#Hermione/Original male character

[wandering-writers-beware]

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[princesskenny1998]

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"One forced into following," Trelawney intoned, her voice deep and ominous, "a son who treads the dark path, bound by blood and fate... but who shall defy his master, his mother, in the final moments of his life. In the last act of courage, he shall perish by his mother’s hand, a death bound by love and defiance."

Hermione’s eyes widened, her breath hitching as she felt the weight of Trelawney’s words, the unearthly echo that seemed to reverberate through the room. Trelawney’s grip remained tight, her gaze fixed somewhere far beyond Hermione, somewhere in the recesses of a future yet to come.

"And yet," Trelawney continued, her voice trembling, "the one bound by sacrifice shall find no rest. To truly end it all, he must return... for the one who is destined to defeat the dark needs his aid. Together, they shall complete the circle, and only then will the darkness fade."

[captain-lessship]

Where We Once Were Pt. 3

For weeks now, You and Hermione were sneaking around now since your cousin and her friends would think you both flipped your lid but you didn’t think of that as you and her stood in one of the aisles of the library, looking in the books for Ancient Runes.

The library was your go to date place because of the fact if you were spotted here, you both could easily make up the excuse that it’s for your classes. 

You were humming to yourself as you drug your fingers along the spines of the books. She was humming and tapping her foot along, off in her own world as she read a page from a book. You glanced at her, her eye brows furrowed as she read, eyes darting along the page. 

You looked away before she caught you, it was her turn to look at you now. Noticing you fiddling with your reading glasses as you read the spines of the book, calmness radiating off of you.

You both silently wished you could go around like the other couples did. You couldn’t help but notice the slight her in her eyes when she saw a pair holding hands or sharing a quick kiss. But this is what you both chose. 

She wasn’t ready to tell her friends and especially not Harry and Ron while you were trying to think of a way to break it it Draco. You had half a mind to threaten turning him into a fish and letting Hermione’s cat, Crookshanks, eat him like you told her you would. A mischievous smile and a restrained chuckle came to your face when you thought of this. 

“What’s got you in a giggly mood?” Hermione asked, smiling at you.

“Oh just think about my buddy Crookshanks.” 

She rolled her eyes, “You can’t feed transfigured people to my cat.”

“But if it came do-“

“It would make you a murderer and he would be an accomplice.” She laughed, eyes crinkling as she smiled. 

“C’mon, it’s a nice thought.” You said nodding at her, hoping she’d back you up on it. 

She playfully scoffed, “Is it now?” She closed her book as she walked close to you, where she’d pulled it from the shelf.  You looked at her hand, she noticed you looking at her hand.

“May I hold your hand?” You ask, you typically cynical tone replaced by a soft, almost apologetic tone. 

“Yes.” 

You turned to face her, holding out your hand. She took it, curiosity on her face. When her comparatively dainty hand placed in yours, you spun her around as if you were dancing. 

This awarded you a few giggles from her, her hand never leaving yours. 

You wanted to stay in this moment forever but you were interrupted by a familiar voice of a ginger. She immediately dropped your hand, you pulled a random book from the shelf and she  turned to the other side of the aisle, following your lead.

“Hermione, there you are.” Ron said, looking at her, Harry was following him.

“Oh hey Paul,” Harry said, acknowledging you.

“It’s Pollux.”

“Sorry.” The black haired boy said, in a way that you knew her meant it.

“Anyway,” Ron started, “Have you seen Scabbers? Do you think your damn cat has eaten him?” He asked Hermione.

She rolled her eyes, “Don’t blame Crookshanks just because your rat decided he had enough.

You couldn’t help but laugh, which caught the attention of the boys, “Hermione, why are you hanging out with him in the library?” Harry asked, looking you up and down.

You knew what was in the back of his mind: the look people gave you when they knew who you were. And the worst part is you couldn’t blame them. 

“He’s in my Ancient Runes class.” She justified.

Ron looked at you, “Wait a minute, aren’t you Pollux Lestrange?”

Hermione rolled her eyes, “Honestly Ron, don’t you listen to conversations?”

Ron looked at you with what you could only define as jealousy. You weren’t worried about it though as you met his gaze. You knew when you were trying to be intimidated.

“So… What assignment are you doing in Ancient Runes?” Harry asked, watching the glaring between you and Ron.

You cut your eyes to him, “We are looking for anything that’ll give us an edge in our upcoming quiz. What’re you two doing here? Besides the runaway rat?”

Harry’s mouth turned into a guilty smile, “Well, We were actually going to ask Hermione if she could help us with our Care Of Magical Creatures homework?” 

Out of the two of them, you already preferred Harry. You smiled, “Ah,” you turned to Hermione, “Well, if you want to help them, I need to go make sure my cousin hasn’t drowned the first year in the fountain.” You excused yourself.

Hermione nodded, “Bye Lux-“ she didn’t catch herself and you smiled to yourself as you walked away.

“Lux?” Ron asked, the three of them now walking to a nearby table. 

“It is just a nickname, now what do you need help with exactly?” 

She hoped that answer was convincing.

You walked through the common room door and saw a familiar head in platinum blonde hair in the couch. You sighed. “Draco, I just need you to listen. So I started hanging out with Hermione and I… I asked her out a while ago and she agreed: I know what you’re gonna say and what they’re gonna think but is it really worth mine and hers happiness’s?”

There was silence. You walked to the front of the couch, ready to yell at him. 

He was asleep, mouth slightly open and book in his lap. Even in his sleep he looked fearful. You sighed as you grabbed a nearby blanket, unfolded it and draped it over him. 

“Goodnight Draco.” 

[thewriteadviceforwriters]

Dark Academia Names For Writers + Includes FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

I previously made a post about this, but I felt compelled to share again. I've created a free PDF that’s available on my Gumroad, which features a list of over 75 names, both male and female. It’s a little guide that I hope you can refer to as you develop your characters and worlds. I understand how challenging the naming process can be, and I truly hope this resource brings you a bit of inspiration and ease in your creative journey.

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Female Names:

Athena - Greek origin, meaning "wisdom"

Beatrice - Latin origin, meaning "she who brings happiness"

Cordelia - Latin origin, meaning "heart"

Daphne - Greek origin, meaning "laurel"

Elowen - Cornish origin, meaning "elm tree"

Felicity - Latin origin, meaning "happiness"

Genevieve - French origin, meaning "tribe woman"

Hermione - Greek origin, meaning "messenger, earthly"

Iris - Greek origin, meaning "rainbow"

Juliet - Latin origin, meaning "youthful"

Lydia - Greek origin, meaning "from Lydia"

Minerva - Roman origin, goddess of wisdom

Niamh - Irish origin, meaning "bright"

Ophelia - Greek origin, meaning "help"

Persephone - Greek origin, meaning "bringer of destruction"

Quilla - Incan origin, meaning "moon goddess"

Rosaline - Latin origin, meaning "beautiful rose"

Sylvia - Latin origin, meaning "from the forest"

Theodora - Greek origin, meaning "gift of God"

Viola - Latin origin, meaning "violet"

Male Names:

Ambrose - Greek origin, meaning "immortal"

Barnaby - Hebrew origin, meaning "son of consolation"

Caspian - Persian origin, meaning "from Caspian Sea"

Dorian - Greek origin, meaning "from Doris"

Ezra - Hebrew origin, meaning "help"

Fitzroy - Norman origin, meaning "son of the king"

Gideon - Hebrew origin, meaning "feller, hewer"

Hugo - Germanic origin, meaning "mind, intellect"

Ichabod - Hebrew origin, meaning "no glory"

Julian - Latin origin, meaning "youthful"

Killian - Irish origin, meaning "bright-headed"

Leander - Greek origin, meaning "lion man"

Magnus - Latin origin, meaning "great"

Nikolai - Greek origin, meaning "victory of the people"

Oscar - Irish origin, meaning "deer lover"

Perseus - Greek origin, meaning "to destroy"

Quentin - Latin origin, meaning "fifth"

Raphael - Hebrew origin, meaning "God has healed"

Silas - Latin origin, meaning "wood" or "forest"

Thaddeus - Aramaic origin, meaning "gift of God"

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[ecoterrorist-katara]

meta list + blog nav

turns out most of my metas are just me being salty about the way Bryan and Mike wrote Katara...more news at 11...

