H/D Career Fair 2021 Fanwork Masterlist

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Challenge
Name: H/D Career Fair 2021
Date(s): June - November 2021
Moderator(s): phoenixacid, sassy_cissa
Founder: phoenixacid, sassy_cissa
Type: fest/challenge - Fanfiction, Fanart, Podfic
Fandom: Harry Potter
Associated Community: H/D Fan Fair
URL: Career Fair AO3 Collection
Career Fair Banner; art by chachisoo
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H/D Career Fair 2021 is the 2021 Drarry fest Fannish Fair hosted at H/D Fan Fair. The theme is occupations – muggle or wizarding!

The only career exceptions for this fair are:
Harry: Auror, Professor, Quidditch Player, Sex-Related Careers
Draco: Auror, Professor, Potions Master, Sex-Related Careers

The collection can be found on AO3 here.

About

H/D Fan Fair is a Harry/Draco fest, thus all stories and works of art must have Harry/Draco as the primary romantic/sexual pairing. Pre-slash should be marked clearly in the header information. Though, their relationship doesn't have to be the primary focus of the story/art, both Harry and Draco must play an important role in the story/art and their relationship must not be overshadowed by any other.

Mod Words

The 2021 Career Fair is now over and it has been an amazing ride!

We couldn't do this without some truly wonderful people and we want to take this opportunity to thank them:


♥ To the authors, artists and podficcers - Thank you so much for all your efforts and for giving us such brilliant works year after year! We wouldn't have a Fair without you!


The overall word counts and the artworks submitted for the Fair this year were amazingly lengthy as compared to the Fairs before (see statistics post). This Fair is not even a Big Bang but we see so many fics that goes beyond the usual 5-15k and comics that are pages long! You must have spent dozens, if not hundreds, of hours to create such beautiful pieces!


(Phoenixacid: In order to invest this much time and effort into telling Draco/Harry stories, you must all truly love the characters and enjoy what you're doing (well, that or you're a masochist). The shorter entries are no less wonderful and intricate as well! It brings me so much joy to see how passionate and committed people are to this pairing after so many years!)


♥ To our readers, commenters, and viewers - you guys bring the creators so much joy. We love and appreciate every single comment and kudos you have left! We hope we'll continue to have your support for future Fairs!


♥ To everyone who participated in our Fair Cup - thank you for being the awesomest and most hardworking commenters! Your efforts to appreciate the creator's work was absolute love!


♥ To those of you who recced those stories and artworks you loved - thank you for boosting the fanworks and for helping us spread the word! You are amazing!


♥ And finally, to everyone who helped cheer on or beta for our writers and artists - your help was absolutely tremendous and was much appreciated! Thank you so much for volunteering your time!


So give yourselves a round of applause for being the best people we could hope for!


Without further ado, we present to you the reveals for the H/D Career Fair 2021!


Much Love,
phoenixacid and sassy_cissa

Art

sugareey created A City of Shattered Souls (Digital Comic, Teen)

It's a lonely, gruelling job— digging holes for bodies night after night. But Draco will do the dirty work if that allows him to exist and get by. Then, Harry starts showing up every night to get Draco's insights for an investigation linked to recent grave robberies. He certainly makes good company, especially when odd things stir in the dark...

chachisoo created Amor Caminus (Digital Comic, Teen)

Local blacksmith, Harry Potter, has been tasked with forging a unique sword for the Prince's upcoming battle. Prince Draco expects to leave with a heavy heart, but his secret suitor has something else in mind.

ZandraGorin created An Issue of Touch (Digital, Teen)

Harry Potter has been enlisted by Professor Longbottom to gather some rare species of water plants for his client's potions project. Seems easy enough but there's a catch, because, isn't there always? Said plant is poisonous and potentially lethal to human touch whilst underwater. What's a herbology assistant to do? Seek the help of a pretty (annoying) merman, of course.

