Thank you so very much to all our amazing writers, artists, pinch-hitters, readers, commenters, and reccers who once again made this fest such an amazing success!
If you haven’t had time to make it through all the fantastic works here yet, we hope that you’ll still read and leave some love for our writers and artists! Comments are appreciated all year round! ;) As are commenters—like you amazing readers and participants, including the phenomenal people who have left an incredible total of comments on H/D Erised works this year—thank you for all you do to make this community what it is!! And a special shout-out, again, to our ever-expanding list of all-star commenters who have commented on more than half (and sometimes way more!!) of this year’s works: blueheart_v, dothechachaslide, hsvh, khalulu, lq_traintracks, lumosatnight, QueenieJinny, Slowly_learning, and TheGoblinMatriarch!! Thank you!!!
We’ll be going through the works today, revealing the authors on AO3, removing the mod account as a co-author, and adding the creator names to the tumblr headers. We’ll be sending the participants a wrap-up email when we’ve finished with all the final admin things on our end.
Thanks again for making this another brilliant round of Erised! We hope to see you all again next year!
From the outgoing mods, Dicta, Fire, & Grace: it has been an absolute pleasure modding this fest over the past 6+ years, and while saying farewell is bittersweet, we couldn't be happier to be handing over the fest to such wonderful and capable mods! We know you'll be in good hands with Ali, El, & Honey, and we hope that they'll see you all again during next year's signups! <3
<3 dicta_contrion, firethesound, gracerene, epitomereally, honeybeet, and nv-md
@dustmouth drew One Way To Finish A Crossword for dodgerkedavra [T]
@creeeee drew I'm Not The Person You Used To Know" for dwell_the_brave [G]
@drarrydoodles drew Fancy Seeing You Here for lqtraintracks [E]
@bicholsdrarrysideblog drew Lunch Break for rei382 [G]
@rezal-art drew Three Act Disaster for the-sinking-ship [M]
@bluebutter-art drew In His Nature for fantalfart [E]
@digthewriter drew Being Together and Loving Each Other for @dustmouth [T]
@melcarrianna drew Love Reflected for maraudersaffair [G]
@okay-sky drew Yule Ball, 1998 for orpheus87 [T]
@puncertainty drew New Neighbour for porcelainheart3 [T]
@sharperthan drew Under The Mistletoe for digthewriter[T]
@fantalfart drew The Colour of Love for iota [T]
@thehoneybeet drew Draco Meets The Dursleys for sharperthana [M]
@bluebutter-art Lovebug for Omi_Ohmy [G]
@oflights wrote we have heard on high for doingthechachaslide [E, ~35k]
Summary: Reeling from the fallout of a bad breakup, Harry decides to find out who his soulmate is. The bad news: it's Draco Malfoy. The good news: Malfoy doesn't seem to know they're soulmates. The worst news: Harry might be falling for him anyway.
@fencer-x wrote How To Train Your Malfoy for the hd_erised community [E, ~94k]
Summary: Good manners dictate that, when one’s best friend Apparates onto one’s doorstep holding the unconscious, haggard body of the schoolyard bully and begging for sanctuary, one ought to invite the two of them in for a cup of tea. Harry Potter sometimes wishes he weren’t so polite.
@wolfpants wrote Thickets for writcraft [E, ~17k]
Summary: When Draco returns to the UK after two decades of building his career as an internationally-renowned artist to look after his ailing, estranged father, he crosses paths with his former flame, Harry Potter, in the most unexpected way.
@kbrick wrote Draco Malfoy, Bloodsucking Fiend for cavendishbutterfly [E, ~23k]
Summary: There are two things that Draco’s Auror partner, Harry Potter, must never know about him. One is that he’s a vampire. The other is that he’s been completely, pathetically, head-over-heels in love with Harry for years. But when the duo is trapped inside an old shop on Diagon Alley with no means of escape, Draco finds himself fiending for blood and unable to put even a modicum of distance between himself and the man he can’t stop lusting after.
@lumosatnight wrote How to Lose a Guy in 10 Dates (or Less) for melcarianna [M, ~14k]
Summary: Draco has a bet to win. Harry has a point to prove. How hard can it be?
(Includes: snogging over lo mein, Harry’s martial arts studio, Draco’s overuse of the Floo, drunk card games, and a yellow silk shirt)
@porcelainheart3 wrote The Realm of Possibility for multiverse-of-fanfic [M, ~6k]
Summary: You can't outrun your past, but you can fuck around with parallel versions of the present.
@goblinmatriarch wrote Sharper than a Sea Serpent's Tooth for khalulu [T, ~41k]
Summary: Draco expects his research trip to Crete to focus on the ecology of ward design, with perhaps some cheeky visits to the elusive sea serpents and the odd sleepy beach day. Instead, he encounters a Past he's spent over a decade trying to outrun, and a familiar scowl under glasses and a scar. Featuring just so much imagining being on a hot, sunny beach for your winter pleasure.
@shiftylinguini wrote solemates for oknowkiss [E, ~17k]
Summary: It starts because Harry has no self-control when it comes to meaningless and entertaining competition.
