#drarryfic

[the-colourful-witch]

The Accountability Project I made this cover for @youhavemyswordandmybow for their wonderful Drarry fic. It's a post-war, eighth-year story, told from Draco's pov. I loved the story and working on this cover was a treat! You can find the story here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51427837 Enjoy!

[threadingfate7]

Not a minute later the door opens again, sending the silver bell chiming. Draco Malfoy steps inside.

Harry frowns, carefully scanning Malfoy for any clues to his disappearance. This is the last anyone saw of him, after all. And it’s the first Harry has seen of Malfoy since the Battle of Hogwarts. The description in the file was right, at least, but Harry supposes they took the details direct from this memory. The weak sunlight, filtering through the narrow windows, catches on the tiny clasp of Malfoy’s black travelling cloak. A silver snitch, Harry thinks with closer inspection, no bigger than the fingernail of Harry’s index finger.

“How may I help you?” the shopkeeper says stiffly. Malfoy glances at him.

“I am in need of an owl. Speed is less important than accuracy.” - Running On Air (Chapter 1) by eleventy7

art by threadingfate (me) <3

[drarryficrecsbasement]

Chapters: 10/10 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley Characters: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Narcissa Malfoy, Molly Weasley, Arthur Weasley, Kingsley Shacklebolt, George Weasley, OMC, OFC Additional Tags: Physical Disability, Angst, Healing, Hurt/Comfort, Healer Draco Malfoy, Depression, Longing, Domesticity, dubious medical ethics, Romance, Post-War, HP: EWE, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Rimming, Complete, Dating, Falling In Love, Disability Summary:

When Harry sustains an injury in the line of work, he no longer knows how to navigate the life he loved, and finds help and solace from the most unexpected source.

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Despising Draco Malfoy - Chapter 64: Home

In which Draco proves that he ALWAYS gets what he wants, and "no" is not an answer he will accept.

‘I’ve got about five minutes before McGonagall figures out where I am and kicks my arse,’ Draco says, his voice hard and rough as he glowers down at Harry. ‘So I’m going to say something and you are going to shut the fuck up and pay attention, because I don’t have time to repeat myself.’

[stephinahole]

Chapter 2 is out in the wild

[narcissa-black-supermacy]

love your thoughts about how people are giving regulus sirius' traits! i also feel like there's this drarryfication of jegulus happening in the fandom right now. i've seen so many posts lately being like "how did i never ship drarry, they are literally jegulus" or "same ship, different fonts" and i just... disagree? completely? like, yeah, there are similarities obviously but if you actually think about it just a little bit further than the surface level "potter boy dates slytherin who at one point was a death eater" they're entirely different

Hey there hayati <3 i told myself "keep this short" but ended up writing an entire character analysis so please excuse me for this. I highlighted my key thoughts with bold, if you dont want to read everything.

Tbh I haven't seen as much "drarryfiction" of Jegulus, but maybe that's because I barely engage with the Jegulus fandom at all anymore, so I don't see it.

There are some similarities, and I do like when people draw parallels (especially seeing how Draco is a Black as well), but not beyond anything superficial.

Drarry is by far much more nuanced and developed than Jegulus (it wasn't always like this, I remember when Drarry was also unbearably cringey and obnoxious - sadly most people remember them by that - but it's gone a long way since). James and Regulus have the potential to be even more than that, but from the fics I read, the fandom still has a long way to go with them.

Draco and Regulus are actually more similar than most people think, I wish people would let Regulus be a snobbish, arrogant, cocky jerk like Draco is allowed to be in Drarry. But I also think that Regulus would be so much smarter than him (I mean-- it took Draco a whole year to figure out how that closet [forgot the name] he let the DEs through worked, he's not exactly bright, yknow what I mean?; while Reg canonically figured out the Horcrux thing by himself, the only person other than him being Dumbledore and his 'gang').

Also while I do think that Regulus is much more arrogant and self confident than most portray him to be, it would be in a radically different way from Draco, who was raised as the only long-awaited son by Lucius and Cissy, who obviously spoiled him into oblivion. Reg on the other hand had a stricter upbringing, I think he would be more elegant about it, less "my father will hear about this" and more "do you know who I am?". I think he wouldn't necessarily go out of his way to "bully" anyone, but if someone looked at him the wrong kind of way, he would hex them on spot.

