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8th Year Recs (part 1)

Hello! I’m in the process of backing up my rec lists to Tumblr. I’m also in the process of updating as many links to AO3 as I can find, so it might take a while. Also, these lists are in the order I first recced them, but I had to start somewhere and 8th year it is! The first of many lists coming. :) Reparo by amalin (NC 17, 85K) Summary: Voldemort’s final defeat does not mean Harry Potter’s troubles are over; far from it. In the aftermath of war, he returns to a Hogwarts that is fractured and divided, but this is no break that can be fixed with a spell. New owls, fading scars, surprising alliances– and along the way, the hardest task of all, to live with it. Matters of Influence by anathema91 (NC-17, 19K) Summary: Draco should have taken his NEWTs over the summer with Pansy and Greg. Repeating 7th year with Potter fresh off his saved-the-world tour struck Malfoy as the height of stupidity more than once. McGonagall’s diabolical plan only made things worse. Or did it? A Time to Move On by sesheta_66(PG-13, 15,5K) Summary: With the war behind them, and wounds still raw, the students at Hogwarts try to work out what their futures might hold for them, and perhaps recapture a little of their lost youth along the way. Title: An Act of Simple Devotion by @blamebrampton​ (PG-13, 13,3K) Summary: It’s a age-old story. You fancy a boy and you think he fancies you. Sure there are problems – attacks on former Death Eaters, crazed tabloid journalists and your girlfriend – but you have a cunning plan. Now if he’d only explain the L. Ron Hubbard-like references … Title: Master Work by mahaliem (R, 35,1K) Summary: Harry’s eighth-year at Hogwarts is going about as well as all the others. Someone is out to get him, Aurors keep questioning him about the final battle and, worst of all, Draco is determined to repay his life debt to Harry. Title: Soaring by tealeaf523 (R, 9,1K) Summary: Draco Malfoy is reaching the halfway point of his eighth year of Hogwarts, post-war. Though things are back to normal, Draco feels haunted, suffocated, broken by his past. And he can’t be fixed. Can he? Title: Symbiosis by fireflavored (NC-17, 20,2K) Summary: sym·bi·o·sis (sĩm'bē-ō'sĩs) n. Biology A close, prolonged association between two or more different organisms of different species that may, but does not necessarily, benefit each member. Title: Said and Unsaid (or, The Value of Knowing When to Stop Talking) by bryoneybrynn (PG-13, 14,8K) Summary: When the Interrogator asked if he had anything to say on his own behalf, Draco shook his head, his lips pressed tight in a thin line. There was nothing to say that wouldn’t sound like an excuse. Title: The Altar by dragenphly (R, 16K) Summary: Draco grows up. With difficulty. It would probably be easier if it wasn’t for Harry fucking Potter. Title: Bridges bytigersilver (R, 8,6K) Summary: The collected correspondence concerning two ‘8th Year’ Hogwarts School students, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy, from September through December, 1998. Title: The Lovers’ Circle by nicevenn (NC-17, 13,3K) Summary: Tired of feeling alone, Harry agrees to play a matchmaking game with the other eighth years. It’s just a game, after all. What harm could it do? Title: Lucky Break by naturegirlrocks (NC-17, 4,7K) Summary: The day before Halloween Harry crashes into Draco during a friendly quidditch match. Hidden secrets come to light. Title: An Old Habit by fireflavored (NC-17, 8,7K) Summary: The boys have changed a lot over the summer after the war, but Harry hasn’t gotten over the urge to spy on Malfoy. Title: To Give Everything by slashpervert & aveeno_baby (NC-17, 52,3K) Summary: Draco finds The Room, a torture chamber in the Hogwarts dungeons and longs for someone to submit to him. Harry finds he needs that and more. Warning(s): BDSM and Explicit M/M sex – oral, anal, rimming, felching, fisting, bondage, different kinds of spanking/whipping, D/s Title: A Deeper Understanding by bleedforyou1 (PG-13, 11K) Summary: By accident, Harry and Draco develop a bond that neither of them can break until they can learn to understand each other better. Through fortune cookies and riddle-solving, of course! Title: Aftertaste & Afterglow by  nursedarry (R, 4,1K) Summary: Draco asks for his wand back and gets more than he bargained for. Title: The Silent World Within You by @femmequixotic & @noeeon (NC-17, 96K) Summary: Harry only wanted Malfoy for one night, one birthday. It wasn’t meant to be anything more. Title: The Ties That Binds Us by faithwood (NC-17, 27,8K) Summary: An accident leaves Draco and Harry bound tightly together. Literally. Title: Marginal Notes by @blamebrampton (PG, 9,3K) Summary: When you’re 18, and nothing is as it was meant to be, sometimes it can be hard to let the right people know what you are thinking.

