Name: tinamarie reviewed
Chapter 1 on Sep 08, 2007 10:33 am
Oh my gosh I was laughing so hard while reading this, now that I look back on all those fics I read...lol! Can't wait for your D/G Cliches - part 2.
Name: xBriYeon reviewed
Chapter 1 on Aug 08, 2007 07:06 am
You are so right -- I've seen all of these in many of the fic I've read xD
Name: AyameChatte reviewed
Chapter 1 on Jul 16, 2007 02:44 am
wow, that's amazing....I must admit that I'm guilty in a few of those in the fic I'm writing....I would definitely like to see a continuation of this that lists another ten, it really is amusing!
Name: pv1988 reviewed
Chapter 1 on Jul 13, 2007 04:42 am
this is all so true...
:-)
(Good job collecting these!)
Name: moon_child reviewed
Chapter 1 on Jul 07, 2007 01:59 pm
Oh my gosh all of those are absolutely true. haha! But D/G fics just wouldn't be the same if those silly things didn't happen. You have brightened my day and now I must share this fantastic little tidbit with my D/G raving friends :]
Name: Black Rouge reviewed
Chapter 1 on Jun 12, 2007 11:50 am
.....so true...
Name: sweet gurl reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 17, 2007 04:40 pm
dont forget the Bat Bogey hex it is almost always metioned!!
Name: moondog reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 14, 2007 02:15 pm
So true!! Especially numbers 2 and 9.
Name: sweet gurl reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 13, 2007 08:48 am
this is brilliant!!!!
u HAVE to add more
Name: stickofgum reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 13, 2007 05:14 am
what about Draco and Ginny get in a a fight
Draco says I'm sorry and Ginny forgive draco because "Malfoy's never Apologize"
Name: citrusabby reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 13, 2007 02:46 am
Way too true! : D
Name: ElvenPrincess reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 13, 2007 02:05 am
lovely well done. i can happily nod my head at all of them and can remember nearly all the stories that i've read that hold these cliches. well done, i must say that i like number 4 immensly - normally quite funny.
Name: A Reviewer reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 12, 2007 07:45 pm
I demand. The public demands. Her diva commands. Grr.
Name: Jester Hellking reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 12, 2007 06:37 pm
Hehe. I was counting the ones I've done. :)
Name: Archirat (not signed in) reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 12, 2007 03:09 pm
I commend your perception. It is rather true and for some of these I want to explain why. There are reasons why these cliches exist.
1. Draco confessing his love, it has to be Draco confessing his love first. It is more traditionally accepted for women to express feelings of love first. Ginny is often confused over Draco and Draco is usually displayed as being raised in either a) abusive family, or b) a non-demonstrative family. It logically follows that Draco has to be the one to make the first major step.
a. Admiting love in a fit of rage is Draco being frustrated that Ginny does't seem to feel the same way, it actually happens in real life, it might not always happen in the great hall.
b. In the middle of intercourse there is a chemical reaction. Draco is as susectible as anyone else. It also happens during the post-coital snuggle/er, whatever Draco and Ginny do.
c. People need a stabilizing force in their life; "no man is an island." After an earth0shattering event, it is most imortant to tell the ones you love that you love them. It is cliche, but it is a true to life cliche. It's unfortunate that it is over0used or made trite.
2. This is the cliche that bothers me most. I won't explain it too much, just let it be known that Slytherin is not the house of cunning, it is the house of ambition! Gryffindors are qualified to be in another house but they made the choice to value courage, not ambition.
3. You explained this one, but still it does not necessarily always happen. The books just focus on Harry and as we all know, Harry does not focus on Ginny, that doesn't mean that Ginny isn't a part of them.
4. No arguments. None whatsoever.
5. This is awkward. Who wants to write Ginny as having had sex before? She is Harry's ideal (don't bite me, J.K. Rowling says that.) Harry's ideal is somewhat pure. To portray Ginny as experienced sometimes makes her love for Draco cheap. (This is a phenomenon that occurs in romance stories. The heroine is often a virgin or very inexperienced.)