Pauleonotis created Bound To Meet Again (Digital, General)

Some of Harry's smaller kids fell in love with their new teacher. Harry can't wait to meet him, thanking him for making his kids feel safe and happy. He's shocked when he discovers Draco there, covered in paint from their recent art project, smiling widely at all the children around him.

ElyonBlackStar created It's A Whole Beautiful Mess (Digital, General)

Draco Malfoy is a healer and his life is already full when he move into a new apartment, only to discover his neighbor Harry Potter is in a complete chaos due to having adopt two newborns. After founding out his profession, Harry knocking on his door for every little thing about the twins became the normality, so much that Draco had to admit that in the end he was not upset at all. In fact, he ended up spending more and more time with the little family and eventually fell in love with Harry.

Dustmouth created Party Invitations and Falling in Love with Your Sworn Enemy: A Tactical Guide (Digital Comic, Teen)

Chronicling the trials and tribulations of one Draco Malfoy, employee of the Godric's Hollow Postal Office, and the events unfolding around the hottest local party in the calendar year. Featuring: Owlengitis, bingo-based plots, and Julie Bumble's questionable neighbourhood erotica.

digthewriter created Portrait of a Saviour as described by his lover. (Digital, Teen)

Harry finds one of Draco's pieces and becomes fascinated. His fascination only grows when given the opportunity to become the model and muse.

Bubble-gumhead created Resistance and Princes (Traditional, Teen)

Drawn for the prompt: Harry Potter, heir of the Light Kingdom, is long feared to be dead. Draco Malfoy is a prince who grew up under the shadow of the Dark Lord, listening to tales of the brave Potters and their untimely demise.

Far away, a street urchin with a lightning scar on his forehead grows up to be a formidable fighter and joins the resistance operating to overthrow the Dark Lord’s reign, under the nom de guerre "the Firebolt".

When Draco was forced to become the Dark Lord’s consort, Draco's and the Firebolt’s paths collide, and both of their lives are changed forever.

p1013 created Scrimshaw (Digital, Mature)

scrim·shaw

verb

adorn (whalebone, ivory, shells, or other materials) with carved or colored designs.

Pinkelephant42 created Seaside Sentiments (Digital Comic, General)

Merfolk researcher Harry Potter has been looking for signs of merfolk along the coast, and a very handsome merman has been watching him from afar. (A short, silent comic with Little Mermaid vibes.)

babooshk_art created sinopia (an underpainting) (Digital, General)

In the sanctuary's high light he stood, with plaster-smudged fingers and brush in hand, and glazed the wall gold. And I watched him painting from between the pews, his lips parted in concentration, and his arms corded in muscle. And I wondered if he touched me, this young god before me, what would happen?

writingsbydestiny created Talk Like That (Digital Comic, Mature)

Crime Lord Draco is suspicious of his bodyguard’s loyalty — what happens when an innocent confrontation turns into a heated conversation?

Art and Fic

Zigster created A Summer in Bordeaux (29k, Explicit)

Harry turns. Malfoy leans against the doorway to the back garden under the halo of a gaslamp dangling overhead. The warm glow of the flame casts him in a golden light, and he’s framed on either side by trailing grapevines cascading over the garden walls. So soft, Harry thinks, where the Malfoy in his mind once seemed so sharp.

“You look like a painting,” Harry tells him.

Gnarf created At the end of our world (61k, Explicit)

It took three days before the first hints were on the news, and a week before Harry spotted the first Infected on his own street. A month until there was no chance of stopping the panic, and six weeks until the government and Ministry fell. Then the TV stopped airing anything but a standby with the message ‘Stay safe’, and the world as he'd known it ended forever.

Ten weeks later he got an answer from Hermione. "It spread. There's no way back. We love you, Harry. Take care."

Fantalf created Freaky Fridays (5k, Digital, Teen)

A camera, two dorks and very nice ghosts.

Fic

ebbet created A Game of Two Halves (23k, Mature)

Harry Potter owns a pub and hasn't thought about Draco Malfoy, who hasn't been seen in the magical world in the past nine years, once. Two-thirds of that sentence are true. Then the ancient television gets turned on during some football tournament, and there's Draco Malfoy, scoring a goal for France. Football? France? Malfoy?

