When A Character Is Written Inconsistently Because Nobody Thought About It That Hard And You're Like

⭐️ SUBMISSION SPOTLIGHT: ‘The Pumpkin Juice Club’ by @sanichkaa ⭐️

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Ch. 2 by Vladislav Pantic

Maybe in another life, things would be different.

One thing that will never fail to amaze me about reading fics of the same pairing over and over and over again is how of course there are certain expected lines and tropes,

(People always talk about him going from calling her “Granger” to calling her “Hermione,” but I think an underrated one is “Oh, back to Malfoy now, am I?” I clutch my pearls every time.)

But even beyond that there are just so many unique things in each fic. Like I am forever amazed how one relationship can be analyzed and overanalyzed and there are still so many new ways to compare these characters with others in canon or even in other literature. Like of course she and Ron are gonna break up but writers are still able to make the break up feel unique to the context of each story. Idk I guess what I’m trying to say is it’s just mind blowing how fan fiction has existed for years and there are still so many original ideas. Or ideas that feel original at least. Obviously these aren’t original characters and so many popular fics pull from other works of media. But idk the babies they create feel so fresh and new.

Honestly I can’t even begin to describe how happy I am to have finally found a fic I really like again. Like, since I’ve become a dramione reader, I feel like after reading the big three (manacled, dmatmoobil, the auction) I’ve read others where I’m like yeah that’s nice but I wasn’t super into it. Lowkey I was thiiis close to just taking a break cause nothing else was capturing me like those did. But a game of high stakes!!!! Is soooooo good. I’m so surprised by how sweet the romance is, like I did not expect to be giggling and kicking my feet like this. I don’t even have words for how much I love the element of shared magic like idk it’s just so sweet to me the way they use it. I’m only about halfway through to be fair so hopefully I continue enjoying it but I know it’s tagged as a happily ever after so I’m not too too worried.

I’m reading Green Light by SereneMusafir and I’m genuinely so gagged at what an emotional journey I’m going through. Like I know that there’s no way it’s gonna be a happy ending and knowing that the two of them know that they won’t get a happy ending like I’m siiiick. I’m still only on part one but I’m nearing the end of it and I just can’t stop pausing to reflect on how stressed I am for how this is going to go. Like I know Draco feels me when I say I don’t wanna ever hear about this fool John ever again in my life like Hermione nooooooo.

I feel like it’s extra painful cause I recently saw someone say that it’s nice reading fics with the same pairing over and over cause it’s like they’re soulmates that find each other in any universe. And I’m finding that I’m genuinely overwhelmed by the possibility that there’s a universe that they don’t end up together. I guess that doesn’t mean they aren’t soulmates but that’s so much worse.

Also I keep trying to tell myself that I don’t know for a fact that it’s not a happy ending aside from the fact that hea is blatantly not in the tags lol. Also just because part two is based on great gatsby doesn’t mean it’ll end the same idk. I’m just keeping myself delulu and ignoring the repeating story of Orpheus and Eurydice thank you very much. And sure we find out in the very beginning that Hermione is in New York but that doesn’t necessarily mean what I think it means 🥲

I use this drawing as my banner here in tumbler, but I wanted to make a proper post of it.

He needs to suffer

Mother-Son Bonding

Narcissa raised herself a perfect son

Read Rita Skeeter's latest scathing report of Healer Granger's fumble at St Mungo's (or: my entry to @dramionewriterssociety latest N.E.W.T.S) : https://archiveofourown.org/works/57381214