lobelia321 | otp in canon

Evidence for t'otp in canon is thin on the ground. As far as I remember, this is the only passage which even mentions the two together:

"My father's next door buying my books and mother's up the street looking at wands," said the boy. He had a bored, drawling voice. "Then I'm going to drag them off to look at racing brooms. I don't see why first-years can't have their own. I think I'll bully father into getting me one and I'll smuggle it in somehow."

Harry was strongly reminded of Dudley.

Or am I perhaps missing another Very Important Passage elsewhere? The one where Draco falls breathlessly into Dudley's brawny arms?

Meh, I say. I bet if I played the CD backwards, this scene would reveal itself in all its glory.

Oh, and just in case you missed it the last time round:

Harry/Dudley in canon:

OOTP, chapter 1:

'Think you're a big man carrying that thing, don't you?' Dudley said after a few seconds.
'What thing?'
That — that thing you are hiding.'

Yes, I know they're supposed to be talking about wands... and a wand doesn't have anything at all to do with any part of anybody's anatomy that might be hidden and confer on you the confidence that you are a big man. Not at all. Zilch.

And then there's the pillow talk and the moaning:

'...Is his ickle boxing champ frightened of nasty Harry's wand?'

'Not this brave at night, are you?' sneered Dudley.

'This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.'

'I mean when you're in bed!' Dudley snarled.
He had stopped walking. Harry stopped too, staring at his cousin.
[...]
'What d'you mean, I'm not brave when I'm in bed?' said Harry, completely nonplussed. 'What am I supposed to be frightened of, pillows or something?'

'I heard you last night,' said Dudley breathlessly. Talking in your sleep. Moaning.'

Dudley = breathless. Dudley = remembering Harry's moans. Slashy or what???!!

And then Dudley starts talking about homosexuality, I kid you not:

' "Don't kill Cedric! Don't kill Cedric!" Who's Cedric — your boyfriend?'

So I do realise that the canonical evidence for Dudley/Harry is much stronger than that for Dudley/Draco. But hey-ho, since when have I been a slave to canon?

(I first posted this in August.)