like the wind, i ride my own life

30s ➹ she/they ➹ drarry ➹ fwooshy@ao3

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Harry/Draco | T | 1.2k | the romance of trains, a happy fantasy

"Imagine: An extended summer vacation," Ginny said when she first pitched the trip to the group. "Fine," Hermione said after only a moment's hesitation, to which everyone cheered, because she was the only one who could figure out how to make the Hogwarts Express fly. And everything had been going fine — beautifully, even — until Neville found the two Slytherins cowering in the last of the cars.

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Microfic: Say What You Want

for @drarrymicrofic prompt 'one of your girls' by troye sivan

There's a certain cruelty in making Potter ask. Draco can, of course, feel the same nauseating undulation of desire. But he's pleased to see he can still hold out against his rut for longer than Potter can his heat. Petty of him. Selfish. Ungrateful. But God, to have Harry beg.

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Pansy Parkinson

Hello I draw Pansy wearing this:

I just change the flowers to Pansy (photo was orchid) then to color blue 💙

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Because you make him laugh 💕

[underyourspellfest]

We are excited to announce a new sapphic Harry Potter fest : Under Your Spell!

This is an anonymous fest that aims to highlight both sapphic characters and ships in the Harry Potter universe, and the music of queer women and trans folks!

Song suggestions open : June 3rd Claiming opens : July 1st Works due : October 13th Posting begins : October 20th

Full information can be found on our GUIDELINES page! Stay tuned for more!

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do you have any recs for drarry + workplace romance?

I definitely do, one of my favourite tropes! This list is strongly focused on office romance and as you can see it got a bit out of hand so I’m gonna link two additional rec lists that might interest you: sports AU and Quidditch fics. Enjoy!!!

Measure My Lordship With Thine Vulgar Aye by @starquestingfordrarry (M, 1k)

Draco buys some Muggle magnets for the office.

Coded Office Missives by carpemermaid (E, 2.5k)

They had an arrangement. Malfoy would send a coded memo when he needed Harry. He knew to tell his secretary to hold his appointments, and lock the door after he arrived. It was a game they started when they were just starting their careers at the Ministry; it’s something they’ve kept up all this time.

The Keepers by RenVeree (T, 3.6k)

In the Rare Books Department of the Ministry of Magic, Draco tends to unique texts and, on occasion, a certain Unspeakable.

Graffiti and Insomnia by SilentAuror (M, 4k)

Harry can't seem to sleep these days. Perhaps it's the boredom of his office job, but all that changes with a bit of graffiti in the office bathroom one day.

Never Gonna Give You Up by InnerLilith (E, 5k)

Five times Harry rickrolls Draco and one time Draco gets him back.

Like This and Like This (Dreams of Lace) by @primavera-cerezos (E, 6k)

Harry gets an accidental peek. He can’t think of anything else.

Say the words / then stay around by Teatrolley (NR, 6k)

They’ve been together for a while when Harry decides that he wants to try the Auror Office again. What he doesn’t consider is the effects the work might have on the two of them. But, then again, maybe those effects don’t have to be all bad?

Interdepartmental Memos by GoldenTruth813, Henndra (E, 6k)

What do you get when GoldenTruth813 plays Harry and Henndra is Draco? An epistolary fic of course!

Contretemps by @moonflower-rose (T, 8k)

Draco Malfoy has been living like a model citizen. If only he could convince Potter.

Small Spaces series by @bixgirl1 (E, 8.5k)

Malfoy is like an itch under Harry's skin on an average day. It's even worse when they're trapped in a lift.

Love, Actually, is All Around by @punk-rock-yuppie (T, 10k)

It's Christmastime, and Harry has just started as the new Minister of Magic. It just so happens that Draco works in his office as well, a holdover from Kingsley's tenure. Naturally, love is in the air.

Settle in in my slow-burning heart, orphaned (NR, 10k)

Five years after the war Draco is working a tech developer job in the Auror Office, and it's all great except this one thing: Harry Potter works there, too. Things only become stranger when Harry starts bringing Draco ugly souvenirs back from his work travels.

Sweet Indulgence by @the-sinking-ship (E, 10k)

It doesn't matter that Marcy from Accounting is dancing on the tables, Shacklebolt is wearing antlers, and Elliot from Transportation is on his third round of Mariah Carey on karaoke because all the free champagne in the world won't salvage the Ministry Christmas party for Draco if Potter doesn't show up soon.