mood

it's just me and my gay fanfics against the world

He wants to laugh at the irony, he really does, as he lets Potter brand his arm and override the dark mark with a new one.

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(hey i managed to finish this just in time for valentine!) i’ve been listening to some harry/draco audiofics and was inspired to paint a little something as thanks to the hp fandom, since i can’t actually write and all. Thank you guys for your work!

Masterlist - Drarry recs by sitp 

Hello friends! I finally put together all the #drarry reclists I’ve done in the past year, and this master post is now linked on my bio. Enjoy and don’t forget to shower these authors with love & appreciation! 

Tropes:

A/B/O

Action/Adventure

Advent

Amortentia

Angst 1 | Angst 2 | Angst 3 | Angst 4 | Angst 5

Animagus

Arranged marriage & Accidental bonding

Auror Trainees | Ministry co-workers

Break up make up

Case fics

Clubbing | Dancing | Coming out 1 & 2

Comfort fics 1 | Comfort fics 2 | Comfort fics 3 | Tender fics

Courtship

Creature fics | Werewolf Harry + Veela Draco 

Dark fics | Dark Drarry

Disability

Draco POV | Draco in the Muggle World

Enemies to lovers 1 | 2 | 3 | Enemies to lovers to enemies

Established relationship 1 | 2 | 3 | Reckless proposals

Epic fics with high stakes

Fake dating | Secret relationship

Female Drarry

Fluff 1 | Fluff 2 | Fluff 3

Found family

Friends to lovers | Friends with Benefits | Strangers to friends to lovers

Golden Trio Friendship

Healer!Draco + Auror!Harry1 & 2

Hitmen AU

Hogwarts 8th year: Reclist 1 | Reclist 2 | Reclist 3

Hogwarts Professors

Holiday trips

Humor

Hurt/Comfort

Identity porn

In Vino Veritas

Mpreg | Kid fic | Single parenting

Magical houses & sentient Hogwarts

Major character death

Miscommunication

Movie/TV AU | Non-magical | Historical | Hanahaki | Merman

Mystery | Noir-esque fics | Horror | Spooky

Odd jobs

Older Drarry

Only one bed | Nightmares

Parseltongue

Party games

Pets | Draco owns a cat | Pet snake

Poly/Open relationship

Post-war struggles | Redemption Arc

Presumed dead/disappearance

Quidditch

Roommates

Sex shop

Slow burn 1 | Slow Burn 2

Soulmates & Fuck or Die | Non-explicit soulmate AU

Texting

Time travel

War aftermath

Wizarding Politics

5 + 1 | 9 + 1

Characters:

Ace Drarry | Trans Drarry

Dark Harry 1 & 2 | Powerful Harry | Head Auror Harry | Recluse Harry | Flirty Harry | Master of Death Harry | Himbo Harry | POC Harry

Draco fixing things | Draco cooking 

Down and out Draco | Out and proud Draco | Reserved Draco | Self-deprecating Draco

French speaking Draco | Scholar Draco | Beauxbatons Draco

Protective Harry | Protective Draco 1 & 2

Jealous Harry | Jealous Draco

Pining Harry | Pining Draco | Flirting

Pregnant Harry | Pregnant Draco

Smitten Harry | Oblivious Harry obsessed with Draco

Smoking Draco | Sharing a smoke

Spoiled Draco | Witty Draco | Dramatic Draco | Jerk Draco

Soft Draco | Sad Draco | Sick Draco | Long haired & buff Draco

Unspeakable Draco | Spy Draco | Draco with a soft spot for Harry | Draco switches sides