Katara’s parentification

the tragedy of Katara’s parentification & (context: parentified children as maladjusted children)

Katara’s crush on Jet

Toph brings out Katara’s inner child & Toph and Suki as people Katara didn't have to take care of

Katara’s post-ATLA arc

Katara didn’t want a quiet life after the war

Katara was a role model and her post-ATLA arc is a failure in representation

Katara being the Chief of the SWT wouldn't conflict with LOK's plot or her relationship

Katara would’ve been an amazing diplomat

Why Katara’s specific healer career didn’t fit her character

bloodbending & why Katara banning it could be in character in a sad way

Zutara & Zutara discourse

Zutara, romance novels, & the female gaze

“Zutara is a self-insert ship” is not a burn, it’s just misogyny

Is Zutara colonizer x colonized: my serious take, my less serious take

the crystal catacombs & how Katara sees Zuko’s pain

Zutara's two distinct ship dynamics

Why I think the way Ka/taang is written is male gaze-y

(KA is just one of those "bitch eating crackers" ships for me...block the #anti kataang tag if you don't want to see it)

Ka/taang: friends-to-lovers or the friend zone?

How Ka/taang is written to be one-sided

Aang’s not a “feminist icon” because the only stereotypically masculine part of his arc is his romance

Misc. character stuff (not just ATLA)

Aang's nuances beyond "sunshine boy"

Rethinking Hama's storyline + some thoughts on the symbolism of bloodbending

Some thoughts on Hermione being autistic coded & her flaws

Blog housekeeping/tags navigation under the cut

Tag Navigation

asks are tagged #can i ask you a question (yeah that's a TSwift ref even though there's minimal Tayposting on this blog); all my metas are tagged #my meta; Zutara fic recs are tagged #zutara fic recs. #zutara and other ship tags (e.g. #azutara) usually contain art, misc ship things, and metas

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Original posts that involve analysis of Harry Potter are tagged #ref: hp for blocking purposes. I don’t financially support JKR or her harmful rhetoric & actions against trans people, but I choose to engage with parts of the HP fandom that reject her views. In the HP context, I am most likely to talk about #hermione granger. I like Dramione, but I also like Ron quite a lot. I'm very into Wolfstar.

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[wisteria-lodge]

Gender and Harry Potter is such a hydra that just keeps revealing more heads the more you try and chop through it. Case in point: Today I just realized Harry Potter might've been originally intended as a book for boys, which if it was *wow*, way to miss the mark Joanne. Do you think it was actually intended for a male audience? To me it kinda makes sense if it was because of the way most women and girls are portrayed in it.

Bloomsbury Publishing definitely requested that JK Rowling publish with her (gender neutral) initials instead of 'Joanne Rowling' because they were concerned boys would not buy a book with a woman's name on the cover.

My guess is that her British publishers slotted it more firmly under 'boy' than her American publishers did. Harry Potter is 100% a school story, a super established British children's book genre. Historically, there are boy school stories (set in all-male posh public schools) and girl school stories (set in all-female posh public schools.) Hogwarts is of course co-ed, but that fact that it comes out of a literary tradition in which all the characters are the same gender... might help explain why in-universe gender politics seem remarkably absent from the wizarding world.

It actually kind of bugs me, when a canon-compliant fic makes a big deal about male-only inheritance or something, because that's just not something we see. There's one line about "Black family tradition" saying that the house goes to the next oldest guy, but since Dumbledore is worried that *Bellatrix* is about to inherit, it clearly isn't that important.

JKR has made a fantasy society where gender doesn't really matter - Augusta Longbottom and Walburga Black are clearly the powerful matriarchs of their respective families, Maxime and McGonagall are headmistresses, no problem. There isn't the boys quidditch team vs girl's quidditch team, the locker rooms and the prefects bathroom seem to be co-ed, "robes" are gender neutral, there isn't a sense that a specific discipline or type of magic is gendered (we see both male and female Transfiguration, Care of Magical creatures, and Defense Against the Dark arts professors...) There is kind of a sense that the boys are supposed to ask the girls to the yule ball... but multiple girls still ask out Harry. Gender comes up a lot in these books yes, but not so much in the actual worldbuilding. We have gendered bathrooms and dorms, and the rule that the girls can go into the boy's dormitory, but not vice-versa. Ron considers lace a girly fabric. Of the top of my head, that's all of the "gendered" rules I can think of.

But, since the main character is a boy, it makes sense that her British publishers would slot it more into the category of "school story (boy)" and market accordingly. I think it's extremely likely that she was asked to lean more heavily into quidditch, an aspect of the world building that JKR is clearly not interested in. She's said multiple times that she dislikes writing quidditch games - which is why she throws in comedy with the commentary, or makes some magical thing go down, or finds ways to cancel quidditch entirely. The mechanics and tension of the game *itself* are not interesting to her. I think it's also possible this is a reason for Hermione's relatively late intro into the friend group during Book 1? Harry can be friends with a girl, but first we need to establish that Ron is his *best* friend.

But then the books hit America, and the whole "school story" thing didn't read as "boy" as much as it just read "British." There was a sense in American advertising, especially in the 90s, that girl's products were for girls, but boy's products were for everyone. Scholastic Publishing seemed less interested in gendering the book, and more interested in making sure it didn't come off as too high-brow to American children - so we get the name change from "Philosopher's Stone" to "Sorcerer's Stone," things like that.

But then right before the publication of Book 4 the series exploded, and JKR could have just self-published the thing if her publishers didn't behave. So I think that you can see the fingerprints of that marketing push on Book 1, which grandfathered in a number of worldbuilding choices that JKR maybe wouldn't have made later. But pretty quickly it just became JKR doing her thing.

[browneyesandhair]

Hi yeah so reading comprehension implies that we’d be reading what you wrote. So you didn’t mention this was about Tomione fans that hate Harrymort. You implied it without explicitly stating it. So you can’t toss a reading comprehension issue at something that’s implied. But also I’m not here to argue with you about semantics.

Personally, I haven’t seen people in the Tomione spaces that I’m in hating on harrymort. (Several spaces I’m in actually pushback when people try to hate on others ships). However I know that isn’t the same thing as them not existing. Have I been missing these posts in the Tomione/Volmione tag?

i'm convinced people who adamantly only like tomione/volmione would eat up harrymort if harry were a girl...

