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* ''[[My Immortal]]'', in addition to fitting this Trope to a T, at one point does, in fact, feature Draco in leather pants.
** Naturally, ''My Immortal'' takes this to an absurd degree. So many fanfics portray Draco as a sensitive guy, basically the opposite of his canon personality, that it's a cliché in itself, but ''My Immortal'' goes so far as to make him so ridiculously needy that it seems he would fall straight into [[Wangst]] without encouraging words from <s> Ebony</s> [[Mary Sue|Enoby]]. The most (in)famous fanfic example is probably [[The Draco Trilogy]]. See that work's page for more.
* Averted, even inverted, with Draco's dad, Lucius, whose fans tend to appreciate him for [https://web.archive.org/web/20100503191106/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.
** From the day Draco was born to the day Lucius went to Azkaban he was raising Draco to be a fervent believer in the Death Eater ideology, which is the largest part of why Draco sought that status so eagerly in the first place. So saying he had no influence on it happening is a bit much.
* Bellatrix Lestrange. But that may be related to [[Helena Bonham Carter]]'s [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|huge tracts of land]].
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** Also, he was living in a time period when ''wizards'' were persecuted and would-be-murdered by Muggles. So even though the plot to kill a bunch of muggleborn kids is pretty hard to justify, the fear, distrust and hatred of Muggles in general isn't. And you can see how [[Freudian Excuse|if those sentiments already existed in his psyche once he went crazy]] they could get twisted into the mass-murderousness.
*** The thing is that the books make it clear that Muggle "persecution" was never anything actual wizards couldn't deal with -- the only people who were hurt in witch hunts were other Muggles. And in the present day of the books, it's unequivocally the wizards who hold all the cards and can get away with abusing Muggles if so inclined and, within wizarding culture, the purebloods who are privileged and the Muggleborns who are discriminated against. Fanon likes to reverse this state of affairs, whether because it goes against the expected [[Cool Loser]]/[[All of the Other Reindeer]] characterization of the misunderstood hero's secret underground community, because they think that if wizards are a literal minority then they must a political minority too, or just because of this trope. Whatever the motive, it takes a lot of finagling to pull off reframing the whole history of magic in a way that doesn't blatantly contradict the books, and [[Sturgeon's Law|not a lot of people bother with that]].
** A good example of making him sympathetic without contradicting canon can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20131025084859/http://www.witchfics.org/anna/romanholiday/index.html here]. Adult wizards had all kinds of magic they could cast to survive being hunted and burned, but families were prone to losing younger members. Girls could be burned as witches at nine and boys at ten, well before they were able to defend themselves. Children of Wizarding families had some protection in their parents and older siblings, but Muggleborns were SOL and often turned over by their own families. A thousand years have twisted his reputation into that of a bigot and a psychopath instead of the intelligent and cautious man he was (and is, as a ghost).
*** The problem with that reasoning is that in the real world small children are also helpless against many threats that their parents could readily defend themselves against or escape, and yet we haven't reacted by all turning into vicious isolationist racists.
* Severus Snape gets put in leather pants a ''lot'' by fangirls. There are the ones who want to know him carnally, and ''then'' there's the fans who have blamed Lily for Snape calling her "Mudblood", or even tried to justify it and deny its connections to real-world racism. Ah, and they also bash ''Lily'' for "not being a good friend" (aka, refusing to become Snape's [[Extreme Doormat]] [[Love Martyr]]) to the guy who called her racial epithets.
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