Love Galore - 35 Romantic Shorts
This is a (very much) belated reclist for 2022’s Valentines Day - I put it together in February as one of my projects to celebrate my most recent follower milestone but I wasn’t feeling it back then, so I decided to save it and post on June 12th to celebrate the Brazilian Valentines Day instead - as you can see I’m not very good at keeping up with the intended calendar 😂
This is, as usual, a quite personal reclist, and the idea was to highlight fics that represent peak romance for me, including a generous amount of fluff, smut, angst, and everything in the between. And because love manifests in many forms I wanted to focus on the romantic aspect but also cover important topics such as non-sexual intimacy, found family, asexual and trans representation. This list is sadly limited to short fics (up to 15k) otherwise it would be impossible to post everything at once, but I’m playing with the idea of doing parts 2 & 3 with longer fics, maybe a rare pairs version as well?
I also take this opportunity to link the amazing collaborative reclist Now that’s romance which was compiled by @sweet-s0rr0w with lots of romantic reads. I hope you guys enjoy these treats, and don’t forget to shower our creators with love! Last but now least, HUGE thank you to the lovely @bluebutter-art who kindly gave me permission to use her breathtaking artwork on the banner! You can reblog the original here.
halcyon days by @the-starryknight (2020, T, 1.3k) - non-sexual intimacy 🛏
Sleepy mornings caught while the sun rises are reserved for silly word games and soft touches and feelings.
Willing Blood by @lqtraintracks and @the-starryknight (2022, E, 2k) - creature fic 🩸
Seven days together, years ago; seventy-four hours and thirty-eight minutes trapped in this house alone; and now one chance to stop himself from draining Potter dry. Will Draco take it? Will Harry let him?
Thrice Bound by @skeptiquewrites (2022, M, 2.3k) - red string of fate 🧶
Once by nature, once by fate, and once by choice.
Still Life by orphan_account (2019, M, 3k) - fuck buddies 💵
No summary provided. Read my rec here.
The Long Fall by @tackytigerfic (2021, M, 3.6k) - Mpreg 🍼
It’s supposed to be a simple house renovation, and maybe it’s just the paint fumes, but Harry is feeling dizzy around Draco Malfoy. And what’s the real meaning of family, anyway? Read my rec here.
Cupboard Love by @shealwaysreads (2021, G, 4k) - found family + food as love 🥘
Cupboard Love: the psychoanalytic theory of an infant’s primary drive being food which, when satisfied, leads naturally to a secondary drive for attachment. Harry’s life, and love, in food.
Home is Where the Nifflers Are by @primavera-cerezos (2020, G, 4k) - animal care as love 🐱
Draco has a soft spot for animals with nowhere to go; soon his and Harry’s small flat is bustling with adorable, semi-dangerous creatures. Read my rec here.
Student Digs by Lokifan (2016, E, 4k) - kinky love 🔥
Harry’s living in *student accommodation*. Just the phrase makes Draco shudder. Read my rec here.
Waiting for that Feeling by @sorrybutblog (2021, T, 4k) - road trip 🚙
Draco Malfoy has a car and Harry Potter is on the case! Featuring Muggle car repair, a road trip to Cornwall, and falling in love in a Ford Fiesta. Read my rec here.
Hourglass Heart by @bixgirl1 (2019, E, 5k) - flatmates 🏠
It only happened once — depending on how Harry counted.
the trembling of the moment by @ihopeyoubothstaysafefromharm and @porcelainsalt (2020, G, 5k) - ace Draco 🍰
“You’re the last person I’d have expected to stumble across on the other side of the world.” In which Draco’s quiet single-parent life is not so much interrupted as unexpectedly harmonised.
Game On by @pennygalleon (2021, T, 5k) - fake relationship 📸
Draco blows Harry a kiss and the press goes nuts. Harry suggests they use this to their advantage.
Slip Into My Lover’s Hands by @lqtraintracks (2015, E, 6k) - first time 🍑
Draco licks his lips. He shuts his eyes, because he doesn’t think he can look at Potter when he says it. When he asks for it. “One finger?”
It Never Occurred to Me That I Would Fall in Love With a Frenchman by lamerezouille (2013, T, 6k) - meeting the family Dursleys 🍽
Harry kisses Draco in a public place. All hell breaks loose.
Let Me Have You and I’ll Let You Save Me by Frayach (2012, M, 6k) - soulmates 🌓
Draco keeps coming back, and Harry keeps letting him. Draco can’t stay away, and Harry can’t live without him. Read my rec here.
The Thousand Deaths by @corvuscrowned (2021, E, 6k) - murder husbands dark fic 🔪
When the Kedavras don’t work, they try wooden stakes. When the stakes don’t work, they try blades. When the blades don’t work, the truth spills between them like the vast, churning ocean — eternity, inescapable.
the keys to your kingdom by thistle_verse (2016, E, 7k) - Auror partners 🔑
Two hundred pain receptors per square inch in the human body and it was nothing but background noise in the explosion, the revelation, that was Harry Potter’s body against his. Read my rec here.