Another key difference is that Draco, the way we see it, was very much pressured and forced to take the Mark. I don't think he was willingly seeking out any "power" beyond simple school bullying. Reg, on the other hand? And that's one of my biggest pet peeves - how in so many fics Regulus is literally forced to take it by Walburga and Orion. While from every existing implication in canon, it's pretty clear that he was actively seeking out some kind of power in the war (in combination with the desire to provide security and safety to himself and his family).

But overall, I think the main difference between Drarry vs Jegulus is in Harry (vs James), not in Draco. Harry comes from the muggle world (vs James who comes from a known pure blooded family), from relative poverty (vs James who comes from riches), from an abusive home (vs James whos the only one in his friend group w a stable home life), from a position of having the "chosen one" title shoved down his throat without asking (vs James who seeks out glory). Harry is very introverted (James is loud and confident, surrounded by people), Harry is not very good w people (James is the life of the party), Harry just wants people to leave him alone in peace (James led all of his friends to join the Order and fight in the war). Harry was forced into the life he had while James chose it. In a way, Drarry both were forced into their fate, while in Jegulus they both actively chose it.

James -and maybe its an unpopular opinion but- is also a very underdeveloped character, even more so than Regulus (he was written for years as a side character with Lily to Wolfstar, and hasn't gotten any "main character" spotlight up until recently, so maybe he just didn't have the time yet?). He is often reduced to being the "golden retriever mum friend" (?) and often feels like a supporting character, even in fics where he's supposed to be the main lead character/narrator? (what?)

In this sense I do wish Jegulus was more like Drarry because in the latter, I feel like at this point in fandom, after so many years, both Draco and Harry get equal amount of attention to their issues. In Jegulus it feels like...James is just kind of there to be Reg's therapist? He is there to "fix him" while getting nothing in return?

James' main negative traits, in my opinion, are that he is very hypocritical, self-righteous and also the only one in his circle with the real privilege to see the world as strictly black and white (which in canon also eventually leads to his death). I think Regulus and Lily are both good for him in the sense that they force him to see the world in a more nuanced light. I want to see Jegulus where just like James explains to Reg "hey those words your mates are using? thats not cool", Reg also, in return, explains to James "hey people arent just bad and good, its more complicated than that".

Moving on, I also think that while Drarry is a proper "enemies to lovers" trope, Jegulus aren't really enemies right away. They do have negative opinions of e/o at first, but it's deeper and more personal than that. In James' eyes, Regulus is his best mate's little brother, who stands for all those things that hurt Sirius; in Reg's eyes, James is the guy who took Sirius from them.

This is another trope I hate in Jegulus fics - how James seems to like Reg straight away, while Regulus is wary of him at first - if anything, it would be the OPPOSITE. I can absolutely see Regulus interacting with James one-on-one for the first time and being like "hmmm Sirius might be onto something with that Potter guy" but James would NEVER like Regulus right away, it quite literally goes against everything he believes in.

This is why I think Jegulus is good for James (better than any other ship), because it's the ONLY dynamic in which he is forced to face himself and everything he was raised on and kind of re-evaluate his world view. I absolutely see James and Lily (in a reality where Jegulus is a thing and Lily find out about it) sitting down and Lily being like "hey you sure you're not doing the exact same thing you told me I was doing with Snape?" and James absolutely freaking about about it.

bonus rant feat. snape:

(and when you think about- yes, Jegulus and Snily actually have a whole lot of common. I already said this one on here and was absolutely butchered for it but I will say it again - Snily and Jegulus are awfully similar. James(/Lily) ignoring how all of Regulus'(/Snape's) surrounding and close friends are pure blood supermacists and wannabe death eaters; James(/Lily) ignoring how despite Reg(Snape) suffering, he is insistent on staying in the same place he is in (his family) and not changing anything to get out; James (Lily) justifying Regulus'(Snape's) bad deeds by telling himself that he had (has) a rough childhood and he "can fix him"; James (Lily) ignoring Regulus'(Snape's) hostile behavior towards his (her) friends in favor of a "better" version of Regulus (Snape) that only exists when he's alone with James (Lily); James and Lily both ignoring every red flag in existence until they are forced to look at the actual Dark Mark on their arm.

