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- Oct 16, 2020
Because then the gooner chuds wouldn’t have their racist blonde waifu, which is what this is really about despite what people are claiming.So I got a question for anyone who actually has ship knowledge:
Why this over Draco/Hermione? As in, what's the difference that's making this appealing in comparison?
In reality Dramione doesn’t work cleanly because he’s a racist thoroughly towards her and there’s never an opportunity to get them together and change that. It would make Hermione look really bad to spend 7 years being slurred at just to undo it for dick. IMO it’s the same reason why Malfoid fails too because it’s just having her become not racist for dick. It gives the characters no agency or ability to develop on their own without penis being involved and is an example of bad writing. Malfoy also never expresses any sort of willful affection towards her to play off. Fanfic needs something there to make it work.
Really if you want that inter house connection it makes more sense to me to have Ron be Slytherin. Everyone always says Harry but the whole point of the hat letting Harry go in Gryffindor is that he chooses. It’s telling the reader you can steer your lot in life but you have to be active about it. Harry in Slytherin sort of kills that vibe. Ron in Slytherin presents a more dynamic relationship with his family (this same thing could be done with Ginny too if you didn’t want to separate Ron and Harry). If a Weasley is in Slytherin you can then discuss how that impacts their connection with their family. Have the parents be disappointed, Percy ashamed, Fred and George joking about it all the time, the older brother (who has been removed from the Weasley family for a period) seeing the bigger picture and not caring as much, and Ron or Ginny struggling with the idea that they aren’t like their family members. It would then tie into that theme that it doesn’t matter. You direct the course of your life and despite being in the racist class you are better than that and not racist.