#m3ss rambles

So I’m thinking who would be a good pairing for Cordy?

Someone who doesn’t think she’s superficial. Doesn’t scoff at her interests, maybe even shares them.

Someone who enjoys nice things and being pretty but still has depth.

Someone who understands losing an important part of your identity (be it supernatual powers or your social standing and financial security).

Someone that you can even bond with over getting screwed by the same mediocre guy that you both were definitely too good for (yeah I know the timing doesn’t work but whatever, suspend your disbelief).

Do you see my vision??

In other news, I am shipping Cordelia/Anyanka now.

And he texted back: “you mean it would be… he died in 1997”

I don't just mean the sheer size of a fandom, like obviously Harry Potter is such a juggernaut, it's gonna have a ton of works.

I mean even when I'm watching something, I can just feel in my body and soul that *this has fandom potential*.

I'm a fangirl, I don't do things by halves, yet there are things I thoroughly enjoy, and there are things I go feral over.

I finished my tasks so I’m untangling this mess as a reward.

Last night I had an idea I can’t stop thinking about, so I’mma write it down to get it out of my system.

Imagine if somehow instead of Harry, Draco was the one who survived the Avada Kedavra and became the Chosen One.

I don’t know how or why… Perhaps Voldemort grew paranoid and attacked even his most loyal followers, including the Malfoys, but Narcissa’s love protected the baby just like Lily’s in the canon. In any case, the Malfoys are dead, Voldemort is defeated, and baby Draco is the Boy Who Lived.

Just imagine - orphan Draco is taken in by Andromeda and Ted Tonks. He loves his uncle Sirius and his husband Remus.

Little Harry grows up with his parents, and through his godfather, makes fast friends with Draco.

Draco knows what happened to his parents, knows about the Dark wizard he unknowingly destroyed as a baby, but thinks blood purity is bullshit - just look at his stepfather Ted, or his best friend’s mom Lily.

Draco is still sorted into Slytherin, but everyone knows that is not an indication that you are evil, or dark, or cruel. He remains close with Harry and even befriends a young Weasley and a bushy-haired, annoyingly smart Muggleborn witch.

When Bellatrix escapes Azkaban, Draco has to come to terms with his biological family’s role in the first wizarding war.

By the time Voldemort returns, he is ready to fight him with the help of his inter-house group of friends…

If your fic describes Slytherin as a homogenous group of Bad People™, or students in other houses being afraid of all Slytherins equally because they are in Slytherin, or Slytherins altogether not getting invited to parties, I'm gonna nope out of there so fast.

One, it makes zero sense. Why would a boarding school have a house specifically for evil students? If the Sorting Hat can foresee who will be evil, why not use it by the Aurors to lock people up before they have the chance to do the bad deeds? Oh, that's right, because:

Two, human beings (even magical) don't work like that. You are not born evil or kind. You especially can't be sorted with the bad guys at age 11. No I will not elaborate.

Three, it's canonically incorrect and doesn't work with (fan)lore. Slughorn was a Slytherin, who might be a questionable character but is not evil by any means. Andromeda Black, Tonks' mother was in Slytherin. Merlin himself (you know, from Order of Merlin) was a Slytherin.

Hufflepuff-Slytherin friendship is widely accepted fanon so it makes no sense to describe Slytherins as hated by all. Also, Slytherin-ness is not a prerequisite to become a Dark Wizard - consider Peter Pettigrew (Gryffindor) or Quirinus Quirell (Ravenclaw). And while few, we know that Muggle-borns can be sorted into Slytherin.

I'm writing this partly for myself, too. I remember taking the original Pottermore quiz quite a while ago - I was angry and ashamed to get Slytherin, (like many I assume) I really really wanted to be in Gryffindor. You know, like one of the good guys. The heroes.

(I took the quiz again recently, and to my relief: still a Slytherin.)