FrenchMarshmallow created A Little Wild, A Little Damaged (18k, Explicit)

It should have been simple. Get a hair cut, attend Ron and Hermione's wedding, go back to self-imposed exile. Of course, nothing was ever simple in Harry Potter's life.

Walgesang created A Tale of Tapestries (5k, Teen)

Flailing in a mid-life crisis, Harry decides he must learn the history of his family. The problem is that everyone he asks to help him sends him to Draco, a skilled wizarding genealogist with exorbitant hourly research rates. Well, at least the first appointment is free. Can't hurt, right?

acari created An Improbable Bout of Summer Madness (17k, Explicit)

Draco had planned a quiet, peaceful summer holiday with his son. The last thing he expected was to find Potter here, in Draco's little Cornish retreat. Making fudge in a shop? The idea was too ludicrous for words.

(In which alarming amounts of sweets are consumed, Cornwall is thoroughly explored, Scorpius is a darling boy, and Harry Potter is a horrid assault on Draco's sanity.)

MarchnoGirl created And Draco Makes Four (10k, Mature)

Right when Harry was about to become the youngest Head Auror in a century — just as everyone else expected of him — he made a decision that changed his life. Adopting twins wasn’t in his plans, but Harry was about to discover that unplanned things are the best ones. Including Draco Malfoy entering the equation.

Pineau_noir created and they called it puppy love (6k, Teen)

“Merlin,” Draco said. “I can’t decide who’s more crass, you or your Crup.”

Harry smiled. “Oh, it's definitely me. I’m working on teaching him rude language, but we’re having a hard time with the shape of his mouth and tongue.” He smirked. “I’ve almost got him saying ‘berk’.”

“I hate you,” Draco said. “You’re a horrible man and I cannot believe your pet is so valuable and you named him sodding Spot.”

“Oh, he goes by Spot for short.” Harry winked. “Sodding Spot was his father.”

Draco ignored him. “Mimsey,” he said. “Go meet Spot.”

Or five times Draco unsuccessfully tries to get his and Harry's Crups to mate and the one time they're successful.

RoonilWazlibMalfoy created At a Place Where Accountants Work (8k, Mature)

Nobody asks you questions when you say you're an accountant. But sometimes you have to put yourself out there before anything good can happen.

J_Amethyst created Baby's Eyes, Open Wide (40k, Mature)

This is a story about coming back to life, though it has nothing to do with resurrection. Instead, here lies a journey of moving on and finding home, and two broken people discovering what it truly means to be alive.

Featuring: A little dog with grey and white polka dots. Galaxies, supernovas, and the brightest of stars. Large eyes, chubby cheeks, tiny hands, and the littlest feet.

apr1cots created Better than Chocolate (14k, Teen)

Harry has a hankering for chocolate. He stumbles across Draco Malfoy's chocolate shop. He decides to make friends.

Aelys Althea created Call Me, Won’t You? (38k, Teen)

Draco's sentence seemed a never-ending drag of groundhog days and melancholy. Ten years of isolation as a means of punishment hadn't sounded nearly as bad as the threat of Azkaban, but he hadn't considered just what that entailed.

Phone call after phone call invariably ended with a sigh and a extended series of beeps. Until one call, one unexpected call, hauled Draco from his monotony and back to life for the first time in years.

Nympha_Alba created Clearing the Atmosphere (11k, Teen)

The atmospheric charms at Malfoy Manor are failing, causing some rooms to be freezing and others to be stifling. The group of friends who come over regularly to have dinner at the Manor complain about the heat of the dining hall, the house elves are working in winter parkas, and when Draco wakes up to find his bedroom turned into an orange grove, it's time to call an expert.

Maraudersaffair created Country Roads (8k, Explicit)

On his farm, Harry grows magical crops and keeps magical creatures. His Muggle-Repelling and Masking Charms are not doing well and he’s attracting unwanted attention and suspicion from his Muggle neighbours. The Ministry sends Draco to make sure that everything abides to the International Statue of Secrecy.