Werewolf: Harry | Draco

Specific themes:

Auction

Banter

Body positivity

Bumping into each other | Draco meets the Dursleys

Cat!Draco

Caught in the act

Dark Mark removal

Drarry against the world | Drarry against the odds | Power Couple Drarry

Denial of feelings

Dubious professional ethics | Harry against corrupted Ministry

First person POV

Fics set outside the UK | Returning to England

Harry takes Draco in | Domestic angst | Intimacy issues

Intimate and light plot | Non-sexual intimacy | Mature/healthy relationship

Loneliness | Touch starved Drarry | Unexpected hugs

Malfoy’s Peacocks

Pet names

Playing the piano | Sharing music recs

Protective Slytherins

Right person, wrong time | Doomed lovers

Sad closeted Harry | One thinks the other is straight

Shakespearean references

Summer vibes | Cottagecore vibes | Dark & sexy vibes

Tattoos

Tea

Yoga

Winter coziness

8th year fuck buddies

21yo Drarry

Side characters:

Draco & Luna | Harry’s friends 1 & 2 | Supportive Ron | Teddy | Original characters | Narcissa | House elves | Charlie | Snape | BAMF Ron & Hermione | Weasleys appreciation | Ginny | Scorpius | Draco & Hermione

Personal favorites:

50k+ fics | Fics that give me chills | Oldies (2000-2010) (2011-2015) | All-time faves | Smut 1 & 2 | Hurtfest 2020 | Short fics 1 & 2 | Fics that made me cry | Popular tropes | G and T works | Long T-rated fics | Bedtime reads | New fics

im gonna cry this is too cute

you’re the only one that i want

some post-war drarry for the soul~ (click the image for better quality ;v;)

「 INSTA & KO-FI:  aceveria 」 my commission info

i do not play a part in choosing my hyperfixations. they chose me and consume me for the rest of my life.

men have one homoerotic rivalry and make it everyones problem for the rest of their life

Praise

@drarrymicrofic​ prompt: Good   NSFW

It started as a joke. A throwaway comment and a patronising pat on the head. Only then Harry’s eyes had dilated and Draco knew he’d uncovered something special.

The next time he’s entirely serious when he says it, with Harry all spit-slick lips and cum drunk beneath him.

“Good boy.”

memento mori

Nobody Pinch Me

A mysteriously locked door keeps Harry and Draco trapped in the room where they’re serving detention.

Words: 18k

Tags: Hogwarts Eighth Year, Mystery, Angst, Bickering, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Blowjobs, Anal Sex, Top Harry, Bottom Draco, D/s Elements

“You’re twisted,” says Harry. “I’ve chained you to the wall not because you’re a twat who tried to take my head off just now, but because I want to shag you, or something, is that right?”

Draco laughs in delighted shock. His stomach twists, and not with fear or hatred this time.

“You tell me,” he says goadingly. “I didn’t say anything about shagging.”

@dracoladon

this is a gift for the amazing, wonderful @o0o-chibaken-o0o who suggested ‘drarry at an art gallery’ like seven months ago. You are a brilliant person who makes this fandom a better place and I love talking to you!!! Hope this is what you were looking for!… Easily my favorite comic I’ve ever worked on. Also dean is a badass ❤️❤️❤️

First Love💘

“It’s getting late…”  “Does it matter?”

Chapters: 3/5 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Blaise Zabini Additional Tags: Vampires, Clubbing, Drinking, Bodyguard Harry Potter, Potioneer Draco Malfoy, Post-Canon, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, POV Third Person Limited, Getting Together, Minor Harry Potter/Blaise Zabini Summary:

After quitting his job as an auror Harry finds himself frequenting one of wizarding London's grimy underground bars. Along with it comes a new drinking partner in the form of alleged illicit potions dealer Draco Malfoy and rather more run-ins with creatures of the night than Harry ever expected.