Regulus is actually more similar to Snape in a lot of ways than the fandom would like to admit - Reg would dislike him at first out of a "who does that nameless half-blood think he is, challenging me like that" place, but ultimately, I think they have more things in common than apart. Both followed the Dark Lord seeking power only to later turn on him, both had people they still cared for on the other side (Lily; Sirius), both had the "young mad scientist" vibes (seeing how Reg found out about the Horcruxes, I assume he was also messing with Dark Magic and spell creation at a young age like Snape))

[raisinchallah]

merthur is the drarryfication of the k/s dynamic but then aos bounced back with their own name brand drarryfied spirk

[steampunkserpent27]

Voices

For @hp-fearfest ’s prompt haunted house.  CW: slight spookiness and the attempted murder of a plant.  “Draco.” Draco lifted his head from his reading,” Yeah?” Harry must be home. After no response he raised his voice,” Yeah, Harry?!” Sighing, he set his book down and got up to go find him. The entrance hall was empty and so was the kitchen. “Harry?” It was then that he noticed the clock. Harry wasn’t due home for another three hours. It was just him. He must be hearing things. An hour later it happened again. “Hi.” Draco again, looked up from his reading expecting to see Potter coming home and froze when he saw the time. What was going on? Deciding that he no longer wanted to sit in the living room he grabbed his book and climbed the stairs that led to their shared bedroom. Hopping onto the bed he shook himself out of it. He was just tired. That had to be it. He was sure if he got some sleep all of this would go away. Draco awoke to Harry gently caressing his face,” Hey, sleepyhead.” He said with a bright smile. “Hey.” He mumbled back, completely forgetting about his earlier worries. “What happened to your plant?” Harry asked innocently. “My plant?” Draco was now sitting up, his eyes darting to the windowsill that had held his aloe vera. His poor plant was now sprawled across the floor, dirt spilling out of the pot,” Oh no.” He dumped as much of the soil back into the plastic container as possible and then carefully buried the exposed roots. He’d been taking care of it for months. He really liked that plant. Of course, Harry teased him for it but it gave him something to do while he was alone. Harry placed his hand on his shoulder,” I’m sure it’ll be fine.” Draco carefully placed it on the windowsill and pushed it as far back as it could go,” Yeah, maybe.” Later that night Draco was lying awake in bed, tucked against the nook of Harry’s arm. It was warm and he was extremely sleepy. “Draco.” “Hmm?” he mumbled, shifting so he could look up at Harry. He felt a shiver run up his spine when he saw that he was fast asleep.

[synonymsandcinnamon]

drarry fic where Harry has the three kids and Draco has scorpius and they both move to a neighborhood in godricks hallow I think and Harry teaches Draco like how to include scorp in cooking and they have like gryffinfor pasta and the kids all have sleepovers and the adults have *sleepovers*

[cannibalschism]

Fly is a slow burn, POV Draco, smutty, angsty, silly, heartfelt, action-packed, professional quidditch players Drarry that I promise you will enjoy! 

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REWRITEPARAGRAPH WIP

Here is an update and summary of the works in progress I have currently;

REST IN SILENCE  (Uncompleted, on Ao3)

Harry agrees to an Armistice settlement with Voldemort in which he is collateral. Living together unearths a new and strange tension between them; an obsession that cannot be ignored. All of this, and Harry finds a new threat in Death – and it is hungry.

Tags: tomarry, love-to-hate, enemies-to-lovers, dark, violent, seduction, word games, tension, drama, angst, pining, sex, sexuality, internalised homophobia, confusion, duelling, death, Master of Death, The Deathly Hallows, trapped, moral ambiguity.

THE SICK ROSE

It’s a bad day when even the Saviour of the Wizarding world wants you dead.

Draco is accused of killing Charlie Weasley at the Battle of Hogwarts, and as far as the Wizarding world is concerned, he’s a dead man walking.

After finding his parents dead by their own hands, public disgrace and humiliation, Draco finds himself in a dark place.

Desperate for a way out, no matter what form it takes, Draco is saved by a potion in Severus’ journals that promises to change his face and body into anything he desires.

He promises himself that he will enjoy himself a little before he joins his parents, but will the promise of his alter ego ‘Andrew Hope’, and the way that Potter looks at him in his new skin, prove too much?

Tags: drarry, dark fic, suicide ideation, self-harm, identity crisis, body dysmorphia, self-hatred, pining, unrequited love (at first), Polyjuice Potion (sort of), disguise, psychosis, identity issues, mental health issues, bullying, harassment, violence, secrets, denial, revelation.

