I thought a lot about what I wanted to do to celebrate Pride in the Library. In the end, I gave up on a specific theme and simply chose fics that were meaningful to me and my experiences with Queerness. Pride is a party, a fight, a riot, a feeling of freedom to be unashamedly yourself and a celebration of Queer love.
I’m sending you all of my love. In case you haven’t heard it yet this month - I am proud of you for just being you. Your existence makes our world a little brighter, and I am thankful for it. Keep fighting, keep loving, keep being kind.
🏳️🌈 Lots of Love and Happy Pride 🏳️🌈
💗💜💙 The Drarry Librarian 💙💜💗
1. It's okay if you discover you're Queer later in life.
Around You Moves by ignatiustrout (29,659 words, rated M)
Harry knew Draco was gay when he invited him to move in. He’s never had a problem with this. So why does he feel so weird about Draco bringing men home all of a sudden?
2. You don't owe anyone else your coming out.
bury the dead where they're found by @rocketdocket (52,201 words, not rated)
The war is over. Or at least, that's how it feels for everyone else. But not for Harry. He can't escape the memories and the nightmares of the war, or his guilt about those who died for him. While all he wants is to be alone, finding a family in the most unlikely of places may be just what he needs.
3. Someday you will be old, Queer, happy and free.
Bird Set Free by @rockmarina (827 words, rated G)
Draco rarely felt as free as he did when he swam in the ocean.
4. You don't have to know everything about being Queer immediately. You can learn as you go.
Little Deaths and How to Avoid Them (Or Draco Malfoy's Guide to Stop Dying and Start Living Instead) by @greaseonmymouth (96,144 words, rated T)
Malfoy is way too interested in coroner reports for somebody who's definitely not looking for ways to die, Harry wants to be friends with him, and Ginny wants to break up with Harry.
5. Queer love is beautiful and sacred.
Still Warm, Still Warm by @tsauergrass (4,899 words, rated G)
Harry is up to something. Why else would he keep giving Draco presents?
"So who all are going tomorrow?" Harry asks his usual friend group. Everyone responds with a yes and how is that possible?
"Uhm, I'm sorry did I miss something?" He asks incredulously.
"Maybe our coming outs," Pansy comments from beside Blaise and he looks at Draco for confirmation and he shrugs.
"Maybe we all can come out to each other? I don't think we ever did that properly." Neville suggests and everyone agrees and so it begins.
"I'll start then?" Pansy suggests and before anyone can respond she is talking again, "I'm a raging lesbian, if there was ever doubt to my homosexuality then I would like to apologise." She smirks at them and all of them laugh loudly at that.
Blaise goes next, "Pansexual!" he declares proudly.
"You mean anyone who even shows a slight interest?" Draco quips and gets swatted on his head for that.
"As if, darling. It's the other way round, everyone falls over their feet for me." Blaise preens and Pansy shuts them both with two mild stinging hexes.
"Okay me now!" Draco squeals and Harry shakes his head fondly, "I'm bi. And ready to die." Draco smiles cheekily at his own joke and Harry shakes his head. What did he do to get this bloke in his life?
"Oh, I always thought you're gay." Ginny comments and many of them nod agreeingly.
"Nah, bi." Draco waves them off and it's Harry's turn.
"Well I'm gay." Harry rubs his neck as he looks around.
"Was I really the only one to think that Harry was bi and Draco was the gay one?" Theo asks and by the looks of most of his friends, no most of them thought the same thing. Well, it's not like he ever came out properly or anything. He just started dating Draco and let people assume whatever they wanted to. Maybe it was a bad decision to not include their friends. Maybe.
"Girls nah!" Harry exclaims and Ginny frowns and exclaims, "Hey!"
"Gin, as much as I love you. You are a lesbian yourself and in love with a mysterious blonde. Much like me, so shut it." Harry says goodheartedly and Ginny makes a face at him but shuts up.
"Well, you all know I'm Trans and probably a demisexual. Not really sure about that," Neville says next and then adds as an afterthought, "I like boys though."
"Really, darling? No one would have guessed via how you are in a relationship with a bloke, now would they?" Theo quips and the rest of them chuckle.
"Well I'm gay through and through," Theo says next and kisses Neville on the lips as if to show that.
"Agender and asexual." Luna declares next and this is someone all of them knew since Luna was the only one to officially come out to everyone of them.
"And mine." Ginny says possesively beside her and kisses her cheek. "I'm lesbian, as my dear ex just pointed out not five minutes ago." She smirks at him and he flips her two fingers.
