#drarry stuff

[mzuul]

WIP I’ll probably never finish

[quillicious]

secret kisses in 8th year 💋

[poxei]

an apology of sorts

[cat-alvarez]

The two voices in Harry's head, at all times:

[wisteria-lodge]

A List of All the Clothing Items Harry Potter Likes

(a list of all the clothing he doesn't like would be much, MUCH longer)

1. The Weird Sisters' Concert Outfits

"black robes that had been artfully ripped and torn"

2. Bill Weasley's Whole Look

Bill was — there was no other word for it — cool. He was tall, with long hair that he had tied back in a ponytail. He was wearing an earring with what looked like a fang dangling from it. Bill’s clothes would not have looked out of place at a rock concert, except that Harry recognized his boots to be made, not of leather, but of dragon hide.

A very unusual level of detail from Harry (normally only present when describing outfits he hates.) He's paying attention to the specific material of Bill's shoes, and seems to be drawn to a rock-and-roll sort of look.

3. The Cursed Opal Necklace

a magnificent necklace of opals, Caution: Do Not Touch. Cursed

4. Madame Maxime's Opal Necklace/Ring Set

many magnificent opals gleamed at her throat and on her thick fingers.

I guess Harry likes opals.

5. The Bulgarian Minister's World Cup Look

splendid robes of black velvet trimmed with gold

Harry has been known to be a bit of a magpie when it comes to gold things. Like snitches, and that solid gold cauldron Hagrid wouldn't let him buy, and that solid gold set of gobstones Hagrid also wouldn't let him buy.

6. Yaxley's Ministry of Magic Robes

magnificent, sweeping robes, which were embroidered with much gold thread.

+

a long-haired wizard wearing magnificent robes of black and gold

Yaxley's robes are apparently identical to the Bulgarian Minister's robes.

7. Mrs. Weasley's Gold Necklace

spectacular golden necklace

he likes gold things okay

8. Dumbledore's Start-of-Term-Feast Look

magnificent deep green robes embroidered with many stars and moons.

9. Dumbledore's Purple Velvet Dressing Gown

He was wearing a magnificently embroidered purple-and-gold dressing gown over a snowy-white nightshirt

10. Dumbledore's Purple Velvet Suit (Honorable Mention)

“Nice suit, sir,” said Harry, before he could stop himself, but Dumbledore merely chuckled

Honorable mention because of Harry not meaning to say that, and Dumbledore thinking the exchange is funny. Young!Dumbledore is wearing "flamboyant" head-to-toe plum velvet, and Harry is either being sarcastic, or trying very very hard not to say, "That's gay."

11. Slughorn's Funeral Look

magnificent, long, emerald green robes embroidered with silver. 

12. Draco's Dark Green Robes

a handsome set of dark green robes that glittered with pins around the hem and the edges of the sleeves

SO WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

~ Harry's style profile is either "rock star" or "elf prince"

~ He likes shiny things, and appreciates jewelry

~ I think his favorite color might be green?

~ Dumbledore can put together an outfit.

~ Harry should get some black-and-gold robes.

~ Harry prefers more of an "elf prince" look on Draco

[royaielfroot]

two academics (they both have too much trauma to ever pass auror training you guys) trying to find their place in a world that doesn't need them anymore

[may-chocolatte]

Harry stared at him, his lips twitching. “You’re so strange.”

“And you love it,” Draco sing-songed, patting Harry’s cheek. “Now carry me, gallant knight, to wherever you heroes take your damsels in distress.”

From JoDT series by @lilbeanz

[managone16]

"are you reading fanfiction?" the response i want to give: yes and what will you do about it? fuck off. the response that comes out: *switching tabs* no, i'm researching on——photos of paper clips?...

[frm9pm]

My wife and I were walking around the city and when we saw a dumbledore poster we immediately turned to each other and made this hand gesture LOL

[centaur-dreaming]

All fic writers have that one document in their drafts that would end their entire career, social life, everything if anyone irl were to find it

[bicholsdrarrysideblog]

I had the honour of participating in a Drarry Secret Santa and this is it!! @matredaen it was a JOY to draw for you and im really glad you liked it and aaaaa this was so fun!!!!!!! been wanting to do an 8th year something for a while uwu

look at it on ao3 here!