It's been a few years since Harry and Draco have seen each other, and they are both a little shocked by the sexual spark between them.

onbeinganangel created Develop, Stop and Fix (15k, Explicit)

In his five years in New York City, James Black has earned significant fame as a photographer. In fact, he's attracted the attention of London curator D. Black. Harry Potter uses a fake name and runs away. In a way, so does Draco Malfoy. How do these stories connect? It's quite simple: they're one and the same.

Aaliona created Double-Oh Potter (6k, Explicit)

Harry knew he needed something different, something outside the Ministry. When a chance at the muggle secret service came up, he jumped immediately. He never expected the voice in his ear would be Draco Malfoy.

poison_literature created Draco Malfoy is not a Werewolf (4k, Teen)

Original prompt: Harry and Draco are popular twitch streamers who frequently stream together, but have never met in person.

MALFOY AND POTTER JOINT STREAM

788k views

Chat

AntSalad - Ah yes, my weekly mandated dose of pure chaos.

CityRat - Wow, I'm more of a casual fan, so I didn't even know these two did live streams together.

Smugam62 - @CityRat Oh honey, you are in for a wild ride.

aka Draco is a hot mess who can't keep his mouth shut, Harry loves his treacle tarts, and these two broken boys create nothing if not chaos.

azyxy created Fighting fire with fire (12k, Explicit)

As Deputy Director of the Ministry’s Fire Brigade, Draco Malfoy is an expert firefighter. But after things get out of hand in what should have been a routine operation and Harry Potter arrives to help, Draco finds himself getting hot and bothered for totally unprofessional reasons.

UnlimitedHearts created Haunted By Separation (66k, Explicit)

It’s always easier to think different thoughts than work through the hard ones. It's so much easier to run and hide somewhere you think nothing will come to get you. When Narcissa dies, and his boyfriend dumps him, Draco elects to run away to the sleepy little village of Hogsmeade. Only no one was expecting for Harry Potter to take over The Hog's Head just months after.

Samyiswriting created Head in the Game (17k, Explicit)

Harry and Malfoy shagged. But it’s fine, Harry doesn’t have feelings for him or anything. Yet he isn’t too thrilled when Malfoy gets hired as a Sports Therapist for Harry’s team – Puddlemere United. Of course, he gives massages. And of course, Harry has to bear witness to Malfoy making player after player groan in pleasure.

MoonlitMarauder created Hey Spaceman (13k, Teen)

Harry is one of the worlds most well-known astrophysicists. When the UK announced they were joining the space race with their own mission to Mars, Harry knew he needed to follow his dream. He just didn't expect to fall in love along the way.

epsilonargus created i go to war for you (6k, Mature)

King Harry Potter must marry Prince Draco Malfoy to unite the four kingdoms and defeat the Dark Lord. Harry refuses to submit to any alpha, and the alpha Draco, raised to be king, his throne destroyed by Voldemort, must now beg the favour of Gryffindor's omega king. What happens when Harry goes into heat the night before their wedding?

Enchanted_Jae created Madness in the Manor (5k, Teen)

When Narcissa Malfoy uses a spirit board, she unleashes a negative haunting in the Manor. Fortunately, the London Paranormal Research Team, headed by Harry Potter, is here to save the day.

captateur created Measure of a Minister (3k, Teen)

Draco isn't happy about being the official Minister for Magic photographer when the Minister for Magic is Harry Potter.

~ The measure of a minister is taken not when times are easy, but when times are lean; first in opposition does a man’s true character shine through.

rookbark created Near Future (21k, Mature)

Draco thinks his life is going pretty badly, until Potter gets him a job at the Department of Mysteries. It then continues to go badly, except now, Potter is around. The only thing that could make matters worse is if a prophecy was made about the two of them. Which, of course, it is.

Tigersilver created Nobody’s Business (33k, Explicit)

Harry and Draco are working in the Love Chamber. Due to a mishap, the two of them end up bonded. Forbidden from revealing what happened due to the nature of their jobs, they are forced to pretend they are just so into one another that they can't let the other out of their sight.

