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A non-comprehensive list of Malfoid fics on X, in relatively correct order. (feel free to put any others in the comments):
Early Years:
xitter.gq/NWBroJaneway/status/21…
archiveofourown.org/works/93…
Struggling with feelings:
xitter.gq/moonlightbro/status/21…
xitter.gq/moonlightbro/status/21…
xitter.gq/Devon_Eriksen_/status/…
Triwizard Tournament:
wattpad.com/story/416982533-…
Hogsmead Village:
xitter.gq/Florida_Boi1/status/21…
Dare to ask Malfoy:
xitter.gq/Devon_Eriksen_/status/…
xitter.gq/spookyh8r/status/21055…
Yule Ball:
xitter.gq/Critical_Scribe/status…
xitter.gq/Critical_Scribe/status…
Umbridge Interrogation:
xitter.gq/Critical_Scribe/status…
Felix Felicis:
xitter.gq/Aloofcannon/status/210…
Sectumsempra:
xitter.gq/zer0chroma/status/2105… (absolute gem)
archiveofourown.org/works/93…
xitter.gq/Critical_Scribe/status…
xitter.gq/Critical_Scribe/status…
On the Run:
xitter.gq/TheChroNikler/status/2…
xitter.gq/TheChroNikler/status/2…
Room of Requirement:
xitter.gq/VladVoice/status/21060…
Death of Dumbledore:
xitter.gq/HariSel57511397/status… (absolute gem)
xitter.gq/HariSel57511397/status…
xitter.gq/SunshineSchmdt2/status…
Final Stand:
xitter.gq/ZeldaZealot/status/210…
xitter.gq/Critical_Scribe/status…
archiveofourown.org/works/93…
xitter.gq/S_16135/status/2105790…
xitter.gq/S_16135/status/2105952…
xitter.gq/S_16135/status/2106075…
xitter.gq/S_16135/status/2106489…
xitter.gq/Critical_Scribe/status…
Marriage and Family:
xitter.gq/Critical_Scribe/status…
xitter.gq/Critical_Scribe/status…
xitter.gq/FunnyNameForMe1/status…
Multi-Scene Works:
xitter.gq/Florida_Boi1/status/21…
xitter.gq/VladVoice/status/21057…
wattpad.com/story/416789252-…
Honorable Mention Illustrated Scene:
xitter.gq/theexileddraco/status/…
Authors:
@HariSel57511397
@Critical_Scribe
@VladVoice
@spookyh8r
@Devon_Eriksen_
@moonlightbro
@Florida_Boi1
@S_16135
@SunshineSchmdt2
@ZeldaZealot
@nightowl_trades
@NWBroJaneway
@zer0chroma
@theexileddraco
@Aloofcannon
@TheChroNikler
@FunnyNameForMe1
#Malfoid
#HarryPotterAU
#Malfoy
"Affectus remotio" Draconia whispered, gritting her teeth and clenching her wand. Waiting, desperately, for something to happen, for something to change. The stack of books around her growing taller by the hour, with titles such as "Basic Hexes for the Busy and Vexed", and "A Compendium of Common Curses and Their Counter-Actions". She had been at it for hours, late into the night, casting counter-curse after counter-curse on herself. Feeling nothing change but her level of anguish.
She hadn't showered or left the library in two days. Her hair was greasy, and the bags under her eyes were heavy. "Stupid Snape. Stupid potions. Stupid magic. Stupid Potter!" Draconia shouted, knocking over one of her stacks of dusty tomes.
"Shh." Instructed a passing ghost, much to her irritation.
"Stupid ghost." she muttered, pinching the bridge of her nose.
She looked a mess, and smelled even worse. Luckily it was several hours past midnight, and the library was completely empty. She had special permission to be out of bed this late of course, from Snape. "Good luck with your research Miss Malfoid, however, I don't suspect you will find the answers you seek in the library." What did he mean by that? Something about the way he said it bothered her. What does it mean? She looked down at her notes, full of hastily scratched spells and their counter curses, references to books that referenced other books, old anecdotes, and rumors of love hexes.
