Opinions, Thoughts, and Things

I have too, and I do. And yes, I know what Harry is "canonically." I never said he was short, just that he should be shorter than Draco. I don't like short Harry (but I don't mind it, unless they make him like three apples tall bc I can't do that). I'm a tall Harry truther forever (bc it’s canon).

I wasn't saying every Drarry fic shoves these characters into these stereotypes, but there are many that do, and when you go to either side of the fandom to engage with fans who like top!Harry/Draco or bottom!Harry/Draco or whatever, you will see that fans tend to exaggerate their characterizations and make them into something they're not. I mean, it's really in your face, so it's not hard to come across the stereotypes their put in (especially when it's a non-white or darker Harry, because now he's big and buff and towering over Draco).

Clearly, somebody can't read, lmao.

Again, I don't care about this whole top or bottom discourse, but it's very clear that it's filled with stereotypes in itself. The tops are typically always the tall, big, strong, more masculine presenting character who's overbearingly protective, while the bottom is the smaller, more feminine presenting character who is helpless and needs protection from the big bad top. In most cases, the white character is usually the bottom, while the non-white character (whether they are a POC or simply a white character with "darker" skin) is the top. Characters will even get completely changed to fit into these stereotypes, as I was pointing out in my last post with DMHP and HPDM.

Harry and Draco both get changed completely and drastically on both sides. When it comes to HPDM, Harry, who should be shorter than Draco (even if just a bit), should have the same build as Draco but is probably smaller in general too because he was malnourished for years, is changed into this overly muscular, tall, aggressive, macho man whose whole thing is being possessive and dominating over the little "twink" that is now Draco. Draco gets feminized to the max and becomes little miss Thumbelina, who is so tiny and fragile, is bratty, and needs his strong man Harry to help him with everything, or he acts like a tsundere. I mean, people saw him act childish and "flamboyant" as a child and ran with it. They can't (and don't want to) see him outside of his child self, even when he’s grown. It's weird, and even weirder when people headcanon Harry as a POC or brown when they make him big in every way possible and a brute to protect his little white boy.

For DMHP, Harry is more his canon self, like his build and height, but a lot of the time he also gets overly feminized and dumbed down. He becomes this 4'2 submissive guy who has absolutely no agency or autonomy, can be passive at times, or bratty and cries a lot. Draco, I think, still stays pretty much the same? He's either feminized too or more his canon self, but I lowkey can't remember him.

"I cared about you too much," said Dumbledore simply. "I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act."

All of this!!

I see no issue with fans shipping either of these characters, but oh.my .god, is there a huge moral superiority thing going on. D*arry fans are so adamant that their ship is the better alternative to Dr*mione because they genuinely believe that theirs has no real issues, and none of that is true. They are equally as problematic as each other (for different reasons) given that Draco is in it, and he is their opposition. The one who's not only made up of ideologies that go against everything H&H stand for and who they (and their families) are as people, but goes out of his way to belittle and torment them when he doesn't even have to. He literally chooses to out of his own free will because he's a bigoted prick who thinks he's above it all and wants to put those he deems as less than or those who go against him and what he stands for "in their place."

Either one of them getting with Draco is honestly slander to their characters, but Draco is someone who does eventually grow and change as he gets older, so it's not like it's the worst thing ever, and it can be decent if done right. But people being delusional enough to believe that their ship has no "real" (and I say "real" because even if they do acknowledge it, they don't think it's serious or that bad, so it's not an actual problem to them) problematic elements, when it's literally in their faces, and go out of their way to talk down on others for liking and wanting to explore another ship that is not all that different in its morality compared to theirs, blows my mind. And don't even get me started on all the "it's the straight version of D*arry," "they're trying to be us so bad," "they want our nachos." It irritates my soul because those will literally be the same people who shout how those two ships are absolutely nothing alike when hit with the fact that they're equally as weird.

Do you know how terrible and downright weird that makes Harry? Like, put yourself in Hermione's shoes. The little "racist" kid from school who wanted you and people like you (that includes your parents and so on) dead, who called you degrading names and thought of you as something inherently dirty, and laughed at the thought of you practically being assaulted (grown men putting you upside down and making you flash your underwear to everyone), is now dating your best friend. The person you thought you could trust, someone you believed could understand you more given that they were a half-blood, and who you spent basically your whole life protecting and loving, gets with the one person who hates the very air that you breathe and wasn't afraid to wish death upon you and your family (plus your best friend's own mother!!)...right....