[hd-erised]

H/D Erised Fic: Equipoise

Author: @karamelised Recipient: khalulu Pairing(s): Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Rating: Teen Word Count: ~88,200 Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Professor Harry Potter, Journalist Draco Malfoy, Harry has a magical cat named Gabby, Action/Adventure, Investigations, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Magical Theory, POV Harry, BAMF Harry Potter, (who doesn’t know wtf he’s doing), Canon-compliant, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Wandless Magic, Minor Magical Injury, Friends to Lovers, Light Angst, Sharing a Bed, Working Together, Banter, one instance of vomiting, once Harry realises what he wants he’s not afraid to go after it, Unbreakable Vows, Magical Creatures, Minor Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Post-Hogwarts, Getting Together, Romance, Birthday Parties, Posh Draco Malfoy, Tea Drinking, Swearing, Heartfelt Conversations, Sarcastic Conversations, Owls, Enthusiastic Snogging, Hogwarts Castle, Slow Burn, Happy Ending, Community: hd_erised Recreational Potions Use, Death of a Minor Character, Mention of pregnancy, Mention of parent death, Past Harry Potter/Original Male Character, Drinking, Brief Implied homophobia, Brief ableist language, Criminal Justice System Issues, Additional Warnings in Author's Note

Summary:  Ten years of peace have settled over the wizarding world, leaving Harry Potter feeling strangely adrift. Teaching Defense at Hogwarts is fine and all, but when mysterious magical blackouts start sweeping across the country, he can't help but jump at the chance to investigate. It would be the perfect outlet for his restless energy - if he didn't suddenly find himself tangled up in an elaborate charade, pretending to date the Prophet's most illustrious journalist, Draco Malfoy. Between hunting down the cause of the blackouts and maintaining their ruse, Harry's beginning to think that peacetime might actually be trickier - and far more surprising - than he'd bargained for.

Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.

Equipoise

[obsidianpen]

NG Hypothesis: I am strongly suspicious that Bellatrix is going to end up serving Harry, in some shape or form.

The justification behind this is fairly thin and circumstantial, as with all good conspiracy theories, but fundamentally hinges on the fact that 1) Bellatrix is Hermione's narrative parallel in NG, and 2) Voldemort has recently forced her to vow to treat Harry with respect and deference. In combination, I feel like the two are leading up to a shift in Bellatrix's existing relationship with Harry.

Bellatrix and Hermione being narrative parallels is easy enough to justify -- thanks to Harry's aura-sight, we can already confirm that the two witches share literally identical auras, something that no other pair of characters thus far share (not even the Weasley twins). They both serve as the right hands and functional generals to our main protagonists, are both highly respected women in male-dominated wartime spaces, and both are flawlessly loyal in defending their respective protagonist while still being willing to openly disagree about things they consider to be wrong decisions (Bellatrix's frequent and open critiques of Snape's loyalty are a good example of this). While in the original books Bellatrix's narrative foil is clearly intended to be Ginny, it is useful to understand that in reference to No Glory that role has been very clearly supplanted by Hermione (as the original romantic pairings of Harry/Ginny and Voldemort/Bellatrix do not apply, weakening the foil of Ginny to Bellatrix overall).

Voldemort's marking and then subsequent promotion of Hermione to his personal assistant is a continuation of one of the core themes of No Glory: "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." Voldemort clearly respects Hermione in ways that he certainly doesn't respect most others and treats her like a legitimate threat to his rule if left unsupervised (which, frankly, is valid). He holds an outsized quantity of animosity towards her, as shown by how badly he wanted her executed before Harry was able to bargain for the lives of her and Ron, but the secret of Harry's horcrux status has paradoxically promoted her to an almost confidant-tier by being one of only two people who know that Harry is Voldemort's last Horcrux and don't want him dead because of it (that club consisting exclusively of Hermione and Voldemort -- Harry, by contrast, is absolutely willing to commit suicide if it means taking Voldemort down with him).

This is a state-level secret, i.e. something that could absolutely topple the government if it even became widely speculated, let alone confirmed. The day that the Wizarding World learns that Harry is the last tether to life for the much-loathed domestic terrorist and now dictator Voldemort is probably one of the last days that Harry (and by consequence, Voldemort) have to live. No matter how much they hate each other, that secret is so powerful that Voldemort and Hermione become bound together by default simply because of their shared desire to not see the truth get out; it becomes a fundamental part of how Voldemort can trust having her in his service at all.

There is only one other secret that Voldemort is similarly desperate to supress, even if it might not lead to his explicit demise in exactly the same way: the secret of Ruination, and his rape (and near-murder) of Harry on the Malfoy Manor grounds during Ron and Hermione's wedding.

This is critical, specifically because his reign is extremely unstable currently, and also because Harry is an extremely beloved, teenage, public figure. In a country where Voldemort is desperate to keep up the charade of his own sanity (something which tends to wax and wane fairly regularly), there is no version of this that comes out even remotely well for him. The man who spends hours in the Wizengamot lecturing about the importance of improved rule of law cannot simultaneously be admitted to raping defenseless teenagers whenever he feels like it, much less teenagers that he himself had described as "merely [...] a victim" not even a month before. It destroys faith in both rule of law and Voldemort's stability, i.e. his ability to at least be a consistent leader even if he'll never be a moral one. Instability, by contrast, frequently discourages businesses, drives population exoduses, and generates political unrest, literally none of which Voldemort can afford right now. It wouldn't be as immediate a death as the reveal of the horcrux information, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't have the power to be deadly all the same.

Returning to the subject of Bellatrix, then, it is useful to remember that only three people currently have first-hand knowledge of what happened that night: Voldemort, Harry, and Bellatrix, who modified Ginny's memory. (Luna, naturally, knows everything due to Harry's confession to her, but did not experience it first-hand). If this pattern of secret-keeping feels familiar, it should: it's an exact parallel of the dynamic currently keeping Harry's status as a horcrux a secret. Going a level deeper, we may also recall what Voldemort said when he confirmed that Hermione knew about Harry's horcrux:

"She has known for some time, truthfully, though she did not accept it as a reality until very recently." - Voldemort to Harry, ch. 30: Violent Violet

It is never addressed what, if anything, Bellatrix believes the necessity of her altering Ginny Weasley's memory to be about. It would not be unreasonable for a suspicious Bellatrix (especially in the wake of her newest vows) to comb over her memories of prior orders Voldemort had given her regarding Harry and begin to put the pieces together. Much like Hermione, she is written as a very intelligent (if considerably less sane) woman. Once she begins asking more questions, it would not at all be shocking for her to end up in a similar position to the one Hermione did: knowing that something you consider to be horrible is true, but refusing to accept it as reality.

There are a number of different ways such a revelation could go, but the final piece of evidence supporting her eventually serving Harry comes from her most recent vows to him: that she will treat him henceforth with "respect and deference." This is, from a story perspective, basically the closest that Harry could ever get to putting his own version of a Dark Mark on someone. Powerful, binding magics driving someone to (at least nominal) servitude, with no way of removing or undoing them for the rest of the recipient's natural life. Much like Hermione, she may hate her new "master", but the eventual revelation of Ruination will likely drive them closer together just by being people who share the same damning secret.

Similarly to Voldemort's original outsized hatred (and murderous intent) for Hermione, I expect Harry's hatred of Bellatrix to also eventually cool one he stops allocating much of the rage that he truly feels towards Voldemort onto her. It's unlikely that she'd ever actively prefer him to Voldemort, but she may get upgraded from "an enemy Harry would murder in broad daylight with his bare hands" to "an enemy Harry can afford to keep close." When exactly such a shift would occur is obviously still unclear, but it's evident that deference and secret-sharing make for a promising start.