Orpheous87 created Of Kneazles and Men (15k, General)

When Draco's pet Kneazle keeps luring strange men back to the house, it's obvious to Draco that he needs professional help. The problem is, the best man for the job is none other than Harry Potter. Draco reluctantly gives in and contacts Harry, but can The Boy Who Lived help? More to the point, will he want to? Silly question - of course, he does!

ANW815 created On Hope & Healing (15k, Explicit)

Harry and Draco haven't seen each other in seven years, since Draco left the Aurors—and Harry—behind. So Harry can't help but be surprised when he starts working as a Healer at St Mungo's and runs into Draco. Draco—still just as gorgeous and talented—is neither a fellow Healer, or a patient. He's a cleaner, and always around. Can they put aside their differences, or are they doomed to repeat the same mistakes again?

VeelaWings created Please Contact the COCK Department (4k, Explicit)

Harry might have wanked off in the Ministry loo while fantasizing about Malfoy wearing a particular pair of pants, but no one could prove it. Least of all Malfoy.

Meowfoy created Purrfect Pair (10k, Teen)

Harry owns a cat/animal shelter and rescue that cares for cats, dogs, ferrets, rodents and the occasional reptile! Hoping to gain a following on Instagram in order to help get more of his animals into their furever homes, Harry starts to replicate the Instagram videos of Insta sensation and Cat Dad Draco Malfoy and his Maine Coon Leo. Draco finds out that Harry has started to copy his videos and reaches out to see if he can help the man and his rescue animals become an internet sensation.

xanthippe74 created Safe As Houses (25k, Teen)

After five years abroad, Harry’s thrilled to be home and working at the most prestigious ward-building firm in Britain. But everything gets turned upside down when he's assigned to work for Draco Malfoy—who somehow grew up to be just the sort of sexy bastard Harry goes for. As if that isn’t enough, Malfoy seems strangely on edge, his wards are a mess, and Harry keeps feeling like he’s being watched in the garden. It’s going to take all of Harry’s ward-crafting skills—and self-restraint—to help Malfoy feel safe in his own home again.

Booktopus created Saviour of the Seas (45k, Explicit)

For the 10th Anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, the Ministry of Magic has chosen to celebrate with a cruise to Norway to view the Northern Lights aboard the Savior of the Seas. Did they actually think Harry would want a bloody cruise ship named after him?

The moment he's aboard the ship Harry runs into Draco Malfoy who can’t believe that Harry would think someone might’ve invited him there. “I’m the help, Potter.” But what work could Draco possibly be doing, and why is he refusing to tell Harry about it?

Harry fills his time onboard with friends, excursions, and plenty of late nights sitting at The Serpent’s Head to watch Christophe, his newfound friend and an exquisite bartender, work. Something simmers between them, but as Harry keeps running into Draco, he feels something building there, too - something that could be worth ending his years on the road and coming home for good. What's the Boy Who Lived to do?

A story about second (and third) chances.

Shushu_yaoi_lj created Shore to Shore (19k, Explicit)

Harry loves his job as a Herbologist's assistant. He gets to travel around the world, collecting specimens for Neville, but he hasn't had a holiday in two years. Harry has one little job left to do, and then he can finally relax. In order to collect the poisonous sea-ivy Neville desperately needs, Harry just has to blow bubbles into the sea with a weird straw Luna gave him. What's the worst that can happen?

xErised created Six Wishes and a Kiss (32k, Explicit)

Draco's task this year: fulfil Harry Potter's long overdue Christmas wishes, made when he was a child. The complications: a) Potter is now 24 years old; b) Draco has a highly inconvenient and sadly unrequited crush on him; c) Draco isn't expecting his heart to hurt so much when he glimpses a memory of a seven-year-old Potter sleeping in a cupboard under the stairs.