It's such an eradication of Harry's character, it's not even funny. Even if Hermione forgave Draco, it's still weird on Harry's part to ever be with him. It's like a betrayal not only to Hermione but to Harry himself and what he stands for (even in CC, the boys didn't get along, they legit thought of each other as nuisances to their families and to themselves).

Why do they all butcher Harry's character so much?

And it's always on hptwt too, bro. It's either 3'4 uwu baby bottom!Harry, who can't do anything and needs his big strong boyfriend(s) to protect him, or 6'0 buff macho man top!Harry who needs no help and is aggressive over anyone who talks to (or even looks at) his little twink boyfriend(s). There's no in between with these people.

Like, they can't be normal. What even is thissssssss 😭😭😭😭

Snape was more cold and open with his dislike towards kids, but he at least wanted them safe and protected them. Barty played in their faces as some good man to gain their trust and was manipulative asf. He did not care for those kids, bashed one repeatedly on a stone floor as a ferret (Draco), indirectly got one killed (Cedric), tried to kill another (Harry), and then used curses in front of the two kids who became orphans because of said curses (Harry and Neville).

Seriously, where does this whole "Barty would be great with kids! He'd adore them, and needs to be with them" thing even come from? Canon makes it very clear that he should definitely stay away from kids (again, he's not right in the head, ppl). Is it because he's like gay and "punk" now?

How do I know? Because of their very loud worship of other Death Eaters like Snape, or who, in some cases, are way worse than him. Said Death Eaters include:

Barty Crouch Jr. (a grown man who impersonated a teacher to get closer to a traumatized 14-year-old child so he could set him up to be murdered by the man who murdered that child's parents and left him parentless, and when it didn't work, he tried murdering the child himself. Who was looking through the robes of said child with a magical eye. He was basically taunting yet another 14-year-old traumatized child with the Unforgivable Curse he himself used on said child's parents to drive them to insanity, leaving that child parentless. He then turned a child again with the 14-year-old… into an animal to fling him around and repeatedly bash him into the stone floor, and no, idc how annoying or bad that child was, there was no justification for this adult man to slam him repeatedly like that. He handled that situation terribly on purpose because do you think he cares for any of the children that get hurt or who he hurts? No, because he is literally actively planning the murder of one, which is the child he was "protecting" in that scene, mind you. AND ALSO, when he catches Lavender reading a magazine under the desk with his magical eye, he calls her out, yet his magical eye, which can see through pretty much anything, was still fixated on her even after). Oh, but they love to imagine him as some sort of secret activist punk who was fighting the good fight, or really wanted to but couldn't, and who would actually love the weirdos and the outcasts, the gays and the oppressed, or any minority groups out there. He just has some issues, all being his father of course, who was just an oh-so-terrible man for wanting his sweet, innocent, wittle baby boy in prison. I mean, how dare he?! /s

Evan Rosier (an absolute nobody who was killed by Moody while trying to resist arrest for his criminal activities instead of going calmly). Someone they imagine as black (or a poc) for some reason? Idk, I guess a bigoted, black, “racist,” “Nazi” is better and more justified than a white one (but don't even think about imagining Snape as anything other than white because it's just wrong). Who knew? And the imagery of this now black man trying to resist arrest, only to die in the altercation, is just the icing on the cake. Really great! /s

Regulus Black (another nobody who was obsessed with Voldemort, downright a fanboy, but then became upset at Voldemort for hurting his house-elf even though he volunteered Kreacher to him, and decided to try and take him down or weaken him, only to make future Horcrux hunting harder for Harry and the rest). Everything about him is literally just reheating other characters nachos. He gets their characterizations, their accomplishments, their narrative importance. He's basically just a Frankenstein character, where he has a mixture of others put on him to build him up into what he is. Harry was the youngest and best Seeker? No, that was Regulus. Harry was the Chosen One and defeater of Voldemort? Nope, it's actually Regulus. Lily is important to the narrative and haunts it? No, no, it's again Regulus. Snape was masterful at potions and knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the kids in seventh year? Clearly, you didn't read the books because that's actually our good sir Regulus Black!! Which, it's ironic that they bash Snape for that last bit of him knowing more dark curses than everyone else, but give it to Regulus and praise him for it because it shows just how smart and powerful he is.