[blorger]

At the end of HBP, Harry takes quite a few creative licenses with the truth when he tells of Dumbledore's death and everything he learned atop the astronomy tower, and I think it's very interesting:

here he just leaves out everything's Draco admitted to and quickly puts all the Dumbledore-murdering blame on Snape. Like, it wouldn't take long to say "I was right and Malfoy was up to something" or "Malfoy was supposed to murder Dumbledore but couldn't do it in the end" but instead Draco's role in the whole fiasco gets minimised to an extreme degree, like here:

the matter of who imperiused Rosmerta is carefully left up in the air (though tbh I don't think Draco did it) and even the incidents with the cursed necklace and the poisoned mead are not tied to Draco. Adding "and the deatheaters" makes it seem like any one of them could be behind those plots when we know for sure they were both Draco originals; it feels like Harry uses deliberately vague language, especially since "Malfoy imperiused Rosmerta" or "that's how Malfoy got the mead into Hogwarts" would do just as well.

We know from DH that Harry specifically implicated Snape but the public doesn't seem to know of Draco's role in the whole thing

which, again, tells me that Harry did a fair bit of editing when relaying what he heard and saw that night, even to authorities. Is Harry acting intentionally in favor of Draco? in DH Harry is feeling more charitable towards Draco in general, has witnessing his uncertainty and desperation on the astronomy tower given Harry a new view of Draco?

[lucylichtenweg]

Author of a series/book/movie: *gives a bad/sad ending to a character*

Fanfiction Author: *puts away their sleep schedule*

Fanfiction Author: *gets their keyboard*

Fanfiction Authors: hold my eyelids because I will not sleep tonight. Not if I'm not done making my sunshine happy how they should be.

[thecouchsofa]

Something in the Orange

Draco/Harry | Rated E | 75k words - now complete 🧡

Summary:

Draco is sentenced to five years in Azkaban. Upon his release, life does not go on as expected.

Tags: POV Draco, Draco-centric, Non-Linear Narrative, Unreliable Narrator, Mutual Pining, Angst, Azkaban, Down and Out Draco, Heartbreak, Mental Health Issues, Emotional Repression, Undefined Relationships, Miscommunication, Harry/OCs, brief Draco/OMCs, Love Confessions, Erectile Dysfunction, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Referenced Switching, Bottom Harry, Angst with a Happy Ending

🧡 Click for the accompanying Spotify playlist 🧡

✨ Read on AO3 here ✨

[garagepaperback]

honeypot

9k words, explicit

“Draco." Harry caught him dull and quick around the wrist. He squeezed. He didn’t think, the feeling came off his tongue whole. “You’re not threatening to sue Hermione because I didn’t call you back?” “Fuck you,” Malfoy spat, face pink. Not pretty. A hasty, hungry rash slapped on in a rush. Harry dropped his wrist. It wasn’t about how he looked, at all. The acid in his tone tolled like a bell. Clear, true. The words—I didn’t know you were so sensitive—dented Harry’s tongue and he swallowed them down immediately. He did know. Of course he knew—Draco Malfoy was much more milk than porcelain: easy to ripple, to spill. It was new, dizzying information to understand that he cared. That he noticed if Harry didn’t.

read it on ao3

[wisteria-lodge]

I was trying to pin-point the place where the narration switches from "Malfoy / Draco Malfoy" to just "Draco"

(because at some point it does, he's 'Draco' in the epilogue.)

And I found some interesting stuff.

~ The book consistently uses 'Draco' during scenes that feature Lucius, or sentences that mention both Draco and Lucius together. This makes sense - up until Book 7 Lucius is "Mr. Malfoy" or "Lucius Malfoy" in the narration... and you don't want a "Malfoy" and a "Mr. Malfoy" in the same scene, that's just confusing.

(this is also probably why Voldemort calls all his Death Eaters by their last names during the graveyard scene... except Lucius. We're still firmly in Children's Lit, and if Voldemort had started addressing one of his Death Eaters as 'Malfoy' ... somebody would have gotten confused and thought that Draco was somehow there.)

~ The first scene that really commits to "Draco" in the narration is the opening of Book 7, where Voldemort is holding court in the Malfoy dining room. It's told in third person omniscient, and even though Lucius isn't doing much... it's a scene about Voldemort taking his wand (and his power) away from him. So there's a fun mis-match between the detached /objective narrator, who calls him "Malfoy" or "Lucius Malfoy," and Voldemort... who calls him "Lucius." The way the scene is written is telling us that he's being disrespected.

Draco is called "Draco" in this scene so we don't confuse him with his father... but maybe there's also a little implication that "Draco" is the most neutral thing to call him, and he's only "Malfoy" through Harry's eyes (ie the "Harry filter.") Still, using his first name like this during such an emotionally charged scene does have the side effect of bringing us a little emotionally closer to the character - especially during Charity Burbage's death, which is a beat that doesn't have anything to do with Lucius.