MyNameIsSniffany created Study in Synchronicity (38k, Mature)

After being granted an official pardon, Draco leaves behind his life to traipse around the world, living a perpetual hot girl summer. He finally makes a home for himself in the East and all is well, or so he thinks. Ten years later, he gets summoned back to Wixen London to fulfill the clauses of his mother's last will and testament. Hi-jinx ensues.

A story of redemption and coincidences, where Draco chances upon a rather-dead!Ginny, who wrenches him out of his self-imposed isolation, thus leading him to a rather-suspicious!Harry, who seems to be handling his own inner grief with much grace and gusto. They learn a thing or two about themselves and each other.

mintaminta created Take a Chance on Me (36k, Explicit)

There's a DJ on RareFM with a secret.

Or: the one with all the ABBA in it.

Gold_Vermillion created The Cat's Britches (26k, Explicit)

Harry is a leather worker. Draco sells leather clothing. A match made in heaven, right? Well, maybe. But only if personal prejudices and proclivities don’t get in the way.

isamijoo created The Curse Slayer (37k, Mature)

Harry Potter is the first and only Curse Breaker in the world capable of killing Curse Demons, which are condensed forms of Dark Magic that manifest as monsters. Because of this, he is called the Curse Slayer. On his first night back in England after eight months away, Harry finds himself reunited with Draco Malfoy, who is now trapped in Malfoy Manor as a result of an ancient curse placed on the last heir of the family.

Anaxandria created The Fakes on the Walls (10k, Teen)

Getting reassigned to lead the Fakes and Forgeries task force was supposed to be an easy assignment for Harry — mostly paperwork and studying images behind a desk. Harry is especially thrilled with the added perk of working with Draco Malfoy, renowned art forger and (reluctant) Ministry of Magic consultant.

But when fakes are discovered just three weeks before the opening of Wizarding Britain’s first art museum, Harry and Draco are suddenly thrust into the spotlight…

Jackvbriefs created The Keepers (4k, Teen)

In the Rare Books Department of the Ministry of Magic, Draco tends to unique texts and, on occasion, a certain Unspeakable.

glitteringvoid created the undone and the divine (42k, Mature)

Draco never expected to live without Potter. There is something there, something between them that pulls tight and brings them closer again, every time they might lose each other. Call it fate, if you want, but it always felt like a promise to him.

Draco never expected to live without Potter, but he also never expected to be this scared of him. He never expected Potter to change, to grow fangs and snarl, not at him.

It's not surprising, he supposes: throw someone into darkness often enough and eventually, they'll carry some of it back to you.

Piarelei created The Virtues of Hygiene and the Binary of Labour (15k, Explicit)

Draco does what he always does every autumn; packs his bag and follows a path back home. This time, Potter just happens to travel the same roads.

It never is about the destination.

MaryAlice26 created The Wonderous Adventures of Teddy Lewis (9k, Mature)

Harry Potter had never expected he would become an author. Draco Malfoy had never expected he would live like a muggle. Sometimes things change, sometimes the unexpected happens. But some things never change. And Harry should just accept that his obsession with Draco Malfoy is one of them.

rain_beee created The Work of Our Life (65k, Mature)

Something is wrong with Hogwarts. Harry, caretaker of the castle for the last five years, needs to find out what before it's too late. But first, he needs to deal with the new tapestry restorer hired at the start of the school year.

Romaine created This Ain't the Garden of Eden (131k, Explicit)

In 2020, Hit Wizard Harry is starting to enjoy his life. He’s divorced, and no longer Head Auror. His biggest project these days is trying to remodel 12 Grimmauld Place for him and the kids.

Draco Malfoy is recovering from his wife’s death. But is happy with his Ministry position as Temporary Head of the Department of Intoxicating Substances, and with his son who he adores.

