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Here are a few Harry/Draco recs revolving around the Hogwarts founders. Listed in alphabetical order, as always.
Annus Mirabilis by Ren [39k]
Harry and Malfoy are trapped at Hogwarts around the time the school was founded. Stuck with a different way of doing magic, with no chocolate, and with each other, they have to find a way to work together if they want a chance to go home.
In Plain Sight by oldenuf2nb / @dianacopland [37k]
Draco Malfoy had stopped believing his wishes would be granted long ago. He could perhaps be forgiven for being startled, then, when one of them came true.
Manticoria by @lol-zeitgeistic [70k]
In the dangerous days after Voldemort’s fall, Harry struggles to find a way to be with Draco—again. But as the magical world threatens to die all around them, it might be more difficult than he thought. Includes dying wards, dying beasts, and love struggling to live; sentient magic, wandlore, Founder lore, potion lore, and ward lore; and of course there is Zacharias Smith to ruin everything, as usual.
Turn From Stone by @harryromper [45k]
Something happened in the hours after the final battle, after the evacuation of the living and the dead. As the last of the survivors left the castle, and as the castle itself turned its wounded back on them all. The loss of Hogwarts has been felt by their entire community. And it’s something that needs to be put right. Harry knows there’s nothing he can do to stop Hermione (war hero, historian, author of the reissued “Hogwarts: A History”) once she sets her mind to something. Even an extremely risky last-ditch effort to restore the ancient castle and lay its newest ghosts to rest. What he wasn’t counting on was her insistence that Draco Malfoy be part of the plan.
Until Dawn’s First Light by valinorean [50k]
Harry and Draco find a mysterious portrait in Hogwarts that tells them about different stories of people in the past. But suddenly, strange things begin to happen as each story unfolds.
Wish Upon a Star (As Dreamers Do) by @icmezzo [27k]
There’s plant magic and celestial magic and dark magic and the normal magic that allows Harry to use a spell to clean his socks when Myrtle’s taken up in his laundry room again. Then there are wishes, and dreams, and love, and those are even more magical still.
I hope you enjoy these stories as much as I did!
Hello! I’m in the process of backing up my rec lists to Tumblr. I’m also in the process of updating as many links to AO3 as I can find, so it might take a while. Also, these lists are in the order I first recced them, but I had to start somewhere and 8th year it is! The first of many lists coming. :) Reparo by amalin (NC 17, 85K) Summary: Voldemort’s final defeat does not mean Harry Potter’s troubles are over; far from it. In the aftermath of war, he returns to a Hogwarts that is fractured and divided, but this is no break that can be fixed with a spell. New owls, fading scars, surprising alliances– and along the way, the hardest task of all, to live with it. Matters of Influence by anathema91 (NC-17, 19K) Summary: Draco should have taken his NEWTs over the summer with Pansy and Greg. Repeating 7th year with Potter fresh off his saved-the-world tour struck Malfoy as the height of stupidity more than once. McGonagall’s diabolical plan only made things worse. Or did it? A Time to Move On by sesheta_66(PG-13, 15,5K) Summary: With the war behind them, and wounds still raw, the students at Hogwarts try to work out what their futures might hold for them, and perhaps recapture a little of their lost youth along the way. Title: An Act of Simple Devotion by @blamebrampton (PG-13, 13,3K) Summary: It’s a age-old story. You fancy a boy and you think he fancies you. Sure there are problems – attacks on former Death Eaters, crazed tabloid journalists and your girlfriend – but you have a cunning plan. Now if he’d only explain the L. Ron Hubbard-like references … Title: Master Work by mahaliem (R, 35,1K) Summary: Harry’s eighth-year at Hogwarts is going about as well as all the others. Someone is out to get him, Aurors keep questioning him about the final battle and, worst of all, Draco is determined to repay his life debt to Harry. Title: Soaring by tealeaf523 (R, 9,1K) Summary: Draco Malfoy is reaching the halfway point of his eighth year of Hogwarts, post-war. Though things are back to normal, Draco feels haunted, suffocated, broken by his past. And he can’t be fixed. Can he? Title: Symbiosis by fireflavored (NC-17, 20,2K) Summary: sym·bi·o·sis (sĩm'bē-ō'sĩs) n. Biology A close, prolonged association between two or more different organisms of different species that may, but does not necessarily, benefit each member. Title: Said and Unsaid (or, The Value of Knowing When to Stop Talking) by bryoneybrynn (PG-13, 14,8K) Summary: When the Interrogator asked if he had anything to say on his own behalf, Draco shook his head, his lips pressed tight in a thin line. There was nothing to say that wouldn’t sound like an excuse. Title: The Altar by dragenphly (R, 16K) Summary: Draco grows up. With difficulty. It would probably be easier if it wasn’t for Harry fucking Potter. Title: Bridges bytigersilver (R, 8,6K) Summary: The collected correspondence concerning two ‘8th Year’ Hogwarts School students, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy, from September through December, 1998. Title: The Lovers’ Circle by nicevenn (NC-17, 13,3K) Summary: Tired of feeling alone, Harry agrees to play a matchmaking game with the other eighth years. It’s just a game, after all. What harm could it do? Title: Lucky Break by naturegirlrocks (NC-17, 4,7K) Summary: The day before Halloween Harry crashes into Draco during a friendly quidditch match. Hidden secrets come to light. Title: An Old Habit by fireflavored (NC-17, 8,7K) Summary: The boys have changed a lot over the summer after the war, but Harry hasn’t gotten over the urge to spy on Malfoy. Title: To Give Everything by slashpervert & aveeno_baby (NC-17, 52,3K) Summary: Draco finds The Room, a torture chamber in the Hogwarts dungeons and longs for someone to submit to him. Harry finds he needs that and more. Warning(s): BDSM and Explicit M/M sex – oral, anal, rimming, felching, fisting, bondage, different kinds of spanking/whipping, D/s Title: A Deeper Understanding by bleedforyou1 (PG-13, 11K) Summary: By accident, Harry and Draco develop a bond that neither of them can break until they can learn to understand each other better. Through fortune cookies and riddle-solving, of course! Title: Aftertaste & Afterglow by nursedarry (R, 4,1K) Summary: Draco asks for his wand back and gets more than he bargained for. Title: The Silent World Within You by @femmequixotic & @noeeon (NC-17, 96K) Summary: Harry only wanted Malfoy for one night, one birthday. It wasn’t meant to be anything more. Title: The Ties That Binds Us by faithwood (NC-17, 27,8K) Summary: An accident leaves Draco and Harry bound tightly together. Literally. Title: Marginal Notes by @blamebrampton (PG, 9,3K) Summary: When you’re 18, and nothing is as it was meant to be, sometimes it can be hard to let the right people know what you are thinking.