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Harry Potter Christmas

Harry Potter What GIF by Sky
Not...that
I've never understood one thing about her. She wanted a full British cast for Potter yet has Americans in Fantastic Beast.
Robin Williams was a casting choice for Hagrid but she didn't like it.

Picky little bitch 🥸
She needs to lighten up.
She must have been absolutely beaten to hell by a pack of wild trannies, because she absolutely loves to hurt us.
I wish there was a video of that!
 
But I definately can't turn against one of my favorite actresses because of that. It's just like Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors despite everything gone on lately.
I never turned on Johnny Depp, either, and I don't want to turn on her, but...I can't defend someone who doesn't recognize my existence as I am...
 
Saw the Draco characters and thought....
The trope is named for Draco Malfoy, The Rival of Harry Potter at Hogwarts. Canonically, Malfoy is a smug, arrogant, elitist, racist, spoiled, cowardly bully who actively makes life harder for Harry and his allies throughout the books. Malfoy does all of this out of a petty grudge towards Harry and/or wanting to save his own neck. Also, Malfoy talks a big game, but can never back up any of his boasting, and was written with the intention that the readers/audience would hate his guts. He's not even described as particularly handsome. In spite of these facts, some fans treat Malfoy like Mr. Fanservice, a Jerkass Woobie, or a secretly sensitive, suave playboy. This attitude is so widespread that you'd be hard-pressed to find a fan who actively hates Malfoy. Despite that, he has slowly started to become more polarising, due to his popularity.

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The films portray him as a lot more confident and suave than the books do. In general, the books make it a point that he can only really confront Harry when he can hide behind someone else, and his goons Crabbe and Goyle basically exist for this purpose. For instance, when he first introduces himself to Harry, in the film he talks to him in front of all the first years, but in the books he condescendingly talks to him in private and panics when he realizes who Harry really is. And when he and Harry fight over Neville's Remembrall, in the film he never loses his cool, but in the book he starts panicking when an unfazed Harry follows him into the air.

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In Fan Fic, the telltale sign of whether Malfoy has leather pants is when he's not referred to as "Malfoy" at all, but rather as "Draco". The books nearly always refer to him as "Malfoy", through Harry's narratorial voice, which he only really does to professors or people he doesn't like , and he really doesn't like Malfoy. There's a reason the trope isn't called "Malfoy in Leather Pants". The other telltale sign is if the whole point of the fic is to pair him up with someone, especially someone who in canon hates his guts (like Hermione, Ginny, or Luna), which would be a Crack Pairing if the author wasn't totally serious about it, but some Fan Fics which portray him positively do it in interesting fashion...
 

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