Little Talks by Femme and noeon (E, 11k)

Draco's been shagging the Head Auror for months now, and he's sure it's just a fling. Until Harry asks him to a Quidditch match, that is, and things go horribly wrong.

This Unexpected Windfall by mindabbles (E, 11k)

Harry doesn’t like it when Draco is called in to work one of his cases. No. He doesn’t like it at all — at least that’s what he tells himself.

Crossed Wires by @skeptiquewrites (E, 11k)

Harry James Potter, Member of the Wizengamot for Godric’s Hollow, Secretary for Transport is ill-suited for the world of wizarding politics. Enter Draco Malfoy, Director of Communications for the Minister for Magic to moonlight as his press secretary. It should solve all of Harry’s issues with the press and Draco’s issues with over-work. Theoretically.

What Real Thing? by @l0vegl0wsinthedark (E, 12k)

They don’t cuddle, they don’t talk about their relationship (or lack thereof) and they certainly never fall asleep in each other’s arms.

Title of Their Sex Tape by @cibeewastaken (T, 12k)

What are the Wizarding world's most elite law enforcers doing when they aren't catching criminals? It seems Auror Malfoy is often caught throwing food into Auror Potter's mouth when he's mid-yawn.

In Which Harry is Magnetic North and Draco Is An Idiot by bryoneybrynn (T, 13k)

For as long as he can remember, Draco’s been bringing fake dates to his family’s annual Yuletide celebration in order to evade his mother’s matchmaking. This year, Potter’s posing as his pretend boyfriend.

The World of Management (Or, Harry Potter and the Office Romance) by @moonflower-rose (E, 15k)

Draco Malfoy is the heart and soul of the Department of Magical Games and Sport. The only thing standing in the way of professional bliss is his boss. And Harry Potter.

Give Me a Quiet Mind by @wellhalesbells (T, 16k)

Draco is Weasley’s assistant. Except for the week he’s not. Whose brilliant idea was that again?

Ardour of Karma by @xx-thedarklord-xx (E, 17k)

“Malfoy knows something is going on with you and unless you both want to go back to fighting and death glares, you should fix it.” “How do I do that? Just waltz up to him and say, ‘I know I’ve been a prat but your scent makes my dick swell. How’s your day?’”

Common and Cliché by bryoneybrynn (E, 17k)

Aurors Malfoy and Potter have to work a case on Beltane. It would be simple if everything wasn't so damn distracting.... For those of you who are wondering, yes, I've tried to cram in as many h/d clichés as possible. But hopefully the story works as a story, too. It's not crack!fic by a long shot but it is a bit tongue-in-cheek.

Knot Your Average Coworkers by @thecouchsofa (E, 22k)

It takes Harry a while to work out that every month, almost like clockwork, Draco is given an assignment in the field that takes him out of their shared office for days on end. After each assignment, Draco returns looking so bloody exhausted that Harry gears up to file a complaint with their boss.

Little Red Courgette by @blamebrampton (T, 31k)

When this season's purple courgettes are woefully thin, Draco Malfoy thinks it amounts to small beans. Next thing he knows, the Department of Standards is over-run with leeks, Brussels sprouts all sorts of legislative difficulties, and somebody appears to have put a roquette under Harry Potter.

The Vanishing Department by @dictacontrion (E, 47k)

The things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, even if that involves a lot more form-filling, bickering, covert glancing, miscommunication, and flying furniture than we might expect.

The Darkness Before the Dawn by Ren (E, 55k)

A mysterious creature is loose in London, stalking and killing people. Auror Harry Potter requests the help of a liaison from the Beast Division and gets saddled with Draco Malfoy. Will they be able to stop the creature before it claims more lives?

We Are Young (I'll Carry You Home Tonight) by Femme (E, 70k)

Harry and Draco have been falling into bed on and off again since the last election five years ago, much to the amusement--and financial gain--of their circle of friends. But when Harry agrees to work with Draco to put Kingsley Shacklebolt into the Minister's office, they can't work side-by-side again every day and sleep together; that would be courting disaster. Wouldn't it?

The Liars Department by @dorthyanndrarry (T, 103k)

This is a story about Harry meeting up with Draco Malfoy four years after the war. And a story about Harry, well, not hating his job per say, but it's not like he has much to compare it to and it seemed fine. His whole life seemed fine.

