Question.

[conuly]

I don't know that much about fandom, but I'm starting to notice something.

Every other fanfic I see has Draco as being troubled, or nice, or an old softie, or something. People love Draco.

But Dudley, he never gets any of this. He's never even *mentioned*, much less cooed over.

Why is this? Where's the Dudley love? Poor Dudley. HE's never going to be seen as misguided. HE gets no chance to free himself from the shackles of the Dursley's "parenting". He's never even going to apply himself and make everybody realize that he's really been underachieving, not stupid.

Poor, poor Dudley.

Comments

[conuly]

Hm. That last bit makes sense. But... *I* like Dudley! I feel sorry for him. In the long run, I think he's suffered more for living with his parents than Harry has. Harry at least got away from them into the real world, poor Dudley is never going to get away. And sure, they love him (unlike Harry), but that doesn't mean that they're helping him.

[katschakai.livejournal.com]

I don't like Dudley, but I completly agree with the last bit. He know's nothing about the world, all he has is his "friends" who I think only "like's" him cause they are afraid not to, and his parents who baby him and never let's him try thing's for himself. In his mind he has never failed at anything, cause his parent's always sais his doing things right so when he has to do thing's on his own, he wont cope well with failure.