She pulled her hair again, and slammed her fist on the table. If Snape knew what was wrong with her, why wouldn't he tell her? Is this a test of some sort?
As she thought, she absent-mindedly sketched a lightning bolt in her notes.
Suddenly, she knew. Of course. It was unthinkable, but it was the only explanation. Potter used the imperius curse on her. One of the three unforgivable curses, used to control people like a puppet. Probably when she was sleeping, he snuck in and cast it on her, with a subtle enough command that it would go unnoticed. Of course! A spell that dark and that powerful wouldn't be released by simple counter-curses found in the student library.
Draconia was more relieved than angry. Finally, an explanation. Now she just needed to find Potter, get him to release the curse, and tell her father. Finally, something to get that half-blooded creep expelled.
She took out her silver hairbrush, ran it through her platinum hair, and sighed, ready to return to her dorm and get some much needed sleep.
After returning the books to their proper home, she exited the library quietly, smiling to herself. "I'm probably the first witch in history to be relieved to discover she's under the control of the imperius curse", she mused. The castle was unnerving at night, but it was never quiet. The soft roar of the torches in the corridor, the sleepless ghosts floating around, the soft snoring of the living paintings. Though she was apprehensive, at least she wasn't alone.
Alone. The word echoed in her head.
She heard footsteps around the corner in front of her. They were hurried, but light. Someone trying not to be caught. Before she could think, Draconia dove into an alcove nearby, hiding next to a suit of armor who turned to look at her, seemingly confused. She held up a finger to her mouth to quiet the armor, to which it simply shrugged and returned to it's resting position.
Draconia peeped around the corner and saw a Gryffindor robe and untidy black hair speed by. Harry?! What in Merlin's beard is he doing here?
Is he... looking for her? He must be. She gritted her teeth in anger. That creep is up to no good. Probably sneaking around looking for more ways to torment her. Though she was exhausted beyond measure, and yearned for her bed, she decided to follow him.
Harry was going somewhere she had never been before, ducking through hallways and secret doorways. Behind paintings and through dark corridors. Never once did he turn and notice her. How did this oblivious fool manage to cast such a high-level dark curse on her?
Finally, after squeezing into a dark and dusty room, Harry stopped. Draconia ducked down, peeking around a dusty sheet hanging over an abandoned globe to look at him from behind.
He was just standing there, staring at himself in a mirror. What? She continued watching him for minutes, waiting for him to do something, but he just... stood there. Staring at himself.
Draconia couldn't hold it in anymore, and she started laughing.
Harry whipped his head around, wand in hand.
"Malfoid?! What are you doing here? Did you follow me?"
"Honestly Potter, sneaking off to stare at yourself in the mirror? Such vanity!"
"I wasn't... that's not..." Harry stammered, looking away from her shyly.
"That's pathetic, even for you." Draconia giggled, her hair falling forward as she clutched her stomach.
"It's no ordinary mirror, Malfoid," Harry shot back, "It... well... come take a look."
"Sure", she laughed, approaching him. "And what exactly am I supposed to be seeing?"
"What do you mean? Just look in the mirror."
"I am, I don't see anything unusual."
"It's supposed to show you your heart's greatest desire. It's called the Mirror of Erised. Dumbledore told me about it." Harry said, his face turning red.
"Well it seems your mirror is broken, Potter." Draconia giggled, "Because I only see you and me."
There is a non zero chance Baron Trump has seen my list of fics and potentially read some of them.
For sure lots of young gov workers have. Just seems a little nuts and kind of puts things in perspective.
I can only assume they have read... Take their advice and read a little too. There are yearners in high places...
I would love to see the different interpretations of Malfoid's Yule Ball gown. Please reply with the art you find. Only Yule Ball gowns please, I know there's good artwork of everything else.
#Malfoy
#malfoid
#MalfoidArt
At least last time when this went around there was somewhat of an argument for Red at the 50% requirement. But at an 80% requirement its just a suicide button.
David Bone retweeted
Idk how people feel about Jordan Peterson, but I remember something he brought up in his 2017 Maps of Meaning lectures, specifically Lecture 02: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 1), that I think is particularly relevant to the Malfoid Movement.