Make This Leap by @oflights (M, 118k)

Harry owns a struggling restaurant which is running out of money, and his Head Chef has just handed in notice. He's at a bit of a loss as to what to do until Narcissa Malfoy presents an obvious solution: bring in Draco Malfoy as Chef and part owner.

All Our Secrets Laid Bare by firethesound (E, 149k)

Over the six years Draco Malfoy has been an Auror, four of his partners have turned up dead. Harry Potter is assigned as his newest partner to investigate just what is going on.

Tales From the Special Branch series by Femme (E, WIP)

When Gawain Robards asks him to form Special Branch seven-four-alpha, Harry Potter knows they'll have to work outside the confines of the law--even though they are the law.

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lupine

I taught you today the word Lupine, wildflower of the wild mountains, wild as a wolf. More and more I’ve been feeling the run in me again, can you smell it in the air? Spring whipping up around us. Today we sat in meetings with Kingsley and Floo’d home with briefcases heavy with bureaucracy. You threw yours against the wall and parchment papered the air, our floor, the sofa. “Good riddance!” you said, and “Good riddance!” I echoed, my voice ending in silence. Then you wordlessly took out your wand and put everything back in its place.

“Let’s go on vacation,” I said.

“Let’s go back in time,” you said. “Back to third year, when the only thing that really riled me up were your dumb pranks.”

“They weren’t dumb,” I said. “And I said I was sorry about the dementors cosplay.” The dementors that, despite your best and most valiant efforts, still cloaked Azkaban in inhumane suffering. To enact change, you’d learned, was to partake in a constant game of tug of war, your feet planted, your arms hunched, your body taut. Immovable, as if you were turning into stone.

“Let’s go back in time,” you repeated, and this time I caught the wild in your eyes, caught it bad.

“Okay,” I said. “Okay, okay.” I took your hand. Then we ran.

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back to the basics

“Remember third year,” Harry said.

Draco glanced up from the evening paper. “I try not to, no.”

The clock on the mantle read half past eight. Harry itched his ear and yawned, his legs sprawled over the sofa arm. “Third year’s the dementor year,” he said. “The year they followed us to Hogwarts. You remember.”

“Yes, school was rather like a prison, wasn’t it.”

“Every time the dementors got near, I relived the death of my parents—”

“Merlin, how many times do I have to apologize for dressing up as a dementor, I mean how could I have known—”

Harry laughed. “I’m not looking for another apology, Draco.”

Draco paused. “Then what are you doing?”

“Just reminiscing. Funny how angry I felt back then but it’s all so funny to me now.”

Draco made a face. “I was a pretty rotten kid. But I’ve changed. Like, a lot.”

Draco always looked nervous when talking about the past. Like he thought Harry would leave him if he suddenly remembered the day he let the Death Eaters in and Fred died. But Harry never forgot anything.

Harry closed his eyes, remembering that first day at Madam Malkin’s. He had been so unconflictingly angry. But children were malleable, half-formed things. No child was a bad person. They were just dumb mean kids.

Harry reached over and pinched Draco’s nose. “I don’t think you’ve changed much at all, actually. You weren’t all that bad from the start.”

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the ravenous beast

Harry woke up deaf in one ear and the healers couldn’t do anything about it. How can it be, he had yelled, that you can regrow entire bones overnight — that I could bring back men from the dead — but you can’t fix my ear? The Muggles, Hermione said, knew nothing either. It didn’t happen often enough for them to know. There was no money in the research.

Draco held Harry against his chest that night and felt Harry’s fear beating against him like it was his own fear. So again Harry was the chosen one. How could it be, Draco thought, that one man could be so unlucky in life. Why did fate take and take and take? Why wasn’t Harry’s childhood enough for the ravenous beast. Why couldn’t it have eaten Draco instead?

There were things Draco wanted to say that he couldn’t yet:

It is only your left ear

You can still hear me

Our lives are not ruined, only changed

But Draco’s hearing was fine. How could he understand? Worse yet, how could he feel as if his life had changed? Was he really that selfish? Or was it more selfish to feel untethered? To feel removed?

