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The Department of Perfect Timing

for @drarrymicrofic prompt: adoption | tw: mentions of child abuse | nsfw: mentions of blow jobs | ao3 link

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Potter has a habit of showing up in Draco’s life at the absolute worst possible moments, except for that one time when he pulled Draco from the Fiendfyre or that other time when he arrived late to Luna’s karaoke birthday party and Draco was already unbutton-all-of-the-buttons-on-his-shirt drunk and they dueted You’re the One-Eyed Newt for Me and then Potter blew him in the bathroom. Don’t tell anyone, but Draco wanks to that memory almost daily.

But Potter turning up frenetic and wet to the Department of Magical Family Matters and Nonmagical Emotional Affairs at the very tail-end of Draco’s first day? Awful timing. Draco’s spent eight endless hours listening to people who’ve never bet on familial love and lost discuss the bullshit legal definition of family, and the robe Pansy loaned him fits all wrong, and there’s a hole in his shoe. He’s tired, and now Potter is here, dripping rainwater all over the paperwork Draco just finished organizing.

“I want to adopt a child. Today, if possible.” Awful timing. When Draco’s in charge of the department, he’ll cut all sorts of corners for Potter just to show him he can. Also, he’ll color-code the filing system and send lots of howlers that preach angry sermons about non-traditional family units. But Draco’s only a secretary at the moment, only here because Theo Nott hates owing Draco a life debt more than he hates Draco. Which means, realistically, there’s not much Draco can do other than his bullshit job.

“Are you married?”

Potter sputters. “What? No.”

“Don’t be so —“ Draco doesn’t exactly know what he’s trying to say so he just gestures generally to the other man. “It’s just a segue so I can tell you that you can’t do anything in this department if you’re not married. Thou shalt not adopt a crup if thee be single. I’m only kidding a little bit. The phrasing’s a joke, but that’s a real law.”

“Does that change if he’s muggleborn? He only just got his Hogwarts letter.”

Draco didn’t know Potter was friendly with any muggle children, but also it doesn’t matter. “It doesn’t matter. If you’re married, you can do whatever you want. If you’re not, you can’t. It’s a ridiculous antiquated law that reduces complicated affairs to a fucking yes or no question.”

“Is there. Any way around that?” Potter’s eyes are closed; each word deliberate, pleading, fierce, painful. A lion politely warning you it will kill you if you don’t remove the thorn from its paw now.

“The legislation is uncharacteristically clear. Only couples shall be permitted the joy and challenge of a child. That’s a direct quote. Isn’t it horrible? Of course, you could always pretend. Get married, adopt, wait a nonsuspicious amount of time, divorce, celebrate a triumphant return to bachelorhood by retaining legal custody.”

“All of my friends are married. Except for Luna and she’s … preoccupied these days.” With muggle hallucinogens, Pansy and walking around her apartment naked, none of which are especially appropriate for a child. “Malfoy, please. Can you pull some strings? It’s my cousin’s kid. They haven’t been feeding him.”

Don’t tell anyone, but it’s the please that does it.

“I’ll marry you.”

“What.” Somehow, even the water Potter splashes on Draco’s desk is incredulous.

“I can’t change the law, but I do work here. I can streamline the process. We can get married in the morning, file the paperwork after and pick up the child by tomorrow evening.”

He casts a drying charm so he has something to do other than feel disgustingly exposed while he waits for Potter’s answer.

“Why would you offer to do something like that?”

Because there’s a child in a home he doesn’t fit in. Because you called yourself untethered and then blew me in a bathroom. Because you said please, Draco thinks, and then tries hard not to think and says, “I need somewhere to stay. I’ll help you with this if you get me off of Luna’s couch.”

“This had better not be a joke.”

“Merlin, of course not. A child’s life is at stake.”

The hard line of Potter’s mouth softens just a little bit. “Do you have any experience with kids?”

“I took care of Teddy for a month while I was staying with Andromeda.”

He was great at it too, even if Teddy kept on asking him why he cried so much and Draco had never figured out a polite way to say that he kept seeing flashes of his mother in Andromeda’s face.

