#Wheel of Drarry Mini-Exchange Secret Santa 2023

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yes, and by @hogwartsfirebolt (1k, G)

Tags: Post-War, Auror Harry Potter, Ministry of Magic Employee Draco Malfoy, Found Family, Fluff, Draco works at the Ministry kitchens, and yes, he overthinks a lot (what else is new)

Draco most definitely did not think they could talk. He opened his mouth to say as much, because no, what did they even have to talk to each other about? But Harry must have sensed it, because he added, “Please?” Open and earnest, one word dripping with the easy confidence he’d carried for a lifetime, the unassuming kind. It had been a no for so long, for so many good reasons. But not all of those reasons remained true, not even most of them — they’d been swept away by the stream of time, by life allowing the pieces that had held each of them slot into their fated place, no longer on opposing sides of a scale. Draco heard the sound of his own voice say, “yes.” He said, “yes, alright.” And suddenly, a lot of things shifted, things that had been a firm, unmovable no. And then they were yes. Yes, he went to get drinks with Harry and they talked. Yes, he promised he’d hear Harry out without fighting. Yes, he was sorry too. Yes, he wanted a fresh start. Yes, he was free next week at the same time. Then, as a knit jumper catches on a nail and unspools, a friendship with Harry was pulled out of him, accidentally, irrevocably.

yes, this has been a calm and a refreshing breeze.

(rec by @kk1smet)

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2023.12 ~ Top 5 longest fics posted on AO3

1. The Man Who Forgot by @slightweasel [E, 250k]

►After ten years of marriage, Harry forgets. The more things change, the more Draco Malfoy is still up to something.

2. Conjuring Cupid by @sugarplum-senpai [M, 89k]

►Two decades after Hogwarts, Harry's toy shop is ready for the busiest season of the year. Bolstered with an ever-growing work list, plenty of tea, and a sentient puppet always looking for mischief, his life is full. Still, at the end of the day, he’s lonely, and as the boy who lived his search looking for a match is disastrous. When his friends register him for an anonymous dating service, he’s unconvinced. Then again, maybe not knowing each other’s faces right away might just give him everything he’s longing for.

3. City of Quartz by ladygoodman [M, 57k]

►[...] It's 2012, and the granddaughter of Celestina Warbeck is pronounced dead at her home in Los Angeles. Auror Harry Potter finds the case file a little too familiar with other celebrity deaths cropping up all over the UK. The Dark Mark is making an appearance on young witches and wizards as well. There are only a few former Death Eaters who haven't been locked away in Azkaban, and Draco Malfoy is one of them. On that suspicion, Harry follows his tracks all the way to sunny Los Angeles, where he's faced with an entirely new caliber of celebrity culture. Who is Caelum West? How is he mixed in with all of this? And why does he look exactly like Draco Malfoy?

4. Nervous? by @invisible-nerd-girl [T, 46k]

►Harry gets drunk at a party, only to remember a game he over heard muggles talking about. He ends up playing with Draco who doesn't back down. Much to his surprise, it doesn't end there.

5. If I win, lose, or draw, there’s a winner in us all by MystMelody [E, 41k]

►Sixteen years ago, Harry and his England team suffered World Cup heartbreak following an agonisingly close loss at the hands of a single, incorrect umpiring decision. Many years and two World Cup victories later, and Harry is (mostly) sure that he has moved on. As Harry’s final tournament before retirement looms, he is confident that his team have what it takes to lift the trophy a third time - no matter what anyone else might say. Especially Malfoy, who has reinvented himself as a successful Quidditch reporter and seems determined to write as many awful things about the team as possible. [...]

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The Lost Boy by @youhavemyswordandmybow [M, 17k]

Dark Artistry by @sightedkarma [E, 26k]

The infallibility of unicorn hair by mindor [E, 18k]

Just Exist by Kendra_Storm [T, 32k]

More than a Legend by @romaine2424 [M, 17k]

New Beginnings Taste Sweet (Daffodils) by corazon_san [T, 18k]

O Come, All Ye Faithful by toomuchplor [E, 19k]

Secrets Undone (the Lightning Order) by @xx-thedarklord-xx [M, 39k]

Spoils of War by instead_of_sleeping [E, 30k]

What happened at Christmases by ProseMary [?, 15k]

You're Scrooged, Draco Malfoy by @fencer-x [M, 27k]

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Ongoing Fest/Exchange

※ Fics would be listed elsewhere.

