these tragic pasts seem either pasted-on (why would everyone bully the popular person?)
Ooh, yeah. *nodnod*
Re: Draco. I agree that it's very unlikely that Draco has had much sex as a teenager. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty bloody sure he's a virgin at the end of the series (not counting the epilogue ;-) ). And as to his amassing lots of experience when he is older, well, he just doesn't seem like the type. I could be wrong, but that's how I see him. So I agree with you that writing him as a sex god is pushing it, although I can still buy older!Draco as a sex god. Yet I happen to like that cliché. Odd, isn't it?
I'm not sure I agree with you that those stories seem to be more about the sexual fantasies of the author who has a crush on Draco. I haven't written fanfic, so I don't know about it from an author's point of view, but as a reader I can safely say that I don't have a crush on Draco. I feel more like his older sister than anything.
Hmm. Actually, I have no idea why I like this trope.
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Date: 2009-09-14 07:22 am (UTC)Ooh, yeah. *nodnod*
Re: Draco. I agree that it's very unlikely that Draco has had much sex as a teenager. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty bloody sure he's a virgin at the end of the series (not counting the epilogue ;-) ). And as to his amassing lots of experience when he is older, well, he just doesn't seem like the type. I could be wrong, but that's how I see him. So I agree with you that writing him as a sex god is pushing it, although I can still buy older!Draco as a sex god. Yet I happen to like that cliché. Odd, isn't it?
I'm not sure I agree with you that those stories seem to be more about the sexual fantasies of the author who has a crush on Draco. I haven't written fanfic, so I don't know about it from an author's point of view, but as a reader I can safely say that I don't have a crush on Draco. I feel more like his older sister than anything.
Hmm. Actually, I have no idea why I like this trope.