“Keep up, sweetheart. At the rate you fly on that old thing you’ll never catch the snitch.”

@hdcandyheartsfest Day 1: “sweetheart”

Thanks for including mine!

2022.02.01

Complete fics posted on AO3 this day

1. An Anchor of Time by J0J0_M0J0 [M, 106k]

►Draco has a pocket watch, a family heirloom. Instead of telling time, it informs him about the next coming moment —- how long till your potion burn, or your loved ones wither and lost. It has been seven years since the war was over. Draco now owns a small potion store in a far corner of Knockturn Alley. Despite all the loss and painful changes, he is somewhat settling with his current state of life. It is mostly quiet, which is good, until the day Harry Potter with severe sleep deprivation push open the door and steps into his store. Not long after, his face is stuck on his pocket watch. Harry has a problem for which only Draco has a cure. But perhaps, the problem fixing part is mutual.

2. Pumpkin, Pumpkin by @moonstruckwytch [T, 4k]

►Harry Potter brings home a kitten for his boyfriend. There’s only one problem, she needs a name.

3. Slow Show by Avonne [M, 14k]

►Harry doesn’t know the kind of love that isn’t forged in pain. He doesn’t understand slow and calm and easy. He can’t trust unconditional. After all, how could Draco love him if he’s not allowed to sacrifice himself for it? Draco shows him.

4. The White Pawn by @soupy-george [T, 80k]

►When eighteen-year-old Draco Malfoy finds himself back at Hogwarts on the eve of Voldemort’s infamous return, he is confronted with the most difficult decision he’s ever had to make: Relive the 6th year at school he’s tried so hard to forget, or do the unthinkable and ally himself with Potter’s lot…

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Fest/Exchange

1. He’s Not Your Tesorino Anymore by @veelawings [M, 1k]

►Harry tried to ignore the creeping sensation of deja vu — Surely Malfoy would recognize him this time? ★ Kinkuary 2022 | @kinkuary

2. The Prisoner by @lushrooms [E, 1k]

►The Order have a prisoner bound and gagged, Harry offers him a chance to reciprocate. ★ Kinkuary 2022 | @kinkuary

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Teddy Lupin/Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Characters: Teddy Lupin, Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter Additional Tags: Voyeurism, Anal Sex, POV First Person, Age Difference, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Established Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Husbands Series: Part 2 of Kinkuary 2022 Summary:

They’ve left the bedroom door open again. I said I’d be out all evening, so they wouldn’t have been worried about me walking in on them. The pub was dull as shit though and I bailed out early to come home and spend time with Harry and Draco. Looks like they’ve already found something to entertain themselves though.

Teddy comes home from the pub early and finds a little more than he bargained for.

Chapters: 1/1 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 Additional Tags: Blow Jobs, Deepthroating, Face-Fucking, Power Imbalance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Second Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter), Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter) Series: Part 1 of Kinkuary 2022 Summary:

The Order have a prisoner bound and gagged, Harry offers him a chance to reciprocate.

Chapters: 2/5 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Blaise Zabini Additional Tags: Vampires, Clubbing, Drinking, Bodyguard Harry Potter, Potioneer Draco Malfoy, Post-Canon, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, POV Third Person Limited, Getting Together, Minor Harry Potter/Blaise Zabini Summary:

After quitting his job as an auror Harry finds himself frequenting one of wizarding London's grimy underground bars. Along with it comes a new drinking partner in the form of alleged illicit potions dealer Draco Malfoy and rather more run-ins with creatures of the night than Harry ever expected.

Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Blaise Zabini Additional Tags: Vampires, Clubbing, Drinking, Bodyguard Harry Potter, Potioneer Draco Malfoy, Post-Canon, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, POV Third Person Limited Summary:

After quitting his job as an auror Harry finds himself frequenting one of wizarding London's grimy underground bars. Along with it comes a new drinking partner in the form of alleged illicit potions dealer Draco Malfoy and rather more run-ins with creatures of the night than Harry ever expected.

✨They’re dating✨ I needed a boost of serotonin so I decided to draw my beloved couple: possessive Draco and clueless Harry.

