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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.
** [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
** 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.
*** Hermione is certainly not the least likely pairing Draco has found himself in in fanon. Try Harry, or Hagrid.
** This was thoroughly mocked in the ''[[Potter Puppet Pals (Fanfic)|Potter Puppet Pals]]'' episode "Draco Puppet", where Harry responds to the numerous fan requests to introduce a Puppet Pal Draco. Having established that he's doing this, Harry spends the rest of the video in [[Sarcasm Mode]] as he introduces us to our new puppet friend:
{{quote| '''Draco Puppet:''' I'm Draco! I'm really rich, and I'm really proud of the fact that I'm [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|pureblooded white! I mean wizard!]] Tee hee!<br />
'''Harry:''' What a wonderful person! }}
** A good possible explanation for Draco's fandom is [[Tom Felton]]'s portrayal of the character, especially in Half-Blood Prince, as well as possible [[Adaptational Attractiveness]].
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** 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.
** 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 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 [[
** A good example of making him sympathetic without contradicting canon can be found [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).
* 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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