2004, day 19

[louiselux]

I signed up for the remixredux challenge. It has a nice long due date- 10 weeks from now, or something, and it's not to late to sign up, all you Good Omens folk. That'll be me, mistress of the hint.

In a fit of something or other I also signed up for the It's All Been Done Before Fest, with a pairing I've always secretly wanted to write, Harry/Draco, and an overdone scenario which appealed to me: they meet again after a long time. Throw in a soupcon of redeemed!Draco et voila. Harry and Draco doing anything with each other at Hogwarts is just not even vaguely plausible for me because Harry is so completely beyond Draco's reach. Out of his league is the term that springs to mind. Not in terms of looks but in terms of life experience and confidence. Draco has the family and the priviledged home life Harry is streets ahead of him in knowing how to behave like a decent human being, even if he is a raging ball of testosterone at the moment. I suppose proof of that is that Harry has real friends, whereas Draco has prototype henchmen, Slytherin that he is. And he's a raging bigot and a selfish, spoiled brat. But those traits are things he could quite possibly unlearn once he's removed from the lifestyle he obviously leads at home, ie, domineering father and the DE-in-training upbringing.

I haven't read that many Harry/Draco stories but there are numbers beyond count of they-meet-after-Hogwarts stories. Possible cliched career paths for D.Malfoy on leaving school: foreign exchange student, prostitute, nightclub dancer, barman, gangster, gangster's floozie, shiftless good-for-nothing, drug addict, wearer of leather trousers.

Comments

[graculus.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't read Harry/Draco but I've never seen 'wearer of leather trousers' in any careers handbook...

Doesn't Draco get to be a professional Quidditch player, or is he too evil? (Personally I never understood the 'Quidditch-toned muscles' cliche - how toned can you get from sitting on a piece of wood that does all the work?).

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I think a job as a pro Quidditch player might be a nice way to avoid a Draco doomed to a life of prostitution and wearing leather. Who knew he could grow up wholesome?

I expect those toned muscles come from all that gripping with your broom with your thighs. *smirk*

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll concede that all that gripping might give you the Thighs of Death, but surely it's not going to do much for the top half?

Anyway, I find Draco (particularly as represented in the movies) singularly unappealing...

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Oh, Queen of Hints, you have had a bad effect on me :-) Perhaps someone will remix all of 'Karakorum', hee!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Aha, I knew you couldn't resist the power of my hintiness. Fear me!

A remix of Karakorum- now that's a scary idea. Because someone could rewrite it and decide to ditch the Victorian innuendo for shameless hot ladslove, and that would be something like discovering that Santa didn't exist. Or that he did exist and was in fact a male stripper.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Or that he did exist and was in fact a male stripper.

Aieee!