been to countless war zones. And the general fascination with how Draco works much better as a girl, because of how his canon version behaves nothing like a male high school bully, but a lot like a female high school bully.
The reason I personally think it fits so well, has less to do with Malfoy himself and more with the fact that Ginny is a very unsatisfying love interest for the protagonist. She was the scraps that Harry was rewarded with for succeeding where seasoned adult wizards failed and saving all wizards and witches from Voldemort. Meanwhile, Draco is a full-fledged character with arcs and character development. In an alternate universe where Malfoid was the source material, it could also have completely flipped the dynamic of each book, as now you have 2 competing trios of students investigating the current year's big threat, maybe racing each other for it too.
This is a classic case of a battle coming unplanned. The shrieks about pedo/anime slop from the right are ignoring the fact that Harry potter is a major cultural touchstone the left wing deliberately abandoned even as they took over everything from Star Wars to the fucking Terminator. The left threw Harry Potter in the gutter and the Chuds have lifted it out of it.
The culture war is tragically a real thing, and this malfoid shit represents the very first articulation of a right wing reactionary response to decades of left wing perversion on depictions of male/female relationships, white women more generally, and the lack of genuine aspirational romance for young boys.
The chuds and the chads have seized on this and are ramming it home. the result has been the most autistic explosion of internet drama I have seen in a decade. It is making jaded and cynical assholes like myself remember what it was like to be a child in the 90s, while introducing zoomers to the idea that there is more to male/female relationships then lust and porn.
This post hits the nail on the head with a lot of things.
Im gonna be real i hate malfoid just the most generic anime goon shit thats somehow is making people lose their minds and creating the most corny shit i’ve seen thats literally just
This is the weeb equivalent of when trannies call their boners "gender euphoria". Calling it some over intellectualized gay shit doesn't make it less disgusting to normal people
Sirs, please take this 'concern' to [literally any big budget production of the last decade]. There is a new gears of war game coming out soon that'll be right up your alley.
>thinking anyone can be bothered entertaining this barely disguised political concern trolling complaint about contrarian fan material anymore
>when every award-winning movie, game, novel, comic book, or cartoon of the last 10-15 years has been some variation of "look at this character I made who agrees with my political views"
>when even the source material, the original harry potter books themselves, were also an iteration of "look at these good guys who agree with my political views"
The only event, where I'd be willing to see what you're arguing, was if all the Malfoid stuff had revolved around completely flipping around the main plot of the series to be about nationalism or a pro-right-wing message. You know something along those lines.
>Tom Riddle was a mudblood and was bullied by wizards for being a mudblood
>the deatheaters and their pawns in the ministry are all about killing purebloods and forcing the rest to marry mudbloods
>Lucius disapproves of Malfoid's interest in Harry, not because he's the boy who lived, but because the Malfoys are purebloods, and if he doesn't marry her off to a muggle, Voldemort is going to kill both of them for betraying the cause
But that didn't happen, did it? That is not the point of the Malfoid meme. If you don't get the appeal, if the wholesome romcom comics between the hero and his blond, green-eyed opposite sex rival seem jarring and too politically charged for you, just turn on amazon prime or netflix and watch some "lesbian space princess" (no I'm not memeing, that's the title). I'm sure you'll love it a lot more.
