Draco Malfoy, the Amazing Bouncing... Rat?

Draco Malfoy, the Amazing Bouncing... Rat? is a Harry Potter fanfic by Maya. It is primarily Draco/Hermione and also contains Harry/Ginny and Ron/Cho. The title comes from Ron calling Draco "Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret" in Goblet of Fire.
Part of the story was originally published at FanFiction.net under the pseudonym "Sharon Armstrong" (which is, incidentally, not Maya's RL or profic name).See Draco Malfoy, the Amazing Bouncing... Rat? Plagiarized? and False alarm! (25 January 2006) at the Gumshoe007 Yahoo! Group. It was later posted in its entirety to FictionAlley and Lasair and Maya's Fanfiction and Ramblings, Maya's personal fic site.
Author's summary: Draco Malfoy, magically transformed into an evil rat. Who is it who always seems to get the evil rats as pets, and what is poor, poor Draco's new name? Eventually D/Hr, just now mainly D/coffee...
This story, along with Maya's other fics, was taken offline in November 2008 when Maya went pro.
== Epilogue ==
Maya wrote in October 2002:
:"If just one more person demands more of [Draco Malfoy, the Amazing Bouncing... Rat?] I'll rip out their hearts with my teeth. *vents* It is complete! I said so in the a/n! If they liked it so much, why didn't they read them? But now I'm writing an epilogue, just to make it clear as I feel it's all my fault now because I am weak, weak I tell you!"LiveJournal post by Maya, 18 October 2002.
Maya also reuploaded the final chapter of the story on Schnoogle with a new author's note stating:
:"This chapter has been resubmitted for the sole purpose of informing people that It Is Over. No more e-mails, no more inquiries, I'm very pleased you enjoyed it but I'd much prefer it if you'd pay me the compliment of acknowledging my ending. There is an epilogue (http://www.nasalley.org/stories/maya.htm) and I wrote it for charity, not because people asked for it. No current plans for a sequel, because really it has become the story that gets on my last nerve. Thank you to everyone who didn't ask for more and liked it, and please, please let everybody now know that it is finished."Author's note on a reuploaded version of "Draco Malfoy the Amazing Bouncing... Rat? (12)" at Schnoogle, as archived 15 September 2004.
The epilogue was posted to the Nas Alley website on April 6, 2003.NasAlley.org. Masterlist. (Archived 12 January 2004 by the Wayback Machine.)nasalley at LiveJournal. An update, an update, my kingdom for an update! 06 April 2003.reenka at DreamWidth. ~~don't mind me, just fic-links. 06 April 2003. (Accessed 26 July 2012.) It was not posted to FictionAlley with the rest of the story until February 25, 2007, several years after it was written,FictionAlley Park's Schnoogle Review Board. Maya: Draco Malfoy the Amazing Bouncing... Rat? > Chapter 13 - Epilogue. Dated 25 February 2007. Posting date also recorded at Maya's Fanlore page when the stories were still online. and does not seem to have ever been included at Lasair and Maya.Rec by elanor_x, posted 20 June 2007. (Accessed 20 June 2013.) WebCite. As such, many fans were initially unaware of the epilogue's existence, and many early recs for the story link separately to the epilogue at Nas Alley.See recs by naanima (23 July 2003), at Colour and Movement (undated), and at Unfit for Society (last updated 23 February 2004). Links point to <www.nasalley.org/stories/maya.htm> (now defunct).
The epilogue was included with the complete story in the The Complete Works of Maya, a PDF collection of her works that Maya made available for download before removing her work from the internet.
== Inspired Fanworks ==
File:HP To ask out coffee by periwinkle blue.jpg|To ask out ... coffee? by periwinkle-blue. A fanart interpretation of the final scene, in which Draco asks Hermione out, but gets distracted by coffee."To ask out ... coffee?" by periwinkle-blue - WebCite.
File:Draco's Love by periwinkle blue.jpg|Draco's ... er, Love by periwinkle-blue. Note the contrast between the foreground, showing Draco brightly lit gazing at a coffee cup, and the background, showing an impressionistic grey expanse of classroom and students (including Hermione in the upper right corner, the ostensible love interest). Thus, the composition emphasizes Draco's priorities."Draco's ... er, Love" by periwinkle-blue - WebCite.
File:Draco Malfoy is a Rat by Milady666.jpg|Draco Malfoy is a Rat by Milady666. Hermione with rat!Draco. Note that this art was posted in 2010, more than a year after Maya had taken the fic itself offline.
== Recs & Reviews ==
== References ==
Category:2002 Fanfiction‎
Category:Het Fanfiction