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* Draco Malfoy is the [[Trope Namer]]. Even though he's a [[Smug Snake|smug]] [[Spoiled Brat]] [[Dirty Coward]] who only feels confident behind his burly cronies, fans like to paint him as a sexy and sensitive guy. He ''does'' get a little better by ''Half-Blood Prince'' and even becomes somewhat of a [[Jerkass Woobie]], but he's still far from nice, and never canonically lives up to the [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]] treatment by his fans.
* Draco Malfoy is the [[Trope Namer]]. Even though he's a [[Smug Snake|smug]] [[Spoiled Brat]] [[Dirty Coward]] who only feels confident behind his burly cronies, fans like to paint him as a sexy and sensitive guy. He ''does'' get a little better by ''Half-Blood Prince'' and even becomes somewhat of a [[Jerkass Woobie]], but he's still far from nice, and never canonically lives up to the [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]] treatment by his fans.
** [http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Harry_Potter This] sums it up pretty well: "In [[Fanon]], Draco is known for his [[Deadpan Snarker|cool dialogue]] and a tendency to wear [[Hell-Bent for Leather|leather trousers]]. In [[Canon]], Draco is known for [[Butt Monkey|barely managing a decent put-down]] on Ron and a tendency to [[Big Bad Wannabe|cry like a little girl]] in the bathroom."
** [http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Harry_Potter This]{{broken link}} sums it up pretty well: "In [[Fanon]], Draco is known for his [[Deadpan Snarker|cool dialogue]] and a tendency to wear [[Hell-Bent for Leather|leather trousers]]. In [[Canon]], Draco is known for [[Butt Monkey|barely managing a decent put-down]] on Ron and a tendency to [[Big Bad Wannabe|cry like a little girl]] in the bathroom."
** Some fanfics get a little ridiculous, [[Crack Pairing|pairing Draco with the most unlikely people]]. Several have paired him with ''Hermione''!
** Some fanfics get a little ridiculous, [[Crack Pairing|pairing Draco with the most unlikely people]]. Several have paired him with ''Hermione''!
** Several? Draco/Hermione romance stories on Fanfiction.net outnumber Ron/Hermione, Harry/Hermione or Harry/Ginny stories by a substantial margin, which may demonstrate just how popular this trope is.
** Several? Draco/Hermione romance stories on Fanfiction.net outnumber Ron/Hermione, Harry/Hermione or Harry/Ginny stories by a substantial margin, which may demonstrate just how popular this trope is.
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* 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.
* 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.
* Blaise Zabini fans can maybe be forgiven for this tendency. He was a Slytherin boy in Harry's year who, up until ''Half-Blood Prince'', had only ever been mentioned in passing, making him [[OC Stand-In|prime fodder for fanfic writers]] interested in creating a [[Token Good Teammate|sympathetic Slytherin character]] ''without'' spitting in the face of canon. Then he was given some character development in the series and revealed to be a buddy of Draco Malfoy's and every bit as bigoted and dickish as that association suggests, which some people have rather understandably [[Discontinuity|chosen to ignore so as to continue imagining him in whatever mold they originally preferred]], and others have tried to justify.
* Blaise Zabini fans can maybe be forgiven for this tendency. He was a Slytherin boy in Harry's year who, up until ''Half-Blood Prince'', had only ever been mentioned in passing, making him [[OC Stand-In|prime fodder for fanfic writers]] interested in creating a [[Token Good Teammate|sympathetic Slytherin character]] ''without'' spitting in the face of canon. Then he was given some character development in the series and revealed to be a buddy of Draco Malfoy's and every bit as bigoted and dickish as that association suggests, which some people have rather understandably [[Discontinuity|chosen to ignore so as to continue imagining him in whatever mold they originally preferred]], and others have tried to justify.
** Not to mention "[http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Our_Dear_Blaise_Is_Shattered_(Black) Ew, he's BLACK! DO NOT WANT!]"
** Not to mention "[http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Our_Dear_Blaise_Is_Shattered_(Black) Ew, he's BLACK! DO NOT WANT!]{{broken link}}"
* Salazar Slytherin had a dream... a dream that one day, an adequately racist and motivated student would find the secret underground chamber he built to house a deadly basilisk and use it to mass-murder his Muggle-born classmates. And some fans would have you believe that's just dandy. (This one has actually been done well in some cases -- Slytherin lived at least a thousand years before the series takes place and conceivably could have been the victim of an in-universe [[Historical Villain Upgrade]].)
* Salazar Slytherin had a dream... a dream that one day, an adequately racist and motivated student would find the secret underground chamber he built to house a deadly basilisk and use it to mass-murder his Muggle-born classmates. And some fans would have you believe that's just dandy. (This one has actually been done well in some cases -- Slytherin lived at least a thousand years before the series takes place and conceivably could have been the victim of an in-universe [[Historical Villain Upgrade]].)
** It helps that the series implies that he wasn't ''always'' a "twisted old loony". In fact, according to the Sorting Hat, he and Godric Gryffindor had once been the best of friends.
** It helps that the series implies that he wasn't ''always'' a "twisted old loony". In fact, according to the Sorting Hat, he and Godric Gryffindor had once been the best of friends.
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