Luna: Did you know that engineering the creation of modern Holland was one of the primary reasons goblins funded both sides of the Napoleonic Wars?
Malfoid: ...Do I even want to know why?
Luna: Obviously to create a country secretly ruled by ghosts, silly!
Malfoid: Ghosts? You're telling me ghosts rule Holland?
Luna: Of course. Why do you think it's called the Netherlands? Because it's secretly in league with the netherworld!
Malfoid: Luna that...actually makes more sense than it should...
Untapped moment in Book 6. The Slughorn Christmas Party. In Book 6, Harry and Malfoid are in opposition once more after Voldemorts rise and Sirius' death. Malfoid's a Death Eater working her plans. She's stressed, she's trying to fulfill her mission, and she doesn't want to do it, but she has to.
Then she see's Luna and Harry have gone together to the party. And that halts her for a moment. Cause she still loves Harry, even if she knows she can't.
She doesn't storm over. She watches and inside of her there is a fight. There's the anger in here that wants to go over there and curse Luna like no ones business. Then there's the heart breaking part. Like "Oh he's moving on".
I think this could actually lead to something interesting in Book 6 for Malfoid. Cause you could have her later confront Luna about her and Harry. And Luna would clarify, in her own Luna way, that Harry and her are just friends.
It relieves Malfoid. Cause god that had been eating at her. Luna then points out Harry wishes Malfoid was the one who went with him. She could see it in him. Malfoid has to try and surpress how much her heart soars at that. He shouldn't love her. He couldn't.
And from then on in Book 6, Luna could become a weird confidant of Malfoid. She's weird, Malfoid rationalizes, no one talks to her anyways, so who would believe anything she says? And Malfoid uses Luna to keep tabs on Harry and how he is. It might even be to a point where instead of Moaning Myrtle, it's Luna in the bathroom with a weeping Malfoid. Though Luna would definitely leave Harry and Malfoid to privacy to chat, so she doesn't seen the Sectumsempra moment.
I thought of this due to the funny scenes I've kept seeing about Luna and Malfoid chatting and Luna encouraging the relationship between Malfoid and Harry. I wondered if there was a way to incorporate that into a wider rewrite of the story, similar to how people have done with McGonagall having military past.
And it makes sense to me that of any of Harry's friends, Luna would be the one she actually gets along with. While it makes sense in the future, Malfoid gets along with Hermione, I always thought it'd be funny if the two were still a bit adversarial to each other. Luna's the best friend. Hermione is someone... well Malfoid tolerates her enough cause she's Harry's best friend. They aren't mean, but they aren't exactly close. They're polite. Even able to get along at times, especially if Ron and Harry get into something stupid.
#Malfoid
@TKohoto Imagine how much worse the story would be without a tragic romantic interest for Harry and a reconciliation of Gryffindor/Slytherin. I mean she's the master of the Elder Wand, how would that even work in the end without her? Probably some tenuous contrivance.
People really gotta check their wikis before they speak.
I mean, the Mandela effect is a well-known phenomenon, but Dracaena is literally one of the main characters in Harry Potter. THERE IS NO WAY anyone could just misremember her as a boy name Draco.
There was an entire explosion of fan art after that final scene where she and Harry held the wand together.
0/10. Terrible example of the Mandela effect.
In my version of this scene, Harry pulls her back, resulting in her only getting scratched, rather than something worse. I'm thinking this might be a good opportunity to have her begrudgingly and spitefully do something for him so that now "they're even".
Any ideas? It could be something as simple as a small kind gesture(done in the rudest way possible)
Since I posted this, I've written over 1000 words for Part 3 when normally I post something long and relax for the rest of the night.
Help me, please, I need to go to be at a regular time for work.
@aurelkwlx I'm sure they have some little saying, like when they say that we blind people hear sounds better, so those who are mute must be very eloquent with their written words. Whatever, This particular phrase is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
"Men are just our other halves. The idea that I should judge something as a 'mans' ' fiction is ridiculous. It is the human soul screaming into a blank page, etching its' cries into lettering."
Quite profound, especially when you consider this girl is physically mute.
A friendly reminder that J.K. Rowling was, and is, a brilliant author. Modern critics try to hold Harry Potter up against standards it never aimed to achieve.
When we talk of Malfoid or fanfics—fun though they are—never forget we stand on the shoulders of a titan.
Rowling singlehandedly held the line against young male illiteracy for two decades. There is an entire generation of adults who can trace their love of books back to her.
That wasn't an accident, and it wasn't a fluke. Harry Potter is fantastic, and so is its author.
Manga adaptation is actually such a fucking genius pipeline that it's ridiculous we don't copy it with comics, but unfortunately the creatives of the US are weighed down by their beliefs that comics aren't mature and are for children.
For instance, the typical pipeline for a manga adaptation is a simple premise: If it's well-received as a manga, then it'll do well as an anime. And you can tell this is the case because basically the only anime adaptations that are badly received are either poorly animated like One Punch Man, or spin off into their own direction like Twin Star Exorcists or Full Metal Alchemist.
Book THREE of The Boy Who Lived and the Girl Who Loved is finished: Prisoner of Azkaban! Links Below👇
About 27,500 new or heavily rewritten words, including Draconia's developing relationship with Harry, how her obsession with flying creatures changes her story with Buckbeak, and a completely original Draconia PoV prologue.
#malfoid #malfoy
I will add one I've been thinking about; the shrieking shack.
My reasoning is simple; #Malfoid should despise Harry throughout books 1 and 2. At the end of three she must slip into the shrieking shack with the express goal of trying to get Harry expelled. Then get caught by Remus, who pushes her into the room where the others are.
This does several things; she is present and must hide behind Harry who will end up irritated by her but also save her.
Snape will appear unhinged and wanting to get even with Black regardless of the costs. He will pressure her to aid him, she will panic and Harry will blast Snape before he could turn his wand on anyone like in the book.
2. Harry will save her from the werewolf and from the dementor.
Thus she will walk away from that night shaken and awed by Harry's courage. Disillusioned by Snape.
And it provides a literary echo; Snape was saved by James but became twisted and thus sought his murder. Draconia will be purified by the same sort of night and trauma.
What ruined one saves the other. This is when love takes true root in Malfoid's soul.
Because the Yule Ball on its own makes no sense. People don't change without dramatic episodes in cases like this.
Thoughts @TKohoto@writriverdale@RenovatioRoma ?
Under my post about Isekai being escapist wish fulfilment where the common values we tend to have get validated and rewarded, a bunch of people took issue with that specific part.
“Being the perfect gentleman will still get you punished, being the hero gets you put in prison-“
And then at the same time, this. A man puts himself in danger, saves someone from a violent thug, and the person he rescued is more terrified of him than the criminal.
Ignoring the genderslop side of this, how is a society to go on when we socially, and on a personal level, punish people who try to be good? What ground do we have to then criticize the outlets people cling to, so they can experience some semblance of a reward, even just vicariously via a story, for what society expects of them? What kind of true monster can tell boys they need to be heroes, then punish them for trying to make good on it, and even mock everything they use to live out that dream of being useful and wanted?
If that’s how our society will treat the good, then we will find very quickly that there are no “good” men left. We’re already in short supply as it is.