Harry/Ginny, but also Harry/Draco as a separate but known poly thing? [...] And Draco would be utterly miserable, to have something with Harry but still not be part of his family
That's what my girlfriend, her husband and I have. We are...part of each other's families? Or how exactly do you mean it?
Because I'm assuming this would be closeted. Also, treatment of metamours and whether the primary/secondary designation fits seems to vary a lot among poly people, but the model that comes to mind when I think about this is not one where Ginny and Draco feel like family or where Draco is particularly included in that? And I also have a very hard time imagining traditionalist Draco from his conservative family feeling part of Harry's family if Harry also has an entirely separate thing with his wife and kids.
Because Draco is explicitly terrified of public hostility and what it could do to Scorpius. I have a really hard time imagining him wanting to be out about something with Harry, even if he told Scorpius.
For Draco and Ginny - because of their family backstory (and the very, very conservative wizarding world) and because of their personalities both. I find it hard to imagine either of them coping well with not being first in the eyes of their person, and even if Ginny was because they did the primary/secondary thing that would destroy Draco and the relationship in short order
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My Harry/Draco feels have ebbed somewhat too just reading the script and the reviews of the play...but it's quite normal for me. I never expect H/D to be part of canon and whenever I'm immersed in the canon world my fanon heart falls away a little :). I can't feel Cursed Child compliant H/D at the moment too... at least not with their characterizations intact. I can make something up but I am not sure I will buy myself at the moment, not only because CC has consolidated Harry, Ginny and Draco's future (when the books ended with possibilities) but also because Draco has gone through quite a dramatic change that would take out a good part of the antagonistic fun of trying to get this pair together. But something will come up in time... after all, with Albus and Scorpius being such close friends the Potters and Draco will have ample time spent together...all the new possibilities
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I never expected them to be canon either! But I didn't expect to feel so strongly HARRY IS HAPPY IT'S GOOD WITH GINNY I CAN'T BREAK THEM UP.
I can't feel Cursed Child compliant H/D at the moment too... at least not with their characterizations intact. I can make something up but I am not sure I will buy myself at the moment, not only because CC has consolidated Harry, Ginny and Draco's futureEXACTLY. Draco has definitely matured a lot! And yeah, there'd be less of the antagonistic fun. Although I don't mind that as much. What would make me kind of sad is that Draco is super-in denial and oblivious about shit quite often in canon (I am going to get GLORY just as soon as I kill Dumbledore, which I can totally do because I am a KILLER FUCK YEAH) and now seems more self-aware. And I love writing a Draco with no self-awareness
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Draco and Albus starting a pigeon racing team because while both of them love Harry as a friend / father, it doesn't mean the chip on their shoulders is permanently, completely gone
damaged schoolboy nemeses who find a way to understand each other and fall in love past the hate and the past and the misunderstandings, to know each other through the ways that they are deeply similar and to get past the tribalism that we see damage the wizarding world in a hundred different ways? There’s something really special about that.
From one antagonist pairing shipper (although my ship is fairly disliked in fandom or only liked certain way) to another, I totally get you on this, a million times over.
I haven't read TCC and won't see the play for exactly the reasons you mentioned. My hold on canon love is fragile right now and my love for fandom even more so, I worry about what reading this newest installment will do so I've left it alone.
*grins* Yeah, I can totally see how Severus and Sirius could fit that paragraph as well!
*nodnod* I personally really loved the Snape of it all in CC but I understand your trepidation ABSOLUTELY. I spent months before Civil War came out worrying about what they'd do with Natasha and that wasn't even my sole fandom.
<3 <3 <3 I laughed in sympathy at the title for this post.
Cursed Child is very lovingly and deliberately couched as a series of AUs that can be made to have *not happened* in any timelines except their own! You can visit and experience contradictory timelines and go back to your home timeline in the end. <3
Cursed Child is very lovingly and deliberately couched as a series of AUs that can be made to have *not happened* in any timelines except their own! You can visit and experience contradictory timelines and go back to your home timeline in the end. <3
This is very true, thank you!! *uses H/D icon just cuz*
Harry and Draco becoming lovers and life partners would not have been nearly as improbable as Cedric becoming a Death Eater or Voldemort being viable enough as a mammal and a mortal to have sexual intercourse that resulted in a child.
