the (re-)introduction of a prodigal drarry shipper + DMHP fic recs under the cut
Hullo! I'm @driina, your almost 30 friendly neighbourhood autistic insomniac who grew up with a special interest in HP and inexorably plummeted into drarry hell during her teenage years.
I've returned to the fandom after wiping all my content off the face of the internet (some of it must undoubtedly still be floating around, but I don't enjoy contemplating that possibility) and nearly a decade of quasi-inactivity. All I'll say about that is if you were around in the mid-2010s, we might've been mutuals and I'll gladly share my old @ in private to confirm or deny.
I'm back because I need escapism, plain and simple. Nothing soothes the tormented mind like an old special interest.
I've started reading drarry regularly again, and I've already begun writing a lil something, but it might be a while before I publish anything on ao3.
For now, I can offer a few scribbles ✏️ and share the best fics I've come across recently.
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📚 Alright, here are the fic recs! ✨
Beware: for whatever reason, in my drarry renaissance era, I've discovered that I strictly enjoy reading DMHP. I've also apparently become a sucker for dom Draco and/or inexperienced Harry, so if you know of any fics with that kind of dynamic, please spread the good word!
These are in no particular order. I’ll keep updating this list as I find more favourites.
Legend:
🔥 smut
🌡️ low-mild steam
⛓️ dom!Draco/sub!Harry dynamic
👀 dom!Draco/sub!Harry undertones
🔐 virgin!Harry
⚠️ open ending
Untouched by stratigraphy 🔥👀🔐⚠️
"The magic demands a sacrifice," Malfoy said.
"What kind of sacrifice?"
Malfoy's mouth twisted grimly. "A virgin."
Harry felt his eyes widen. "Killing one?"
"No, of course not, Potter," Malfoy snapped. "Don't be macabre. Fucking one." Malfoy exhaled with bitter disappointment. "Fuck. Rules us out."
Harry took a deep breath. His face felt hotter than ever. "It doesn't, actually."
Harry's had some terrible birthdays in his life. But this one - trapped in a cave with Draco Malfoy, and only one way out - has to take the cake.
Veil (and Red Hail) by rubygreene 🔥⛓️
Harry's undercover mission looks like a waste of time. If one was to evaluate time by the number of criminals he had successfully caught.
Deciding to accept Draco Malfoy's advances while fully aware Malfoy had no idea who he was flirting with, definitely wasn't a waste of time.
Just very, very stupid.
Veil (and Red Hail) II by rubygreene 🔥⛓️
Sequel to Veil (and Red Hail).
The Red Hail has the wizarding community in its addictive, magical grip, and Harry has little choice but to go on another undercover mission to catch the bad guys. And for that, he needs Draco Malfoy's help.
AKA
Harry and Draco must (they must!) go to a dubious BDSM establishment and pretend Harry is Draco's obedient little pet.
Crutch by AWickedMemory
Harry has too much to do, and Draco, too little. The solution? Hire him, of course. Who knew Draco Malfoy would be such a perfect personal assistant?
Complicated by CopperCatbird 🔥⛓️
Draco watched as Potter took another sip of Weasley’s beer, then winked at him. Draco heard himself make a small noise, then sternly told himself to pull it together.
“What is with Gryffindors and winking?” Blaise asked. “Should I start winking?”
“No,” Millicent, Pansy, and Draco said in chorus.
Draco’s just trying to have a nice night out at the pub with his friends; of course Ronald Weasley would ruin it by being disturbingly hot. Featuring Hot Ron, Hotter Potter, conniving friends, and two idiots finally finding each other.
Reparatio by astolat 🌡️
Draco snorted. “I’m not reduced to penury. I want something considerably beyond money, and I rather think you’re the only one can give it to me.”
“You want the Invisibility Cloak,” Harry said, flatly. He’d half expected as much; it was the only thing he had that Draco could want—
“Don’t be stupid, Potter,” Draco said. “I want my reputation back.”
Heal Thyself by astolat
"Are you going for the course?" Lovegood asked. "You have the NEWTs.”