I so almost didn’t post this but it’s just too nicely written and thought out. Fucking detectives man

[letteredlettered]

Hi Im sure you answered this already but i sadly cant find it: how did end up shipping or rather writing drarry fics?

I've actually been asked quite a few times why I ship H/D. I never answer, because it's complicated and long and I have an essay on the subject, so I'll answer the 'how' question without addressing the 'why'.

Once upon a time, the internet was becoming a thing that people used regularly. The news kept talking about how the youths of the day were "surfing the 'net" and this was going to be the new normal. As usual, I could not identify with the 'youths of the day,' even though I was one. What could possibly be of interest to me on the internet? Reading books was far better than talking to other people. Then one day in my senior year of high school it dawned on me that you could possibly talk to other people about books, something I had never done before, as I didn't know anyone but my parents and brothers who ever read for fun, and my parents and brothers did not like to read things like Jane Austen. What if there were people on the 'net who liked Jane Austen??? Seemed fake, but I gave it a try.

The first Jane Austen website I found was Republic of Pemberley, which hosted something they called "Bits of Ivory." Through the "Ramble" board on Republic of Pemberley, I found out that there were "Bits of Ivory" elsewhere. It was called fanfic and hosted on fanfic.net.

Almost all of it that I was introduced to was Harry Potter fic, as HP was the megafandom of the time, and my Sense and Sensibility friend was obsessed with Snape, mainly because of Alan Rickman. I was also obsessed with Snape, though I must say that even though I had been obsessed with Alan Rickman since 1995, I never did like his casting as Snape and still don't. Anyway, I ended up getting interested in Snape/Hermione fic, and continued to be interested on and off for over the next five years.

I should pause at this moment to say that I had been writing fanfic since the fourth grade. I didn't know it was called fic. I didn't know other people did it. It never occurred to me to share it. When I found "Bits of Ivory" it actually took me a while to process that the stories there were in a similar vein to the stories I had been writing all my life, stories based on fiction by other people. It was just so wild to me that anyone would share that stuff, as though other people would want to read the different endings that they came up with, the self-inserts and the cross-overs they came up with.

I should also take this moment to say that I didn't really have slash ships. I was aware that slash existed, and I thought it was great. Sirius/Remus was a background ship everywhere at the time, and even though I didn't really see it in canon and wasn't terribly interested in it, I thought it was a nice thing. And when I started getting into X-Men through Wolverine/Rogue, it seemed obvious to me that Professor X and Magneto had a past sexual relationship. I, in fact, had an original story that I'd started writing in eleventh grade that had similar tension between two male characters, and the idea that they were in love and unable to have sex about it explained so much. And I wrote more original stories in college that were gay.

I think my problem was that the canons I was consuming were quite straight, and while I wasn't obsessed with writing canon-compliant fics, I was (and still am, to some extent) obsessed with writing characters who were true to canon. At the time sexuality seemed some kind of immutable thing to me that was deeply a part of who a character was. Also, sex to me was very Other; it meant something really deep and serious about you that obliterated other things you were. For instance, I was frustrated with all the Frodo/Sam porn, because I felt it obliterated their beautiful friendship and made their relationship about sex and being gay rather than the deep pure bond of friendship. So I was maybe kind of homophobic and confused.

Then I fell in love with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and while that canon has a lot of heteronormativity, it not only has a character who thought she was straight who realizes she's gay, it also has vampires who have lived for centuries and who have broken every kind of social norm that exists. It seemed silly to me to assume that Spike or Angel were straight, which is how I began shipping Spike/Angel, which is how I got absolutely obsessed with slash. It was so liberating to write porn where the power dynamic wasn't influenced by centuries of patriarchy! It was so liberating to write porn where I didn't have to think about my own anatomy or gender or position in a sexual dynamic! It was so liberating to write porn with a bunch of dicks!

Having discovered slash, I turned back to ye olde faithful fandom, which had ten billion fics about everything. I'm not sure I even tried Sirius/Remus, because I was still so uninterested in it, but now I read all the Snape slash, the majority of which seemed to be Harry/Snape. The thing is, I don't ship Harry/Snape. It can be very hot! But while the porn is fine and some of the stories are fun, these are not two people that I want to live happily ever after. I just think that the power dynamic between them, the history they have, and the personalities they are do not make me want to imagine them as a couple with a happy marriage who occasionally have the friends over for games of Quidditch and Exploding Snap. And while I like queer complicated, angsty stories, I also like a happy ending in a semi-heteronormative sense, especially for Harry Potter, who really seems to want one. So, I started looking for other Harry Potter slash.

I knew that Harry/Draco was a juggernaut pairing, but I just hated Draco Malfoy so much. I honestly could not stand him. I used to go about saying that I hated him not only as a person (like, I also hated Snape as a person; he's a dick, and he's cruel to children! But he's a great character) but as a character. I just didn't like the function he played in the narrative. I like big, dramatic rivalries and evil vs good; meanwhile, Draco Malfoy is a little worm. So I kept thinking about reading HP slash, but resisting.

Then, one day, I was sleeping on the couch, and woke up suddenly with the idea that Draco Malfoy could be reformed. He could be sorry for all the shitty things he's done! He could be really apologetic! He could be really trying to make up for his past, and Harry could find this truly beautiful, and they could have sex about it!

Surprisingly, it was hard to find fic about this. For some reason, in most of the fic, it was Harry having to earn Malfoy's approval, instead of the other way around, which I found absolutely bonkers. But I eventually found Eclipse, by Mijan, which was just what I wanted. Then I was obsessed and was reading every Harry/Draco fic I could find.

Eventually, I even read the ones in which Harry was a cad and Draco Malfoy was a perfect snowflake who never did anything wrong. And then I started finding fics that really emphasized that Draco had a very different point of view of what happened, which showed that he really had no way to understand who Harry was, or what Harry had been through. In these fics, Harry had to do some work to understand Draco, which is what really sold me on the pairing. I still want fics in which Draco has to do a lot of heavy lifting to address his past and deal with the hurt he has caused and the violence of his previously genocidal outlook, but I love it when Harry, too, has to adjust. After saving the world and losing most people he loves and protecting the innocent and doing his exhausted little best to be honest and righteous and true, Harry Potter still has to do work, again, to overcome his past and find a peaceful life. And that's what made me start writing Harry/Draco, the end.

[justarandombrit]

Okay well as you may know from looking at my blog for five seconds, I saw the matinee for Starkid Innit. During the interval and after the show I wrote down some notes. I tried to get them in chronological order but my memory is dogshit and I definitely missed some stuff, I hope you appreciate it though.

Outside:

. EVERYONE SUNG GRANGER DANGER

. IT WAS SO GOOD (except for the high note lmao)

. EVERYONE SUNG DAYS OF SUMMER

. EVERYONE A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE SUNG GOIN' BACK TO HOGWARTS

Act 1:

. The Nightmare Time sting punched me in the face

. The shout-out to the confused parents

. BRIAN + MEREDITH IN TGWDLM IS EVERYTHING TO ME

. High School Is Killing Me, Literal Monster and Nerdy Prudes Must Die all got mashed together!

. Corey!Richie is my Roman Empire

. Jaime in NPMD….