This all changes quickly when Minister Shacklebolt decides not to run for another term. The assumption is that 'all is well' in the British Magical world, and that Hermione Granger-Weasley will easily be voted in as the next Minister for Magic. However, Draco knows better. He knows she has a strong competitor who is wooing those who live in Knockturn. And if he wins, the Ministry, and all that has been accomplished the previous twenty odd years, will be destroyed.

time_streams created this is not my design (8k, General)

One of the benefits of working for the Department of Forensics is that you LITERALLY cannot talk about it.

space_wingding created Tomorrow (39k, Explicit)

In an unfortunate twist of fate, Harry Potter is dying. Not keen to leave the world without having his story told, he commissions the successful writer, Draco Malfoy, to write his biography.

BelladonnaLee created Twenty Minutes Till Free Fall (5k, Teen)

A night of rain. A bare-boned safe house. A clandestine meeting between a spy and his case officer. Being with Harry is like falling through the air—and Draco isn't sure he wants to stop.

OutstandingMoralFiber created Unrestrained (10k, General)

A story about two wizards breaking free from their shackles post-war and finding each other along the way—with a few bumps and a dead body, of course, because when is it ever so easy?

louisfake created Weapon of Choice (26k, Teen)

Sir Malfoy is in need of a sword. The blacksmith isn’t supposed to ask why.

iero0 created What Shall Not Be Unearthed (49k, Explicit)

At the northernmost point of Shetland, surrounded by pointed cliffs, towers the Ootsta Lighthouse on a small isle in the middle of the open sea. Little does Harry know that he's not the only new lighthouse keeper. Draco Malfoy is as obnoxious as he always was, with his posh tone of voice and his luxury yacht jumpers. Harry tries his best to avoid the git—who knows what he's up to anyway?

While working hard on keeping the remote island and his mental health in good condition, Harry tries to fight against increasingly conflicted opinions about Malfoy. He doesn't like to think about the weirdly tangible dreams that he keeps having and especially the fact that Draco keeps appearing naked in them.

The answers, a confusion of denied attractions and macabre horror, lie buried in a riptide of emotions, dormant in the deep.

Mosrael created Written Proof (34k, Explicit)

Draco's move home to Wiltshire after more than a decade is anything but easy. He's given up an illustrious career in journalism to pursue poetry, his mother's health is declining, and it seems that the War isn't quite as 'in the past' as Draco assumed. Luckily, he's found a supportive, if unconventional, community and a local bakery to haunt that sells the most divine macarons. Too bad Harry Bloody Potter has to storm in and shake everything up, per usual.

Harry is content with his life. Really, he is. Sure, the life of an ex-professional athlete is a bit slow, but that's what he'd wanted when he retired from Quidditch to run his own bakery. Now, he gets to spend his days doing something that he loves in the company of his family and friends. He's fine to let one day bleed placidly into the next, until Draco Malfoy turns up at his bakery, causes a scene about his pastries, and is maybe, probably, definitely up to something.

This is a story about two people boldly chasing their happiness in spite of their fears, overcoming the chokehold of a difficult past, and learning how to communicate by whatever means necessary, be it rhymes or recipes.

softlystarstruck created you bring me home (35k, Explicit)

Harry is happy. He has his cat cafe and his hobbies. He has his friends, and Dolly Parton, and a shirt with a cowboy frog on it. It’s all a man needs, really.

He doesn’t need to obsess over a magic-less, anxious Draco Malfoy coming into his cafe after disappearing from the wizarding world years ago. He doesn’t. Not even if the cats like Malfoy. Not even if Malfoy is soft, and funny, and a little bit neurotic. No matter how much he wants to obsess.

Podfic

bluedreaming created (not anyone) you're the one (1.5 hours, General)

The one where Draco and Harry get together, fall apart, grow up and then find their way back to each other.

smirkingcat created Little Red Courgette (4 Hours, Teen)

When this season's purple courgettes are woefully thin, Draco Malfoy thinks it amounts to small beans. Next thing he knows, the Department of Standards is over-run with leeks, Brussels sprouts all sorts of legislative difficulties, and somebody appears to have put a roquette under Harry Potter. Can Draco seize a marrow victory? Or will his plans for peas be squashed?

All along, Kingsley Shacklebolt finds himself pining for the good old days, when, instead of governing, all you had to worry about were Dark Lords and imminent death.