Btw, I feel like he’s prettiest Draco I’ve ever drawn. I usually prefer him with wavy long hair with a man-bun or something like that, but I think that it makes more sense that he didn’t have such long hair or that kind of hair style before his 20s.

Love,

Cuckooboo

draco malfoy: ‘what i want’ world tour

inspired by the fic Star Quality by who_la_hoop on AO3

Rhetoric

drarry | E | 1k | kinktober, public sex, exhibitionism, sort-of enemies to lovers

Summary: Harry thought he was past being lured in by Malfoy’s dares.

Read on Ao3

“I dare you.”

Harry ignored him, glancing across the room of well-dressed gala attendees. It was tedious, one of the many little performances he was required to put on to maintain the goodwill and good behaviour of the political elite of their world. Malfoy loved it all though. He loved the formal robes and the glittering chandeliers that floated above the party, he loved the tiny hors d’oeuvres and the sparkling elfwine. He loved the pantomime of getting along.

“Come on, Potter, don’t be so fucking dull. I know you like the idea.” Malfoy paused, stepped close enough for Harry to catch the scent of him, and leaned in as though he was telling secrets. “You’re bored and I’m offering to help.”

His breath was warm against Harry’s ear. Harry stifled the shiver it prompted, but not quickly enough; the only person who noticed it was the only person he wanted to hide it from.

Malfoy lowered his tone, injected a breathy note of excitement to his voice that could have been entirely manufactured for all Harry knew. “You like the idea, don’t you? Dirty bastard.”

At the very moment Harry was about to deliver his stinging reply, the vast gong in the corner of the hall was battered by an over-enthusiastic waiter, and an usher came to hurry them to their seats.

Harry was put in pride of place at the top table—ready to give his speech and convince the landed elite of the wizarding world that donating vast sums of money to causes they shouldn’t need persuading to support was the sensible and elegant thing to do. Malfoy was seated next to him; he’d had the common sense to start throwing his money at good causes as soon as he was spared a sentence in the post-war trials.

At first Harry had thought it was pure self-interest, and he was still sure that accounted for at least eighty percent of Malfoy’s motivation, but Harry was on the board of governors of most of the charities Malfoy donated to, so he knew the sums he was donating and they were not insubstantial. These days Malfoy didn’t even talk about most of his philanthropy publicly, so it wasn’t like he was benefiting in any real way.

He was still a bastard though, and never failed to sidle up to Harry at parties and galas with a mean quip about someone’s outfit, or a suggestion so scandalous Harry would have to work not to blush.

Harry had learned to take it all with a pinch of salt though, even if sometimes he wondered whether Malfoy was actually just joking.

Benedict Hughes—rich, alcoholic, and a desperate social climber—was tonight’s host. He stood to a polite smattering of applause and began one of his infamously nasal and long-winded speeches of introduction—he was clearly pleased to have scored the prize of Harry Potter at his high table and made no attempt at subtlety in his exploitation of it. He opened his address by listing Harry’s medals of honour—awarded long after the war, when the Ministry decided a bit of a history rewrite was needed—and Harry immediately tuned out everything the man said.

“Utterly intolerable, isn’t he?” Malfoy whispered as he leaned in. He was probably only doing it to make it look like the two of them were friendly. They weren’t. They didn’t talk outside of these events. “I might actually fall asleep if I don’t take drastic action.”

Malfoy never fell asleep at parties—he glided around looking bright and engaged until the sun came up, he was the definition of a social butterfly and everyone loved him, even if he spent the entire the time criticising one half of the room to the other.

“You’re just annoyed it’s not you giving the speech,” Harry replied.

Malfoy hummed, then rearranged himself in his seat. “I’m annoyed because you used to be interesting. Can’t even rely on you to throw a punch, these days.”

“Is that what you want, then?”

Harry looked out across the room, more than fifty tables were filled with the beatifically smiling faces of people who had never been touched by the poverty this fundraiser was supposed to fight.