He was talking about Disney's Pinocchio and how the animators might have gone about creating the story.
He described the process as something like this: one person proposes an idea, and the others dismiss it because something about it just doesn't feel right. Then another person comes up with a different idea, and suddenly everyone agrees that it works. And this process repeats itself until they eventually arrive at a story that everyone feels is right.
The interesting thing is that they don't necessarily know WHY one idea works while another doesn't. They just intuitively recognize and understand that something about it feels right, even if they can't explain exactly why.
And I think we're witnessing something very similar with the Malfoid Movement. Take, for example, the idea of Harry and Malfoid holding the wand together during the final battle. Why is it that so many people independently gravitate toward this particular scene? On the surface, you could argue that it's simply because it makes for a cool fight scene. And sure, that's certainly part of it.
But I think there's something much deeper going on.
Somewhere in our subconscious, we recognize the emotional and symbolic significance of that moment. Two characters who began as enemies, who have gone through years of conflict, suffering, and personal growth, finally standing together against the very evil that once divided them. It's not simply about two people holding a wand. It's about everything that brought and lead them to that moment. And that's why I find it so fascinating that people can independently arrive at similar ideas without necessarily being able to explain why those ideas work so well. There's something almost intuitive about the entire creative process, where people collectively recognize the emotional truth of a scene before they can even put it into words.
And that's precisely why I find it so silly when people dismiss Malfoid as nothing more than childish fun or some unserious genderbender trend.
Because when I see all of this unfolding, with people independently developing similar themes, relationships, and emotional conclusions, I can't help but think that these critics genuinely have no idea what they're looking at. They see the surface and assume that's all there is. They don't even seem to understand, let alone fathom, the underlying narrative mechanisms that make Malfoid work in the first place.
And that's what makes this movement so interesting to me. It's not simply that people are creating stories, but that they're collectively discovering what makes a particular story feel meaningful.
One of the most important things you learn as you grow older is that there isn't always one universally right answer, especially when it comes to personal beliefs, tastes, and how people see the world. And I think one of the clearest signs of immaturity is the inability to understand this.
People who haven't really grown up tend to have this strange idea that once you become an adult, you have to act like one at all times. You can only enjoy serious, grown-up things, and God forbid you ever pick up a fantasy book, enjoy an adventure tale, or find something beautiful in a story written for children. Because apparently, that's cringe, and you should be ashamed of yourself. But isn't that itself an incredibly childish way of thinking? And this isn't exactly some new observation. Even C.S. Lewis once wrote:
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
It's an impressively simple quote, and one that most people can easily understand. But actually taking it to heart is an entirely different matter. And I think this is extremely relevant to the Malfoid Movement.
To understand why, you first need to recognize that the beautiful, timeless values of Western culture aren't things you can only acquire by reading history books or cultural criticism. You don't need a textbook to teach you about chivalry, honor, loyalty, courage, or romance. These values are present in countless stories, whether they're written for adults or children.
And in many ways, stories can teach these values far more effectively than any textbook ever could. Because there's a difference between intellectually understanding that loyalty is a virtue and actually experiencing what loyalty means through a character you've grown to love.
There's a difference between reading about the importance of courage and watching someone you care about find the strength to stand against despair.
And there's certainly a difference between being told that love is beautiful and actually feeling that beauty through a story.
You aren't merely being told what these values are in a literary analysis textbook. You're experiencing them emotionally through the characters.
And that's precisely where I think a lot of these critics completely miss the point.
They look at Malfoid and see nothing more than a genderbent Draco Malfoy, a silly romantic fanfiction, or some childish internet trend. And because that's all they see, they dismiss the entire thing as something beneath them. But the problem is that they're judging the cover without ever bothering to understand the values underneath it. Which brings me to my actual point.
Malfoid can simultaneously be something that isn't particularly important in the grand scheme of things and one of the most important things ever. Which is why I brought up the idea that "there isn't always one universally right answer."
These two statements aren't necessarily contradictory.
