Drarry Hidden Gem Recs Pt 20
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Here’s an official part twenty! Missed the last nineteen parts? Don’t worry! You can find my all my recs in one convenient place on my ao3 collection: Drarry Hidden Gem Recs.
Alright then, here we go!
Astoria was dead and Draco Malfoy decided all that was left to do was to stuff a leaf into his mouth and become an Animagus.
After his wife Astoria dies at the hands of a blood curse, Draco Malfoy falls under investigation; except the Auror assigned to his case is Harry Potter, and Harry Potter has a very different opinion of Draco than everybody else, including Draco himself.
I'll start talking again (when I know what to say) by babysasuke
Draco Malfoy has taken a vow of silence.
Narcissa Malfoy, Fairy Godmother by duchessdulce
Narcissa was a pureblood supremacist. Narcissa had a Muggle friend. These things were both true.
Also: It’s fifth year for Harry Potter, and Malfoy’s eleven-year-old cousin has just started at Hogwarts. When Harry begins to suspect that the girl is actually Muggleborn, he can’t rest until he finds out what Malfoy is really up to.
Or: Draco turns out to be a surprisingly good “big brother” and Harry can’t look away. This is a Hogwarts era slow burn with a spotlight on the complicated Malfoy family. Featuring joint detentions, tea parties, one detention tea party, and several very flawed Malfoys who still really love each other. The fic begins with childhood, but most of the story takes place at Hogwarts during Harry and Draco’s fifth and sixth years.
Of All The Things You Could Be (Convenient Has Never Been One Of Them) by annanotherthing
When Harry's mind healer suggests he learns to crochet, Harry could never have imagined what exactly he might get out of a local fibre crafts group where he is almost the only person there under fifty...
Nothing But You On My Mind by Moonflower_Rose
Potter has been in Australia on an internship for almost a year, and Draco cannot wait for him to get back home. They'll finally have a chance to talk about their feelings for each other. What could possibly go wrong?
Loads, as it turns out.
Ever since the end of the war Draco Malfoy has been scratching a living as a sex worker. He lives on the margins of society in squalid rooms and doesn’t imagine that his life will ever change. Then, after a couple of years, Draco becomes pregnant by an unknown client. Despite the Healers at St Mungo’s treating him with prejudice and contempt, Draco is determined to keep his baby. In his desperation, Draco approaches the wrong person and the result is disastrous. Draco is beaten up and left for dead in an alleyway. As Draco hovers between life and death, Harry Potter discovers his bruised and battered body.
The Saviour doesn’t only save Draco’s life. He takes Draco back to Grimmauld Place and helps him to recover.
A one night stand will entwine the futures of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy forever.
A love story by Year_ofthe_Rabbit
Draco Malfoy is just doing his best to keep his head down and get by as he counts down the days until the end of his probation. He clings to his secret dream of finding a way out of the drugery to earn his potions mastery, counting every knut and sickle he can scrape into his savings. His only indulgence is his weekly trip to Sereni-Tea, a cosey shop welcoming even to a convicted death eater.
And Harry Potter, who came out of no where and is determined to make himself a part of Draco's life. Draco doesn't understand it, can't believe it, but before he knows it is falling into Potter's arms, fighting through his anxieties that any moment now the rug will be pulled out from under him and he'll learn the truth about why Potter would spend time with the likes of Draco Malfoy.
what shipwrecks look like by luminae
It's after the war, but not terribly long after. Just enough for things to appear happily settled.
Draco is an Obliviator. Harry is an Auror.
Draco is desperately jealous of that.
There's No I In Team by JulietsEmoPhase
When Draco's babysitter cancels on him, he has no option but to bring his son to work, despite the fact he has an extremely important day ahead of him. Rescue comes from the most unlikely of places, and Draco ends up having a day he never could have planned, or hoped for.
In the Woods Somewhere by dracopetal
Draco can't remember what the world was like before Fenrir took him. His life is the cabin and the woods that surround it. But one night in winter, Fenrir kidnaps a man he calls an old enemy, and Draco's life is forever changed.
My Father Won't Hear about This by meandminniemcg
Usually, someone is called into the office because their child did something wrong. Draco is called into the office because his father attacked another retirement home resident... whose emergency contact is the most attractive man Draco has ever seen.
If At First You Don't Succeed by IWillBeYourPet
Blaise doses Draco with a love potion and he is (of course) all over Harry, and after Harry fixes it Blaise does it again. And again.
Eventually Draco should get the point, right?
Happy in Hollywick by Truelee_A_Black
Draco is happy living the little life he has made for himself in the picturesque village of Hollywick, he has his garden. He has his friends, even if there are far too many Gryffindors among them these days. He has his business and most days his body cooperates enough to get him out of bed despite all he has put it through.... Things could certainly have turned out a lot worse.
Life did not turn out the way Harry expected it to, or maybe how everyone else expected it to turn out for him anyway. After flaming out of Aurordom Harry lost himself in trying to feel anything other than simmering rage. Thankfully those days are now behind him, he just wants to live a happy life, baking delicious treats and selling his wares in the lovely muggle village he has picked as his new home.... surely he can be happy in Hollywick.
Pieces Of Me by Shewhxmustnxtbenamed
Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter have never been friends. After finding themselves isolated from others due to their own specific problems, they somehow connect. While Harry ignores his issues with addiction, and Draco disguises just how horrible his relationship is, a friendship blooms between them. Draco must choose between the life he's known for the past five years with Cormac McLaggen, or the life that Harry offers him, and the consequences that follow.
Swipe Right by MrsRupertGrint1769
Ginny and Harry breakup after deciding they want different things in life. After Ginny’s pestering, Harry signs up for a dating ap service. What better way to test the waters of his new found sexuality and keeping it out of the profit?