"Gay,"
"Gay." Seamus and Dean say one after the other. It's not like they ever looked at anyone else since Dean and Ginny's breakup. He still wants to know the actual story behind that one.
"Well, so," Ron starts and everyone looks at him in unison, he looks a bit red but that can he the light as well. "I uh recently discovered that I am bisexual." And everyone looks shocked. Harry is pretty sure he is staring with his mouth open, but he can't make himself look away.
When was his bestfriend going to tell him this? He sorta feels betrayed but how-
"I came out to Hermione a few months ago and well that's it I guess." Ron states, and Harry thinks he is missing a vital part somehow.
"So who was it?" It's Pansy who breaks the silence.
"Yeah that's right, Ron. Who was the bloke or non binary person who finally made opened your eyes towards the other genders." Blaise inquires as well.
Ron is now red in embarrassment so it's Hermione who answers, "Well, love can I then? Since you don't seem like you can talk in the next hour?" Ron nods his head resigned and Hermione smiles her cat-ate-the-canary smile. Oh this is going to be good.
"Well, it's the same person who might have instigated it years ago but Ron had been quite oblivious that time. Much like you and Cedric, Harry." Something in her voice tells Harry that she is giving a clue, to maybe Harry exclusively because the others still look clueless as ever.
And then clicks and holy shit-
"Victor Fucking Krum!" Harry says out loud and it makes sense with all the obsession and everything that he say in his fourth year.
"That's right! Ron saw Krum a few months back, he was in Berlin for the new shop there and he came across there and I got a floocall taht very evening, he came through and told me through his haze." Hermione smiles at her husband and messes his hair slightly, "Just imagine my shock-"
"You thought it was Krum he was jealous of at the Ball but it turned out to be You!" Harry joins in and both of them stare at each other before bursting out loud at the situation.
"Alright, both of you. Stop laughing at my expense. I know the irony of the situation." Ron says at last.
"But Weasley, just think about it! We might have had Krum with us tonight as your partner and not Granger." Draco says and scrunches his nose in mock disgust and the couple sends a stinging hex each and Draco yelps.
"Harry, baby! Your friends are abusing me!" he whines and Harry tuts mockingly which gets him a glare.
"Aww, sweetheart. Maybe don't mess with these two then. One of the most successful business man who is so accomplished in hexes and jinxes and our Minister of Magic. Deadly couple these both."
"Oh come off it, as if you both aren't deadly as well. Head of DMLE and Head of Unspeakables. I think that makes you both more dangerous." Hermione replies and he shrugs in response.
"Yes, yes. All of you are bigshots and we are grateful for so much security among us. Can we proceed then?" Pansy asks and Harry blushes slightly at the implications.
Just Hermione is left.
"Well, I'm just going as an ally. Mostly for Ron but all of you are going to be there anyways so I took a day off." Hermione says and wow, Hermione and off days. That's almost unheard of.
"Wait, so almost all the heads of the Ministry are not going to be there tomorrow?" Blaise asks and six of them turn to glare at him but it's Harry who replies.
"Don't worry, Blaise. Our best officials will be handling everything in our stead. And it's not our fault that all of our friends have such a good role in the Ministry and outside as well." Harry gives him the look he gives the hitWizards when they tell him a basic criminal slipped from their hands. Blaise looks mostly unbothered by it.
"Was planning on making a attack on the Ministry tomorrow. Would definitely be successful." Blaise replies instead.
"Shut up, Blaise." The six of them, him, Draco, Hermione, Neville, Theo and Luna say in unison and it's a pictureworthy moment.
They steer back into what they will be wearing and which type of makeup would look the best.
In the last, Draco agrees on a goth look with a short dress and mesh slacks. Harry with golden eyeliner which Pansy says would look godlike on his brown skin, so Blaise is going to do the same. He decides on wearing just his flag colours, with clip-on earrings and everything.
Blaise agrees on full black, as usual. Just the make-up would be his highlight, according to him. Luna is going in a fairy dress, Ginny in shorts and a sleeveless camisole.
Pansy in her signature heels and dress but make it pride colours. Ron, after a lot of coaxing decides on blue trousers, a pink and violet custom made sweater which apparantly Hermione had ordered almost three weeks ago. That makes him beam at her.
Neville is going in his usual wool sweater and trousers and his flag around his shoulder. Theo is matching with him.
As Harry looks around the table at the end of the night, and sees the happy faces of his friends who has somehow become his chosen family. He just feels one emotion. Love.
I might be smiling on the outside, but on the inside I wonder why Harry is literally a WIZARD POLICE OFFICER instead of something IDK.... more productive ????? Just a thought