25 Days of Draco and Harry 2023 | @slythindor100

Frottage Cottage FFF

H/D Erised 2023 | @hd-erised

Harry/Draco Owlpost 2023 | @hdowlpost

Wheel of Drarry Mini-Exchange Secret Santa 2023 | @drarrymicrofic

Dark Festivus Gift Exchange 2023 | @harrypotterfesthub

Fanatical Fam Fic Exchange 2023

HP Festival of Stars 2023 | @hpfestofstars

HP Soulmates Secret Santa 2023 | @hp-soulmates-secret-santa

HP Yuletide Bliss 2023 | @hp-yuletide-bliss​

Yuletide and Mulled Wine Fest 2023 | @yuletide-and-mulled-wine

2023 Harry Potter Trans Comfort Fest | @magicaltrans

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2023.12.18

Complete fics posted on AO3 this day

1. Memos of Originality by @xx-thedarklord-xx [T, 2k]

►Harry owns a publishing company, and his best employee is Malfoy, who sends daily updates from home, but doesn't realize that Scorpius sends his own daily updates to Harry through the Floo every morning. And Harry? Well, he knows exactly what to do with them.

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Fest/Exchange

★ Wheel of Drarry Mini-Exchange Secret Santa 2023 | @drarrymicrofic

Help! I'm a Hopeless Romantic! by Anonymous [M, 14k]

Take A Stab At It by Anonymous [E, 3k]

Teddy's Timetable by Anonymous [T, 1k]

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4. A Hand To Hold (in the dark) by Anonymous [T, 5k]

►It started small. It didn't end that way. A quick tale of falling in love while you piece yourself back together. ★ Harry/Draco Owlpost 2023 | @hdowlpost

5. Say It Out Loud by Anonymous [E, 11k]

►Eighth year was bollocks, as far as Draco could tell. ★ Harry/Draco Owlpost 2023 | @hdowlpost

6. To catch a star by @myrtlefics [M, 1k]

►“Of course I came, Potter.” He swung his broom at his side and raised an eyebrow to the precise angle most apt to get Potter flushing. [...] ★ Frottage Cottage FFF

7. We're All Mad Here by Anonymous [T, 4k]

►Draco Malfoy, a doctor, pays a visit to his boyfriend Harry Potter on Christmas Eve. Harry has been placed in a Psychiatric Hospital for delusions of a magical world. Harry Potter, an Auror, pays a visit to his boyfriend Draco Malfoy on Christmas Eve. Draco has been placed in a Psychiatric Hospital for delusions of a wholly muggle world. ★ Yuletide and Mulled Wine Fest 2023 | @yuletide-and-mulled-wine​

8. À Bon Chat by Anonymous [E, 35k]

►Draco Malfoy didn’t intend to lead a life of crime after the war. It’s just that being good had turned out so incomprehensibly boring. Now he's thirty-five, a fully redeemed member of society, the darling of the wizarding social pages, and a newly minted consultant for Gawain Robards' Investigative Research division. In his spare time, he enjoys good whisky, casual sex, and moonlighting as an art thief. [...] ★ H/D Erised 2023 | @hd-erised

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2023.12.17

Complete fics posted on AO3 this day

1. Imaginary Playground by @xx-thedarklord-xx [T, 1k]

►Draco owns the biggest toy store in Diagon Alley, and he makes all of the wooden toys himself. Business is good, but his favorite part of the day is when his favorite customer brings in their father, even if that father is Potter.

2. Sealed With A Kiss by @jtimu [T, 1k]

►This time, Pansy is up to something.

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Fest/Exchange

1. A Christmas to Remember by Anonymous [M, 21k]

►Draco has never liked Christmas, and for good reason. Almost all of the memories he has of the winter holiday season are at best cold and lonely, and a worst wrought with fear and danger. Will this Christmas be marginally tolerable? Or is he in for another frigid, forgettable disaster? If Harry Potter has any say in the matter, it will be...a little bit of both? ★ Wheel of Drarry Mini-Exchange Secret Santa 2023 | @drarrymicrofic

2. Clear Skies, Full Hearts by Anonymous [E, 16k]

►Harry loves everything about playing professional Quidditch – the rush of flying, the rush of winning, the rush of getting off with rival seeker Draco Malfoy. Harry’s the highest scoring rookie Seeker in the history of the League. He’s also, inexplicably, obsessively, hooking up with Draco. When Draco unexpectedly quits the League and disappears from Harry’s life, Harry doesn’t stop wondering what it all meant and if he’ll ever get another chance to find out. ★ H/D Erised 2023 | @hd-erised

3. A Peacock in a Pear Tree by Jelliebabie [E, 10k]

►Every December, Voldemort sends the Order a Christmas Gift... ★ Dark Festivus Gift Exchange 2023 | @harrypotterfesthub

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2023.12.21

Complete fics posted on AO3 this day

1. Darkest Shadows by @xx-thedarklord-xx [M, 6k]

►Shadows. Shadows were everywhere. They followed Harry, whispered to him, promised him the world. All he had to do was use them, control them, guide them—become them. Harry became the shadows but also mastered them at the same time.

