📚 wolf's reading list | october favourites
It's been a while since I've been able to do one of these! And I'm still very much catching up with all of my reading, but for now, here's a list of fics I've read this month that I've absolutely adored. As ever, mix of pairings/warnings etc.
Alpha and Omega. And Omega. 🪢
E, Drarry/Theo, 6.1k | @citrusses
No one is shocked when Harry Potter presents as an Alpha. No one, that is, except for Harry Potter himself, who doesn't know what to do about any of it: not the weird instincts, or the horrifying anatomy, or the fact that he can't seem to stop fucking Draco Malfoy, and especially not whatever 'surprise' Draco has waiting in Harry's bedroom.
With a bang, the front door of Grimmauld swings open and Draco walks in, smelling exactly the same way he always does. Not like the scent of the heat that’s been oozing out of Harry’s bedroom and getting his dick hard for the past five minutes.
“What the fuck?” Harry hisses. “You—you’re not upstairs.”
“No,” Draco says, removing his calfskin gloves one finger at a time. He looks up at Harry and smiles like a fucking psychopath. “But your present is.”
T, Drarry, 1k | @hoko-onchi-writes
“Draco keeps cooking for me. Weird, right?”
Harry sits down and slowly spoons himself a dish. He catches the look in Draco’s eyes. Yeah, he thinks. Alright. “I want to. C’mon. Fucking sit down with me. Don’t be a git.”
Draco’s knuckles are white against the back of the chair where he stands. “Are you certain—”
“I am.”
E, Drarry, 77.9k | @maesterchill
Harry Potter doesn't want to become an Auror. And Draco Malfoy would quite like to stay alive and out of harm’s way. Neither have any desire whatsoever to time-travel into the future, especially not with each other. But fate? Well, she has other plans.
They lapse into silence for a bit, in the peacefulness of the field, staring up at the sky, at the light grey cloud that’s inches away from blocking the sun, at the seagulls wheeling overhead, their cries distant and melancholic.
“This is nice,” Harry says, breaking the silence, “y’know, even though it’s you.”
“That’s certainly the faintest praise I’ve heard in a while,” Malfoy responds dryly, a small smirk playing on his lips.
a fire they can't put out 🔥
E, Harry/Albus Severus, 4.5k | @the-invisibility-bloke for @hpcestfest 2024
Albus returns from three years abroad. Plenty of time to forget what happened. If only Harry could.
It should be awkward. By natural order of social dynamics, it should absolutely be awkward. But they haven’t been natural for awhile, have they?
Harry levitates the duffel to the foot of the stairs and turns to face him and it’s not awkward.
It’s terrifying.
It's the Moonlight, It is the Rain 🌧️
M, Drarry (background Drastoria and Hinny), 1.9k | snarkyscorp
It is always dark and raining when he arrives; it is always cold and uncomfortable when he goes.
Draco thinks back to the very first time, the first kiss. Heated mouths, parted lips, clumsy tongues, angry fingers welting bruises on upper arms and chins and throats just to grip as much as possible, to break and bend and fuck and unite and connect and breathe and feel.
Then came marriage. Children. Responsibility. The sting of growing old, the realisation of mortality. Then came distance and frowns and the dread of having Harry at his door at all hours with that look on his face and his trousers too tight and all the ghosts nipping at his heels like restless hounds in the night.
M, Harry/Scorpius, 1k | snarkyscorp
This is not how it should have gone. It should have been beautiful and Harry should be happy and Scorpius shouldn't feel so guilty, so tired, so young…
Scorpius has loved Harry since he was ten, has known it will be Harry since he found the spell in one of his grandfather's diaries, and yet he knows too that he cares more than he should, that he wants not only for Harry to be his but to know him inside-out.
Tonight is not just about getting what he wants—it is about love, too.
E, Harry/Albus, Drarry/Albus, 1.3k | snarkyscorp
There is nothing Harry wouldn't do to get Al out of trouble…
Harry is too absorbed in holding Albus close to realize he is being disarmed. Before he even senses the sizzle of magic, there is a shout of Expelliarmus! and his wand goes flying. With a stumble, Harry tries to rush after it, but another spell pins him to the wall.
"Hello, Potter."
The drawl would be enough of a give away, but the pointed, pale face that invades his line of sight is so jarring in its malice and familiarity. There is no one else who looks, smells, or breathes like Draco Malfoy.
E, Teddy/Scorpius, Scorpius/James, Jeddy/Scorpius, 1.3k | snarkyscorp
Tonight, Scorpius is in charge. Whatever he says, whatever he wants, goes.
"I want you to fuck James," Scorpius says. He is not smiling, he doesn't blink, barely moves; Teddy isn't even sure he breathes.
The room is quiet. Teddy swears the silence whispers all the dangerous implications of that statement.
"James?" Teddy asks. "James Potter?" It's not quite a question, actually. Teddy hopes Scorpius doesn't hear the edge of arousal laced in his voice.
E, Harry/Scorpius, 2k | @emotionalsupporthufflefluff
Harry waved him off as if to say it didn’t matter. “I heard you had a thing for older men.”
Currently, Harry was keeping his eyes trained on the pitch, watching the players do warm-up formations. Looking over to where Teddy, James and Scorpius were chatting was out of the question. Scorpius had his back turned towards him, and now that he wasn’t in heavy Auror robes or Ministry robes, Harry could see he had filled out through training. Muscle had layered on his lithe form, and his muggle jeans did nothing but display it all. The blond stretched absent-mindedly, causing his jumper to ride up, giving Harry a full view of his perfectly sculpted—
“He is your son’s age. What is wrong with you? Maybe I do need that app Jamie was talking about. Hey, look, there’s Ginny. Wave to the ex, Harry. Very good; quit ogling the Malfoy boy.”
That's a wrap! Yes, I definitely went on a bit of a snarkyscorp deep dive, no regrets 😂 I'm really craving some dirtyhotwrong atm, so any recs of that ilk totally welcome! Or any recs at all! 💖 My asks/DMs are always open.