Potter nods. “Alright. Just until we get him out of my cousin’s house. Errr … thanks. This is … good of you.”

“When can I move into your place?” Draco asks. Now that it’s happening, he wants it to have already happened. He wants to go to the zoo with Potter and the kid, wants late night talks after the kid has gone to sleep. Hopefully, the boy’s named after a constellation, though actually Draco’s been burnt off the Black family tapestry already, so he doesn’t have any obligation to have celestial-themed offspring anymore. He’s always liked the name Micah, maybe the kid will too? The name change process is considerably less complicated than the adoption process. You can basically rename yourself anything as long as it has less than six Z’s.

Potter shrugs, smiles sheepishly. “Is now a good time?”

Draco only has 8 galleons, two friends and a job he hates. There’s a hole in his shoe, and a storm outside. It’s the worst time, but maybe the best time, actually?

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Dronarry fest fic: Tier Jerkers

Title: Tier Jerkers Creator: @maesterchill Type: Fic Wordcount/length: 16k Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Tags: Baker Draco Malfoy, Cake Designer Draco Malfoy, wedding cakes, Getting Together, Misunderstandings, Deception, Jealousy, Pining, Drinking, Threesome, Ron Weasley Has a Large Cock Pairing: Draco/Ron/Harry

Any way you sliced it, Potter and Weasley's behaviour really took the cake.

Read Tier Jerkers on AO3!

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Dronarry Fest 2025 | Week Two Roundup

Week two done! Remember to give our wonderful creators love with your kudos and comments ❤️ We'll be back on Monday!

PODFIC

🚲 Bike Dream by @dodgerkedavra | E | @cailynwrites

Draco’s going to learn to ride a bike if it’s the last thing he does.

I’ve been listening to this on my commute to and from work and it’s been delightful! Love your narration and how you voice all the characters. Just beautiful! - @erin-orolin

I’m only on chapter two but your voice is clear and wonderful, and the life and love you have brought to this story are audible. Can’t wait to listen to the rest! ❤️🎉 - @chiquita-3

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FIC

🎇 the lonesome crowded west | E | @garagepaperback

A western romance featuring: a magical rodeo, sunsets in Utah, a dragon named Pill-bug, stolen beer and paper plate dinners, pining, Ron Weasley as a barebacking cowboy, a constantly shoe-less Draco Malfoy, and a too-much, two-palms-full sort of love.

this was a little sun kissed masterpiece. how did you even do this? the tension of harry’s want—felt it in every beat. deserts, heat, dragons bucking, FIREWORKS— big gay monuments of desire just making it all so enormous. and an incredible crescendo followed by such a balm of peace and calm. i loved this so much! - @twnkwlf-writes

ohh I loved this, absolute perfection! The tension between them 🫠 and your writing is always so vivid. So good! - @erin-orolin

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🍻 One More Round | E | @erin-orolin

Draco last saw Potter three years ago, when he disappeared off to New York with Draco’s crushed heart in hand. Potter’s back—but things in London are different now. Draco and Ron quit the Aurors, opened a pub together, and basically became each other’s new best friend. Draco’s determined to keep his head this time. No falling for Potter’s friendliness, or his tactile nature, and definitely no flirting. Absolutely no sex… honestly.

Love this so much! ❤️ It was just the perfect thing to re-read when my jetlag woke me up at three am lol They're so soft and sweet with each other and you know Ron's and Draco's friendship in this is just one of my absolute favourite things! - @willowingscribe

Aaahhhh 😩 I’ll never get over your fics. Doesn’t matter the pairing, the tropes, the content, I’m always addicted and left amazed. This was so cozy and hot and everyone’s characterizations were stunning. - SweetheartAurora

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🖋️ Reach Out And Touch Faith | M | @the_prettiest_w0lf_star

Where did this book come from? Did my mother send this to me? She said before returning to Hogwarts that I should start writing a journal and that it might help me. I don't know how this works exactly and I'm pretty sure I like to do this, but if I don't get it out soon, I'll scream. So here goes nothing.

