A/N: This is the end. I'm so sorry that I left you without an update for so long, but I spent a year getting used to living in a new place and now I'm ready to continue my fanfiction writing and reading. Which means that I'm writing this, the last chapter of a story that I found obscenely fun to write. Anyways, final comments (hopefully compliments) are greatly appreciated. Enjoy!
To say that the entire Sleeping Beauty fairy tale is a load of hogwash would seem to be, in most cases, entirely accurate. For one, the concept itself is far-fetched and merely an indulgence of what little girls dream of – or what they are meant to dream of- for when they get older. To think that a princess (which we no longer have) would be put under a sleeping spell (which only wizards have) until said princess has her true love's kiss (spells like that are nearly impossible to accomplish, and also serve no real purpose, in the long run) and said true love (who believes in true love anymore anyways?) has to fight a dragon (a dragon wouldn't stick around that long without food) to get to the top tower of the castle she's in (how have the Muggles not noticed this castle – or, for that matter, the dragon?). And don't even get me started on the business of the spinning wheel.
So you see, the entire concept is implausible, improbable, and downright ridiculous.
However. If you were to speak to Albus Dumbledore, he would tell you that while the Sleeping Beauty myth may seem implausible, improbably, and downright ridiculous, it hadn't stopped young love from blossoming between two people who had previously, if you'll pardon my lack of flowery words, hated each other's guts, through a sleeping spell of such a sort that was described earlier. Only there was no dragon, which was probably a good thing, because Draco Malfoy was a rather grudging "prince" and mostly likely wouldn't have fought a dragon to win Hermione Granger.
However. If you were to speak to Harry Potter, he would tell you that the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale is implausible, improbably, and downright ridiculous, and really it's just a faze Hermione is going through, or perhaps Draco Malfoy has drugged her in some, or she's merely recovering from her ordeal. It has absolutely nothing to do with soul mates in any way, shape, or form. Downright ridiculous, is what Harry Potter would say.
And if you were to attempt to speak to Ronald Weasley on the matter, you would find that he was most probably in hysterics or yelling obscenities and anyone and everyone who tried to talk to him, so it is probably not best to attempt to speak to Ronald Weasley on the matter.
However. If you spoke to Draco Malfoy, he would tell you to bugger off, most probably because he would be wooing said young love, Hermione Granger, or perhaps doing his homework, because deep down, Draco Malfoy really is a decent human being. But if you somehow managed to pry Draco away from his homework or his girlfriend, he would most likely tell you that no, he'd never had feelings for Hermione Granger before the entire Sleeping Beauty thing and, despite that it was ridiculous, it had happened, hadn't it? Somehow he and Granger – because he still does not refer to her as Hermione, nor does she refer to him as Draco under any circumstances – had found a way to lead a relatively happy and healthy relationship, and that's just how it is.
And if you spoke to Hermione Granger, she would tell you that the idea of eternal love was ridiculous, and that she didn't love Draco Malfoy, she merely liked him strongly, and she was happy she could. She'd spent such an awful long time without a young man who would act like a proper gentleman around her – because, though she loves Ron and Harry, they are just not gentleman – and she and Malfoy somehow connect, and that's just how it is.
