Here's all the parts together. I included Spanish subtitles in the video here, and I have a bunch of other languages here: https://t.co/98uUeztoKg
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This is all the parts combined, with some fixes for the stuff that bothered me the most, just because I would probably be working on this for a few more days if I tried to fix every single thing I noticed. I'm still working on writing the next parts up to the conclusion of the Yule Ball, and I'm working on the anime adaptation of everything here at the same time. I'm bit busier in the upcoming week so the pace is definitely slowing down but hopefully I can pick it back up once I've figured out the writing and this upcoming week is over. Thanks for watching.
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Pt. 5
I want to explain a few things and my thinking behind them, because there are character traits I've made up in my head that I just don't have a good way to show on screen.
There are no Quidditch matches this year due to the Triwizard Tournament. Malfoy and Harry are nothing alike but for one thing: they both love Quidditch, and that's what they turn to in order to get away.
So Malfoy is holding it together despite her inner turmoil, and she just needs to get away: Pansy's incorrect interpretation of everything and constant chattering are driving her crazy, and she's also annoyed at what she interprets as Hermione's pity. She can't even use Quidditch as an escape, because now it's intrinsically tied to the fact that Harry is a better Seeker and beats her, so she's unable to escape the thought of him even in this refuge.
One of the things I thought was really missing was that I didn't see any reason for Harry to go and apologize to Malfoy if nothing else happened in between him shouting at her and the ball. I don't think randomly realizing he's in love with her when he sees her with some Durmstrang guy is sufficient. So I think what really needed to happen was that he needed to understand that he hurt her. He shouted at her because he thought she was mocking him, which she kind of was.
This is my interpretation of Malfoy that I had to make this work with: pride is the thing that gets in the way of what she wants. She's more afraid of her vulnerability being exposed than she is of losing what she wants. So her being shouted at when she got carried away and started stating what she really wanted hurt deeper than if she'd just been shouted at without that context.
So how does Harry learn that he's truly hurt Malfoy without it being even more contrived than I've made it? Hermione could nag him, but he's convinced that Malfoy was just mocking him. Hermione doesn't have the true insight, so she can't reason it into him; she just thinks what he did was wrong. Him being humiliated when he was begrudgingly attempting to apologize, while being pushed to do so by a friend, is what I think makes him want to escape as well. Both of them have Quidditch as an escape, and both have good reason to think they can be alone there.
There was no way to show this on screen other than the contrast between how Malfoy is when she's alone and how she chooses to present herself in front of other people. It would certainly be Harry's first time seeing her vulnerable, and for her, I think that would be her worst nightmare.
Anyways, all of this was to set that up. I just really needed a reason for Harry to have the motivation to apologize, because I felt like that was missing.
I know the ending for the Yule Ball now, but my next step is to turn all of these into one video, clean up some of the stuff I want to, maybe add some more scenes to give more context, and begin some of the anime adaptations, because I know some people have been really patient for those. I need time to figure out some meaningful beats before the ending regardless, and I'll be thinking about that while I attend to turning this into a full video and the anime adaptations. Hopefully I figure out the shape of it soon and we can continue on to the next part, which will have a different title.
Thanks for watching and thanks for reading.
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I am incredible excited to share:
'Draconia And The Scarf' Part 2!
I had too much fun making this and ended-up giving myself goosebumps while editing it 😊
I sincerely hope y'all like it #malfoid#malfoy