Actually no, that's not quite right. It starts because Harry is absolutely plastered.
(From the prompt: Workplace fic in which a benign inter-department step challenge gets out of hand, spearheaded by you know who 1 and 2)
@multiverse-of-fanfic wrote The Room that Changed Everything for the hd_erised community [T, ~18k]
Summary: When a sabotaged potion lands Harry and Draco in detention, Harry must wrestle with two uncomfortable truths:
One, Malfoy the nemesis no longer exists. And Two, Harry is embarrassingly attracted to him. With the war behind them, can Harry and Malfoy build something from the ashes, or are they doomed to be enemies forever?
@khalulu wrote Eager: Born to Re-wild for inheartofwinter [M, ~7k]
Summary: Harry's friends haven't seen him for a while and they're starting to worry. Draco's listless and his friends are starting to worry. Also, something's up(side down) with Theo Nott. Meanwhile, Harry's taken on a new identity and immersed himself in a project he can really get his teeth into. But has he bitten off more than he can chew? Got too far into the (water) weeds? And who (besides you, dear reader) could guess that Draco would be the one to bring him back?
@doingthechachaslide wrote Martyred for kbrick [E, ~82k]
Summary: Harry Potter only wants one thing: to take care of the people he loves. After Teddy’s abrupt departure from his role as Andromeda’s caretaker, Harry decides it’s finally time to step up and handle the job himself.
Castoff Manor, an old Black family estate, has never seemed as sinister as the stories make it sound, but it’s there that Harry stumbles upon ghosts, haunting family secrets, and a familiar, snarky blond gardener hell-bent on chasing him out. Maybe if Harry sticks around long enough, he’ll finally learn why all of Andromeda’s previous caretakers have fled without looking back.
@dwell-the-brave wrote I Will Stay If You Dare for wolfpants [G, ~9100]
Summary: When Harry receives a cryptic letter from Narcissa Malfoy, he rushes to Draco Malfoy’s aid, only to find he’s not invited and definitely not wanted by the Master of Malfoy Manor. But the Manor itself seems to think otherwise…
@mallstars wrote Sugarplum for bluefay [E, ~27300]
Summary: The air crackled as it busied itself shifting around molecules, making way for a hefty slab of magic, and then there it was: the Knight Bus, squeezed neatly into a pocket of Wizarding space among stagnant Muggle buses, vibrant violet amidst a string of cherry red. The door sprang open.
"Draco," said Potter, a little breathless, a little cheerful. He smelled of coconut lotion, Cockroach Clusters and a sloppy ironing charm. Lifting one hand off the steering wheel, Potter gave a small wave. He wore gloves. Fingerless, the leather black against the sunlight. Leather. In August.
@cavendishbutterfly wrote The Regret Machine for the hd_erised community [E, ~15500]
Summary: Malfoy’s coming in to do fancy Legilimency work on Hermione’s mind healing machine. Harry’s his test subject—and he’s pretty sure Malfoy is still Up To Something.
@lqtraintracks wrote Jasmine in Bloom for XxTheDarkLordxX [E, ~41500]
Summary: This is not something Draco can have in his life… Potter overturning all that he’s carefully cultivated. They’re not compatible and never will be. Draco’s been playing with fire. It just so happens that he likes how Potter smoulders before being allowed close enough to burn.
@dodgerkedavra wrote Former Things Come to Mind for mallstars [E, ~64100]
Summary: Harry Potter has had a headache for seven and a half years.
@orpheous87 wrote Welcome to the Future for rezal [G, ~10100]
Summary: Returning to Hogwarts, Harry isn’t surprised to find out that his roommate is Malfoy. Getting to know one another makes being back at Hogwarts bearable. Staying at school over Christmas brings surprises that neither imagined.
@khb-writes wrote Swinging into Love for Discessio [T, ~6300]
Summary: All he has is Work and Teddy. Trying to find something for himself, a way to relax, Harry stumbles into someone he never expected to see again.
@queenie-jinny wrote Lethe for slythercrux [E, ~70900]
Summary: A new form of vanishing sickness is sweeping across Britain. Healers Harry Potter and Hermione Granger are on the case. When Draco Malfoy is admitted to the isolation ward, Harry never imagines falling in love with him will be the easiest thing he’s ever done – and watching him fade away to nothing will be the hardest.
@sorrybutblog wrote Clear Skies, Full Heart for oflights [E, ~16,000]
Summary: Harry loves everything about playing professional Quidditch – the rush of flying, the rush of winning, the rush of getting off with rival seeker Draco Malfoy. Harry’s the highest scoring rookie Seeker in the history of the League. He’s also, inexplicably, obsessively, hooking up with Draco. When Draco unexpectedly quits the League and disappears from Harry’s life, Harry doesn’t stop wondering what it all meant and if he’ll ever get another chance to find out.
@oknowkiss wrote À Bon Chat for moonflower-rose [E, ~35,100]
Summary: Draco Malfoy didn’t intend to lead a life of crime after the war. It’s just that being good had turned out so incomprehensibly boring.
