Drarry Hidden Gem Recs Pt 21
Here’s an official part twenty one! Missed the last twenty 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!
The Lost Childhood Toys (Replaced by You) by DelphilishPM
Since Draco was a child, he loved hi stuffed toys dearly, especially the ones specially customized for him.
But they were all taken, hidden away. Lost forever.
He needed to find a replacement.
When You Turn Your Back by bread_stick_mama
Where Draco has to worry about a lot more than just his career as a Healer, because Harry is acting like nothing happens between them when they are alone.
But that's not all on Draco's plate. A lot more is stored away in a treasure box that only a few people know about.
The Arc of the Pendulum by brummell (actualite)
After his father casts a mysterious curse on Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy is forced to try to make things right.
The Last of What the World Left You by xanthippe74
If the wizarding world won’t give Draco a second chance, he has a plan to survive: live in his Animagus form, a carrion crow, in the Forbidden Forest. Not only does Harry Potter come along and ruin it, he’s radiating a strange aura of power. With nowhere to go and a Life-Debt to his mother that Potter insists on repaying, Draco puts himself into the hands of the reclusive Boy Who Lived. Will the bleak corner of Yorkshire where Potter makes his home be another dead end or an unexpected refuge?
How the Love was Built by terianoen
It started in an abandoned corridor during fifth year while they were having a nasty fight and it ended somewhere neither of them were ready for. Draco insisted it was only sex and it meant nothing. But if that was the case, why can't he leave Harry's personal life alone?
Faerie Felicities by quackquackery
Draco dies and wakes up to the emerald drapes of the Slytherin dormitory at the end of 5th year. Thus ensues new possibilities, new choices, a new life, and a new romance(?)
Featuring fluffy shenanigans, lots of baking, and a hopefully not-so-bad war (fingers crossed).
Or in other words, a somewhat Christmassy canon rewrite fic.~
...and then they danced by keidaught
“You think you could do better, Malfoy?” Harry snarled, leaning closer to glare at him threateningly. Inwardly, however, he cursed. Malfoy always found a way to wind him up over the worst sort of things.
It was a challenge, and judging by the smirk on his face, Malfoy had realized it too.
“Oh, please. Is that even a question?"
In the end, the only thing they needed to overcome their animosity was the Yule Ball and their own stubbornness to not back down from a challenge to dance.
January 2004: Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter are two of the finest Seekers in England, deadly rivals and secret lovers.
As far as Draco is concerned, that's how it'll stay forever. He is betrothed to beautiful heiress Astoria Greengrass, and they are due to have a big summer wedding.
Everything changes during a hotly fought Arrows versus Wimbourne game when Draco falls from his broom. To his huge shock, when Draco awakes in St Mungo's, he discovers he is pregnant.
What will Draco do, now everything in his tidily compartmentalized life has to change?
Darling, You're Wiggling by louisfake, softlystarstruck
Draco has a secret. Harry doesn’t have a secret, until he does. Then he goes to Claire’s.
As Far as Possible by Mademoiselle_A
“Draco Malfoy is cursed.” That's what all the English wizards whisper to one another when they learn that Malfoy's fourth girlfriend has once again lost her life under strange circumstances. However, the truth is far more complicated than that...
Golden Protector by Kittylin15
After his trial Malfoy's informed Voldemort promised the werewolf Greyback him in payment. For his own protection at school he's assigned his own auror bodyguard. Because Harry testified at Malfoy's trial he thinks its his duty to make sure he's fine, and friendship spawns from it and maybe more. He has a bad feeling about the auror who was assigned.
Trial of Feathers by River_Nix
Some people were just…meant…to be.
No matter what the rest of the world said.
no need to panic by silverdragons33
Apparently, in the wizarding world, having a predestined soulmate is completely normal.
Honestly, Harry really shouldn’t be surprised anymore; after all, he’s been living almost nine years in the world of witches and wizards, having come across his fair share of crazy both during his years at Hogwarts and afterwards in his job as an Auror. And so, when his twentieth birthday arrives and a single letter appears on his right wrist, it honestly shouldn’t affect him so. Meanwhile, Draco Malfoy is busy getting his life back on track. With the war over, the Dark Lord defeated, his father incarcerated in Azkaban for life, and his new status as an Auror, Draco should for once have no difficulty enjoying his life. Except, there’s the minor issue of Harry Potter apparently being his soulmate to consider.
When someone starts trying to murder Harry, Draco is assigned as his protection. And although neither of the two have any idea what awaits them on the path ahead, one thing’s for certain: This will either end in bloodshed, or something far, far worse.
But, yeah, no need to panic.
bake it ‘til you make it by Anonymous
It’s not every day the man you’ve had a massive crush on for years just turns up in your bakery. But there stands Harry Potter himself, peering curiously at the display case of baked goods set up at the counter.
And oh, fucking hell, Draco abruptly remembers he’s wearing an apron.
Draco was bitten at the age of eighteen. But, he perseveres and finds his way through to the other side. Now, three years later, Harry is back at the Ministry, and Draco isn't aware just how much the wizard is about to upend his life, again.
