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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.