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Humblewood - Marshview village elder https://www.artstation.com/artwork/58qKg8

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Drarry fic recs: Brought to you by guest curator Marshview, Part 1

Marshview (AO3, aka @torrancelim) has compiled an amazing list of Drarry quotes that they have graciously allowed me to post for our collective enjoyment. There is a fantastic mix of newer and classic fics on here, so there should be something for everyone. Part 2 here.

As always, check the author’s tags before reading. They’re there for a reason.

Along Came Potter by huldrejenta (9.1K) - Potter shows up at Draco’s flat. Then he shows up again, and again, and again.

His shallow composure forcibly cracks, fear and anger and something else he’s not able to identify twists and bends and entwines in his stomach, accompanied by the nauseous stumble of his heart, until it all snaps.

Angels and Devils by @berenwrites (52.3K) - 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.

"You are my enemy," Draco said quietly, "you are part of what defines me. What am I if the enmity dies?"

"Whatever you want to be," Harry replied in an equally hushed voice.

Balance, Imperfect by @bixgirl1 (91K) - When Harry sustains an injury in the line of work, he no longer knows how to navigate the life he loved, and finds help and solace from the most unexpected source.

The words drop like stones in the water, creating such a wide, surprising ripple of hope that Harry can barely process it.  

Everything Forgotten (To Memory) by ICMezzo (26.3K) - Harry couldn't remember and Draco knew too much. Or was it the other way around?

New was surprisingly okay with him. New even tasted familiar, like tea, but also like... well, like Malfoy, apparently. It was heady and messy and a little angry and a lot hot and thirty-seven sorts of brilliant.

Fallaway by @nerdherderette (24.6K) - Following his disastrous outing at the Ministry Ball, Harry is determined to learn how to dance. So why do his lessons with Malfoy leave him feeling like he has two left feet?

"Harry."  There was no anger in Draco's voice, only sorrow tinged with the embrocation of forgiveness as he pulled Harry close.  Harry reached out, running his fingers along the scars' crisscrossed shapes. Their texture felt strange under his fingertips—smooth and lifeless, and coloured a ghostly white. He brushed his lips over Draco's chest in apology, lingering over those sections where smooth transitioned to rough, white turned to pink, and where the previously tasteless flesh grew salty with Draco's sweat, as warmed by the pounding of his heart.

Foundations by Saras_Girl (236.1K) - When one door closes, another one opens – with a bit of a push. Life, love and complications. [sequel to Reparations]

This, though... this is not conflict as he knows it, this is conflict Malfoy-style: cool, calm and serrated.

The Full Four Seasons by @ravenclawsquill (49.1K) - Draco Malfoy just wants a quiet life. He has a successful business, a lovely wife, and a delightfully horrible circle of friends. He’s fine. Or, he was fine until Harry Potter thundered into his life with all the subtlety of a blast-ended skrewt and turned everything on its head. Now he’s beginning to wonder if ‘fine’ is enough, after all.

“So, what do you normally get up to on Christmas Eve?” he asks.

“I usually spend it at the Manor, drinking my body weight in gin and enduring a masterclass in passive aggression,” I say with a grimace. “How about you?”

Headlights in the Snow by Saras_Girl (71.7K) - What’s big and purple and smells like tea? Harry is about to find out.

The drive is a long one, and by the time Draco parks up the bus, every muscle in Harry’s body has turned stiff and even the most comfortable chair in the world has been unable to prevent his backside going completely numb. When he stands, the blood races back into his extremities, making him swear and hop from foot to foot. “Pins and needles or interpretive dance?” Draco asks, stretching until his Christmas jumper rides up, exposing a flicker of pale abdomen.

Here's The Pencil, Make It Work by @dracomalfoyofficial (49.5K) - 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?"

"You guess not?" says Ron. "If you think I'm going to camp all over the fucking country and save your arse when you're stuck in a frozen pond and stab a fucking demon locket and all that rubbish I've done for you, and then have a problem if you want to shag a bloke some time, you're an idiot."

[thefullerview]

I love marsh views, especially at this time of year. #marshview #nikond7100 #westport (at Horseneck Beach State Reservation)

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“Draco, my little dragon, I love you. Do not ever forget that. I know I don’t have much time left and I want you to know how proud I am of you. You are everything I dreamed you would be, and so much more. When I’m gone, I want you to go out and live. I want you to tell Harry how much you love him. He will be so good to you. I am so grateful, knowing your heart is in good hands.” She smiled. Draco was glad she could not see the tears falling down his face.

Remembering You by @torrancelim and @eviegalois

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Drarry fic recs: Brought to you by guest curator Marshview, Part 2

Part 1 here. Thank you @torrancelim!

As always, check the author’s tags before reading. They’re there for a reason.

Hermione Granger's Hogwarts Crammer for Delinquents on the Run by @waspabi (93.4K) - 'You're a wizard, Harry' is easier to hear from a half-giant when you're eleven, rather than from some kids on a tube platform when you're seventeen and late for work.

“I’ve done half the things I’ve done because I thought you were fit and I wanted to impress you.”

Harry smirked. “Thanks, mate. I think you’re okay-looking too.”

“You really don’t care?”

Harry shrugged. “I believe that you believe that.”