DIRT

Harry hunts the Horcruxes alone. After breaking into Hogwarts over Summer and viewing the rest of Dumbledore’s memories, Harry is armed with new knowledge about his task and the loyalties of those around him. Memories reveal that Tom Riddle was a brilliant student and capable of great acts of kindness before he sought the create his horcruxes. He learns that Dumbledore had originally planned to save Tom Riddle and his soul pieces but had run out of time to find a solution after becoming cursed. Upon learning this, the Horcrux within Harry is disarmed and reveals its knowledge to Harry – and an affinity for wild magic previously unknown to him.

Now Harry must navigate a Wizarding World at war alone, find the Horcruxes, and wrestle this new magic inside him. The Horcrux within him becomes a reluctant guide. Harry overcomes the various traps and challenges surrounding each of the soul pieces using both his own skill and an innate affinity for Wild magic. Harry must keep himself and the Horcruxes hidden from the Order and Death Eater’s searching for him, both of which are uneasy with Harry’s missing status.

And, Lord Voldemort dreams of the Boy-Who-Lived.

Tags: tomarry, Deathly Hallows AU, powerful Harry, horcrux Tom Riddle, dreams, Wild Magic, grey-to-dark Harry Potter, necromancy, gore, chase, loneliness, enemies-to-lovers, on-the-run, darkfic.

FERAL CHILDREN (Uncompleted, on Ao3)

31st of October, 1981

Infant Harry is blamed for the death of his parents, James and Lily Potter. Out of fear of Harry’s strange magic, the Wizengamot order him to be euthanised. Unable to kill Harry and convinced of his innocence, an Auror spirits him away to the Forbidden Forest where he grows up away from a Wizarding World that thinks Harry Potter is dead.

Ten Years Later

Hagrid, after finding Unicorns maimed and culled, follows footprints he has found deep in the forest. His search is fruitless until he takes a young Draco Malfoy and Ronald Weasley into the Forest for detention. Draco happens upon a small dark-haired boy murmuring to a felled unicorn, a Pan of the wild who runs like a wind through the treetops.

Harry enters into a Wizarding world convinced he is guilty and disgusted by his magic. But Harry isn’t the only Dark creature within the wall of Hogwarts.  

Tags: drarry, Forest AU, dark Harry Potter, powerful Harry Potter, Dark creatures, violence, discrimination, bullying, social rejection, secrets, denial, gothic, primal, instincts, OC Magical Theory, not-innocent-until-proven-guilty, false incrimination, pessimism, nihilism, Hogwarts Family.

ANTITHESIS

‘Our love is a ghost that the others can’t see, It’s a danger.’ – Agnes Obel, Familiar.

After his name is revealed by the Goblet of Fire, Harry is vilified by the those inside Hogwarts, even his teachers. Thus, Harry spends all of his time in books, driven to prove them all wrong – to be better than those who have turned their backs on him. He trains methodically, preparing himself for the Tournament. In doing so, he discovers a new side of Draco Malfoy he’s previously been blinded to. Traded secrets, creeping loyalties, and tight-lipped affection are forces that two boys have a face in a Wizarding World at war.

Maybe there is something to wanting what you cannot have?

Tags: drarry, bullying, OOC Ronald Weasley, social rejection, hurt – comfort, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, rebel Harry Potter, underdog Harry Potter, powerful Harry Potter, falling in love, secrets, hidden romance, war, pining.  

DEMIURGE

Having just completed four years of his sentence, Draco Malfoy is once again pulled back into the Ministry.

Why?

Harry – bloody – Potter.

Draco has been sent as a Vampire Liaison to one newly vampiric, and somewhat feral, Boy-Who-Lived. He has been asked to feed Potter, who is starving himself of blood – all while Draco himself is made thirsty by the sub-par blood pills the Ministry had order him to take and a sentence which demands he never drinks from the vein again.

But the boy Draco once knew and hated has changed with his thirst, and not necessarily for the better.

Both men must face a primal temptation, and a new undead reality, all while trying to not tear the other apart.

Tags: drarry, vampire, EWE, bloodlust, denial, addiction, violence, fighting, lust, dark Harry Potter, dark Draco Malfoy, temptation, seduction, sexuality, gothic, horror, Ministry-bashing, harsh sentences, social isolation, social rejection, discrimination, Dark creature, instincts, war aftermath.  