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Fest/Exchange

1. A piacere by Anonymous [E, 2k]

►When cellist Harry can't keep up with the rest of the string quartet, Draco keeps him late for remedial practice ★ Wheel of Drarry Mini-Exchange Secret Santa 2023 | @drarrymicrofic

2. Scheming Up by Anonymous [T, 2k]

►This whole situation could have been avoided if Potter had stayed in the safehouse, but perhaps this is for the better. ★ Wheel of Drarry Mini-Exchange Secret Santa 2023 | @drarrymicrofic

3. The Unplottable Time Conundrum by Anonymous [E, 45k]

►When the past starts bleeding into the present at Grimmauld Place, an old academic article pulls Draco Malfoy out of his life of luxury. Haunted by the memory of a fleeting post-war kiss and thrust into the ghostly spaces inhabited by Unspeakable Harry Potter, Draco’s easy life is about to get a whole lot more complicated. ★ H/D Erised 2023 | @hd-erised

4. Wizards in Winter by @ourswordsmeandeath [G, 1k]

►During a wintery road trip through the States, Draco and Harry stumble across a two-storey house awash in Christmas lights. ★ HP Festival of Stars 2023 | @hpfestofstars​

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HP/DRARRY Fic Fests 2023

★ Sources : potterfests, @hpfests & @lee-bella || as of 2024.02

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JAN

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FEB

H/D Candy Hearts Fest 2023 @hdcandyheartsfest : AO3

Kinkuary 2023 @kinkuary : AO3

HP Shipuary 2023 @hpshipuary : AO3

HP Call Me Daddy Fest 2023 @call-me-daddy-fic-fest : AO3

Knot Another Writing Fest 2022/23 @hpknotfest : AO3

Valentine’s Day Fic Exchange : AO3

MAR

HP Fruit Fest 2023 @hp-fruit-fest : AO3

Salt and Pepper Fest 2023 hp-goldenage@DW : AO3

Dronarry Fest 2023 @dronarryfest : AO3

APR

Draco Tops Harry Fest 2023 @dracotops-harry : AO3

HP Poetry Fest @hp-poetry-fest : AO3

HP Trans Fest 2023 @hptransfest : AO3

HP Triad!Fest 2022/23 Magical Creatures Edition @hptriadfest : AO3

MAY

Lights, Camera, Drarry Fest 2023 @lcdrarry : AO3

H/D Mpreg Fest 2023 @harrydracompreg : AO3

Basilisks & Staircases 2023 @gameofdrarry : AO3

JUN

HP Pride Fest 2023 @hppridefest2023 : AO3

HP Wedding Fest @hpweddingfest : AO3

JUL

H/D Wireless 2023 @hd-wireless : AO3

Drarry Disability Fest 2023 @drarrydisabilityfest : AO3

HP Cest Fest 2023 @hpcestfest : AO3

Harry James Potter Week 2023 @harryjamespotterweek : AO3

AUG

HP Bodice Ripper Fest 2023 @hp-bodiceripper : AO3

HP Law of Attraction Fest @hp-lawofattraction-fest : AO3

SEP

Drarry Let's Play 2023 @drarry-lets-play : AO3

Kill Your Darlings 2023 @hp-mcd-fest : AO3

HP Cottagecore Fest 2023 @hpcottagecorefest : AO3

HP Drizzle Fest 2023 @hpdrizzle : AO3

HP Soulmates Fest: Fated to Be @hp-soulmates : AO3

OCT

H/D Career Fair 2023 @hd-fan-fair : AO3

H/D Suds Lite 2023 @hdsudsfest​ : AO3

HP Dead Dove Fest 2023 @hpdeaddove : AO3

HP Kinktober 2023 @hpkinktober : AO3

HP Snooze Fest @hpsnooze : AO3

Pumpkin Spice Fic Fest 2023 @pumpkinspiceficfest : AO3

Unleashed! Fest 2023 @unleashed-fest : AO3

Discord Cultober Fics : AO3

NOV

Bite Me Delight Me Fest 2023 @bite-me-delight-me-hp-fest : AO3

Drarropoly '23: Here There Be Dragons @gameofdrarry : AO3

HP No Nut November 2023 @knot-your-mothers-mods : AO3

HP Socmed AU Fest : AO3

Sugarfest : AO3

Shadows and Spells : AO3

DEC

H/D Erised 2023 @hd-erised : AO3

H/D Owlpost Winter Fest 2023 @hdowlpost : AO3

25 Days of Draco and Harry 2023 @slythindor100 : AO3

Wheel of Drarry Mini-Exchange Secret Santa 2023 @drarrymicrofic : AO3

Dark Festivus Gift Exchange 2023 @harrypotterfesthub : AO3

HP Festival of Stars 2023 @hpfestofstars : AO3

HP Soulmates Secret Santa @hp-soulmates-secret-santa : AO3

HP Yuletide Bliss 2023 @hp-yuletide-bliss : AO3

Yuletide and Mulled Wine Fest 2023 @yuletide-and-mulled-wine : AO3

Fanatical Fam Fic Exchange 2023 : AO3

Frottage Cottage FFF : AO3

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