6. This happens because people want to make Draco accessible as a person and a character. It would be hard for us to like him if he truly believed everything that he was taught. Hiding behind a mask is romanticized to an unhealthy extent.
7. This sometimes happens in life. As a cliche, it seems to make sense because people usually don't pursue someone they do not find attractive. Draco is the antithesis of Harry, which means that Ginny is the antithesis of Draco's ideal girl. Why else should he pursue her?
8. This usually makes for a more interesting story. If he doesn't have the death mark, all her prejuidices are unfounded, if he does he waits for her to care before showing her so she doesn't condemn him. If you have something socially and morally reprehensible, you would be cautious to let someone else see it.
9. I don't think I have to explain this one either.
10. Bill and Charlie are the two brothers that did not go to school with Draco. It would make sense that they are the ones to first accept him in a relationship with Ginny because they did not know how he acted in school.
I am sorry if I cover things that you already know. I just wanted to analyzed the situations and the reasoning behind the cliches. I am glad someone else saw this and posted something about it.
Name: twiddlekinks reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 12, 2007 02:32 pm
hehe I'm sure you've already seen it, but you might want to check out Mynuet's "Cliche Fic of Doom": http://www.dracoandginny.com/viewstory.php?sid=2771&warning=2
I enjoyed your list -- and I'm probably guilty of quite a few of these, squee-rific though they might be. hehe :) Goooo, D&G!
Name: Myanceris reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 12, 2007 01:25 pm
LOL God the Cliches are ENDLESS - I myself am guilty of perpetrating several...
Although, further to your comment about Draco being Ginny's first, I refer you to a number of fics in which Harry was Ginny's first, or various other chars (with Dean Thomas, Neville Longbottom and Colin Creevey being particularly popular).
I did try to avoid many cliches with 'The Vault Incident', I sort of 'bypassed' the common ones by not mentioning certain facts.
Also from my own list of works, Pandora's Paradox has a decidedly UNVIRGINAL Ginny becoming tangled with a cliche-ridden reformed Draco. lol
As a further addition to said Cliche list, can I add one regarding Pregnancy - I am terribly guilty for this, but you'll find that many many many authors use a pregnancy as a predominant point in their stories and indeed perpetuate this cliche in its many forms:
- Ginny tells Draco she's pregnant and he switches sides.
- Her announcement prompts the ILY.
- Tension within the story is revealed as a hidden pregnancy.
- Ginny hides her pregnancy from everyone then she and Draco get to together at the end...
The list is ENDLESS. Although for sheer fluffiness, next to nothing beats a baby! lol XD
As for the rest of them, I'm cliche QUEEN! LOL. It's hard NOT to spot a cliche in Exquisite Irony! LOL
Name: arabela reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 12, 2007 12:30 pm
lmao, I love this. and it's all so, so true. A few are unavoidable, particularly 3, 4, and 6 (because he changed during HBP, so that's kind of canon). And the way you phrased #8 just cracked me up "She usually gasps, cries, hugs him, and all that rot. However, sometimes, in Fics set at a later year, Draco does have the dark mark. In situations like these, he has reformed and when he shows it to Ginny she usually gasps, cries, hugs him, and traces it." --made me think of more than a few fics I know with both of those (insanely similar) situations.
very nice =D
Name: Last the Night reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 12, 2007 12:03 pm
Hahaha, wow. I wasn't sure what was going to be in your list, but after reading it I can't help but go through the thousands of stories I've read and laugh at the similarity of them all.
Name: Anonymous reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 12, 2007 10:09 am
This is brilliant! lol
Name: razzle_be_dazzled reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 12, 2007 09:46 am
OH! How true they are! I however, love every single one of them, because no matter how many times I read them they are still D/G and that is all that matters!
Name: shadieladie reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 12, 2007 07:57 am
11) And they live happily ever after...please life isn't that nice and compact
Name: shadieladie reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 12, 2007 07:56 am
11) And they live happily ever after...please life isn't that nice and compact
Name: shadieladie reviewed
Chapter 1 on May 12, 2007 07:55 am
11) And they live happily ever after...please life isn't that nice and compact