. Jaime had a different line to PJ’s original in Literal Monster. I couldn't hear half of it but it was different

. JEFF!MAX

. THE AUDIENCE SINGING RICHIE'S PART!!!!!! I'M NOT A LOSERRRRRRR

. TOGETHER!!!!!

. OUR DOORS ARE OPEN

. Jaime singing Sami/Harry ABOUT HER DOG (Nori)

. The audience whipping out the phone cameras

. CLARK SINGING I WAS GAVE ME SUCH INTENSE CHILLS

. Joey finally giving the white, male side characters attention

. Joey changing “I know I'm not a star” to “I know I'm not Clark”

. He pointed the mic at the audience for the “DEFINITELY NOT!”

. Joey mistimed his jump 😔😔

. Genuinely his best performance of Sidekick yet

. Joey making fun of Brian for not getting a big solo

. Brian kept pretending to beat him up, it was brilliant

. Not Over Yet is definitely Brian's song, shut up

. Brian accidentally singing the same verse twice (How does he always mess this song up?!?!?)

. My mum took a photo during the “EVIL PLAAAAANSSSS” bit and it was right when Brian was choking Joey

. “So look alive and don't forget”

“FORGET WHAT?”

. FEAST OR FAMINE

. Rogues Are We still goes so hard

. Rogues Medley without Kick It Up A Notch is weird, but Kick It Up A Notch without Dylan would definitely be weirder

Intermission:

. Ice cream :D

Act 2:

. Starting with We Got Work To Do is so iconic

. THERE'S BEEN A CHANGE IN THE CLIMATE, SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR, WE FEEL THE HEAT, NO NEED TO DEFINE IT, WE DON'T REALLY CARE

. MEREDITH REQUESTED BACK ON TOP!!!!!!!! AND IT WAS SO GOOOOD!!!!!!!

. Joey shouted “Draco, get on the floor!” at Lauren

. ALL THE UNDERRATED SONGS

. I love how it was hyped up like it was going to be Boy Toy, and then just straight up wasn't lmaooo

. Brian finally got the slow, sexy Hideous Creatures (Take that, Nick Lang!)

. Okay I'm trying to remember the order of the underrated songs they did

. Hideous Creatures (Lauren)

. Pays To Be an Animal (Corey) (He didn't sit in the spotlight and someone yelled “TO THE LEFT, COREY”)

. Get In My Mouth (Jeff) (He fully sprawled out on the stage it was hilarious)

. Land of the Dicks (Jaime)

. Hermione Can't Draw (Meredith) (She sung it so well I briefly didn't recognise the song)

. THEY MANAGED TO WORK IN LUPIN / BRIAN CAN'T SING YESSSS

. I genuinely cannot remember what Brian sung

. Gotta Find His Dick (Joey, and eventually everyone)

. The entire “Oh you wanna know where I got my shirt?” bit

. Brian, Jaime and Joey got it from Primark, Meredith got it from “Primed-mrak”, Lauren’s was a family heirloom, Corey got it from Gucci and Jeff got it from America, from Pri-mart (He made the guy on the drums do a baddum tsh)

. COREY SINGING SHOW STOPPIN' NUMBER. OH MY GOD. (The entire crowd joined in, also, Jeff and Jaime as Steve and Stu)

. Everyone cheering so loud when Joey and Lauren came on stage, and them claiming we had no idea what they were going to sing, and it was actually a completely new song (it was Granger Danger obviously)

. And them continuing to claim it was new throughout the song

. As I expected, I almost cried during Not Alone. Also apparently Darren thought it was going to be a big hit??? And just begrudgingly let them use it for A Very Potter Musical

. Super Friends!

. So sad Jeff’s mic was so quiet for “I WANNA BE A MODERN DANCER”

. THEY SUNG WANNABE BY THE SPICE GIRLS

. The fakeout of everyone leaving stage, then the band coming back on and playing the start of Goin' Back To Hogwarts

. “Darren's not here”

“I'LL DO IT”

. THE AUDIENCE DID THE FIRST PART OF GOIN' BACK TO HOGWARTS ALL BY OURSELVES

. JEFF DID DYLAN'S PART (but he didn't do “All of you to [city name] :( )

. Jeff pointed at various parts of the audience for “Welcome hotties, nerds and tools!” and then whispered “I'm so sorry” immediately after

. Singing (/ shouting) Goin' Back To Hogwarts along with hundreds of other Starkid fans was so exhilarating, I loved it and I almost cried (also I'm gonna be so hoarse tomorrow)

[shinyasahalo]

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[dewitty1]

Carey ‘W’Recs Wednesday(｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ presents:

we have heard on high

oflights @oflights

Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Relationship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Characters: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley/Hermione Granger,Madam Rosmerta/George Weasley, Original Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Getting Together, Dating, Chocolatier Draco Malfoy, Woodcutter Harry Potter, Chocolate, Trees, Flowers, Singing, Ferret Draco Malfoy, Tree Sex, Drinking, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, H/D Erised 2023, Christmas Carols, Tattooed Harry Potter, Sectumsempra Scars (Harry Potter), Minor Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Past Harry Potter/Original Male Character(s)Language: English Collections: H/D Erised 2023 Words: 34,734

Summary:

Reeling from the fallout of a bad breakup, Harry decides to find out who his soulmate is. The bad news: it's Draco Malfoy. The good news: Malfoy doesn't seem to know they're soulmates. The worst news: Harry might be falling for him anyway.

(੭ˊ͈ ꒵ˋ͈)੭*⁺˚. * ･ ｡ﾟ☆

Excerpt:

“You really are cute as a ferret,” Harry says later. The shop is closed for the night, poor Benjamin has finally been sent home, and Draco has let Harry into the back kitchen, where he’s putting trays of chocolate in the cold cupboard to chill for the night.

Draco gives him a glare, but it seems perfunctory, and after a moment where Harry realizes he’s assessing whether he means it, he tips his nose in the air with a sniff. “Of course I am. Much cuter than that weasel.”

“Well—”

“I can quite easily throw you out of here, you know.”

“There’s no question that you’re cuter than weasel George,” Harry says, finding he means it as he says it. Draco looks assessing again, before turning back to spelling a few molds clean, and Harry watches with delight as a flush crawls up the back of his neck.

He sidles up to the counter, leaning his hip against it and crowding in close. Draco hastily brings out a stack of chocolate bars, shiny and crisp, fanning them across a marble cutting board, concentrating very hard on that as Harry leans in further.

“I’m a bit biased, of course,” Harry says, voice lowered carefully. That back-of-the-neck flush is so close now, and Harry can see it spreading up to Draco’s cheeks.

“Oh?” Draco asks, just the tiniest bit of a shake in his voice. Harry nods, and he thinks Draco can feel it; a particularly unruly lock of his hair brushes the side of Draco’s face.

“Right. Because we’re—well, I’d like—you’re my boyfriend, aren’t you? So of course I think you’re cuter.”

Draco sucks in a breath, and Harry feels that. He watches Draco carefully, can see the smallest twitches in his face at this distance, the way he bites his bottom lip. His hand has the slightest tremor as he picks up a nearby knife and begins chopping up the chocolate bars one by one, steadying as he goes.

“Am I your boyfriend, then?” he asks, eyes rapt on the chocolate. Harry finds himself following his gaze for a moment, watching the chocolate break into shards, listening to the satisfying snaps of the pieces and taps of the knife.

