Hey :) what would you say are the all-time classic drarry fics? like the ones that basically everybody has read and loves
Sorry this took me a while, I took this rec weirdly seriously and wanted to make it as complete as possible.
I haven’t recced fics here according to personal preference - I’ve listed the fandom favourites and the fics that form the core H/D fandom and all of it’s tropes, both old and new.
I’m sure I’ve still left out some, so anyone’s free to add on more!
HARRY/DRACO CLASSICS (Old + New)
A Certain Kind Of Memory (jamie2109)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 96k, Summary: What would you do if you were given less than a year to live? An uplifting Harry Draco story…
A Slytherin In Gryffindor Clothing (mahaliem)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 43k, Summary: Draco hits his head and wakes up in a world where he’s a Gryffindor and Harry is a Slytherin.
A Thousand Beautiful Things (Duinn Fionn)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 108k, Summary: Draco Malfoy struggles with changed fortunes, shifted alliances, an ugly war, and an unusual spell, with the help of a concerned professor, an insightful house-elf, and an unexpected Gryffindor friend.
All Bets Are Off (Allegra)
Rating: PG-13, WC: 52k, Summary: I am SICK of Good-little-innocent!Harry… Enter Playboy!Harry and his Overinflated Ego, a challenge, a bet, a couple of Really Cunning Plans - and there you have it, “Forty days and forty nights”, Hogwarts style. Mayhem ensues!
All Our Secrets Laid Bare (firethesound)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 149k, Summary: 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.
Angels And Devils (beren)
Rating: PG-13, WC: 52k, Summary: Harry defeated Voldemort: his act of heroism is famous throughout the wizarding world. He’s trying to finish his final year at Hogwarts in peace, but something peculiar is happening to him, something he never would have expected. It’s all rather embarrassing and making his life very complicated.
Rating: NC-17, WC: 28k, Summary: “Isn’t that Draco Malfoy? He keeps looking at you, Harry.”
Rating: NC-17, WC: 88.7k, Summary: Now that Harry is back at Hogwarts with Hermione for eighth year, he realises that something’s missing from his life, and it either has to do with Ron, his boggart, Snape, or Malfoy. Furthermore, what, exactly, does it mean when one’s life is defined by the desire to simultaneously impress and annoy a portrait? Harry has no idea; he’s too busy trying not to be in love with Malfoy to care.
Rating: PG-13, WC: 100k, Summary: Draco had no idea that the repercussions of stealing Potter’s journal and shoving it down the back of his trousers would be so extreme. Featuring nefarious plots, the mating rituals of Slytherins, double-crossing spells, Ron/Pansy, and Draco/Harry
Beyond Wild Moor And Fen (furiosity)
Rating: NC-17, Summary: In the summer before Harry Potter’s sixth year at Hogwarts, something relatively inconsequential causes him to wonder if he’d been barking up the wrong tree the whole time, as far as girls went. As the year progresses – amongst activities geared towards house unity, nefarious Slytherin plots, and dealing with the loss of loved ones – Harry begins to wonder if perhaps giving people a chance isn’t so scary, after all. What does all that have to do with Draco Malfoy? Why, everything, of course.
Rating: NC-17, WC: 173,499, Summary: Yet another one of those Harry And Draco Are Forced To Be Together By Something Beyond Their Control And Then Stuff Happens Leading To Twoo Wuv stories.
Crup-Tion Of The Not-So-Innocent (Calanthe)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 18k, Summary: If you thought that befriending Draco Malfoy would be easier than defeating the Dark Lord you’d be wrong. Harry Potter has to grow another pair of legs and a forked tail before he can break down the frosty barrier blocking the way into Malfoy’s heart (and his underpants).
Draco In Darkness (Plumeria)
Rating: PG-13, WC: 39k, Summary: Following an accident in his seventh year, Draco loses his eyesight. At first he completely withdraws, avoiding any hint of pity, as well as any assistance; he is determined to succeed on his own. But after Harry elbows his way into Draco’s dark world, both boys find themselves in a strange new friendship, and they each learn new ways to see each other … and themselves.
Drop Dead Gorgeous (Maya)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 140,000, Summary: “I realise this may come as a shockto you, but our investigations have been going on for some time, and we‟re quite sure. Yourmother Lily Evans was not, as we had all previously believed, of pure Muggle stock. One of her ancestors was a Veela.”
Rating: NC-17, WC: 300k, Summary: Draco swore revenge on Harry for Lucius’s imprisonment, and for once, he keeps his promise. The old rivalry turns deadly when Draco abducts Harry for Voldemort. But when Draco’s world turns upside down, the fight to save himself and Harry begins.
Foundations! Verse (Saras_Girl)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 364,300, Summary: Harry is about to discover that the steepest learning curve comes after Healer training, and that second chances can be found in unexpected places.
Rating: NC-17, WC: 81,220, Summary: Harry is getting rather fed up with everyone treating him differently after the war, and catches hold of the one person who doesn’t seem to care about his hero status.
Gold Tinted Spectacles (Beren)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 162k, Summary: Harry is about to enter his seventh year, and things are not quite what he expected. He is no longer the angry boy who watched his world fall apart at the end of his fifth year, but neither has he completely found his place yet. He is looking for something, and to his confusion it seems to involve Draco Malfoy.
Here’s The Pencil, Make It Work (ignatiustrout)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 49k, Summary: Harry thinks “Why is Malfoy working in a coffee shop in muggle London?” is a much simpler question than, “Are you going to accept that auror offer and, if you don’t, what will you do?”