“I told you exactly what I want,” Malfoy muttered. And then his hand slipped under the table and he leaned against the side of his chair—it looked comfortable, insouciant, but it brought him within inches of Harry. Close enough to reach across and undo the zip of Harry’s finely tailored suit trousers.

“What the fuck are you doing, Malfoy?” Harry whispered, carefully maintaining the bland smile that was the particular mask he wore when he was being paraded on stage like this.

Malfoy’s hand was deft, he had his fingers trailing up and down Harry’s cock before Harry’s words were out of his mouth. Harry stared ahead, desperately trying not to give away what was happening. Malfoy’s hand was warm, and Benedict was droning on, and Harry was getting hard.

Malfoy laughed along with whatever asinine joke Benedict had made—Harry didn’t hear it, couldn’t hear anything above the roar of shocked arousal and pumping blood in his ears—and thumbed at Harry’s foreskin. It was wet now, with precome, which Malfoy smeared around to make the tiny, gentle twists of his wrist even slicker, smoother, more devastatingly aching. Harry held his breath.

“Potter,” Malfoy said, before he used his free hand to lift his wine and take a sip. “I’m going to make you come before dear old Benedict has finished his speech. I’ll even charm you clean before you have to stand up.”

“I’m not—”

Malfoy continued as though Harry hadn’t spoken. “You are.”

He was. He was dangerously close already; hundreds of eyes on him, and one hand, and Harry couldn’t think of anything but the strength of Malfoy’s fingers and how gently, how expertly they dragged pleasure out of him. If they got caught—he clenched his hands into fists, grit his teeth, and tried to ignore the way that thought made his belly hot and tangled with anticipation.

“You are going to come,” Malfoy said. “And then after this farce of a night, I’m going to let you bend me over and fuck a load into me. How’s that for fair play?”

Harry’s balls tightened. Fair play, indeed.

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October 5th from this prompt list

Read the series here on Tumblr or here on Ao3

Written for day four @hpkinktober prompt Amortentia.

Thank you so so much to @rockingrobin69 for the wonderful beta and great cheerleading. You really helped my spirits.

Amortentia is fickle. It's a fickle potion, due to how its properties constantly change. The ingredients stay the same, Draco knows them like the back of his hand. But the smell changes — consistently.

He would brew small portions, to keep a few vials on hand. Wanting the shop to smell comforting, clean and welcoming with the potion happily bubbling in the far back, behind a closed door.

Everyone smelled something distinct, a sensitive nose to what was lingering around the bottles, trinkets and ingredients. All customers would comment on the fragrance of the shop, saying how lovely the smells always were. Many would comment on the familiarity, only changing the most miniscule amount. Draco always found that rather fascinating.

Were these people falling out of love? Did their heart split into two and the aroma linger on two or more objects of their affections? Draco always wondered and pondered. Others would stop in while browsing and compliment the new fragrance for today, making Draco aware of their own hearts wandering nature.

It was something to pass the time. Pure amusement when he would watch his customers’ eyes glaze lightly — the smell entrancing them for mere seconds. Shaking their heads and continuing on as if nothing had stopped them in their tracks.

He enjoyed this, but also did this for selfish reasons. His shop was home, and this helped solidify that notion. Smells being the closest to memory and emotion — Draco knew how his Amortentia smelled.

It never did change.

When Granger first walks into the shop, a tiny bell tinkling announcing her arrival, Draco is rather surprised. She asks about Valerian root, and what potions he has in stock for sleeping aid. He's still rather surprised she's even here, looking at his inventory and asking about proper sleep potions.

However, she does compliment how clean the shop is — and how gorgeous it smells.

"Like a crisp autumn morning and baked treats. A lot like treacle tart."

He knows his eyebrows raise to his hairline, and also knows she has to be smelling Weasley. Which is a little off-putting — but he thinks it's because Weasley has never really been his favorite person. He'd rather not know what he smells like.

Granger brings Potter into the shop a few days later. Draco finds it amusing how he ogles the crystals at one side of the shop, eyes wide with wonder. Poking at the magical plants in the corner and picking up a few potions for purchase.

Almost as if he hasn't been a wizard all his life.