Will the Malfoid Movement have the same cultural influence as The Lord of the Rings, or even Harry Potter itself?
Probably not. And frankly, it doesn't need to. Because its importance doesn't necessarily come from how many books it sells, how many awards it wins, or whether literary critics eventually decide to recognize it.
Its importance comes from what people actually take away from it. A young person might encounter Malfoid simply because they find the character cute or enjoy the romance between her and Harry. But through that relationship, they might discover something much more meaningful. They might come to appreciate loyalty, forgiveness, devotion, sacrifice, or the courage it takes to love someone despite everything standing in the way. And perhaps, years later, when that same person decides to write a story of their own, those values will still be there, influencing the characters they create and the stories they choose to tell. And also if even a fraction of the younger generation carries those values with them into adulthood, then I would argue that the Malfoid Movement has already accomplished something genuinely worthwhile.
So why do people take Malfoid seriously? It's not because they're stupid or immature. Maybe it's simply because some are actually more grown-up than others or have better EQ, so they can see through the cover and appreciate the value instead of being a stunted man-child who can only like things that society deems "acceptable to a man."
David Bone retweeted
I say this in full support of your work, but the reason you can't defeat fiction with a political essay is that art accepts play and unseriousness as a prerequisite.
Fiction has the full access of the human experience whether that be romantic or the grimdark--both take the whimsy of the endeavor as a given since the idea of suspending your disbelief is inherently a ridiculous notion. You're arranging moving images or paragraphs into subcreation to better experience Creation.
You can say something like Crime and Punishment is different in quality, but it's not different in category. The idea of feeling sorry for a fictional character like Raskolnikov (or hatred) is the same sort of dance that let's people believe in Jedi and wizards in magical castles.
The desperate clinging to classical works as being more grown-up and therefore acceptable is a noble lie to paper over those parts that Conservatives deem cringe while trying to preserve the numinous. The problem is that creating art in fear and embarrassment means you only ever get sterile schlock that doesn't say anything good at all.
*Cough* The infamous Conservative art problem.
To end on a final point, I'm not directing this comment at you, just the numerous hacks I've encountered who want the prestige of being an artist without the risks.
God doesn't give the numinous to cowards. And while you can cringe at Malfoid, it's also true modern Conservatives exist in reaction and never set these cultural trends for themselves.
Gotta love misinterpretation. I am not saying Malfoid doesn't have a standard and a "character" that we hold the character to, she does. I was saying a council to enforce hard canon is stupid.
And what is this "the right loves loosing" and insinuating that I wouldn't care if she was coded more to the left.
Malfoid has flourished because she is a face for the deeper ideas of traditional romance and the pursuit of a pure love untainted.
As long as she represents that we do not need to fear, because the left cannot destroy the ideas behind her.
To be frank I was mostly against your council idea because I thought your choices were bad. No one who actually wrote one of the core idealizing fictions was on it. Consider @moonlightbro or @HariSel57511397 or @Devon_Eriksen_ or @GuardTm or @Critical_Scribe or @NWBroJaneway People who put hard work into crafting that standard with their own hands.
I was inspired to write my own fic because of Issac Young's story which I greatly enjoyed. My story doesn't rigidly adhere to the "canon", but it does adhere to the desire of traditional romance, of the hero getting the princess.
As @redteneri said "I drew this to make men yearn again." They could have drew someone else. Malfoid is just a character, but Malfoid's character is what we yearn for.
Just because our princesses are slightly different doesn't mean we can't yearn for them.
"Anything goes" is exactly how we will lose Malfoid and allow her to return to "just another genderbend" like that which already existed for years.
You guys don't want me to be right, but you know I am.
If that's what you want, fine, but don't look my way when the Left usurps Malfoid like they usurped everything else we had.
My OP was a joke, but holy shit these retarded takes have forced me to take it seriously. The Right really does love losing, doesn't it?
Let Malfoid have a solid foundation, THEN let creative minds run wild. Or just get happy with losing yet again.
My guy, this is a retarded take. It's fan fiction, you make of it what you want. Trying to make a "council" to determine canon just ruins the creativity of the people who are participating.
