I would've thought they'd converge on Ron as the underappreciated hero, continued to preach Harry's coming as the messiah, or become a broken church of several minor gods like Snape, McGonagall and Flitwick.

Why Draco? Utsane doesn't understand.

I get why other communities like Draco. It just seems OOC fro AO3.

This has been my Sunday shitpost.

 

He's rich, he's a "bad boy" and he's hot. Or at least they think he is. I don't see how this is some great mystery.

 

In some of the anime fandoms, Naruto and Bleach in particular, they have managed to avoid doing going down the road of hero-worshipping Sasuke, Orochimaru and Urahara, all three of whom are characters that typically fit that vague stereotype too. Why is the HP fandom the exception here?

 

Lol - just lol - if you think they've "managed" to "avoid" doing the same to Sasuke. Orochimaru isn't really hot, Urahara is a bit too daddy for the average fangirl. The first fits a similar mold to Draco, the other two don't. Better examples from Bleach would've been Grimmjow or Ulqiuorra or something.

 

I think its, in part, that there's a lot of blank space to work with his character, whilst at the same time he's got a lot of established facets to provide a framework. You don't have to really change things in the story for him to have a moderately central role in things, he's Harry's principle adversary in a school yard, immediate sort of way. He's associated with Harry's actual principle adversary. He's rich, seemingly quite intelligent and capable, he's charismatic (no one enjoys writing a stupid or boring character).

I can understand why he's the go to 'bad guy' character when an author is looking to redeem someone.

 

Big dick energy.

 

Because he's gay.

 

lol.

Also Orochimaru and Urahara are very different character archtypes to Draco and Sasuke.