Draco wanted to kick him in the shin again. “It’s true!”

“Yeah, well, you’ve got a pretty casual relationship to the truth, so to be honest I’m going to go with what I think.”

The Hogsmen by jamie2109 (15.4K) - Ginny throws Harry over for, of all people, Millicent Bulstrode. Harry doesn't mind; he likes Bulstrode, but he doesn't know how to break it to the kids. Widower Draco Malfoy runs The Hogsman, a sort of gentleman's club for Hogwarts Alumni of the male variety and here, they run into each other once more.

It’s just a pity that the snotty little arsewipe was bloody gorgeous.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve never wanted anyone except Ginny but I’m not blind. Despite my stupid glasses and the fact that Malfoy was pale and pointy and when his hair was slicked back he looked like an albino lizard, I could still see and, in certain lights, he made my heart jump. Probably indigestion – the food at Hogwarts was often far too stodgy.

The Light More Beautiful by @firethesound (81.3K) - Thirteen years after Draco accepts Potter's help escaping the horror of his sixth year, he returns to England where he makes the unfortunate discovery that Potter is still as obnoxious as ever. And worse, more than a decade overseas hasn't been enough to dim Draco's obsession with him.

It’s about a five minute walk to the shop they’re meant to watch tonight, but they move cautiously and keep to the shadows so it takes them closer to ten. The night is clear and cold, the moon is a bright curve overhead and the few stars that aren’t washed out by the lights of London sparkle like crushed glass. Weasley had scoped out this area on Friday afternoon and shared the pictures with Draco. Together, they’d come to the conclusion that there wasn’t a good place to set up their surveillance. There are no convenient alcoves or shadowy doorways in which to linger, and there’s several bars on this street which mean crowds of people so they can’t just Disillusion themselves and sit on the pavement or they’ll risk Muggles literally tripping over them.

Jumeaux by VivacissimoVoce (19.7K) - Draco and Blaise own and operate a luxury spa resort together, and the Ministry's Auror department has scheduled a full service three-day retreat. Guess who's on the guest list?

His gaze practically had fingertips, and it was like being stroked from head to toe.

A Madness Most Discreet by @sophiefrench77 (82.4K) - Being an Auror is not easy: the long hours, the stress, the paperwork... Add to that a loud and smug partner, whose favourite past time is to make fun of you by reading the most ridiculous excerpts from your fan mail out loud, and you have an idea of what Harry has to go through every day. Except that Harry doesn't really mind. In fact, he almost hates himself for finding the whole thing rather endearing.

He revelled in Draco's touch, in the soft lips opening to him, and in Draco's tentative, slightly shaky hand on his hip. 

The Peacock Paladin and the King of the Emerald Court by @penmaries (11.3K) - Harry suffers from chronic headaches, and it affects his work and relationships. New pain-management techniques (and their provider) may just be the relief his life needs.

Time crawled towards them and then raced ahead. Minutes spun into hours and twisted back to seconds. The sun above disappeared and stars wheeled against the lush blanket of night. 

A Thousand Beautiful Things by geoviki (104.6K) - 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.

Her voice had dropped to a near-whisper, as though she were imparting the secret of the ages. "House elves is knowing that every wizard and witch, every centaur and giant, every being that is having thought in its head - they is all serving something. Goblins is serving money. Vampires is serving shadows. And elves is serving something, too. Humans. Sometimes it is being hard to do, but we is learning a long time ago how this is keeping our hearts from the dark. We is filling our hearts with caring, and darkness is not finding a home there."

tissue of silver by @fearlessdiva930 (76.1K) - 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.

Trust Malfoy to make buttering toast an operation requiring surveying equipment. 

The Vanishing Department by @dictacontrion (47.6K) - The things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, even if that involves a lot more form-filling, bickering, covert glancing, miscommunication, and flying furniture than we might expect.

“Please, Potter. Muggles are one thing, Americans another.”

Waiting by an Open Door by @femmequixotic & @noeeon (29.5K) - Draco starts following Potterwatch secretly during the War. He wishes Potter would come save him too. But that sort of thing only happens in fairy tales, and Malfoys don't get fairy tale endings, do they?

Potter stops, the jumper still clutched in his fingers, and Draco knows Potter sees the pale spiderweb of thin, silvery scars twisting over his chest, across his shoulders, onto his back. He meets Potter's gaze.

"It's my other Mark," Draco says quietly. "The one that binds me to you."

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I'm mean. I'm still such a mean fucking bastard. It's just my nature, I suppose. Most of the time I shove it down deep, especially for him. It's not as if I ever want to be truly mean to him, not anymore. I love him so damn much and he deserves so very much more than I can ever give, more than I can ever be. And yet he wants me. He wants me. It's the world's biggest mystery why.

Mean Fucking Bastard by Marshview

[thefullerview]

September light. It inspires me. Everywhere I looked this weekend I'd see a view that made my heart beat a little quicker. I can't remember the last time I felt excited behind the camera. And so, true to form I took over 1,000 pictures (what is it we say about 'half measures'?) so now I have the daunting task of editing them all. #westport #fineartphotography #marshview #septemberlight #reflection #nikond7100 (at Horseneck Beach State Reservation)

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Still Waters Run Deep