I have seen so many different stories that are fantastic. They don't all agree, but they all understand the core of the character.
At the end of the day Malfoid is a creative project shared by a community, but inspired by the individuals who yearn.
Who sits on the Malfoid High Council? Here are the people I nominate:
REDTEN (@redteneri)
ArchCast (@TArchcast)
Shad (@shadmbrooks)
@Malfoid (holding the official tag's gotta count for something)
And myself.
I'd like to point out that at least 3 of these 5 say Malfoid's first name is Dracaena.
David Bone retweeted
One of the most enlightening takes on Malfoid that I've seen so far was a YouTube video I watched today that has since been lost to the aether.
At the end of the video he made the point that this kind of story is extremely culturally important for the right. Not because it's conquering a leftist beloved IP or because it reintroduces beauty and romance to storytelling. Not that those aren't fine things.
No it does something much bigger.
For at least two decades we in the west have been subjected to nothing but deconstructive storytelling. Every expectation and trope is so routinely subverted that we know the story from the start. Its why so much modern media is just...
...boring.
Because God forbid the guy actually get the girl, the bad guy be bad and get his comeuppance, or the ending be at all happy. (Aside: I believe this is responsible for the recent rise in eastern media)
But I digress. What Malfoid actually is, is an inversion of the deconstruction of media. Its taking a broken story and making it whole. It takes a plot that was ok but flawed, and uses traditional story telling to fill in those gaps and create a recognizable pattern that elevates the whole thing.
He doesn't call it this in the video, but I like to think of it as "reconstructive" or "restorative" story telling: the elevation of a story by the inclusion of traditional storytelling methods and tropes so that it speaks to what is true about the human condition.
There was one other example he gave that comes, of all places, from Star Wars. While almost all of modern Star Wars under Kathleen Kennedy was deconstructionist crap, one show stood out: The Mandolorian.
After the debasement of Luke Skywalker in the ironically name Rise of Skywalker, many people were extremely discouraged. Mark Hamill himself said that he didn't agree with anything that his character was doing and he didn't recognize Luke by the end.
In steps Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, and in the final scene of season 1 of The Mandolorian we get to see Luke Skywalker back in his rightful spot as the Big Damn Hero, doing the Right Thing and Saving The Day. Grown men cried watching that scene; once again seeing their childhood hero back in his rightful roll.
It was reconstructive, restorative even, and why the left went all-out attacking the show.
I know we all lament the idea of Malfoid fading even if we know it's inevitable. What we should do though is learn from it and take those lessons forward to new projects, be they fanfic or entirely new IPs:
- understand that "creative" work is not the domain of the left
- avoid deconstruction at all costs and instead speak to the truth of human nature
- embrace traditional western storytelling
On that last point, I want to remind y'all that not every story is a love story. The western storytelling tradition is rich with different story tropes that each serve a purpose: tragedy (Anakin and Padame in the prequel series), comedy (White Christmas), heroes journey (Dartanian from Three Musketeers), great quest (LoTR), rebirth (Kousko in Emperor's New Groove or the Beast in Beauty and the Beast), rags to riches (Edmond in Count of Monte Cristo).
There's more, but you get the idea. Don't be afraid to retell these stories again and again. They resonate so well because they speak to fundamental elements of the human condition.
Its tempting to wonder what other stories are out there that might be a tweak or two away from greatness, but I wouldn't get hung up on that. You aren't gonna catch lightning in a bottle twice.
Instead I say look forward, using these lessions, and build something great from the ground up, borrowing pieces from the past to build the future.
David Bone retweeted
Is an author justified in taking ideas from a fanfiction derived from their own work? Not whether its theft, because it is in both instances, is it justified.
90%Yes, Justified
10%No, Not Justified
29 votes • Final resultsI am somewhat in favor of the idea that if you have a popular IP you created that fan-fictions are made from, you should be able to take ideas in that fan-fiction for your own use. Yes, its theft to a degree, but it only exists because of the original theft of your IP through the fanfiction. Curious what everyone thinks about this.