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

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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.

** 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.

* 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.

* 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.

*** 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.

** Anything we could say about the Snape-dom can be summed up [http://zorm.deviantart.com/art/Canon-Vs-Fanon-Snape-34384180 here.]

** They also seem to ignore the fact he later joined the wizarding world equivalent of the KKK/Nazis, and after 'reforming' torments and bullies non-Slytherin students, taking special care to torment Harry because James bullied him as a teenager. And at least James picked on people his own age and not children more than half his age.