It doesn't take them long to figure their shit out.
Adventures in Truth and Texting by fluxweed
Former Death Eaters are being targeted with a Veritaserum curse – it’s permanent, and makes victims speak aloud their every thought. Luckily, it’s easier to control when writing – and Hermione is trying to introduce Muggle technology to the wizarding world.
An advent fic featuring texting, identity struggles, and a Draco Malfoy who will literally not stop talking.
Draco is turned into a child. Harry takes care of him.
A Dragon to Call Mine by fantalf
Well, Harry is tired. Somewhat. He’s been The Boy Who Lived for quite a few years now—or what Harry privately likes to call himself; The Boy Whose Life Is Continuously Messed Up By External Forces or The Boy Who Can’t Take a Break or The Boy Who Gets to Keep Living Indefinitely or The Boy Who Is So Done or even The Boy Who Is, Apparently, Never Taking Time Off—and it never really gets better. Easier, yes; boring even, but never better.
So, when he was about to finish his speech that morning, when a rogue dark spell was aimed at him and that dragon showed up, white scales blanketed by the sun, Harry almost grinned. Because seeing the creature felt more like finally than it did danger.
Or, Harry finds out that living with a dramatic, opinionated dragon might be everything he’s ever wished for.
Draco Malfoy leads an ordered but rather unfulfilling life, working in a Ministry basement and residing in his cramped Muggle flat. Feeling underappreciated and horribly lonely, he purchases some special charms that allow him to conjure imaginary friends. Unfortunately, after becoming a suspect in a potions smuggling investigation, Draco is forced to surrender a month’s worth of memories for a Pensieve Probe.
The aurors assigned to bear witness to his most private and embarrassing moments are none other than the Ministry ‘darlings’ Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley.
Don't Fear the Reaper by IzRoan
Harry anticipates it’s Luna or maybe Hermione at Grimmauld Place, here to rouse him out of purgatorial listlessness once again. Instead, Harry finds an opinionated crow, a scroll with his name on it, and one exhaustingly persistent Draco Malfoy, who insists that Harry is his latest soul to Reap. The only problem is…Harry’s still alive. Or so he thought.
Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die. - Seneca
Every You, Every Me by daftfear
I thought I had already hit the lowest point in my life, but as the universe seems intent on proving, I was wrong. The only thing that could possibly make this worse is Potter. And more Muggles.
Spoils of War by instead_of_sleeping
Draco Malfoy is broke, the Manor being converted into a war museum, and he’s on probation, forced to work a menial job filing at the Ministry to meet the terms of a stayed sentence to Azkaban. After someone burns down his apartment with what little he has been left including his wand, Potter offers him sanctuary, but Grimmauld Place is so horrifying Draco feels obligated to try to repair at least enough of it to keep it from falling in on them both. This is a story about war trauma and wizarding home renovation.
The Bone Man by inspiration_assaulted
Harry Potter disappears from the Hogwarts Express at the end of his fifth year. The Light thinks he is dead. They're right, in a way, but also so very, very wrong. What has the boy who was once Harry Potter become?
There's Always Been a Rainbow Hanging Over Your Head by DracoWillHearAboutThis
"Fuck," Draco muttered, with feeling.
"Fuck, indeed," Blaise muttered, sounding miffed and apprehensive. “It’s Potter, I assume?”
Draco didn’t respond. He didn’t need to
“You’re a fucking idiot, Draco,” Theo groaned.
Draco saves Harry from being hit with a bonding spell and gets hit instead.
Is It Really So Strange? by FantasticElement
Harry Potter left everything behind just to teach a bunch of kids — but so did Draco Malfoy.
A story about rebuilding a school, and rebuilding a bond that, for better or worse, never dimmed.
Wonders Never Cease by PinkHitman
With the war over there's more time. More time to explore new intrests. For Draco Malfoy, Muggle stationary and crafts. For Harry, the pure blood ex-death eater who suddenly seems obsessed with Muggle things.
The Theory of Fading by Antisceptic
Ten years after the end of the war Harry decides to get the scar on his forehead removed. The only person capable of doing that is a brilliant alchemist from France, who publishes his research under an alias. His real name turns out to be Draco Malfoy.
They navigate the situation quite poorly.
"There's an urge to do something to Malfoy, simmering quietly in Harry's blood. He's afraid it'll start oozing out before he has time to decipher what kind of emotion that is."
The Black Lily Community Center by Ebibily
One day, almost ten years after the war is over, Harry is picking up Teddy from his wizarding primary school, and he discovers Scorpius is getting bullied. Harry can't just sit idly by.
Or, Harry runs a community center, Teddy and Scorpius become friends, and Draco has accepted the fact that his past will always haunt him.
The Dark Lord Planned My Wedding by SquibNation10
Lord Voldemort raised Harry and will only give him the best because only he can make him happy.
Or
Voldemort is a Dadzilla at a Drarry wedding.