Oh, yes, the Draco Trilogy is awful. It's so bad that the story you mentioned, "Draco Dormiens," is actually the most tolerable of the three, in my opinion. At the very least, DT!Draco is the most tolerable in "Draco Dormiens" (which doesn't say much about the trilogy, when your supposed hero/anti-hero becomes *worse* as the series goes on).
Yet that trilogy has inspired so much fanart that it's ridiculous. It's on a lot of fic-recs too, but I don't know why. Hermione's "attraction" to Harry is just taken as a given in the beginning of "Draco Dormiens" and Draco's sudden "attraction" to her is even more laughable. Before he was stuck in Harry's body, he couldn't care less about Hermione, but now that he's in Harry's body, he's head over heels in love with her? So, if Crabbe had had a crush on someone in second year, Ron would have fallen for that person too, since he was temporarily disguised as Crabbe in CoS? And even after Draco finally gets his body back, he *still* has a thing for Hermione. For absolutely no reason.
Lucius is portrayed as a lecherous abuser, Narcissa is portrayed as a sniveling, abused, nearly silent wimp, and Ron only shows up near the end. The excuse? "Oh, there wasn't enough time to bring him along!" Yeah, DT!Hermione/Cassie Claire. Keep telling yourself that.
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Date: 2010-08-18 08:31 pm (UTC)Yet that trilogy has inspired so much fanart that it's ridiculous. It's on a lot of fic-recs too, but I don't know why. Hermione's "attraction" to Harry is just taken as a given in the beginning of "Draco Dormiens" and Draco's sudden "attraction" to her is even more laughable. Before he was stuck in Harry's body, he couldn't care less about Hermione, but now that he's in Harry's body, he's head over heels in love with her? So, if Crabbe had had a crush on someone in second year, Ron would have fallen for that person too, since he was temporarily disguised as Crabbe in CoS? And even after Draco finally gets his body back, he *still* has a thing for Hermione. For absolutely no reason.
Lucius is portrayed as a lecherous abuser, Narcissa is portrayed as a sniveling, abused, nearly silent wimp, and Ron only shows up near the end. The excuse? "Oh, there wasn't enough time to bring him along!" Yeah, DT!Hermione/Cassie Claire. Keep telling yourself that.
And it only gets worse from there.