“And you, Draco?” asked Voldemort, stroking the snake’s snout with his wand-free hand. Draco shook his head jerkily. Now that the woman had woken, he seemed unable to look at her anymore. (...) “Avada Kedavra.” The flash of green light illuminated every corner of the room. Charity fell, with a resounding crash, onto the table below, which trembled and creaked. Several of the Death Eaters leapt back in their chairs. Draco fell out of his onto the floor.

~ The bit where Draco tortures Rowle is the first time when Harry's narration uses "Draco" (in a scene that has nothing to do with Lucius.) We actually watch the switch happen:

A log fell in the fire: Flames reared, their light darting across a terrified, pointed white face — with a sense of emerging from deep water, Harry drew heaving breaths and opened his eyes. (...) Malfoy’s gaunt, petrified face seemed branded on the inside of his eyes. Harry felt sickened by what he had seen, by the use to which Draco was now being put by Voldemort.

~ He's "Draco" all through the scene in Malfoy Manor... and of course he is, Lucius Malfoy is massively important to that scene. But since by now we've had a little moment of "Draco" from Harry, and from the narration (and he's "Draco" during the whole bit with the prisoners in the cellar, which Lucius isn't there for...) I think that this writing choice (unintentionally?) implies... an emotional connection from Harry, that wouldn't be there if his narration stuck to "Malfoy." Like here are two sentences that I think would read very differently if Harry's narration used "Malfoy" instead of "Draco."

Harry did not dare look directly at Draco, but saw him obliquely: a figure slightly taller than he was, rising from an armchair, his face a pale and pointed blur beneath white-blond hair.

Harry saw Draco’s face up close now, right beside his father’s. They were extraordinarily alike, except that while his father looked beside himself with excitement, Draco’s expression was full of reluctance, even fear.

~ Harry calls the wand he uses to defeat Voldemort "the hawthorn wand" a couple of times... but MOSTLy he thinks of it as "Draco's Wand." Including at like, the moment he's actually defeating Voldemort:

Harry heard the high voice shriek as he too yelled his best hope to the heavens, pointing Draco’s wand: “Avada Kedavra!” “Expelliarmus!”

I think the Doylist reason for this is to help the reader understand the (pretty confusing) chain of events that leads to Harry being the master of the Elder Wand.... but in the moment, that's a ton of emotional weight for Harry to be giving the name "Draco."

~ There is this interesting little moment where Harry calls Draco "Malfoy" out loud... but "Draco" in his head:

“Not [your wand] anymore,” panted Harry, tightening his grip on the hawthorn wand. “Winners, keepers, Malfoy. Who’s lent you theirs?” “My mother,” said Draco.

So it seems we've got a little conflict going. Maybe Harry doesn't have the same relationship with Draco that he used too... but is a little uncomfortable letting Draco know that. Actually, the only time Harry just calls him "Draco" in dialogue is when... he's talking to Voldemort.

“I got there first. I overpowered Draco weeks ago.”

(draco behind a pillar having an out-of-body experience because really potter? did you HAVE to phrase it like THAT?)

~ Interestingly, Harry's narration switches back to "Malfoy" during the Fiendfyre scene. This might be to make Draco more of an intentional pair with Crabbe and Goyle ('Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle' is a construction the books love.) Or maybe it's to reflect Ron and Hermione's perspective? Backpedal a bit on the implied Harry/Draco emotional closeness? Because... lemme just show you what this scene looks like if I swap out "Malfoy" with "Draco"

Draco saw him coming and raised one arm, but even as Harry grasped it he knew at once that it was no good. “Don’t kill him! DON’T KILL HIM!” Draco yelled at Crabbe and Goyle, who were both aiming at Harry [Ron] and Hermione dragged Goyle onto their broom and rose, rolling and pitching, into the air once more as Draco clambered up behind Harry. Draco was screaming and holding Harry so tightly it hurt.

~ And then, in their last real interaction, the names are all over the place:

Draco was on the upper landing, pleading with another masked Death Eater. Harry Stunned the Death Eater as they passed: Malfoy looked around, beaming, for his savior, and Ron punched him from under the Cloak. Malfoy fell backward on top of the Death Eater, his mouth bleeding, utterly bemused. “And that’s the second time we’ve saved your life tonight, you two-faced bastard!” Ron yelled.

All I can think here is that it's "Draco" when the narration is focusing on Harry's experience... and "Malfoy" when it's focusing on Ron's.