Intrepid Teenage Hero (jennavere)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 28k, Summary: To save wizardkind from falling into the Dark Lord’s evil clutches, intrepid teenage hero Harry Potter embarks on a dangerous quest: infiltrating Malfoy Manor and getting information from Draco using highly unorthodox methods.
Irresistible Poison (Rhysenn)
Rating: PG-13, Summary: Under the influence of a love potion, Draco learns that poison doesn’t always bring death – there are other ways to suffer and live. Chemical emotion runs feverish as Harry and Draco discover the intoxication of love.
Left My Heart (emmagrant01)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 236k, Summary: Post-Hogwarts. Auror Draco Malfoy has disappeared, and Harry Potter has been sent to find him.
Little Talks (femmequixotic)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 11k, Summary: 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.
Right Hand Red (lumosed_quill)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 73.1k, Summary: Harry felt Malfoy’s breath on his lips as they came together over the bottle, hands firmly planted on the floor as though they each needed their familiar soil, refusing to cross into enemy territory. Except that Malfoy no longer felt like his enemy. Malfoy felt inevitable.
Sealed With A Kiss (faithwood)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 46k, Summary: Harry Potter will fall in love with the first person who kisses him. Draco knows what he must do. A Christmassy Hogwarts fic, this.
Seamus is Seamus And You Are Yourself (Ari Munami)
Rating: PG-13, WC: 36k, Summary: Harry goes through some… er, changes before Sixth Year. Everyone, including Draco Malfoy, sits up and takes notice.
Rating: NC-17, WC: 411.1k, Summary: Beginning with Draco’s unexpected arrival at the Dursleys, Harry’s summer after sixth year becomes filled with activity and many secrets. As his summer progresses, Harry generates several unexpected allies as he finds himself actively becoming the leader of the Light side.
Single Wizard Seeking Same (jennavere)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 19k, Summary: Lovelorn Draco has been secretly pining for Harry for months. He’s finally forced into action when ex-boyfriend Blaise shows up.
Tea And No Sympathy (who_la_hoop)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 70k, Summary: It’s Potter’s fault, of course, that Draco finds himself trapped in the same twenty-four-hour period, repeating itself over and over again. It’s been nearly a year since the unpleasant business at Hogwarts, and Draco’s getting on with his life quite nicely, thank you, until Harry sodding Potter steps in and ruins it all, just like always. At first, though, the time loop seems liberating. For the first time in his life, he can do anything, say anything, be anything, without consequence. But the more Draco repeats the day, the more he realises the uncomfortable truth: he’s falling head over heels for the speccy git. And suddenly, the time loop feels like a trap. For how can he ever get Harry to love him back when time is, quite literally, against him?
Tempus Fugit (Poison Pen)
Rating: PG-13, WC: 91k, Summary: A monumental cock-up in Potions means that Harry and Draco have more to contend with than mutual enmity. A journey of discovery, self-reflection and love.
The Lip-Lock Jinx (cassisluna)
Rating: PG-13, WC: 21.4k, Summary: It’s a jinx that renders the victim mute, unless he/she serves the purpose of the jinx and kisses the person that they desire. It’s just Harry’s luck that he’s in love with Draco
The Pure And Simple Truth (lettered)
Rating: PG-13, WC: 65k, Summary: Harry, Draco, and Hermione go to a pub. Harry, Draco, and Pansy go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Pansy, and Hermione go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Hermione and Ron go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Hermione, Ron, and Pansy―you guessed it―go to a pub. I could go on. In fact, I did. Harry, Draco, Hermione, Pansy, Ron, Blaise, Luna, Goyle, Neville, and Theodore Nott go to a pub. In various combinations.
The Veela Enigma (jennavere)
Rating: PG-13, WC: 180k, Summary: What if some of Draco’s ancestors, pretending to be purebloods, concealed the truth about their veela heritage? You’d end up with one very confused Draco Malfoy, who’s fallen head over heels in love with Harry Potter and has no idea why.
Then Comes A Mist And A Sweeping Rain (faithwood)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 21k, Summary: It always rains for Draco Malfoy. Metaphorically. And literally. Ever since he had accidentally Conjured a cloud. A cloud that’s ever so cross.
Tissues Of Silver (fearlessdiva)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 76k, Summary: A love story concerning possessed furniture, black silk pyjamas, courtroom drama, premonitions of doom, assassination attempts, Death Eater yoga, absinthe, bare feet and a sensible werewolf. Beware: coarse language, brief drug use, some sexual content, and consideration of issues of sexual consent.
Rating: NC-17, WC: 306,708, Summary: One good turn always deserves another. Apparently.
Two Playboys On The Pitch (Professor McKitten)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 50k, Summary: Harry’s a famous Quidditch player. Draco’s the Healer for a Quidditch team. They’re both known for their wild ways, but what happens when these two playboys meet after several years apart?
Rating: PG-13, WC: novel length Extract: Harry thought about himself as he entered the water. Or… perhaps he did not.
Walking The Line (SilentAuror)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 180k, Summary: Sixth year is over and Draco Malfoy is on the run. The war is on and an unwanted assignment is forced upon him by the only people he trusts - and a one-time arch-enemy just may be out to kill him.
What You Do With Your Life, A.H.K.B.C.B. (After the Hero Kills the Batshit Crazy Bastard) (oldenuf2nobetter)
Rating: NC-17, WC: 41k, Summary: Draco Malfoy had waited years in hope of seeing Harry Potter utterly humiliated.
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