They both walk towards the counter as Draco opens the till and the smell is so overwhelming that tears prickle his eyes as he raises a hand quickly to his nose.

"Are — are you alright?" Potter looks concerned and Granger has one brow raised in a quizzical expression.

"Yes — I thought I was going to sneeze. Pardon me."

Draco continues with their purchase, with the bouquet circling up and around his nose, filling his head and making him float.

It's broom polish, sandalwood with hints of citrus. Still the same after all these years —he just wasn't aware of who the potion portrayed.

Days go by, and he contemplates the idea of throwing away any and all of the potion that sits in his back room, behind the closed door. Wants to scrub the pearlescent liquid away and never have it trace his shop again.

But this smell — the one that smells of home and love. He's grown so accustomed to it, that he can't bring himself to toss the cauldron. Lets it simmer and sit like he always does. The incense and deep perfume still wafting throughout his shop as he sits in the back with the small sign on the door flipped to closed.

Granger is a regular now. Picking up items that she needs for additional health purposes, potions for Weasley and their tiny freckled baby at home. She's an interesting witch, though Draco will never speak that aloud to anyone — she invites him to the pub. His mouth hangs open and she smiles as he agrees and is now irritated with the predicament he's placed himself in.

He slides into the seat next to Granger as she passes him a glass of whiskey and a pint.

"I wasn't sure what you drank, so I grabbed the drinks I thought you might enjoy."

He smiles at her, and feels oddly at home.

Draco is well into his third pint when Potter stops by, sliding into the open seat next to him.

"Hello. Hermione did say that you'd be here this evening."

Potter grins and Draco's stomach jumps into his throat. He's never really been this close to Potter before and he smells exactly like his shop. He's mortified with himself and doesn't quite understand it.

The smell has never changed all these years.

"Did you work today?" Potter takes a sip from his glass, foam stuck to his beard as he dabs it away with a napkin.

"Earlier I did, yes." Draco sips on the small shot of whiskey, the burn sliding all the way down his throat.

"Ah, that makes sense — you smell just like your shop. It's like parchment and lavender. I always wondered how you made it smell so nice."

Draco chokes on the rest of his whiskey.

Things I Will Never Tire of in Drarry Fics

Some of these are Drarry cliches, some of these are just things I love. And in no particular order. Enjoy, and add your own!

CW: one reference to sex

"Scared Potter?" or "Scared Malfoy" followed by, of course, "You wish." Bonus points if they're about to duel as adults, like in Auror training or something

Draco wearing eyeliner and/or leather pants

Ron being like "I really don't care that you're gay, but Malfoy??"

Pushing each other against a wall in a fight that turns into a kiss (yes, I know, classic Enemies to Lovers but I like it at Hogwarts specifically)

Harry teaching Draco to cast a Patronus and it turns out to be a stag

Party games, party games, party games, party games

Literally almost anything eighth year

When 'Potter' becomes 'Harry,' and 'Malfoy' becomes 'Draco.' But they still call each other Potter and Malfoy when they're teasing and during sex

Pansy and Hermione scheming to get them together

Auror partners!!

I love mutual pining, but especially Draco POV pining for years and years, especially when Harry grows up and just gets ripped and gorgeous and Draco practically drools at the sight of him

Oblivious!Harry realizing he's been wanting Draco forever

Harry apologizing for Sectumsempra

Kissing in the Great Hall to come out to everyone

Ron and Draco becoming friends!! Draco being the only one who can beat him at chess

Hermione and Draco bonding over books and nerdy stuff

Their friends having debates over who was more obsessed with the other--bonus points if it is hearing this debate that gets them together/helps them see that the other likes him back

Smelling each other in Amortentia!!

Draco in Weasley sweaters!!

Harry returning Draco's wand after the war

H/C after nightmares

Draco being the only one (other than Harry's friends ofc) willing to call him out/be real with him

Narcissa and Harry friendship!!

Lucius Malfoy bashing

Handshake, handshake, handshake, handshake--especially as adults and especially if Harry initiates it and Draco hesitates in surprise before finally taking it

“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion– I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.” ― John Keats