#this is inspired by Mirror of Ecidyrue series

[aiuredsworld]

Draco turned to let Harry see better, only to feel Harry's fingers sliding carefully through the light strands

“Here, it'd be easier if someone else does it”

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Excerpt from: Draco Malfoy and the House of Black

by starbrigid https://archiveofourown.org/works/25111171

[batqueers]

currently obsessed with this time travelling draco series ive been reading and ive been spurred to create my own au (additional to rewrite) as well

[itgirldraco]

do you have any fic recs?

yes!! so many!! please check the tags for each!

all time favorites:

way down we go: an absolute classic. werewolf harry, chronically ill utterly miserable draco, post-war in small town america. enemies to lovers slowburn with protective harry and hopelessly gay draco.

in hopes that you may drown: SO much of my art is based on this author's harry and draco. such a lovely fic. post-war, draco raising delphi and absolutely perfecting the stressed yoga mom vibe. harry is instantly smitten.

in our blood: about haunted houses, parenthood and growing to care for each other. I love this one.

you'll still find stone: arranged marriage. draco expects the worst and harry is an absolute sweetheart. angst but so heartwarming. (mind the tags!!)

ANYTHING by corvetteclaire! their blood link and in the mirror series are severely underrated and genuinely took my breath away. some of my favorite writing and plots.

inside grey eyes: so so beautiful. quite dark and yet exceptionally hopeful. all about draco's recovery from a nightmare situation and harry's unending support. (mind the tags!!)

anything by tessa crowley!! an absolute gem in the fandom with an impressive variety of works.

the mirror of ecidyrue series: perfection.

in your arms, rests my world: “You make me feel safe, Potter. You keep me safe.” yeah..yeah. (mind the tags!!)

anything by toxik_angel tbh..one of my favorites is infairitance even though it’s incomplete; fairy draco is a game changer

oxytocin: angst, angst, angst, and so much cuddling. slowburn in the best way possible.

Soup-pocalypse and The Great Curry Cataclysm: i read this some time ago but i remember adoring it.

Diffraction Patterns (I Don't Know How to Forget You): another incredible old read .

everything by beloved @rockingrobin69 !! this is one my favorites ever i never stop thinking about it

fluff/humor:

manlet: PLEASE read this one! so so cute and adorable and hilarious ft sweet giant harry and tiny angry draco and wickedly funny narcissa. will definitely open your eyes to small draco.

screw you: extremely funny and extremely hot.

like a star across my sky: SUCH a good fic! feels like a romcom.

title of their sex tape: as funny as it sounds.

flirt: really sweet. disaster flirty draco and awkward yet charmed harry.

married to a brute (ongoing): genius and hilarious

smut:

it beats me black and blue: absolute perfection. no notes.

let me roll it: so delicious. clueless mess draco and grumpy harry who hates everyone except draco.

his little something: size difference excellence

scenes of surrender: a combination of smut, love, recovery and caretaking

a perfect fit: hung harry and size queen draco

come up for air: veela draco

fawning for you: harry is completely obsessed with draco's videos. very cute, muggle setting.

burning the ground: creature fic

ongoing/other faves:

one elephant at a time (ongoing): i recommend this fic to EVERYONE. genuinely incredible. think yellow wallpaper, jane eyre, crush by richard siken, and the author mentions being inspired by my dark vanessa as well. so essentially a modern romance with a dark gothic backstory. every single sentence in this fic stands out to me. every characterization, every conversation, is just so honest and genuine. also!! draco has a cat called lady di!! and he loves to wear earrings! (mind the tags!!)

within the hollow crown: more of pre-drarry tbh. such an interesting plot!! harry grudgingly cares for an increasingly spiraling draco who is except under close and constant watch by the dark lord-every second of his sixth year. currently has an ongoing sequel.

imperfection (ongoing): another fic by robin! and another of my all time favorites, so so lovingly written and so tragic and lovely and heartbreaking. really digs into draco's psych and his manic mindset and constant spiral BUT there is light at the end of the tunnel and so much love surrounding him even though it's hard for him to see it. (mind the tags!!)

saviour series (ongoing): wouldn't necessarily call this drarry? more of a stockholm syndrome gothic novel type of fic but i recommend it all the same. the writing is truly extraordinary and the pacing is incredible. will leave you breathless. part one is complete. (mind the tags!!)