“I’d like you to be,” Harry says, and he looks back at Draco’s face when the knife pauses. Still careful, he adds, “Do you want to be?”

At this point, Draco has kissed him, snogged him, held his hand; he’s dated him rather thoroughly. He’s agreed to all of Harry’s suggestions and propositions and he’s offered some of his own. But he hasn’t outright said how he feels about Harry, and while it’s clear he’s been enjoying himself, Harry finds he needs to hear something real.

Harry knows what he’s asking—are you here with me? He doesn’t want to fall on his own again, not for the one person meant to fall for him in return.

Draco looks down at his chopped-up chocolate pieces. He sets the knife down, and Harry’s nearly disappointed; he loves watching Draco work, will treasure this extended look at it.

But the disappointment clears quickly when Draco twists to the side a bit, facing Harry. He lifts his chin almost defiantly when he says, “Yes. I think I’d like that.”

“Oh, I know you will,” Harry says, and he cups Draco’s cheek and brings his face lower so he can kiss him.

Draco moves his whole body into the kiss, pressing against Harry head to toe. Harry’s back digs into the counter a bit but he can’t possibly mind the position, sandwiched as he is by Draco’s warmth, his lovely scent and the soft, plush press of his mouth on his. He’s open and inviting, and Harry’s almost giddy when they break apart a moment, his smile uncontrollable.

“You’re my boyfriend, then?”

Draco nods, swallowing hard a moment, before saying, “I am. And you’re mine.”

“I am. Merlin, that’s terrific.”

Harry can feel the heat that spreads over Draco’s face at that; he absolutely treasures it. He kisses along the tops of Draco’s pink cheeks, plants something particularly wet and loud on Draco’s jaw, and feels like he’s got Felix Felicis running through his veins when Draco lets out a soft little laugh.

“You’re absurd,” Draco tells him, and Harry just grins back at him until Draco leans in and starts the kiss up again.

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[hd-hurtcomfort-fest]

The Roommate by Romaine - A Podfic

Podficcer: CailynWrites Rating: M Length: 4:27:58 Link to original work

Warnings/Tags: Fatphobia, Past Food Insecurity, Corporal Punishment of a Child, Trichotillomania, Draco Malfoy in the Muggle World, University, magical college, Cats, Oxford, Hogwarts, Azkaban, Sequestered, Wizarding Traditions (Harry Potter), Slice of Life, Knitting, Crochet, Drinking, Past Threat of Sexual Assault in Azkaban, Past Assault in Azkaban, Minor Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Minor Harry Potter/Original Male Character(s)

Summary: After one year in Azkaban, and two years of home arrest, Draco is going off to college. Myrrdin College is Oxford’s magical college, where one Harry Potter is currently attending. Both are going for their teaching certificates with Draco specialising in Potions and Harry in Defence Against the Dark Arts. The Headmistress has insisted all incoming professors must be degreed. However, the Board of Governors insist that Draco also must live in a Muggle house with limited allowance and take Muggle elective courses before he can become Hogwarts' new Potions Professor. Harry is coerced by others into helping Draco Malfoy survive in the Muggle world.

Podficcer’s note: Thank you to the mods for their unending patience with me as I took a (much-needed) vacation before finishing this.

***FIC PAIRING***

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*banner art by @basiatlu

[physalian]

Treatment of female characters in fandom

Fandom Hot Take That Isn't At All New

The floor is open for debate, feel free (but do so respectfully, yeah?). This is a pattern I notice when exploring both old and new fandoms and that’s the perception of the highest-ranking female character, with rank as in protagonist vs love interest vs secondary vs tertiary character. Upon a massive paradigm-shift I just had about Percabeth.

There is a tendency, at least as I see it, within fandom to skew in favor of the female protagonist in fanfic instead of dumping her for the two hottest male characters. This happens when the female hero is a wish-fulfilment type. As most fanfic is written by women, this tracks. The audience loves her whether she sucks or not because she's them, and they write smut and romance for her because they want to live through her. They're very forgiving to female leads in and even if the fandom argues over her, she’s still the center of the largest ships. She’s the hero, and odds are, the most popular ship is the canon pairing, with some exceptions like Zutara.

If she’s not the protagonist, look at any fandom with a male lead and she’s probably dumped for the top five hottest men in the story for non-canon pairings. She has very little slack in the fandom and is subject to incredibly critical views. She has to be on point or better than her male counterpoints (ex: Katara) to be in the top ship for the fandom, or her canon ship with the male protagonist is just that old that it predates everything else (ex: Annabeth). Why? Because they're almost always less compelling than the hero's next closest male connection, because the writer wrongfully assumes that “it’s romance, you get, it I don’t need to put in the effort” but they do have to convince you why the friendship or rivalry exists. But also, because of how fandom treats female love interests.

I don’t read a ton of original fiction romance and when I do, it’s always a lady lead. If I look up fanfic for a series and I personally think the main romance is meh, she’s still there all over the archive (TOG, Twilight, Red Queen, Outlander, Star Wars Sequels, Max Ride etc). If I look up a fandom with the same quality of problematic romance, she’s tarred and feathered by virtue of being the love interest even if her character is as deep or as compelling as her contemporaries in other works where she’s the hero instead.

As in, if Edward was the protagonist of Twilight, the majority pairing would be Edward/Jacob while Bella would be absolutely despised. Same exact personality, same exact role in the story, it’s just told from Edward’s perspective (which I know exists I’m talking the actual book Twilight). People already hate the Star Wars Sequels, but if they were the exact same movies except Kylo was the POV character, “fans” might’ve bullied Daisy Ridley so much that they killed off her character—looking at you, Supernatural fandom.

Not every single lady love interest. Astrid/Hiccup is the most popular ship on AO3 for HTTYD. Astrid is a badass character and far more than a love interest and a perfect example of writers who worked hard to make it believable (and also there’s no one really second to Astrid within the story in terms of depth and screentime, except Toothless… which is the next most popular ship so). But even when she's pretty universally loved by the fandom (ex. Hermione) that doesn't guarantee her top billing if she has a male rival for screentime.

I don’t know if it’s just different fans who pick up these different genres or double standards for female characters but it’s pretty consistent. It might just be that readers can live vicariously though a cardboard narrator but get incredibly protective of the male lead and who’s allowed to court him when they can’t. I had this debate with somebody a while ago and they argued that it simply comes down to fanfic writers getting attached to the few female protagonists they're allowed to have. But like. This is across all genres, and the idea that fans starved of female heroes will only like them if they're the main hero and not the secondar hero is not the pro-women slam-dunk that person thought it was.

I also only really participate in fandom where it concerns fanfic and not live online discourse. I write male protagonists as a female author because it’s just what I grew up reading more and I like the action adventure genre far more than the romance genre, which is usually helmed by male heroes, but my writer catalogue is nearly 60/40.

It says something pretty loud and clear about the state of Percabeth which had ten years on Solangelo, to have the gap closed between them, with some disclaimers: I’m only looking on AO3 and Percabeth predates the surge in popularity of AO3 vs FFN where Solangelo hit at the perfect time. The third most important character in the PJO books kept changing from book to book (Grover, Thalia, Luke, Rachel, Zoe, etc), so Annabeth was the only ship option, she had no big competition.

