Second: loved it so much!!

Third: Draco, buddy, has it occurred to you that invading someone's privacy does not make them want to be around you??

Fourth: Draco, honey, you really wanted to impress her huh? That "I'm not the idiot you thought" is quite telling...

Lastly, obviously no problem if you can't answer this, but I wonder if he was white and upset after the occlumency stuff because she pushed him or because he was surprised by what he saw?

So excited to find out more!! Thank you for the recent pace of updates, it's truly an absolute treat.

First: thank youuuu!

Second: yay!!!

Third: haha he saw an opportunity and he took it. draco will be draco.

Fourth: and the thing is, we all know hermione doesn't think he's an idiot at all. that's his perception. first person is so limited in other povs, so i'm grateful for these moments.

Lastly: he's shocked and in pain when he falls over, but i intentionally selected scenes i wanted him to see. it's part of the reason i had such stage fright with this chapter. there was so much to choose from. but i'll ask you, anon--if you were draco seeing her memories, how would you feel?

Thanks.

Ecdysis Draco is very much an adolescent, so he’s not fully fledged. But I’d say he lands somewhere in the middle. Definitely a lover boy when he falls for someone, but also a jealous shit who doesn’t know how to regulate his feelings so they materialize in rash behaviour. My intention is to show character development between his Hogwarts years and his early 20s, when the story will come to an end, so we’ll see a range in his character. I don’t want to put him in a box because humans are messy and I want his character to have room to grow and feel all the feelings and come into himself naturally.

I hope you're doing well. This is an Ecdysis appreciation post because I recently went bad and re-read my favourite chapters and OH MY GOD your writing is phenomenal. I remember reading on here you are/were planning on getting some original writing published, any updates on that? I just know I'd love to read anything from you. Keep slaying.

Thank you so much for your lovely words, @cerseimikaelson ❤️ I appreciate you not only reading Ecdysis, but rereading your fave chapters. That makes me so happy.

Honestly, it's been hard to transition from writing fanfic to working on original ideas again. I've been attached to Dramione since joining fandom in 2021, and only in the last year or two have I been able to stop thinking of them when I have story ideas. It took a long time for me to get here even after I deactivated my other socials and stopped writing ficlets and one shots for the fandom.

For now, I'm focusing on finishing Ecdysis so I can officially close my time in fandom. And then I intend to continue a longstanding project that also incorporates magical education (a little bit like Ecdysis). I've had some false starts with that project over the years, but I plan to get into it again with an upcoming writing workshop I've signed up to do this summer.