“What course?” Draco said, then, “No, don’t be ridiculous,” when he realized she meant the notice pinned up on the board he’d been staring at: Applicants To The Introductory Mediwizard Course For The Coming Term Shall Present Themselves In The Chief Mediwizard’s Office By August 24th.
“Oh, I thought you might,” she said. “Well, goodbye.” And off she wandered again in her addled way.
The Bonded Flask by megreads99 🔥
When Auror partners Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy are cursed to stay in constant physical contact, things get really awkward, really fast. It doesn't help that they're both vying for the position of Head Auror and yet, the pair can’t decide if they want to strangle each other or kiss each other—preferably not in front of their colleagues.
I'm running out of fics to read 😭 if you're a DMHP writer and/or reader, especially if you have fics to rec, pls comment, reblog, message me or send me an anonymous ask, even!!
Prompt: #43 - Harry lost a bet. Now Draco gets to rail him, anytime, anywhere, without warning. Harry is more into it than he expected to be
Summary:
“You know, I’ve heard about your famous dares, but I’ve never actually seen one that was very impressive,” Harry was saying. “Just that thing with Blaise. You’ve been refusing to play at all. I bet you’re out of practice. Lost your nerve.”
“Oh, you want to play, do you?” Draco said, and if Harry heard the dangerous tone in his voice, he ignored it.
“I’ve been saying for months that you were being dramatic, complaining about my dares. I think maybe you’ve lost your touch. I don’t think you can—”
Draco took the bait. He couldn’t back down from Harry, and he never would.
“I dare you,” Draco said. “For the next month—” Theo whistled; a month was the maximum length for this game, but it was rare. Draco straightened, crossed his arms, and looked Harry dead in the eye. “For the next month: I get to fuck you whenever, wherever, and however I want.”
Rating: Explicit
Warning(s): No major warnings
Word Count: 27, 959
Author's Notes: For @draykray, with love and thanks for the yummy prompt!
I just realised I completely forgot to do this back when @dyfectos tagged me! Apologies, my wip was mostly in my notes app at the time and it kept slipping my mind. Here goes nothing:
In the middle of the magical screen was Draco Malfoy's pointy face, framed by his unmistakable white blond hair. Sparkles erupted all around it, and the purple letters floating just above it undoubtedly read:
It's a match!
It’s a bit weird because this is actually towards the beginning of my wip, but since I’m writing it kind of out of order, these are technically the last three sentences I wrote.
Draco and Harry are colleagues. There's an emerency, and they get called into work out of hours. Draco/Harry apparates straight from where he was: a BDSM club—and he's dressed the part.
The Riddles abandoned Tom Marvolo before he was born, and his grandfather was a gentry... he killed them silently at 16... they didn't even realize Riddle was killing Riddles. And Tom knows the Muggle world well... that's where he left the orphanage in 1945, and was born in 1926.The Riddles never recognized Tom as a grandson because of his mother.Meropa is a nasty and selfish woman. She broke both Tom Sr and Tom Jr's psyches. Tom developed sociopath at ge 11 in an orphanage and narcissism due to his mother's rejection.He wasn't born a narcissist; it's secondary narcissism. It's the psyche's defense against rejection. Merope threw him into the Great Depression Mrs. Cole wanted to lock Tom in a mental hospital because tom kill billy rabbit.Tom was afraid that Dumbledore was a psychiatrist.Merope is selfish, she didn't even ask if the child was healthy, dying from obsession with a man who didn't want her.tom sr love cecilia
Forgive me, but I haven't the faintest idea what this is about! Perhaps this was sent to the wrong account?
I love how in the beginning of s3e8, when Arthur is praying or whatever tf he's doing for the quest to be revealed to him, Gwen, who is supposedly in love with him, makes fun of Merlin for taking it so seriously that he's waiting outside the door—in fact, Gwen didn't even know what Arthur was up to until Merlin explained it to her—and Merlin reprimands her!!
Gwen: "And you're gonna stay here and watch?"
Merlin: "Gwen, this is one of the most important days in a prince's life."
Forget the fact that they find him snoring on the floor in the next scene, but how does one read this as anything other than merthur??
