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== The Trope Namer ==
* 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.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20121215215236/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."
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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.
* Interestingly played with in the fic ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'' -- Draco is a genuinely likable boy who just happened to be raised by [[Star Wars|Emperor Palpatine]]. Harry interacts with him rather differently in his first meeting, and instead of the immediate politically charged rivalry we get a less-immediate, still-politically-charged kind-of-alliance,-maybe. And then later on, when he's an occasional viewpoint character with a fairly sympathetic perspective, you keep running into the fact that he "considers rape to be what the cool older kids did" and believes Dumbledore to be entirely evil.▼
== Other Characters ==
* 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.
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** Dumbledore himself considered Dudley pitiful and called out his parents for raising him the way they did - as a selfish, entitled bully that thought he could get away with anything until he was a teenager.
* Barty Crouch, Jr. due to being played by [[David Tennant]] in the movie and having a [[Tragic Villain]] [[Backstory]] in the book. Sometimes he gets paired with characters nearly twenty years younger than him like Hermione or Luna.
▲* Interestingly played with in the fic ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'' -- Draco is a genuinely likable boy who just happened to be raised by [[Star Wars|Emperor Palpatine]]. Harry interacts with him rather differently in his first meeting, and instead of the immediate politically charged rivalry we get a less-immediate, still-politically-charged kind-of-alliance,-maybe. And then later on, when he's an occasional viewpoint character with a fairly sympathetic perspective, you keep running into the fact that he "considers rape to be what the cool older kids did" and believes Dumbledore to be entirely evil.
* Marrietta Edgecombe gets a bit of this as well, as a glance at her entry on the [[Unfortunate Implications]] page will show. Admittedly we don't know that much about her but some fans like to imagine her as a tragic heroine who is torn between loyalty to her family and the DA, and that her punishment is completely unfair. Except she is shown to not want to be in the DA from the start, only there because Cho practically dragged her to the first meeting. Also people like to cite her having a parent in the Ministry as justifiable pressure, clearly forgetting she '''chose''' to seek Umbridge out personally and rat the DA out. That's also knowing that Umbridge had been known to pretty much torture students who stepped out of line. Bear in mind that also means she went to Umbridge knowing Cho, one of her best friends, would be punished as well. Considering what resulted from her betrayal her punishment - the purple pustules spelling "Sneak" - is pretty tame. People also like to play up that she is scarred for life when she never even seems to consider going to Hermione and apologizing for what she did in the hopes she'd remove the pustules.
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