Ok, I give in. Usually I only read finished fics, but since you update so often and have yet to touch on any of my squicks ... I figured what the hell. P:
I can see where both of them are coming from, of course, but I think I'm actually more inclined to take Draco's side at the moment.
Harry's insisting on staying ugly when casting a glamour is so easy seems somewhat unreasonable to me. It's not that different from putting on make-up or wearing nice clothes or making sure your hair is clean and neat in order to make yourself look better. And while not loving someone anymore because they've been disfigured would be shallow, I think that not being physically attracted to them would be perfectly understandable. And in most romantic relationships physical attraction is very important.
But then again, in that case Draco should be ok with Harry going without a glamour in public, and he did say that he wouldn't want to be seen with him like that. So really, they're both being unreasonable. Haha. And then there's Harry's comment about how the glamour wouldn't be enough for Draco in the long-run. Hmm. Well ... I'm very much looking forward to seeing how things work out in the end. :P
Well, thank you! I'll try not to disappoint. (I don't usually read WiP's myself).
Harry would have been willing to give Draco time to get over his physical disgust. But the immediate (as he saw it) rejection of him personally, as if he had asked to be tortured, was what made him walk away. Nevertheless, I agree that Draco's reaction is pretty easily understood, and I'd be hard put to do any better in the same situation.
Since the Healers have told Harry nothing will ever suffice to disguise or heal his injuries, he sees being asked to put on glamours as stupid and insulting- rather like someone asking a person in a wheelchair to please sit in an ordinary chair so that no one has to think of them any differently. But his main reason is that Draco wouldn't really put up with or be satisfied with the glamours, no matter what he says.
I can see where both of them are coming from, of course, but I think I'm actually more inclined to take Draco's side at the moment.
Harry's insisting on staying ugly when casting a glamour is so easy seems somewhat unreasonable to me. It's not that different from putting on make-up or wearing nice clothes or making sure your hair is clean and neat in order to make yourself look better. And while not loving someone anymore because they've been disfigured would be shallow, I think that not being physically attracted to them would be perfectly understandable. And in most romantic relationships physical attraction is very important.
But then again, in that case Draco should be ok with Harry going without a glamour in public, and he did say that he wouldn't want to be seen with him like that. So really, they're both being unreasonable. Haha. And then there's Harry's comment about how the glamour wouldn't be enough for Draco in the long-run. Hmm. Well ... I'm very much looking forward to seeing how things work out in the end. :P
Also, Scorpius is the coolest 2-year-old ever. XD
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Harry would have been willing to give Draco time to get over his physical disgust. But the immediate (as he saw it) rejection of him personally, as if he had asked to be tortured, was what made him walk away. Nevertheless, I agree that Draco's reaction is pretty easily understood, and I'd be hard put to do any better in the same situation.
Since the Healers have told Harry nothing will ever suffice to disguise or heal his injuries, he sees being asked to put on glamours as stupid and insulting- rather like someone asking a person in a wheelchair to please sit in an ordinary chair so that no one has to think of them any differently. But his main reason is that Draco wouldn't really put up with or be satisfied with the glamours, no matter what he says.
And thank you!
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