Our Little Life by @tackytigerfic (2020, M, 7k) - multiverse aka love across space and time ⚔️
Sometimes Harry dreams. Only they’re not really dreams at all, and Malfoy is always in them. It’s time travel, but not as we know it, and Harry just needs a good night’s sleep. Read my rec here.
(Un)Calculated Risk by @l0vegl0wsinthedark (2017, E, 7k) - 8th year + secret relationship 🤐
He thought about the way Harry looked at him, smiled at him; about the way Draco’s head was nearly always full of him, all day every day, and about the way Draco sometimes deliberately went to bed still smelling of him, refusing to acknowledge what it meant – because he already fucking knew what it meant. What all of it meant. And then Draco decided, fuck it, he was going to risk it. They were going to risk it together, Harry and Draco.
Gravity Centered by carpemermaid (2019, E, 7k) - rivals & lovers 🧹
Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy are two of the best flyers in the International Professional Broom Racing League. To fans, they’re a pair of competitive rivals that trade skillful wins back and forth, but after they finish each grueling race around the world is that all there is between them? Or: Harry tastes the wind on Malfoy’s tongue. Read my rec here.
A Grey Shrike Alighted upon my Wishbone by @opalesqueopioid (2021, E, 7k) - memory loss, tw: ambiguous ending 🛁
Cursed to forget everything about Harry Potter, Draco has to kill if he wants a cure.
One of Those Nights by @l0vegl0wsinthedark (2016, E, 7.5k) - established relationship + role play 🍸
“I never would have thought you had it in you,” Potter’s heated murmur against his jaw is dark and full of depraved promises. “I’ll give you this much, Malfoy, you sure know how to get a man’s attention.”
in a rambling way by @fw00shy (2021, T, 7.5k) - getting back together + only one bed ⛺️
Ron knocked Hermione up, and now Harry’s got to figure out how to clone himself so that his friends don’t split up fighting over him. Falling for Draco again was never part of the plan.
Til Our Compass Stands Still by china_nightingale (2018, M, 9k) - moving in together 🧭
It was an unconventional relationship, if one could call it that. It was the way it had always been - bodies colliding while lips stayed closed, dueling and caressing and ripping one another open while hearts stayed locked safely behind cages covered in bruises from curses and kisses. Read my rec here.
The Things They Never Say by @bixgirl1 (2017, E, 9k) - enemies to lovers 📰
Harry and Draco don’t know how to talk. So they do other things instead. Read my rec here.
Love, Actually, is All Around by @punk-rock-yuppie (2020, T, 10k) - Movie AU 🎄
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. Read my rec here.
Quick as a Flash of Lightning, Unhurried as Eternity by @onbeinganangel and art by @babooshkart (2021, E, 10k) - domestic love 🐈⬛
Can you fall in love with someone by simply watching them fiercely love another version of yourself? Read my rec here.
The Taste of Magic by @romaine2424 (2012, M, 10k) - Apocalypse AU 🪄
As the world’s atmosphere changes, magic starts to disappear. Only a “lucky” few will stay in the magical world until the earth begins to heal.
fine i’ll hold my breath / til i forget it’s complicated by teatrolley (2015, M, 11k) - friends with benefits 🍵
Harry and Draco become friends with benefits, and Harry thinks it’s more complicated than it actually is. Read my rec here.
A Song, Incomplete by RurouniHime (2013, E, 11k) - older Drarry ♟
Draco’s photograph took up the entire top half of the Prophet’s front page. Below the photo: DRACO MALFOY DEFENDS SON OF FORMER LOVER. As if that were breaking news. Read my rec here.
the way you make me glow by @softlystarstruck (2022, M, 11k) - trans Draco 🏳️⚧️
In a cottage next to the sea, love blossoms. Or perhaps it’s been there all along.
Little Talks by Femme and noeon (2012, E, 11k) - kid fic 🧸
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.
Poppiholla by @moonflower-rose (20121, M, 12k) - mutual pining 🎈
Harry had accepted that he would pine silently for Malfoy forever, but one, humid summer might change that. Read my rec here.
The Eighth Tale by lettered (2012, E, 12k) - time travel, cw: major character death ⌛️
Draco Malfoy tries to fix the past, but instead mucks it up some more. For Harry, it all becomes quite clear. Read my rec here.
Countdown by dysonrules (2013, M, 14k) - friends to lovers 🥞
When the Wizarding world is plagued by random outbreaks of Dark Magic, the Ministry assigns Curse-Breakers to assist Auror teams on their missions. Harry shouldn’t be surprised when Draco Malfoy is assigned to his team, but is Malfoy a Curse-Breaker, or a curse-bringer? Read my rec here.