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Harry takes the DADA position at Hogwarts after a near-fatal Auror injury, expecting a quiet year close to his kids. What he isn't expecting is Draco Malfoy — four years into his tenure as Potions professor, sharp-tongued and self-possessed and nothing like the boy Harry remembers.
As Harry's marriage to Ginny starts to dissolve under the weight of things left unsaid, he finds himself drawn into Draco's orbit: joint lessons, Tuesday marking sessions that run too long, a Christmas that changes everything. Draco is guarded and brilliant and devastatingly competent, and Harry can't stop noticing him.
The problem is that Harry is straight. Or thought he was. And Draco — who has been quietly, hopelessly in love with Harry since sixth year — has built his entire life around the certainty that some things are never going to happen.
A story about second acts, the courage it takes to stop performing the person everyone expects you to be, and two men who spend an entire year almost seeing each other clearly.
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29 May 2026
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After the war, Draco Malfoy returns to Hogwarts expecting judgment, suspicion, and a year spent surviving the consequences of his mistakes. What he does not expect is Potter stalking him again like in sixth year. Except this time it's different because it's not out of suspicion, but something else... a suffocating obsession with saving him that grows the more Draco feels like he doesn't deserve it. Almost as if something in Harry is instinctively attracted to the rot beneath Draco's facade of nonchalance.
As winter closes around Hogwarts, old traumas begin to take on a life of their own. Dreams feel like more than dreams...something walks though them trying to lure Draco towards an antlered figure in the dark. And the closer Draco and Harry become, the harder it is to tell where obsession ends and something far worse begins.
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Intimate Horror/Gothic Romance
WARNING: one brief attempted sexual assault - and it's not framed as fantasy, but tragedy.Bookmarked by foreststarling
24 May 2026
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Draco Malfoy, nom de scène Draco Black, is very good at surviving. He’s had to be.
Homeless at eighteen, he has built himself a fragile kind of stability on strict boundaries, a fake last name, and sex traded for money. Splitting his time between late nights and a community centre that’s falling apart.
It works.
That is, until the famous Oscar-winning Harry Potter hires him.
Lines start to blur, family secrets begin to surface, and Draco is forced to decide what survival is worth.
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- Part 1 of A Little Prayer
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21 May 2026
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Ron's text, 8:47 AM: "so do you have a NAME tall blonde or do i just call you The Legs"
Harry Potter didn't go looking for trouble. Trouble - tall, platinum, and wearing a dress that should be illegal - found him on a dance floor. One night of bad decisions and worse tequila later, Harry wakes up in a stranger's bed with a very familiar sneer.
Draco Malfoy, it turns out, looks incredible in short dresses, and even better in the morning light.
What to expect:
· One very drunk Harry Potter
· One very blonde, very mysterious stranger in a velvet dress
· A dance floor that changes everything
· Ron Weasley's unsolicited (but accurate) commentary
· The world's most chaotic text thread
· Morning-after eggs (burnt)
· And the slow, terrifying, wonderful realization that you've been looking for the wrong (or right) person this whole timeBookmarked by foreststarling
10 May 2026
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The garden had live flowers, similar to how they had been when he was young, when his mother fussed over the roses, paid the best of the gardeners to manage them. The smell of rain flowed from the earth freely, and unlike the Manor it didn’t revitalise the metallic smell of old blood that poisoned the ground. The heavy rainfall didn’t unearth bones here, no, as it started to fall harder the ground simply turned to a soft mud.
Draco didn’t move, he could feel his hair growing heavy on his forehead, droplets built in his lashes but he stayed, allowed the rain to fall on him. Maybe a part of him hoping it would wash away the sins, the evil he’d done, the things he’d seen. Maybe he hoped the rain would grant him a second chance, they thought he was dead.. perhaps it would give him a new life. A rebirth.
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The Half-Blood Prince except Snape never vowed to protect Draco. Draco comes into the protection of the Order and finds himself at the Burrow with the golden trio.
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23 Mar 2026