Yay! Someone who has the guts to show Malfoy for what type of person he really is.
I get so frustrated when people try to change his character this late in the game without reworking the character's (canon) history. I'm not sure he would have lead off with an Unforgivable though. Even in canon, Death Eaters seemed to start with other curses first.
When you think about it, why try to muster up enough pure hatred in the blink of an eye to cast a six-syllable curse instead of a simple (and comparatively quicker) Reductor curse?
Anyway, enough griping from me. Good story so far. I like it when people give Luna some depth, but be cautious of turning her into a Sue.
Author's response
Thanx for reading and reviewing.
I’ve written Malfoy as good and bad and something in-between. In this story he’s just plain bad. I’d call him a whimpering sociopath, but that would be an insult to whimpering sociopaths everywhere.
I agree with you on the long vs short spell. Shouldn’t the killing curse be something simple like, “Die Mutha F**!”
Never a Sue, more like female combination of Hari Seldon and Sherlock Holmes – I assure you, I am none of these.
I do love Luna, I want to love her and hug her and keep her safe and warm and happy – sigh!
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