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[sarea]

I'd like to customize my layout a bit more, but the S2 layers/styles documentation on LJ goes a bit (a bit, a lot, who's counting?) over my head. Does anyone know of a good tutorial I could use?

It doesn't seem to matter that the DT is what brought on my D/G love ... I kind of want to see it end Ginny/Tom. Is that wrong? I have my reasons.

It's never pretty when I go to Overstock.com, but this time, I walked away with Sports Night (complete series!), Roswell S2 (I didn't even know it was out -- I'm such a bad fan), and Friday Night Lights, as well as some other books.

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[sydney-lynne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for some time now I've disliked DV!Draco; in a way I kind of hope that he dies. I am yet to forgive him for this:

"At least he knows how to treat people he loves," Ginny said harshly. "All you do is hurt them and cause them pain."

"I'm not exactly sure how you'd know that," Draco said in the same soft voice, "seeing as how you aren't one of them."

He has a long way to go to redeemed himself to be worthy for Ginny IMO. Ginny is my girl in DV and DV Draco doesn't deserve her. I hoped for a long time that he distanced himself from her because he cared about her too much to put her in danger, but that theory is hanging on by a thread these days at best. And word on your thoughts about Harry/Draco. What? They kiss? Yawn. They're just so very boring to me together. Tom, on the other hand, is cool, and also my favorite character in canon. And hot, in my imagination. :)

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Auuuuugggh, that exchange.

You don't know how many times/ways I've tried to explain it away:

1) He didn't really mean it, he only said it so as to keep her away from him. Except Draco supposedly never lies. Maybe he would lie to protect Ginny? But that's the hopeful shipper in me speaking. And Draco loves Harry and Hermione too -- but he never pushes them away, not really. And I can't imagine that CC is trying to say Draco loves Ginny above all others, which is why he's different with her -- he's different with her because he doesn't care about her like he does the others. :-l

2) Could it have been a matter of semantics? That the "one of them" Draco's talking about is actually people Seamus loves, not himself? But yeah, that excuse is so thin as to be see-through. :p

I hoped for a long time that he distanced himself from her because he cared about her too much to put her in danger

I do believe that that's true. Where it's starting to bother me is that since that act, he has done nothing to show that that's where his heart/intentions lie. It's almost as if, by deliberately distancing himself from her, he is now distanced from her. The last thing I cling to is his reaction (subtle, to be sure, but I'm used to having to take little things and hang on by my fingernails) when he initially thought that it was Ginny who had died in the Polyjuice brothel. Of course, that could have simply been out of guilt, not love.

What it comes down to is that Draco has to earn Ginny's love in some way (if, in fact, he wants to be with her at all), not just decide to love her back. At the moment, it seems that that's all he would have to do, and he would have her. And she deserves more. (And yes, Tom is hot.)

I have always loved the Harry/Draco dynamic in DV ... right up until a few chapters ago when it stopped being subtext and just started being them getting all sappy together. Maybe that's also why I have trouble imagining Draco being attractive anymore -- if he's homosexual there's nothing there for me. <g> He likes guys, so he and Harry should get it on. But now Ginny needs someone, and Tom is all there and hot for her, and that in itself is pretty sexy.