#picky eater draco with really finicky tastes and allergies and resentment about food just like barreling into a career of it to fix that

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drarry and breakfast!!! or just food in general, mealtimes at home, cooking, going to restaurants, etc 😌 been loving your ideas so far!! thank u

hello!! so sorry for the long wait for this, i overestimated how much brain energy i would have while traveling for work, haha.

breakfast!! food!!!

i do headcanon harry's relationship with food, and very specifically making food, to be super complex. the weasleys managed to reconfigure food as a love language for him, overriding some really formative toxicity (and that's ignoring the failures/inherent grossness of how canon approached making the dursleys into villains; fuck jkr's fatphobia for real). until the weasleys and hogwarts, food was about scarcity vs excess, about serving vs being served, and i think it takes a long time to unspool all of that.

i think he holds having enough food as an ideal to strive for, even when he's food secure. it's hard for him to derive uncomplicated pleasure in preparing food (for himself, for other people) because it always feels indulgent.

and draco simply Cannot Relate. he's a picky eater! he indulges! he can't even fathom the binary harry is struggling to get past. if he cooks for himself (and i don't have a firm headcanon for whether he's good at it or not; i've imagined him as a chef [obvs] to totally helpless) that's about the ability to cater to his own taste and growing past childhood dependencies. if he cooks for other people, it's about a generosity of indulgence, wanting to share his own tastes.

so i think draco helps harry develop tastes, to deepen his appreciation for food while moving on from some of the guilt associated with it.

and i love imagining them working through this together over lovely, lazy breakfasts cooked together. doing it bit by bit on sunday mornings, half-dressed, eating out of the pan, halfway through a plate of food and it occurs to harry that "oh, we should've made some bacon, too" and draco's like "let's make bacon" so they go and do that. getting in each other's way, moving each other out of the way, swatting each other with hand towels and spatulas, "let's make bread" "idk how to make bread" "let's find out how to make bread", not putting the tomatoes on the plate if you don't really like them, just leave them off harry!!! where food is a love language because they're in love; "the world begins at a kitchen table" etc. etc.