perspective series (ongoing): the original books with alpha harry, omega draco in gryffindor, and an adorable friendship dynamic between the golden trio and draco. really sweet, and super interesting. no romance as of yet but there are little moments.

tales of the potters: very interesting take on the arranged marriage trope! i recommend all of this author's works; they have a gorgeous way with words and their work really brings harry and draco to life.

the veiled boy (ongoing): one of the most intriguing recent fics i've read. really delves into character dynamics in such a realistic and refreshing way and draco is so endearing in it. every chapter has gorgeous illustrations.

never in extremity: reread this one recently. equal parts heartbreaking and heartwarming. (mind the tags!!)

[creeeee]

a casual scene lowkey inspired by the “draco malfoy and the mirror of ecidyrue” series by starbrigid which I have been slowly reading through for the past couple weeks

[argentsnake]

As my first post here is the family tree of my MC, Ariel Argent.

He is Corvus Lestrange's (yes, that Corvus) bastard child.

CW: grooming, and Corvus Lestrange being a creep and a predator in general.

p.s. The origin story of my MC was somewhat inspired by a certain original character from the amazing fanfic series, Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue . If you know you know. Ultimately the character is a product of how I play him in the game, but the fic is so beautiful it'd be a crime not to pay omage to it when it's the origin of this character.

Belle Argent • 1857 to 1881

Ariel's mother Belle was born in France in 1857 to a muggle family, who knew nothing about magic despite being descendants of a disowned Malfoy squib. That Malfoy was so hurt by his family's callousness he wanted nothing to do with them or the Wizarding world, and thus he took on the name Argent, and married a muggle, never mentioning the existence of magic to anyone.

He died before meeting his granddaughter, who ended up inheriting magic. However, Belle's parents were utterly terrified of magic, and fought to hide and supress their daughter's abilities, lest they be lynched or worse. When Belle was 12 things got so bad that she ran away from home. She bumped into one Corvus Lestrange, who at the time was focused on establishing himself in Paris. He was charmed by Belle's unique coloring, having Malfoy blonde hair and aqua eyes, and after learning about her parents Corvus decided to stipend Belle and sent her to Beauxbatons.

Corvus being Corvus, had immediately thought that if he were to wait for Belle to grow up and have child with her they'd be making the most beautiful and powerful Lestrange heir, and so began his years long attempt to seduce his ward.

And indeed, when Belle graduated at the age of 17 she had already fallen in love with Corvus, and it took only a year for her to become pregnant and have their child. Corvus had already been convinced that it'd be a son, but thought that if it was a girl they'd have plenty of time to try again. But when Ariel was born it seemed that he was neither. He was born with an intersex condition, that at the time in the 1800s was barely understood. Seeing this Corvus was enraged. He changed completely from a loving man to having fits of rage, and discarding Belle and her newborn child with the words "That is no child of mine." He warned Belle that should he ever even hear about the two of them threatning his legacy they would regret it.

Corvus had never married Belle, because he'd wanted to be sure she could actually deliver him the heir he already then desired. This made it very simple for Belle to disappear, to nurse her child and her wounds elsewhere. She was understandably shocked, and the more time passed the more horrified of Corvus she became, seeing only in hindsight what a monster he was. For a few years she remained in Paris as an assistant in a small flower shop. Her affinity with herbology made her a 'miracle worker' among muggles, and that secured her a small salary. It wasn't nearly enough.

Growing more fearful that Corvus would come for her and her little child every day, Belle scrounged up enough savings for a boat ride to London, where she planned to raise Ariel in anonymity, safely away from France. Returning to her parents was never an option, she viewed them as bad as Corvus. Once they arrived in London Belle finally changed her and Ariel's family name to her mother's maiden name, Argent. It was another layer of subterfuge to hide them from Corvus, and perhaps some small part of her yearned for her old family, the way she remembered it being before she manifested magic. But never once did Belle loathe magic itself, despite being mistreated by both wizards and muggles alije for it. She always made sure that Ariel knew what a gift magic was, convinced that Ariel would some day receive that gift as well.

In the meanwhile, in London Belle managed to get a job at an herbalist's shop located in Diagon Alley. Again, the old shopkeep couldn't pay her much, but Belle was greatful for him anyway. She began making some rarer types of potions on the side, not all strictly legal, for extra money, and still found the time to teach Ariel as much about magic as she could. When he began to walk she made the decision to raise Ariel as a boy, since that would be most convenient for him, and from Ariel's perspective all this was quite normal.