LOL, RIGHT???? I mean, Cedric becoming a DE seems unlikely but far from impossible - he's a pureblood, and Hufflepuffs like to belong and stick with what they've chosen and work for that cause, even an uncertain Cedric isn't going to react like Regulus Black. But VOLDEMORT HAD A CHILD? I mean. What. And the timing puts it during DH, I think, or certainly at least post-GoF.
And I mean. Leaving aside the fact that I think someone that invested in his own immortality having a child seems thematically dubious, I've always, um. Kind of assumed that his dick went the same place as his nose. I know it's a snake reference but I always thought becoming more inhuman would mean, er, yeah... *coughs* Sorry, Mr Voldemort, I feel I'm invading your privacy :P
yeah I dislike a little girl of ten hanging onto her crush and only dating other boys to make her crush jealous, before finally getting together with him because they are so much like his parents *urgs*. I don't like cannon Ginny. My headcanon of her is an entire different story.
I like canon Ginny, although I've also always assumed the other boys were like, maybe 1% about making him jealous and 99% about experimenting and liking them as well. But that's because it fits my understanding of life better :)
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Harry/Ginny, but also Harry/Draco as a separate but known poly thing? [...] And Draco would be utterly miserable, to have something with Harry but still not be part of his family
That's what my girlfriend, her husband and I have. We are...part of each other's families? Or how exactly do you mean it?
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not one where Ginny and Draco feel like family
Due to their families backstory or because of their personalities or...? I'm not trying to criticise your headcanons, just curious.
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Because Draco is explicitly terrified of public hostility and what it could do to Scorpius. I have a really hard time imagining him wanting to be out about something with Harry, even if he told Scorpius.
For Draco and Ginny - because of their family backstory (and the very, very conservative wizarding world) and because of their personalities both. I find it hard to imagine either of them coping well with not being first in the eyes of their person, and even if Ginny was because they did the primary/secondary thing that would destroy Draco and the relationship in short order ( ... )
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I can't feel Cursed Child compliant H/D at the moment too... at least not with their characterizations intact. I can make something up but I am not sure I will buy myself at the moment, not only because CC has consolidated Harry, Ginny and Draco's futureEXACTLY. Draco has definitely matured a lot! And yeah, there'd be less of the antagonistic fun. Although I don't mind that as much. What would make me kind of sad is that Draco is super-in denial and oblivious about shit quite often in canon (I am going to get GLORY just as soon as I kill Dumbledore, which I can totally do because I am a KILLER FUCK YEAH) and now seems more self-aware. And I love writing a Draco with no self-awareness ( ... )
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*SNORT* oh gosh, this is AMAZING
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From one antagonist pairing shipper (although my ship is fairly disliked in fandom or only liked certain way) to another, I totally get you on this, a million times over.
I haven't read TCC and won't see the play for exactly the reasons you mentioned. My hold on canon love is fragile right now and my love for fandom even more so, I worry about what reading this newest installment will do so I've left it alone.
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*nodnod* I personally really loved the Snape of it all in CC but I understand your trepidation ABSOLUTELY. I spent months before Civil War came out worrying about what they'd do with Natasha and that wasn't even my sole fandom.
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Cursed Child is very lovingly and deliberately couched as a series of AUs that can be made to have *not happened* in any timelines except their own! You can visit and experience contradictory timelines and go back to your home timeline in the end. <3
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Haha, I'm glad! :D
Cursed Child is very lovingly and deliberately couched as a series of AUs that can be made to have *not happened* in any timelines except their own! You can visit and experience contradictory timelines and go back to your home timeline in the end. <3
This is very true, thank you!! *uses H/D icon just cuz*
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Harry and Draco becoming lovers and life partners would not have been nearly as improbable as Cedric becoming a Death Eater or Voldemort being viable enough as a mammal and a mortal to have sexual intercourse that resulted in a child.
LOL, RIGHT???? I mean, Cedric becoming a DE seems unlikely but far from impossible - he's a pureblood, and Hufflepuffs like to belong and stick with what they've chosen and work for that cause, even an uncertain Cedric isn't going to react like Regulus Black. But VOLDEMORT HAD A CHILD? I mean. What. And the timing puts it during DH, I think, or certainly at least post-GoF.
And I mean. Leaving aside the fact that I think someone that invested in his own immortality having a child seems thematically dubious, I've always, um. Kind of assumed that his dick went the same place as his nose. I know it's a snake reference but I always thought becoming more inhuman would mean, er, yeah... *coughs* Sorry, Mr Voldemort, I feel I'm invading your privacy :P
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