But even then, when I go out of my way looking for good Percabeth fics, they’re just not there. The ship might technically be the most popular in that it populates in the most fics, but it’s not as front and center as Solangelo, and there’s way less canon content for Solangelo. If Will had been a girl, Solangelo would not be the fandom juggernaut that it is. If Annabeth was a man and Percabeth was a gay ship, she'd probably have a lot less hate with the exact same abusive personality, simply because she'd be a man and male characters will always have more leeway.

[jelliewrites]

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📦A Box Full of Echoes📦

It's ten years after the war, and Harry Potter is failing at life, dating and his dream job as an Auror. Being part of a team on a top secret operation could be his final chance to make it in his chosen career. So what if the target is Draco Malfoy, who may or may not be trying to bring back the Death Eaters and end life as we know it? Harry hasn't thought about Draco in years, along with a lot of other things that now won't stay put in the box in his head, but he's determined to stay in control. What can go wrong with being part of 24/7 undercover observation of his old nemesis? All he has to do is keep his mind on the job...

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Length: 126 274 (18 chapters out of 21)

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Post-Second Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter) Occlumency (Harry Potter), Auror Harry Potter, Auror Ron Weasley, Unspeakable Hermione Granger, Smut, Pining, Non-Consensual Voyeurism, Masturbation, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Casual Sex, Rimming, Magically Powerful Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy Needs a Hug, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Harry Potter is Obsessed with Draco Malfoy, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Angst. Angst with a Happy Ending, Idiots in Love, Minor Harry Potter/Original Male Character(s), Minor Draco Malfoy/Blaise Zabini, Mystery, The Ministry of Magic is Terrible (Harry Potter), Original Spells and Potions (Harry Potter), POV Harry Potter, Married Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy, Dubious Consent, Slow Burn, Sexual Tension

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🍆HEA Sexcapades 🍆— A collection of short stories featuring Harry and Draco after they've got together, and all the kinky stuff they get up to!

🎄Under the Mistletoe🎄

Draco kisses Harry under the mistletoe...

...but not the kind of kissing you're thinking about, you sweet summer child!

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Length: 4444

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Established Relationship, Established Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Post-Hogwarts, Pureblood Culture (Harry Potter), Cohabitation, Domestic Bliss, Domestic Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Smut, Boys Kissing, Rimming, Anal Fingering, First Time, POV Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy Has Long Hair, Mistletoe

🧹Double Dipping🧹

What better present can Draco get for his husband’s birthday than a threesome with disgraced former professional Quidditch player Oliver Wood? Even if he has to pay for it!

But will Harry be onboard with the plan? And will Oliver be able to take them? Both of them?? At once???

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter/Oliver Wood

Length: 6747

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Threesome, Threesome - M/M/M, Smut, Shameless Smut, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Oral Sex, Spitroasting, Double Penetration, Established Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Bottom Oliver Wood, Escort Service, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, POV Draco Malfoy, Porn With Plot, But Not Really That Much Plot, No Beta We Die Like Someone With No Time Management Skills

🥕Baby Carrot🥕

Written for @wwreversetropefest2024

Draco Malfoy has a secret.

Harry Potter has a not-so-secret, long-term crush on Draco Malfoy.

In fact, Harry would do just about anything to get with Draco, but Draco seems intent on avoiding him. This just leaves Harry even more determined to find out what the big secret is. Or maybe it isn't so big after all…

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Length: 11002

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Post-Second Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter), Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Auror Harry Potter, Harry Potter is Obsessed with Draco Malfoy, Draco Malfoy Needs a Hug, POV Harry Potter, Top Draco Malfoy, Bottom Harry Potter, First Time, Topping from the Bottom, Draco Malfoy Has a Small Cock, Small Penis, Small Dick Energy, Smut, Shameless Smut, Porn With Plot, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Rimming, Frottage, Sex Toys, Dildos, Semi-Public Sex, Bathroom Sex, Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Domestic Fluff, Getting Together, Happy Ending, Tattooed Draco Malfoy, Pierced Draco Malfoy

🗝Rusty Cage🗝

Written for @hd-tarot

Harry Potter is not okay. Someone else who’s not okay? Draco Malfoy, but he's doing time in Azkaban for his heinous crimes.

But what if Draco isn't as guilty as he's been made out to be? Everyone knows that Harry is a sucker for righting injustice, including Hermione, who is more than prepared to meddle in order to help her best friend.

Or, when Harry visits Draco in prison and things don't go quite as expected.

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Length: 20 550

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Post-Second Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter), Draco Malfoy in Azkaban, Draco Malfoy Needs a Hug, Draco Malfoy is Not Okay, POV Harry Potter, Harry Potter is Not Okay, Lucius Malfoy Being an Asshole, Harry Potter Needs a Hug, Harry Potter Needs Therapy, Draco Malfoy Needs Therapy, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Agoraphobia, Eating Disorders, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Neglect, Smut, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Rimming, Happy Ending, Inspired by Tarot (Divination Cards), Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, Sentient Magical Houses (Harry Potter), Sentient Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, Cooking, Hospitalization

💰 An Extremely Indecent Proposal💰

Written for @hd-hurtcomfort-fest

'What in Merlin’s name would make you think you have any influence over me? In case it has escaped your notice, the Malfoys are finished. I haven’t even thought about you for nearly ten years. That’s how little you matter to me. And you think you can just waltz in here and expect me to jump in line? You’re delusional, that’s what you are. Now get out of my office; I’ve no further time to waste on you today.'

Unfortunately, there are some situations where you just can't take no for an answer. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Draco might just be in possession of some information that suggests that one Harry Potter could be up for a little...persuasion. Of the oral sex variety.

What could possibly go wrong?

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Length: 33237

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Auror Harry Potter, POV Draco Malfoy, Top Harry Potter, Bottom Draco Malfoy, Smut, Shameless Smut, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Rimming, Semi-Public Sex, Sexual Coercion, Draco Malfoy Needs a Hug, Lucius Malfoy Being an Asshole, Post-Second Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter), Suicidal Thoughts, Butt Plugs, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Spreader Bars, BDSM, Lucius Malfoy in Azkaban, Sex for Favors, HD Hurt/Comfort Fest 2024, Boys Kissing, Collars. Under-negotiated Kink, Face-Fucking, Office Blow Jobs, Alley Blow Jobs, Alley Sex, Bathroom Sex, Blackmail, Plot Twists, Cake

🍼Something Changed🍼

Written for @harrydracompreg

'I'm delighted to be the one to tell you, Mr Malfoy, that you are expecting.'

What the fuck? Was this some kind of joke, or perhaps a hideous dream?

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Draco and Harry had both decided that hooking up was almost certainly a big mistake, but it's one they're not going to be able to forget in a hurry. Now they have to live with the consequences, which include some very unhappy teenagers, and plenty of opportunity for misunderstandings.

A getting together story about how one decision can change the path you are on, and make up for years of missed chances.

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Length: 50444

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Mpreg, Smut, Shameless Smut, Mild Breeding Kink, Unplanned Pregnancy, Magical Pregnancy, Head Auror Harry Potter, Divorced Harry Potter & Ginny Weasley, Divorced Astoria Greengrass & Draco Malfoy, Minor Astoria Greengrass/Ginny Weasley, James Sirius Potter is a Little Shit, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Anal Fingering, Harry Potter Epilogue Compliant, Not Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Compliant, Angst. Angst with a Happy Ending, Misunderstandings, Idiots in Love, Lovers to Friends, POV Alternating, Getting Together, Forced Cohabitation

🥄A Recipe for Disaster🥄

Written for @dracotops-harry

Harry went to push Malfoy again but there was no room, he was too close, almost pressed up against the other boy. He was filled with something he couldn’t name, the urge to somehow end this constant frustration that filled him and had no outlet.