The quality of Belle's potions garnered her a reputation as a skilled and discreet potions master, and her clientele began to include some more shady characters in the mix. She couldn't afford to turn anyone away, so she simply made sure to keep her potions work away from Ariel. She could afford her own small workshop, and while she was at work a kindly widowed neighbour took care of Ariel, sometimes along with the widow's two hrandchildren.

Then, when Ariel was 6 years old and walking down Knockturn alley, for Belle needed to get some ingredients for a client's potion, a young man accosted them on the street. He pulled Belle into a cramped alley, and began to argue with Belle about something Ariel never understood. He later thought that what happened that day had been a robbery gone wrong. One second his mother was pushing him roughly out of the alley, the next there was a green light, and his mother's limp body fell on top of him.

Ariel Argent • 1881 to 1890

After his mother's death Ariel was sent to an orphanage in muggle London. He escaped many times, trying to find the magical world of Diagon Alley that was so different from his new home, but he never succeeded. The other children thought he was crazy whenever he spoke of magic, so Ariel stopped speaking of magic. They thought he looked weird, with his aqua eyes and pale blond hair that curled wildly in thick ringlets, and his otherwise Asian features. Whenever the orphanage's matron tried to tame his hair or cut it it would grow back overnight, so instead she began putting it up in a bun and told Ariel to wear a hat.

By the time Ariel was 12 he well and truly loathed the orphanage, and he was becoming desperate, waiting for a Hogwarts entrance letter that never came. For all intents and purposes he was a muggle. But Ariel was convinced that just as his mother always promised, he would someday get his magic. In that belief he tried to write letters to Hogwarts, telling them as much, but he had never seen an owl in muggle London, and had no idea what adress he should direct the letters to, so he just wrote "to Hogwarts" on the envelopes and hoped for the best.

By the time he was 14 Ariel had perfected the art of sneaking out of the orphanage, and finally, one evening as he was walking around London he noticed a woman wearing a delightful green pointed hat, with a miserable looking taxidermy rat adorning it, enter what looked to be just a piece of brick wall. But looking at it again Ariel could see a faint blue glow, which revealed the door to The Leaky Cauldron. Ariel made it as far as the enchanted brick wall, the entrance to Diagon Alley, when he realised in order to open that path he would have to perform magic. And he could not do that.

Defeated, he made his way back inside the Cauldron, and sulked around, but still. Even just seeing the decidedly unmuggle fashion of the patrons brought back memories of his childhood surrounded by magic.

In the coming days Ariel spent almost every day hanging around in The Leaky Cauldron, occasionally striking up a conversation with a curious and slightly tipsy customer. And it was one of those days, that Ariel was spotted by the widow who used to take care of him. She was so surprised to see him she nearly screamed, because she had thought the boy had been killed with his mother. Finding him alive after all this time made a weight she hadn't known was there lift from her shoulders, and she scrambled to introduce herself to the now teenaged boy. Ariel only remembered the woman vaguely, but was practically starving to hear every detail about his mother's life the woman could share.

"I'm afraid it's all too little. Belle was such a quiet girl, private. I always got the feeling se was desperate to disappear. Oh! But now I remember! Before they cleaned out your apartment I managed to find a diary of some sort. I assumed it was your mother's, and I hoped I'd find some clue as to what happened, maybe who did it in there. But she'd enchanted it shut, clever girl. The pages are all empty, but I'm sure there's more to it than just an empty book. You should have it. Maybe you can figure it out."

Thus Ariel was given his mother's mysterious diary, and it became his mission to crack it.

He was off to a poor start, having no magic of his own, but he made a valiant effort. He continued meeting with the widower as well, and together they pondered on the book. The old woman became an invaliable resource to Ariel, being a way to access Diagon Alley. She suggested to Ariel that he was probably a squib, though she was sorry to say it, but Ariel remained firm in that his mother's promise would come true. He was a wizard. It took them a month for Ariel to realise, that perhaps the diary wasn't so much enchanted, as the ink was. Mother had spent all her days brewing potions after all, and the other day Ariel had read about substances used in potions to make invisivibility. The two then turned their focus on agents used to counter such ingredients, and managed to come up with a solution that, when rubbed against the diary pages, would make writing slowly appear in a coppery color.