Aah I loved this!! Such an original way to show the relationship between these three! And it was so fun too, I loved their banter, the intermissions with the letters, AND THAT ENDING WAS PERFECT OMG I was laughing and squealing what a delight, thank you for sharing !! - @galaxostars

oi! this was an absolutely delightful story! I am a sucker for the banter, for the romance of it all, the way that they're very them throughout it - shewritesmaybe

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🧖‍♂️ Uncovering the myth | E | @galaxostars

Draco has heard the rumours: Ron is packing one down there. He's obsessed with finding out the truth, Harry never hears the end of it. But will Draco succeed in his investigations? And how?

Oh my god. That… was horny. Horniest fic award and also horny jail for you 😂😂 this was full of hot shenanigans, delicious pining, juicy drama, and an oral fixation kink I hope Draco never kicks. Sheesh! Also shout out to both Harry and Draco sitting on Ron’s thighs. After this fest, I’m going to need that as a Dronarry staple because it’s so good! Amazing writing and storytelling, you’ve absolutely nailed your prompt (pun intended) - @schmem14

This is kind of the best thing I’ve read all year… AND ITS STILL MARCH!! The way you write them is so *chefs kiss* so so in love with all three of them in your writing! May have ignited something in me related to Draco’s fixation… can’t get it out of my mind! Love it so much - princewolfgang

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100% angst

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it's important to have bits that aren't good and also nobody likes and also aren't funny

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I had someone on another app *direct message* me to ask for recs with ONLY top!character bc (I quote) 'most have [other character] as the top and that makes me uncomfortable.'

And I wanted so badly to respond 'please go have actual sex and stop worrying about fictional top/bottom dynamics.' Instead I just told them that was a weird thing to ask/tell a stranger on the internet.

not to be mean but many times when i see discourse in this fandom about how which character’s doing what during sex means certain things about who’s being masculine versus feminine all i can think is just. well to be honest i don’t think many of you are having sex.

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you don’t have a girlfriend then🙋❓💁🏼‍♀️ no ❌ not really my area 🗺️🚫 oh right 👀🤨 do you have a boyfriend 🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓ which is fine by the way ✅✅✅🙂‍↕️✅🌈❤️ i know it’s fine 🤨😶🫢🫥 🫠👀😶🧍🧍so you’ve got a boyfriend then ✅👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 no ❌🙅 right ➡️ okay 👌🏻 you’re unattached 🫵🏻❌💍 like me 🥰😅👀🫥 good 🙂‍↕️👌🏻

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no matter what your most embarrassing moment in life is, at least it’s not having fucking chat gpt write fanfic for you bc you’re too lazy to do it yourself

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Mister Rogers

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I think a significant part of this whole neo-Victorian sexual moral panic is down to the fact that society en masse simply isn't prepared to confront the incomprehensible nature of what the average person gets off to. Since time immemorial, normal people have been getting off to weird, gross shit in the privacy of their own heads. With the internet giving us mass, unfiltered access to each others' raw sexual expression, we're all just freaking each other out.

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The implications of how the Death Eaters' side react to Draco during the Battle of Hogwarts chapter are so interesting. First we have Voldemort immediately suggesting that Draco has run off to "befriend Harry Potter" when Draco goes missing.

Then we have the scene where Draco gets cornered by a fellow Death Eater who seems to not believe that Draco is on his side, even though he must certainly know who Draco is, so it can't be a mere case of mistaken identity, and seems set on attacking or even killing Draco until Harry intervenes.

And THEN Narcissa just assumes that Harry will know not only whether Draco is ok but also where he is.

This is. Wild. Absolutely wild. What happened between Harry's escape from the Manor and the final battle?

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same anon here, yes I meant fics related to art please!

Thank you! Great prompt, I couldn’t stop at 3 🤡

Matching Pair by @the-starryknight

Harry Potter was possibly the last person Draco had expected to find standing at the foot of his favorite portrait at the Tate Magique.