He felt Malfoy’s body tense against him, the roughness of the school robes he still wore against his own worn t-shirt, the shaky exhale of Malfoy’s breath on his cheek and the rich, musky scent of whatever posh hair potion Malfoy always used. And something else. Something hard poking into Harry’s hip at the exact same height as where his own cock gave an unwelcome and involuntary twitch.

Harry blinked, frozen in shock for a moment before he sprang back and out of Malfoy’s way. The blond launched himself off the shelves faster than a newly released snitch, and was past Harry and out the door in an instant.

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Length: 7188

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Hogwarts Eighth Year, Enemies to Lovers, Potions, POV Harry Potter, First Time, Top Draco Malfoy, Bottom Harry Potter, Smut, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Porn With Plot

🛞Three Wheeling🛞

Theo and Blaise have the perfect relationship and everything is going swimmingly, or it is until Pansy starts dating Harry Potter. But school rivalries are in the past, and everyone can be mature about it, can't they? Well, Draco can't, apparently. Theo really doesn't need a reminder of how much he fancied Draco in school, but someone has to take Draco in hand, and it looks like Blaise is the man for the job...

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Blaise Zabini/Theodore Nott

Length: 12641

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Threesome - M/M/M, Smut, Shameless Smut, Under-negotiated Kink, Light BDSM, Bad BDSM Etiquette, Spanking, Non-Consensual Spanking, Mildly Dubious Consent, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Hand Jobs, Draco Malfoy is a Brat, Bottom Draco Malfoy, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Minor Pansy Parkinson/Harry Potter, Anal Fingering, Praise Kink

🪦Harry Potter and the Resurrection Stone🪦

Written for @hp-soulmates-secret-santa

Getting your soulmark should be a happy occasion, but when Harry Potter finds out that his soulmate is already dead, it's just another loss to add to the many he has suffered. Because no one comes back from beyond the veil, right?

Ship: Cedric Diggory/Harry Potter

Length: 3554

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Canonical Character Death, The Deathly Hallows, Veil of Death (Harry Potter), Angst with a Happy Ending, Domestic Fluff

💋Last First Kiss💋

Ginny Weasley is fed up with being nagged to find her soulmate. She needs a break, and as luck would have it, she's chosen to be interviewed about her budding Quidditch Career at an Icelandic spa hotel. Sounds perfect! But from the start, things don't go her way, particularly when she finds out exactly who is going to be interviewing her...

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Ginny Weasley

Length: 6453

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, First Kiss, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Journalist Draco Malfoy, Quidditch Player Ginny Weasley, POV Ginny Weasley, and there was only one bed, no beta we die like voldemort

🦚A Peacock in a Pear Tree🦚

Written for Dark Festivus Gift Exchange 2023

Every December, Voldemort sends the Order a Christmas Gift...

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Alternate Universe - Voldemort Wins, Minor Character Death, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Implied/Referenced Torture, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Non-Linear Narrative, Order of the Phoenix Bashing (Harry Potter), Angst with a Happy Ending, Frottage, Murder, POV Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy Needs a Hug, Smut

🌕Bite My Lip and Close My Eyes🌕

Written for @bite-me-delight-me-hp-fest

When he catches the scent of another werewolf in the Ministry of Magic, Harry Potter absolutely doesn't expect to have to mount a daring rescue mission and then go on the run with Draco Malfoy. Sharing a tent with his one time rival in the run-up to the full moon could prove to be very awkward...

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Length: 17153

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Werewolf Harry Potter, Werewolf Draco Malfoy, Auror Harry Potter, Ministry of Magic (Harry Potter), Department of Mysteries (Harry Potter), Unspeakables (Harry Potter), Rescue, Werewolf Mates, The Ministry of Magic is Corrupt (Harry Potter), Gay Sex, Top Draco Malfoy, Bottom Harry Potter, Anal Sex, Tent Sex, Masturbation, Mutual Masturbation, Awkward Wanking

👓Hard to be Humble👓

Written for @hprarepairfest

Percy Weasley is working hard at the Ministry, going nowhere, when Draco Malfoy turns up and starts taking all the credit. Percy is not going to take this lying down! Or is he...?

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Percy Weasley

Length: 13062

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Smut, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Light BDSM, POV Alternating, Ministry of Magic Employee Percy Weasley, Percy Weasley Needs a Hug, Desk Sex, Gay Draco Malfoy, Gay Percy Weasley, Office Sex, Office Blow Jobs

🐉Blank Space🐉

Written for @hp-soulmates

Life has not been easy for Draco Malfoy since the war. His hopes that he could complete his house arrest and finally get on with his life were not to be. Spat at in the streets, unable to get work, Draco is getting desperate. Desperate enough to put his life in the hands of a backstreet practitioner to see if finally getting rid of the Dark Mark can make a difference. But his decision has consequences he had not expected, and may provide the answer as to why Harry Potter seems unable to leave him alone.

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Length: 34498

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: None

Tags: Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Dark Mark (Harry Potter), Dark Mark Removal (Harry Potter), Implied/Referenced Suicide, Minor Character Death, Auror Harry Potter, Magically Powerful Harry Potter, Top Harry Potter, Bottom Draco Malfoy, Smut, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Rimming, POV Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWEAngst with a Happy EndingDraco Malfoy Needs a Hug

☣️Three☣️

After an injury ends his Quidditch career, Ron Weasley is surprised how much he enjoys working at the Ministry, and his unexpected friendship with none other than Draco Malfoy. Who’d have thought it, eh?

After everything that happened in the war, Draco Malfoy’s life is much better than he ever dared to expect. But after everything, can the great Harry Potter really be interested in him? It doesn’t seem possible…

Harry Potter is just really, really angry, and someone is going to pay.

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy/Ron Weasley

Length: 20 063

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: Rape/Non-Con

Tags: Dark Harry Potter, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, POV Alternating, Unreliable Narrator, Gay Harry Potter, Gay Draco Malfoy, Bisexual Ron Weasley, Domestic Violence. Emotional/Psychological mbuse, Physical Abuse, Gaslighting. Dubious Consent. Rape/Non-con Elements, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Oral Sex, Ambiguous/Open Ending

🪄Imperius🪄

What if there was an eighth horcrux?

What if Voldemort just wouldn't die?

Draco Malfoy doesn't remember what came before his current existence, where he lives to serve the Death Eaters who control his every move, and through him, his magical inheritance.

But when a memory from his past appears in his present, breaking the curse that imprisons him, he finds that he may be the one who holds the key to salvation. If only he isn't too broken to use it.

Ship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Length: 12770

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Rape/Non-Con

Tags: Alternate Universe - Voldemort Wins, Horcruxes, Imperio | Imperius Curse (Harry Potter), POV Draco Malfoy, Malfoy Manor (Harry Potter), Rape/Non-con Elements. Past Rape/Non-con. Rape Recovery. Imperiused Sex (Harry Potter), Crucio | Cruciatus Curse (Harry Potter), Torture, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Minor Character Death, Draco Malfoy Needs a Hug, Hurt/Comfort, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms. Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Rimming, Oral Sex, Non-Consensual Oral Sex, Smut, Gratuitous Smut, Shameless Smut