#barrycanon

HMM... i'm more of a harry potter supremacist, but draco malfoy is mostly like himself in canon but without much of the assholery. heavy on MUCH, because he is an asshole at heart, and harry's a closeted asshole so honestly

extremely dramatic, loves bitching to harry about milk subsitutes in the super market ("Have these people ever heard of almond milk without an aftertaste?"), and i think he grew his hair out a teeeeensy bit. just about to his neck, keeping it that way so harry can play with it. adorable.

i know you didn't ask about this, but i can never shut up so here we go! draco's childhood wasn't necessarily abusive, but neglectfully enabling, if you understand me?

his parents cared about him, persay, but in the way that they would just throw whatever he wanted at him if he had a tantrum. Young Draco was very very used to getting his way, and Lucius was very prone to giving it to him just to be done with it, so he isn't used to hearing no.

Him and his pureblood friends had childhoods consisting of running about manor houses, kicking house elves around and tutoring sessions in a library or a drawing room. Children are sponges, so the derogatory language Draco heard at the dinner table from his father had sunk into his mind as the right thing to say, and he didn't realise the contrary until it was too late.

I feel like lucius didn't OUTRIGHT say "muggleborns suck" but draco could use context clues from the nauseated scrunch of his nose and the offhand racist comments made at Sunday lunch while he read the Daily Prophet, you get the idea.

That's why he tries to sugarcoat it when he first meets Harry in Madam Rosmertas - "I don't think they should let the other sort in, do you?" he's not OUTWARDLY racist but the idea's still there. But Harry obviously doesn't get wizard racism, and friends him anyway.

In his Hogwarts years (in my mind) he doesn't shout slurs out like he did in canon but he just can't treat Hermione the same. He compliments Hermione's obvious academic overcompensation and thirst to succeed with a "You're good for a muggleborn" and even harrys like dude what the hell man

i don't have much to comment on adult draco because even my fingers get tired of typing about imaginary gay wizards but i WILL get back to you!!!

Harry's childhood was clearly abusive, even in canon. Any attempts at being anything than a helping hand around the house was responded to by him being shut up in a cupboard for god knows how long. He spent a lot of his time making friends with spiders and any bugs that managed to wriggle into his cupboard.

He spent crucial development years in isolation or extreme abuse or bullying. He doesn't warm up to people very easily and isn't the best trained on how to interact with them. He often mimicks the speech patterns of people around him to fit in for subconscious fear of being casted out for any abnormalities in the way he behaves.

Obviously with his extreme isolation he doesn't understand that the way he grew up wasn't normal. He had the clear idea that this wasn't "love" in his head, but even as a teenager he can't grasp the concept of just... living. Chilling around your house and NOT having to be doing some menial hard labour for simply relaxing.

He doesn't get bought anything, so he has a lot of "overdue" library books sitting on his shelf which never have and never will be returned. Absolute criminal.

When he's given his first proper christmas present by ron, he doesn't understand that it's HIS. i think that the way he just absorbed it was kinda unrealistic but i will touch on that later!

Also! Not asked but, after all the shebang with voldemort happens, Harry is a professional quidditch player. I don't make the rules i fear....