Truth to Materials by lately, @toomuchplor

In which Harry learns to appreciate art and other pleasures of the flesh.

where all the veins meet by @saxamophone

It's the summer of 1998. The battle is over, and Voldemort is dead, but Harry still has more questions than answers. Who is he without a piece of Voldemort's soul in his head? What is he supposed to do now?

À Bon Chat by @oknowkiss

Draco Malfoy didn’t intend to lead a life of crime after the war. It’s just that being good had turned out so incomprehensibly boring.

Fine-Fractured Halo by @rainjulyx

For Harry, it all starts on July 31, 1999 and ends on July 31, 2019. Twenty years of longing, love, and pain in no particular order.

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Come back, I have to tell you the plot of a fic I’ll never write and get you excited about it so we can all be disappointed with me later

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these people have been awake for days, risking their lives to keep us all safe during this unimaginable time, and i am so, so grateful. i'm also deeply grateful to the firefighters from other states (i know washington and oregon have sent people, and i'm sure other states have too) and the firefighters who have flown in from mexico (which is like, way nicer than they have to be, given the way a large percentage of our country speaks about their country/people -- extra shoutout to the firefighters from mexico tbh) to help our exhausted firefighters.

los angeles is an amazing city with many tight-knit communities and it has been devastating to watch it burn. in the face of disaster, we've come together with incredible numbers of volunteers and so many donations that places have literally had to turn them away. it's been so emotionally overwhelming to see how much we all love each other here, and how much we all love this city. if you'd like to help support mutual aid in los angeles, you can visit @/mutualaidla on instagram for more information.

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@hd-erised fic claim: The Pain From an Old Wound (T, 30K)

Getting hit with a mysterious blood curse is all in a day’s work for Harry Potter. Having to work with his former colleague, rival, bully, and boyfriend, is not. Harry’s not sure which is going to do him in first: the curse sucking his magic dry, or Draco Malfoy, as frustrating, condescending, and painfully attractive as he’s always been.

Read it on Ao3

I wrote this fic as a gift for @sharperthan, whose prompts of getting back together and Draco showing Harry the finer points of wizarding culture turned into curse-breaking exes-to-lovers by way of Jane Austen. Thank you for being such a dream giftee!

@wolfpants read three very different versions of this fic and enthusiastically discussed and diligently edited every single one of them. @hoko-onchi-writes supported me both editorially and emotionally throughout. thank you @oknowkiss and @kittycargo for the cheering when I really needed it. And thank you so much to the incredible mods, @epitomereally, @nv-md, and @thehoneybeet, for making my first year doing erised so much fucking fun and for all of your work on this incredible fest. Thanks to everyone who read this fic and told me about it with your comments and your kudos ❤️���️

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We're blessed with a truly insane number of fests in this fandom. Mindboggling. Insert the 'Draco Fucks Harry On A Rainy Thursday Outside A Coffee Shop And A Pigeon Watches Fest' textpost here. It was absurdly hard to narrow down a rec for this one, so I'm doing two: A Pulled Down Shade by @fastbrother and The Boys of Summer by @saxamophone. There are dual threads of melancholy and hope running through both of these stories and they will both stick with you long after you've finished reading 🤍🩵

A Pulled Down Shade: Draco/Harry | Rated M | 43k words

Summary:

Harry does not like Draco Malfoy, not even one bit. Never did and never will. That is, until he finds himself married to him.

Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Soulmates, Pining, Angst with a Happy Ending, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Emotionally Repressed Harry, Harry fights for Draco, Glimpse Fic, HP Soulmates Fest 2023

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The Boys of Summer: Draco/Harry | Rated E | 19k words

Summary:

It's summer, and they're spending it at a lake, far away from everything. There’s swimming and a floating dock, cracked and warm in the sun. Fizzy drinks and fireflies. Sticky strawberry ice lollies and beach towels tangled under them. Harry’s golden skin and love for The Grateful Dead and Fleetwood Mac. Draco Malfoy is doomed, but what else is new?

Tags: Summer Romance, Pining, Nonlinear Narrative, Lakeside Cabin, International/Overseas Location (USA), H/D Wireless 2023

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