Whenever Draco thought of Harry — really focused on him, really tried to emphasize — he got stuck in a loop of: Life was unequivocally unfair. And it just got harder and harder and harder, until you died. Every year finding joy took more effort, happiness only hard earned through intention. They could weather through this, Draco knew. They would find ways to cope. They would remember the joys in life beyond sound. But what about the next? What if Harry loses a hand? His tongue?

Harry twitched twice in sleep. Draco’s eyes closed. But he did not sleep.

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getting to know me

thanks for the tag @skeptiquewrites 🩵🩵 tagging @floydig @sitp-recs (maybe writing can be writing recs??) @vukovich !!

three ships: drarry, ginsy, yashiro/doumeki

first ship: draco/blaise but cassandra clare’s blaise lol

last song: when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie THATS AMORE

last movie: to relearn chinese i watched a taiwanese movie about this homophobic police asshole who’s forced to marry a gay guy’s ghost and how they get justice on the gay guy’s murderer. it’s called MARRY MY DEAD BODY and it’s on netflix and it’s actually so heartwarming, i loved it.

currently reading: anne carson’s glass, irony, and god

last thing i wrote: slow days, bad habits from over a month ago at this point

currently writing: still writing that monsoon fic from years ago… for me it’s hard to pick up a fic when i’m not feeling the same i was when i started it. not sure if anyone else can relate. but what i care about and what worries me changes so frequently that i feel like a different me than the me who started that fic. and even though the fic is like 15k and has a finished plot i have no desire to see it through. it doesn’t feel like mine anymore. maybe that’s why i like microfics, my moods are so mercurial. anyway! all this to say, im not writing much these days!

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From The Glass Essay by Anne Carson, 1992

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Day 11: Ghost

The ghosts and specters in residence at Hogwarts find many things to keep themselves entertained.

I barely made it!! My iPad and my phone are so about to die but I did it and I am satisfied (for now). I’ve wanted to draw this since the very beginning and I wish to later polish this up even more~

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Hello dearest. Top five HP fandom characters please and thank you! 😘

Hi babes, love seeing you here! I went with “characters I like the most”, the list is slightly different than “characters that fascinate me”:

1. Ron 💜💜💜

2. Sirius

3. Luna

4. Hermione

5. Tonks

Bonus: McGonagall because she reminds me of grandma

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Hallo!!

Top 5 stationery items 📏 OR top five chocolate bars, please. 🍫

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Thank you friend! Por que no los dos 💁🏻‍♀️

Stationery items:

1. Notebook / planner

2. Highlighters

3. Pencil case

4. Paper clips

5. Stapler

Chocolate bars:

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Top five ways in which drarry get together in a fic

Yasss this is what we deserve!!!!! I have so much more than 5 but right now I thought of these, in no particular order:

1. Following kinky courting by @bixgirl1:

“Have you decided, then?” Harry asks, getting to the real question. “About me?”

“Potter, I decided I would sub for you before I knew what the bloody fuck it was,” Draco says with a loud exhale. Harry’s startled by the honesty, by the sheer longing in Draco’s tone, and yet somehow… not.

2. Casually bonding over trauma (and comfort sex 🌝) by @lazywonderlvnd:

"I just told you, it's something to do," said Malfoy. "Something mindless to do. Been sort of a weird night, hasn’t it? I don't think it can get much weirder."

3. Comparing dick sizes by astolat:

“No one asked you to look, did they? I don’t mind, Potter. You can give it a pull, too, if you want to know what a big one feels like.”

4. Just two bros chillin at the Leaky loo by @lqtraintracks:

"Nice shoes," he said. Then he looked at Draco's face. "Fancy a fuck?" Draco couldn't prevent the warm chuckle. "Muggle Prada does it for you, Potter?"

5. Kissing your crush to the same song your dad kissed his crush to by @writcraft

Perhaps they’ve both been caught unawares, by the unexpected, desperate force of attraction that has crackled and sparked between them from the moment Harry walked into that little café on another rainy day in London. “It’s the song from Black’s diary.” Draco brushes his fingers against Harry’s jumper, which is just as soft and warm as it looks. “An excellent choice.”

Bonus: through with Ron by @sweet-s0rr0w :

“I wanted you, Draco,” Harry whispers, and the words are slow, like unwrapping a gift. “I want you now, too.”

“And Ron?” Draco asks, still hesitating, as though Ron hadn’t orchestrated this entire thing. Ron pulls off then, a wicked expression on his face as he looks between the two of them.