ANIMAL

After a receiving broken nose and a bruised jaw on the Hogwarts Express, Harry find he can’t control his rage towards one Draco Malfoy. Obsessed by thoughts of revenge and suspicion, Harry stalks Draco through the Hogwarts Halls.

Needing to be near Malfoy overtakes Harry senses and as the pressure inside him builds, so does the risks he takes to get Malfoy alone – to make Malfoy see him.

A story of misplaced desire, denial, and reaping what you sow.

Tags: DARK, drarry, obsession, stalking, Malfoy-is-up-to-something, internalised homophobia, craving, dark pining, fighting, bullying, secret identity, gothic, traps, denial, Half Blood Prince AU, duelling, word games, seduction, sexuality, deep-in-the-closet Harry.

ONESHOTS:

ID EGO SUPEREGO (On Ao3)

Captured by Death Eaters, Harry and Draco must navigate torture at the hands of the Dark Lord - Tom Marvolo Riddle reborn.

Harry reveals a secret that Draco vowed to keep, and Riddle discovers that which Harry has hidden within himself. It's a secret that both Harry and Draco have shared in and which solidifies the bond between them.

Riddle unearths some truths about himself in the same breath - wants and needs he'd long-forgotten.

Tags: Threesome - M/M/M Horcruxes Romance Love Enemies to Lovers Anal Sex Sex Implied/Referenced Torture Aftermath of Torture Soul Bond Soulmates Redeemed Draco Malfoy Sane Tom Riddle Angst Angst with a Happy Ending Powerful Harry Magically Powerful Harry Potter Light BDSM Power Dynamics Power Play Praise Kink Light Bondage Morally Grey Harry Potter

MADE FOR THE HUNT (On Ao3)

A short piece based on the following tumblr prompt by Cypherparadox:

“Before there was Voldemort, there was Grindelwald, a dark wizard who started a war with the muggles and nomajs. With magic now known to the non magicals, it comes with it the need for secrecy. To put it simply, witches and wizards are being hunted down for experiments and execution. Harry Potter's parents were executed when he was only a baby after the British government found them in possession of magical texts. Instead of killing baby Harry, they placed him in an orphanage. The same orphanage that one Tom Riddle lives in. What follows is enemies to friends to lovers as they try to band together to bring the Wizarding world back together.”

Edited and by the lovely Kash!

Tags: Alternate Universe - Dystopia Imprisonment Torture Revenge Love Confessions Bonding Blood Magic Oaths & Vows Sane Tom Riddle First Time First Kiss Pining Mutual Pining Falling In Love Romance Dark Muggle/Wizard Relations Magic Revealed Angst Angst with a Happy Ending Non-Canon Relationship Sexual Tension Implied Sexual Content Friends to Lovers Boys In Love Ambiguous/Open Ending

[iammeandthatsokay2]

Another oneshot! A angsty fluffy fic I wrote about Drarry (duh), from Harry’s point of view :) It’s pre and post war, eighth year and after

[drarryficrecsbasement]

Chapters: 32/32 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Pansy Parkinson, Daphne Greengrass, Theodore Nott, Blaise Zabini, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Millicent Bulstrode, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy, Gregory Goyle, Horace Slughorn, Proudfoot (Harry Potter) Additional Tags: Hogwarts Eighth Year, Mental Health Issues, Getting to Know Each Other, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Semi-Public Sex, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Top Harry Potter, Orgasm Delay/Denial, First Time, Praise Kink, Bottom Draco Malfoy, Snogging, Slow Burn, Slow Build, Enemies to Lovers, Sexual Tension, Falling In Love, Jealous Harry Potter, Possessive Harry Potter Summary:

Draco returns for his eighth year at Hogwarts in an attempt to salvage whatever he can of his future. His plan: sit as many N.E.W.T.s as possible, distance himself from the Malfoy name, and keep out of trouble. Of course, with his father on trial and at risk of unthinkable punishment, not to mention the anxiety-fueled "episodes" that have been plaguing him since summer, the school year doesn't go so smoothly. Especially when Harry Potter keeps seeking him out.

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Wanted

This was an offcut of another Drarry fic that ended up not fitting. I always kinda liked it but couldn't find anywhere to put it. Anyway, today I decided to tidy it up a bit and post it anyways :) Read on Ao3

‘Hey!’ the unnamed Ravenclaw yelps as The Prophet he is reading is incinerated in his hands.

