Draco in Leather Pants/Literature/Harry Potter: Difference between revisions

* Averted, even inverted, with Draco's dad, Lucius, whose fans tend to appreciate him for [http://roflrazzi.com/2009/09/14/celebrity-pictures-jason-isaacs-pimping-easy/ the aristocratic, pimp cane accessorized bastard that he is] without giving him the "Awww, he's really just a sexy [[Woobie]]!" treatment. In fact, Lucius provides an easy way for fanfic writers to portray Draco sympathetically. After all, if Lucius is an [[Abusive Parents]], then Draco has a nice [[Freudian Excuse]]. And your story has a built-in villain, too! Ironically, in the canon, the fact that Lucius cares about his wife and son seems to be his ''only'' redeeming quality. Also, Lucius had no capacity to influence Draco's becoming a Death Eater one way or another, seeing as ''he was in Azkaban for the entire sixth book'', which was when that happened. Lucius is hardly Dad of the Year, but neither is he the abusive [[Complete Monster]] who exists to torture Draco the [[Woobie]] either.

* Bellatrix Lestrange. But that may be related to [[Helena Bonham Carter]]'s [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|huge tracts of land]].

*** To be fair, not all Bellatrix "feminist" fangirls are quite as far-gone as the examples here; the main complaint seems to be that she's the only major female character who doesn't end up having a family, and the way this is used to contrast her with her sisters and with Molly Weasley. It's still inaccurate; McGonagall isn't a mother or wife either and, as her ''Pottermore'' material explains {{spoiler|she did turn down a chance at marital bliss with her childhood sweetheart because it would have come at the expense of her career in magic, and when she was briefly married later, she elected to keep her maiden name}}. And the "love and family are more important than ambition" message is hammered just as hard with the male characters; it's one of the major things dividing Harry and Voldemort, for instance. Besides, implying that a "good" feminist female character should be a [[Celibate Hero]] comes with [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|its own set]] of [[Unfortunate Implications]], and it's not like all the mother characters were housewives like Molly was. {{spoiler|Hermione and Ginny end up as the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and a famed Quidditch player/writer, respectively, along with getting married and having kids.}}

* Inadvertently done in the film adaptations with Narcissa Malfoy, mainly due to the Quidditch Cup (which established her as well-bred yet unpleasant and elitist) being cut. Her first appearance, in Half-Blood Prince, is now entirely sympathetic--that of a terrified mother attempting to keep her only son from getting killed.