The diary was Belle's record of her history, from her parents to Corvus to moving to London, and all the people she got to know there. In the last pages Belle had written a warning for Ariel, having felt watched lately, seeing much of the same stange faces. She had never wanted Ariel to know about his father, or have anything to do with the Lestrange family, but she felt that if something were to happen to her she would need to warn her son to stay away from them. That if he didn't it was likely they would have him killed, as it was likely that were she to die under unnatural circumstances the culprit would be the same.

After reading this passage all at once, Ariel was so distraught he caused multiple explosions all around him, wrecking the old woman's house. Luckily no one was hurt, but after cleaning up the damage both of them were grimfaced. The only good that came out of that day was Ariel's newfound fervour to get into Hogwarts. This time when he wrote his letter it reached its recipient, and Ariel was accepted into Hogwarts as a 5th year.

[coriesocks]

currently...

Thank you for tagging me @magpiefngrl !

Current time: 09:40am

Current activity: Sitting in a zoom meeting (daily stand-up) 🥱

Currently thinking about: not work, like i should be. Mostly thinking about all the end of year school things i need to remember for my kids this week and next.

Current favourite song: hmm not sure. I've been listening to a lot of classical covers of other songs because when working or writing, i find it easier when there's no lyrics

Currently reading: I have Freya Marske's book, A Marvellous Light sitting on my bedside table ready to start, and on my phone, I'm reading the 4th fic in Starbrigid's epic Drarry series, The mirror of ecidyrue

Currently watching: Ted Lasso and Black Mirror

Current favourite character: I don't think I can pick one! Din Djarin, Clint Barton (comic clint, not movie clint!), Roy Kent, Buck (911)... so many more

Current wips: Main WIP is my Dinluke big bang fic which needs to be finished soon and i'm super stressing about it 😫😫😫 I also have a Geraskier WIP and a Kylux adjacents WIP that i think about finishing every so often. There are a load more sitting in scrivener, but these are the main 3!

Also starting to think about my orig again after some lovely chats with @magpiefngrl the other day that inspired me not to drop it, so I'll count that as a WIP too.

Tagging .. ummm I don't tumblr very often at the moment and i can't remember anyone's names or who is still active. let's try.. @quicksilvermaid @kangofu-cb @gingersnappish @l0vegl0wsinthedark @orangebutterfly13 @milarca @nerdherderette

[ao3feed-snape]

at the end of the world

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/sHq2Wpg

by TumblingBackpacks

“Will you make the Orphean Bargain?”

Draco makes a choice. Severus disagrees.

Words: 4215, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 16 of various 'verses

Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, Lily Evans Potter (mentioned)

Relationships: Draco Malfoy & Severus Snape

Additional Tags: Severus Snape is Draco Malfoy's Godparent, Inspired by The Mirror of Ecidyrue by starbrigid, POV Severus Snape, Angst, Everyone Needs A Hug, Time Travelling Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape Has a Heart

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/sHq2Wpg

[the-francakes]

how about 3, 7, and 11 for the fic asks? <3

hi! thanks for the asks!

3. Are there any fics that inspired you to write what you do?

My inspo changes depending on the story I'm trying to tell. My current WIP ECHOES was definitely inspired by some aspects of Debt of Time, Manacled, and the whole series of Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue. But also throw in some Marvel alternate timeline/universe aspects too from Loki, Dr. Strange, What If's? and Spiderman + some magic stuff from Wanda.

Lady BloodPure is obv. a Bridgerton inspiration but reading A Dress With Pockets really sold me on Panville and gave me inspo to use them as the ship for the fic. I'm working on my Bodice Ripper Fest fic right now too and I think it's going to have some aspects from The Hating Game.

7. Do you prefer to read short fics or long fics?

It's a bit of a mix. I used to alternate a book then a long fic, but i'm currently working 12-15 hour days so a small fic in the. morning or before bed is usually how I read. Hopefully I can pick up long ones again after my work project is done.

11. How do you come up with your fic titles?

Just whatever hits right. Sometimes it's a line in the fic or a callback on a line that is used throughout the fic. ECHOES is a song by John Floreani, but Puppy Dog Eyes is just cause that's the face Harry makes to get his way + there's a dog in the fic.