He looks up indignantly but Draco is already storming away, eyes scanning the room for any more copies of the offending paper.

His year mates, wisely, hang back. Blaise, though normally the voice of reason these days when Draco flies into a temper, trails along behind him, smiling that infuriatingly charming smile and soothing the outrage that follows in Draco’s wake.

He doesn’t try to stop Draco though and for that Draco is grateful. Frankly he has few friends left to risk alienating those that remain but even he can acknowledge that when it comes to Potter, there’s no controlling his ire.

Blaise never asks. Or, at least he hasn’t bothered trying since that time Draco hexed him severely enough to put him in the Hospital Wing overnight. The point remains, Blaise knows better than to question (or make any lewd suggestions) as to why Potter featuring on the front page of The Prophet this time has set Draco into a fury.

Yet, as Draco continues his rampage, he can’t get the look on Potter’s face as he fled the room out of his mind.

His stomach twists and he swallows, focusing instead on his anger as he storms toward Hufflepuff table. A third year hurriedly gathers the papers from her friends and thrusts them toward Draco, having seen him coming.

He sees a flash of “Potter Abused?” before the paper bursts into ash and charcoal. Potter’s face, pallid and horrified, flashes back into Draco’s mind. The trembling of his hands. The way his Adam’s apple had bobbed as he swallowed, green eyes glazing behind his glasses before the whispers begun and he had fled.

Draco’s face twists and the little Hufflepuff girl squeaks in terror as he stalks past. His fury takes him out of the hall—the few remaining copies of The Prophet would just have to wait a few hours for destruction.

When he knocks, he expects to be instantly turned away, but when Granger opens the door to his stoic and haughty expression she merely raises an unsurprised eyebrow and steps aside.

‘Took you long enough,’ she says, gesturing him in.

Raising an eyebrow, he steps through in the garish red of Gryffindor common room. ‘I had a few things to… take care of,’ he says. ‘Where is he?'

‘Second staircase, fourth door on the right,’ she says, pointing, and then falls into step behind him as he makes his way across the room.

Several Gryffindors glower as he passes, their disgruntled mutterings barely registering to him. After all, he has bigger fish to fry.

He doesn’t knock this time, merely steps into the room as if he owns it. Granger is half a step behind him—no doubt ready to jump to his defence should the worst happen—but her presence is unnecessary.

Draco takes a minute to find Potter’s bed—it’s not hard, it’s the only bed with the curtains drawn—and crosses the room in five strides. The other boys watch him, breaking out of their conversations and stopping their homework to eye him as he rips open the curtains around Potter’s bed.

Potter’s head snaps up, his eyes going wide behind his glasses as he spots Draco standing at the end of his bed—that annoyed little half frown getting swallowed up by shock.

‘Draco, what—?’

Draco sits down on the end of the bed, effectively cutting Potter off as he makes himself comfortable. He sits cross-legged facing Potter (who is moping with his knees pulled up, poking through an album of some sort) and gives the boy a steady look.

There’s a moment of silence.

Thomas and Finnigan are off in the corner—apparently still pretending they’re not in love with each other—attempting to look as though they aren’t watching.

Longbottom is sitting on the floor at the end of his bed with half a dozen plants and numerous books scattered around him (apparently none of the Gryffindor’s are concerned by this apparent desire to turn their dorm into a Greenhouse). He barely pays any attention to them as Draco makes himself comfortable, apparently no longer perturbed by Draco’s presence.

Weasley is the most open. He leans back on his bed and watches Draco, as if he’s not entirely sure if he should intervene or not.

Draco ignores them all.

The only person in the room he cares about is Potter. He focuses on him and only him, and when he opens his mouth to speak, he doesn’t say any of the carefully planned things he’d wanted to say. He doesn’t tell Potter to suck it up. Doesn’t tell him to pull himself together. Doesn’t tell him to forget the muggles and hold his head high because he’s the bloody Boy Who Lived for Merlin’s sake.

Instead he says, ‘Summer before third year my father and I had an argument. I don’t remember what started it—something about the Chamber of secrets, I think. I was just starting to realise what role my family was playing and I was uncomfortable. I was scared. However the argument started, it ended when my father slapped me.’

Potter’s eyes widen, but Draco doesn’t give him the chance to interrupt.

