Drarry on AO3

Sometime in March 2021, AO3 very generously released a data dump of all the fics on its site. With this data release, I’m finally able to revisit the very first ship that got me into fandom so many years ago - Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy (Drarry).

Drarry - I think - really was a pretty pivotal ship in shaping a fair amount of fandom as we know it today. And there’s something so thrillingly expansive and beautiful about the ship itself. I think Drarry is bolstered by a certain amount of canon believability that writers and readers can ascribe to it.

I’ve gone through many ships, but none have ever drawn me back as much as Drarry has been able to. So - I’m really happy to be able to work with this data to have a look at this very long, storied, yet still-growing ship.

Available analyses:

  1. Finding tropes through tags
  2. Freeform tag associations to fic ratings