Drarry drarry drarry - more ideas!
drarry has become my emotional support ship while i’m writing my PhD thesis 😭
i barely have time these days for normal entertainment (cinema, travelling, sports, etc.), so instead my brain keeps producing drarry AUs at concerning speed. i’ve started writing a fic already (link on my profile), but honestly most of my “writing” lately has been mapping plots, refining twists, building character arcs and emotional damage scenarios in my head.
i LOVE angst, dark fic, morally complicated characters, and emotionally devastating devotion (for which I think this ship has the perfect dynamic)— though most of these would still end happily or bittersweet-happily. also almost all of them eventually involve draco becoming friends with ron and/or hermione (and some of they will have harry being friends with blaise and pansy) because i am obsessed with difficult-earned friendship dynamics.
some of the concepts currently haunting me:
— dark drarry inspired by the count of monte cristo: harry returns after being presumed dead for 14 years. he is 38 now, changed beyond recognition, and bent on revenge. draco, now head auror, is assigned to investigate him without realizing he is hunting the man he once loved and mourned. probably my favourite idea. the count of monte cristo is one of my favourite books ever and i want the yearning/revenge/tragedy atmosphere SO badly.
— voldemort won AU: harry, ron, hermione and draco survive as unwilling but valuable assets of the regime while trying not to lose themselves completely. very dark, political, survival-focused, lots of shifting loyalties and emotional dependency.
— cursebreaker partners drarry sent abroad on dangerous missions. action-heavy, lots of pining, ancient magic, near-death experiences, unresolved tension in hotel rooms in foreign countries, etc.
— ron and hermione die, and draco and harry end up raising teddy and rose together. grief, domesticity, healing, learning how to survive parenthood and loss at the same time.
— cozy paris AU: harry escaped fame years ago and owns a small shop in paris (still deciding what kind). draco stumbles upon him by chance and they slowly fall in love far away from england and everything that once destroyed them.
— harry and draco are cursed/petrified for years and presumed effectively dead. rose grows up watching what their absence did to everyone around them and becomes obsessed with bringing them back.
— founders era time travel AU: harry and draco are sent back to the founders period, except they don’t just arrive there — they slowly become salazar slytherin and godric gryffindor themselves. draco becomes gryffindor. harry becomes slytherin. history starts reshaping them as they fall in love while risking forgetting who they originally were. genuinely think harry-as-salazar is one of my favourite concepts i’ve ever had.
— 2-part fic:
part one: famous quidditch player harry + auror draco secretly sleeping together, then secretly falling in love. soft, intimate, cozy, lots of hidden tenderness. they cannot go public because it would endanger draco’s work and harry could become a target. eventually harry reaches his limit and gives draco an ultimatum before leaving for a tournament.
in one ending they reconcile.
in the darker continuation: draco dies during a mission before they can fix things.
part two becomes a full revenge story involving magical organ trafficking and extremely dark themes. dead dove territory. still unsure about the ending.
— auror trainee rivalry AU: ron and draco are the department’s golden trainees and develop an unexpected friendship. harry is brilliant but reckless and deeply distrustful of draco despite being attracted to him. he’s also irrationally jealous watching draco become close to ron. the three compete to become future head auror. lots of pining, competitiveness, bad decisions, emotional repression, ron being the only functional person there.
— niche grief AU: harry dies and draco eventually develops a complicated emotional/sexual relationship with ron and hermione (threesome) as all three try to survive the grief. they bond first out of loneliness and longing, then something real starts forming between them (something that cannot go public). harry had been planning to propose to draco before he died.
— another grief AU: nobody knew harry and draco were together except blaise. harry had bought a ring and planned to propose after ron and hermione’s wedding because he didn’t want to overshadow them. after harry dies, ron becomes obsessed with figuring out who he intended to propose to, while hermione throws herself into hunting the killers. the truth eventually comes out and the three slowly learn how to grieve together instead of separately.
anyway 😭 these are the ones currently most developed in my brain.
i would LOVE to know which one people would most want to read because i genuinely think about these when going home after a long day working on my thesis and before sleeping.
Also, yes, there WILL be smut. a lot of it. Even though I still have limited experience writing it. this is drarry. It feels almost legally required.














