But I thought Rowling was persona-non-grata, a literal Nazi chudlet that wants to genocide all troons and fags, and that leftists had canceled her, walked away from Harry Potter and demand her execution?
Oh, good, the Indians hate her. I was worried that I might have bad taste.
Tsundere isn't even that much of a bitch, usually her angry attitude is solely at the MC and she acts perfectly natural for everyone else.
Go on an Amphetamine bender and come back to me on this. I'll wait. Rest of the post I kind of agree with.
The "hellfire" stuff is fun because it explores how the muggle governments are aware of the wizards to a certain extent but play along with the charade separating the two societies. Which is Canon in the books as the Minister of Magic spills all the beans to the British Prime Minister on his first day in the office.
Ok, now if we had Tom Clancy writing a Harry Potter novel, I would have read the books.
It also opens the story up to make her redemption a bit more believable. The problem with male Draco's redemption is the fact that because of his status as Harry's main enemy/rival at the school, his redemption in the books didn't feel all that great. He came to regret his choice to serve Voldemort after seeing how terrible he is but that doesn't really mean he changed at all. Male Draco, again because of the way they are written in the books, doesn't allow for that "Rivals to Friends" arc that Malfoid allows.
Did Draco really redeem himself? As I recall, he's squeamish about participating fully in Voldemort's mass murder plans, but he also doesn't really turn against Voldemort or do anything particularly heroic. Or is there something I'm forgetting?
"Good luck death cursing a punji pit or a claymore, asshole"
That's a big part of why it's an unsatisfying character arc. The epilogue depicts them as having reached a mutual respect, but it doesn't feel earned.
I think it's more he was fully into it until Voldemort's actions (Voldemort constantly humiliating his family for his father's failure in book 5, being forced to kill Dumbledore on pain of death) started affecting him. Like, if you read Book 5 when Lucius was still one of Voldemort's favored Death Eaters, he was very much all in on team Voldemort. Once Lucius fails to get the prophecy and is thrown in Azkaban he loses favor with Voldemort and his family pays that price, which is why Draco starts to be squeamish, like VF said, it's a jumbled unsatisfying arc.
America once again swooping in to salvage the UK's mistakes after an East Asian country launched a surprise first strike on
There is alot to do in that thread. Such as someone pointed out, what if a bad wizard put the imperius curse on President Trump or Xi Jinping? That is the setting for a real spy thriller where the central hook is a wizard that wants the USA and China to nuke each other and its a race against the clock to stop it from happening. Basically the plot of "Clear and Present Danger" but with magic.
No you're right, Draco (and the Malfoys in general) are on Voldemort's side until about 5 minutes before he loses the final battle to Harry; Draco & his friends also try to stop Harry at an earlier stage of the battle for Hogwarts, that's how one of said friends accidentally kills himself while trying to kill the main trio. They also mostly defect for the purpose of self-preservation, not any epiphany about how they might've been wrong to become Death Eaters: he's already threatened to kill family patriarch Lucius if Draco fucks up killing Dumbledore, a task which he thinks Draco will 100% fail at anyway, and Narcissa betrays him only because Harry told her Draco was still alive. And after the battle they're kinda just left awkwardly sitting around in the ruined Great Hall before the cut to the epilogue (IIRC in the movies they get to walk away from Hogwarts and nobody stops or even talks to them).