‘It was the first time he ever hit me, and it was the last time. My mother packed up all our things, dragged me out of the house and took me to her sister’s house. I have no memory of my mother ever speaking to Aunt Andromeda until we showed up on her doorstep that summer. But she took us in anyway. I hated it. I was young and selfish and I didn’t understand why. I hated her house. It was small and cramped and I missed our home. I missed my bedroom, and my horses, and my father.’

Weasley snorts, but Potter’s gaze doesn’t shift from Draco’s face, and so he resists the urge to tell Weasley where to fuck off to.

‘My father came to beg Mother to bring us home every day. And every day she would lock me in my too-small room and prevent me from seeing him until he’d left. I didn’t see him for over a month, and when Mother finally let me see him I got a formal apology. I found out later that he’d had to swear an unbreakable vow to never lay hands on me again; but he did, and we finally went back home. And my mother hasn’t spoken to my Aunt Andromeda since. I sometimes forget she even has another sister. Yet, even though they don’t speak, even though they don’t get along, and even though I was a rude, snotty, spoilt, selfish little shit, she never treated us with anything but kindness and caring while we stayed with her. Because that’s what family does.’ Draco pauses and leans back on the bed, keeping his gaze steady on Potter’s. ‘That’s what you should have had.’

Potter’s eyes flash wide, his breath sucking in and Draco see’s the realisation hit. There’s a sheen to his eyes as he drops his head, gaze flicking off to the side. A flush creeps up his neck, and Draco is acutely aware of the fact that other people are watching, and he knows Harry is too.

‘If you want, I’ll never mention this topic again. However,’ says Draco and he sees Harry’s shoulders tense. ‘I think it prudent to remind you that while your muggle relatives may have forgotten their duty as your family; you do have another family. One, that you are so fond of telling me, that you chose. And if I know anything at all about the Weasley’s, it’s that, for whatever misguided reason, they love you. They would never treat you without kindness and caring.’

There’s a long moment of silence. Harry stares at the bedcovers, fighting the urge to cry.

‘Merlin,’ says Weasley, breaking the quiet. ‘Now I feel really bad about calling you a cold prick earlier.’

Draco leans back on his hands and flicks Weasley a wry grin. ‘Don’t take it personally, I still think you’re an idiot.’

Harry snorts, sucking in a sharp breath that is half laughter and half a choked sob. He wipes a hand across his eyes, pushing his glasses up. ‘You’re right,’ he says, and though his voice is thick and miserable he offers Draco a wan little smile.

‘Of course I am,’ says Draco primly.

Harry snort again. ‘Git,’ he says, and throws a pillow at Draco.

Draco smirks, shoves the pillow behind his back and settles in. ‘Now, just so we’re clear, when you say I’m right, you’re including the fact that Weasley is an idiot, yes?’

Weasley glowers, turns to Harry and says darkly, ‘your boyfriend is a menace.’

Harry grins, soft and beautiful and a little bit sad. ‘Yeah,’ he says softly, ‘but he’s a wonderful menace. Most the time.’

Draco feigns offence and tosses the pillow back at Harry who chuckles, bittersweet and not quite happy, but not miserable, either. The laugh of someone who was once wounded but is learning to heal, and when he looks at Draco with eyes no longer filled with tears, but bright with amusement, the last of Draco’s anger ebbs away.

‘You’re wanted, you know,’ he says.

Harry flushes and looks away. ‘Yeah,’ he says softly. ‘I guess I’m finally starting to realise that. Thanks.’

There’s a brief moment of comfortable silence.

‘I still think he’s a bloody menace,’ mutters Weasley.

[carelesspeaches]

You'll always find me in the garden at parties

Draco spends NYE hiding in a garden. Harry is, well, Harry

I’ve finally started writing again and I’d love feedback! x

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33635614/chapters/83584225 

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FIC: HARRY POTTER AND THE DREADED HANDKERCHIEF [PG]

Title: Harry Potter and the Dreaded Handkerchief Author: Prompt: Amnesia Word Count: 14.1k Rating: PG Contains: N.A. Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended. Epilogue compliant?: No Who is pregnant?: Draco Notes: Betaed by Bell (coeurire) and Mia (zzledri) Summary:Harry Potter wakes up one day and realises that he has lost six years of his memory from an accident at work. But it's not so bad because there's the internet nowadays, and Malfoy's back from his disappearance post-war! In which Harry bribes everyone with Greg's pastries, and tries to keep Malfoy in his life. Harry Potter and the Dreaded Handkerchief