A vile of Felix Felicis, a Resurrection Stone, and a blond walk into an Avada... The punchline? Draco's life, it would seem. He can't win for losing. His mother's gone, his girlfriend's in love with his mate, and The Order won't take him no matter how many baddies he slaughters. The solution? A Time Turner. The solution to the consequential havoc of messing with time? Harry Potter, of course. Only, the bloke's been dead for fifteen years.
Good thing Draco eats Death for breakfast.
“A higher purpose?” he spat, equally disgusted. “Me?”
“Don’t hex the owl, Draco.”
The rarity of his given name on Severus’ tongue quieted his rising indignation. The older gentleman lowered his chin, leveling him with a look even more serious than usual.
“Your life will be painful. Lonely. Utterly dreary. And,” he clucked his tongue. “Unavoidably necessary.”
The Prince and the Dragon Beast by 0FIREnICE0
Prince Draco Malfoy of the land of Slytherin is kidnapped by a dragon on his royal wedding day and is taken to a tropical island as a prisoner. On the dragon's island, he meets a young man who tries to protect him from the dragon. But Draco soon discovers that the man and the dragon are one and the same being.
Everything is coming up Draco by Liligalaxy
A chubby street cat, a Potions & Coffee shop and a fashionista best friend who thrives on gossip. This has been Draco's life for the past five years. He's still healing from a guilt that never fades and hiding from a past that always burns, but if there is one things the universe knows, is that Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter can never get too far from each other.
An empty house, mind-numbing Ministry balls and a passion from traveling. Harry has spent the last two years never settling down in one place, always searching for that something. What he doesn't know was that, in the quietest part of London, he is about to discover what that something is. Again.
Or, how Draco and Harry meet after years of Never-thinking-about-each-other and suddenly it is all they can think about.
It's Not Hate Sex If You're Secretly In Love With Your Baby Daddy! by little_winnow, peachydreamxx
Harry's life has not turned out the way he envisioned. He hadn't planned to impregnate Draco Malfoy after a careless, drunken hate fuck. Or that, a year and a bit later, Draco would reluctantly invite him to a fancy woodland retreat with their 11-month-old son, Scorpius. Or that there would only be one bed.
How bad could it possibly be?
Draco had an easy goal for his 8th Year at Hogwarts: keep his head down and under no circumstances, create a stir. Burdened by the trauma of the war, Draco wasn’t interested in making friendships, but the Savior seemed to be annoyingly persistent about ruining that. Git. Potter was everywhere he looked, filled to the brim with surprising wit and unruly hair and fetching smiles that did something alarming to Draco’s chest.
Unfortunately, Draco knew all too well that it wasn’t a matter of if he broke for Potter, but rather when.
Each According to Its Kind by dodgerkedavra
Draco has one goal: become the best Obliviator the Ministry has ever seen.
Everything proceeds exactly according to plan…
Until he’s assigned to deal with a SNAKE SWARM in Godric’s Hollow.
Out of character? Impulsive? Perhaps. But all Draco knew was that he needed to escape his old life, with its suffocating expectations and stifling control. Answering a mail-order bride ad—an absurd and unlikely choice—seemed like the most logical way for him to break free and start over.
So here he was, at Star Farm.
Months after Harry is promoted to Head of Magical Law Enforcement, tragedy strikes. Cursed, Harry blames himself and flees to the States. And he's doing fine; really, he's having a grand time hiding from the world, drinking himself into a stupor, and losing himself in west Manhattan. Then, he stumbles into a lounge bar.
OR Draco plays the piano and Harry heals in more ways than one. Much political intrigue, terrorism, London post-war crime, dark magic, curses.
It's Not A Question Of “If” by The_sapphire_potterhead
Muggles were mostly beneath wizards. Still, there were two things they were better at than wizards: homosexuality and BDSM. That was the reason former Death Eater and current heir to the Malfoy estate Draco Malfoy found himself in an establishment that had both. Imagine his surprise when he finds a particularly famous person he enters a fuck-buddy situation with from which a new love blossoms.
Landscapes of Waiting by Ladderofyears, PollyWeasley
Draco and Harry have been dating for over a year now. They are happy and very stable as a couple, but Draco is adamant on remaining a virgin until their wedding day. They are strong in this resolution, but it's hard when you're kinky and your boyfriend is so damn hot.
Need You by youhavemyswordandbow
Going back to school has been good for Harry. He’s enjoying it this time around, actually learning, rather than fighting for his life.
Of course, there’s a few things that are keeping him occupied. One of them is blonde, insufferable and wears really nice clothes.
The other one is also blonde, and is definitely dead.
No matter, at least he hasn’t done anything stupid - like bonded his entire life to a certain someone who he absolutely had no need to bond himself to…
I Do Not Love You by Writ_and_romance
In 2013, a carefully-designed Obliviation leaves Harry reconfiguring his life and identity without any memories of true love; an act that's essentially erased Draco Malfoy from his mind despite a wedding band and shared home.
In 2000, Draco had expected Pansy's relationship with Luna to bring the Gryffindors a bit closer to his orbit of quiet, carefully pacifistic existence, but he never expected to navigate such a transparent embrace into a unit of family, friendship, and love.
A mystery, two love stories, and a reminder that learning to love never has an end date.
Harry should have come out and met someone when he was younger. He should have seen a doctor about the pain in his hip while youth was still on his side. Now, he's made his peace with dying young, but maybe not with dying alone.
Draco should have got the Kiss. He should have died in Azkaban decades ago. Instead, guards throw him in a Ministry lift with a dying man who could stand to live a little.