Draco Dormiens, by Cassandra Claire (Draco Trilogy, #1)Release Date: 2000
Age Group: Young Adult
Pages: 207
Overall: 5 Monkeys
Source: Wikipedia
Interest: Series, HP Fan Fiction
Summary from Goodreads:
When an accident in Potions class turns Harry into Draco and Draco into Harry, each is trapped playing the part of the other. Romance, mistaken identi...more When an accident in Potions class turns Harry into Draco and Draco into Harry, each is trapped playing the part of the other. Romance, mistaken identi...moWhen an accident in Potions class turns Harry into Draco and Draco into Harry, each is trapped playing the part of the other. Romance, mistaken identities, really Cunning Plans, evil bake sales, a love triangle, and snogs galore.
A must-read to all Harry Potter fans.
My Opinion:I love reading Fan Fiction, and was looking for a good Harry Potter one, and came across this one. Everyone called it "
THE Harry Potter Fan Fiction". And they were right.
It was like reading something J. K. Rowling had written herself!
I know that name must sound familiar to you all, and that's probably because you've seen it written differently.
Cassandra Claire is the pseudonym
Cassandra Clare, author of the
Mortal Instruments trilogy, used to publish Fan Fiction back in the day.
The story revolvs around Harry and Draco, which are stuck in each other's bodies as a result of a Polyjuice Spell gone wrong. They have to play the role of the other, so as not to raise suspicion.
Like this, they both get to see what it's like to be the other. Draco, who's always envied Harry thinking his life was great, whereas his was not, finds that this is not the case.
Harry, who's always hated Draco, and thought he was the most evil of students at Hogwarts, discovers that Draco actually has a heart.
This piece of Fan Fiction is written in novel-length, at 207 pages.
A warning: It includes the
Harry/Hermione pairing, and while I'm a big Harry/Ginny - Hermione/Ron fan, I have to say, this is so well written, that I love this couple way too much!
It also plays with the Draco/Hermione pairing, and we all know that this isn't too far off the actual books.
One thing that makes this so amazing, and loved in the HP fandom, is, I think, the completely accurate characterisation of J. K. Rowling's characters. Yes, the pairings are changed but, the characters remain the same.
Draco is still too full of himself, Harry pushes everyone whom he loves away in fear they might end up dead, Hermione is the brightest young witch of them all, and Ron... he's Ron. Only, he isn't in love with Hermione.
The ending of
Draco Dormiens leaves you wanting to read the sequel right away!
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Before the release of her first book,
City of Bones, Clare began taking down her Draco Trilogy Fan Fiction from the online archives. Of course, something this big can't ever completely disappear, and can still be found if you know where to look. I've found that you can download them from the
Cassandra Clare Wiki page, under the Bibliography section. Just click on that link and you'll be taken there. I've downloaded them from someplace else too, to see if they were the same archives, and can guarantee you that they are.
If you want to read them and have trouble downloading them from the Wiki page, you can always contact me, and I'll email them to you, just look for my email address on the right sidebar, under the heading Contact Me.
