Featured Story of May: Atonement by terrayn

[terrayn]

Thank you so much to everyone who voted for this story!

Especially all the readers, reviewers and D/Hr shippers around these parts who are keeping the ship alive and kicking. ;)

Comments

[dollfaced]

Does not romanticizing Draco also spill over into how you see him physically?

[terrayn]

Yes. We don't know much about how he looks in canon, and with the books told from Harry's POV, I get the impression that he's not really attractive. I like seeing him that way. In my mind's eye, he's too pointy to be good-looking -- narrow face, thin lips, pert brows, high cheekbones, flat grey eyes -- but in a way that's striking, so you don't quickly forget him once you've seen him. Alas, no sex god he! :)

[dysonrules]

*random glomps of LOVE*

<3

[terrayn]

Lol! And here I thought you'd gone permanently H/D. :P

[leopion]

No questions, actually. Just dropping in to say congrats! :)

[terrayn]

Thank you! ♥

[elektra30]

You know I love the way you portray Draco as someone with so many rough edges (: he's mostly the central character in your stories, so for Hermione, how do you picture her and what do you find essential to her characterisation?

Congrats too! Well-deserved :D

[terrayn]

Thank you! ♥

For me, Hermione's raison d'être is the same as Draco's. She wants to be worth something. Of course, they've chosen to express that motivation in different ways, but I think for Hermione, it's not only that she wants to feel useful, but she wants to do good, change things and be remembered for it. There's a strain of egoism in that desire but it's tempered with genuine compassion.

On the flip side to wanting to be worth something is the way she tries so hard, almost too hard at the expense of having any girl friends, to be indispensable to Harry and Ron. When your self-esteem is so knotted up with external things (having enough friends, getting good enough grades, making the professors love you), it means you're a fundamentally insecure person inside.

So when I write from Hermione's POV, I try to make sure that trait is expressed somehow. And I have lots of fun making Draco poke fun at her weak spots. ;)