Now he's thirty-five, a fully redeemed member of society, the darling of the wizarding social pages, and a newly minted consultant for Gawain Robards' Investigative Research division. In his spare time, he enjoys good whisky, casual sex, and moonlighting as an art thief. His biggest score yet is fast approaching and he's got everything planned down to the minute. Everything, that is, until the unexpected appearance of a newly-divorced Harry Potter. Now that Potter's in the picture, Draco's no longer certain if he's the pursuer or the prize.
@moonflower-rose wrote Nothing Gold Can Stay for bluebutter-art [E, ~40,200]
Summary: One summer evening, Harry Potter vanished in the middle of dinner with his friends. Four days later he came back. Sort of.
Draco Malfoy is on the case.
@rei382 wrote The Draco Cure for the hd_erised community[T, ~11,300]
Summary: When Harry's baby dragon falls seriously ill, he turns to Draco Malfoy, a specialist in Rare Dragon Diseases, despite their complicated history. As they work together to care for the ailing dragon, animosity transforms into an unexpected connection, rewriting the story of their past.
@writcraft wrote The Unplottable Time Conundrum for lumosatnight [E, ~45,700]
Summary: When the past starts bleeding into the present at Grimmauld Place, an old academic article pulls Draco Malfoy out of his life of luxury. Haunted by the memory of a fleeting post-war kiss and thrust into the ghostly spaces inhabited by Unspeakable Harry Potter, Draco’s easy life is about to get a whole lot more complicated.
@inheartofwinter wrote Sing Me A Song for KaterineBlack [M, ~15,300]
Summary: On his birthday, Draco Malfoy discovered that he was a half-siren and had a mate. The problem was his mate was none other than the famous Harry Potter, aka his sworn enemy who despised him. What would he do next? On a side note, why was Harry Potter so annoyed that a certain obnoxious blond git had stopped antagonising him?
@xx-thedarklord-xx wrote Murder In St Mungo's for fencer-x [E, ~81,000]
Summary: Murders, cults, and Ministry corruption oh my!
Bodies were popping up dead all across Great Britain. Nothing connected them, no eyewitnesses, no motive, and not a single suspect in sight. Junior Auror Harry Potter was not given the cases nor asked to help, but that wasn’t going to stop him from getting to the bottom of it. Even if he had to work with the Ministry’s least favourite employee, Draco Malfoy.
@epitomereally wrote True Love Gave To Me for bichol [E, ~24,000]
Summary: It’s the first of December, and all Draco wants to do is make Christmas lovely for Scorpius. But then Harry Potter shows up, asking him to save the world, and it turns out they’ve almost saved the world a couple of times before. One-hundred and forty-four times, to be exact.
Or: what happens after the time loop?
@maraudersaffair wrote You Wait. I'll Have You for queenie-jinny [E, ~27,400]
Summary: It's a few months after the war, and Harry travels all the way to Azkaban to get Draco Malfoy out of prison. Malfoy might have the Dark Mark on his arm, but he doesn't deserve to be locked up, thank you very much.
As a trade-off, Malfoy helps Harry study for his NEWTs, but the process isn't easy. Malfoy is hot now, and Harry struggles concentrating around him.
Draco struggles concentrating around Potter, too. And he's beginning to not feel like himself, like something about his magic is fundamentally changing. He can no longer control himself around Potter, but he hasn't a clue what to do about it.
Draco struggles concentrating around Potter, too. And he's beginning to not feel like himself, like something about his magic is fundamentally changing. He can no longer control himself around Potter, but he hasn't a clue what to do about it.
Omi_ohmy wrote Blackbird Rising for goblinmatriarch [T, ~57,600]
Summary: Harry longs to feel at home again, but he has been away for a long time, and he has a lot to contend with on his return to London: a magical mystery to investigate, a polite but prickly blond work partner with a disarming habit of blushing, a house with personality, the echoes of the war all around him, and a secret of his own.
@thesleepiesthufflepuff wrote Last Time for okay-sky [E, ~3,200]
Summary: There are eight years of hatred and seven years of tolerance behind every tease, every blowjob, and every screw.
No matter how it ends, though, Draco just hopes he doesn’t lose Potter as a friend.
@nv-md wrote Always the Last to Know for chachisoo [M, ~10,600]
Summary: “I’m not napping,” Harry mumbled, his face still pressed to the floor. “I’m thinking.”
“Salazar help us,” Draco muttered, walking around Harry’s prone body. Out of the corner of his eye, a bit blurrily, Harry watched as Draco lay beside him. “And what, pray tell, is so difficult to ponder that it requires a lie down?"
Harry took a deep breath, very much considered lying, closed his eyes, and said, “Love.”
@slythercrux wrote Cauldron Mishaps & Mayhem for puncertainty [G, ~8,000]
Summary: After a string of unfortunate mishaps land Harry on the verge of failing out of Potions, he develops a tentative friendship with his enemy-turned-tutor, Draco Malfoy.
@the-sinking-ship wrote Never Mind the Bollocks for shiftylinguini [E, ~118,600]
Summary: If someone told Harry six months ago that by autumn, he would be single, living on whisky and toast, and dancing the night away with Draco Malfoy, he would have told them to get their head checked.
And yet, here he was.
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