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Summary: Draco Malfoy just wants a quiet life. He has a successful business, a lovely wife, and a delightfully horrible circle of friends. He’s fine. Or, he was fine until Harry Potter thundered into his life with all the subtlety of a blast-ended skrewt and turned everything on its head. Now he’s beginning to wonder if ‘fine’ is enough, after all.

There’s just so much I love about this fic. The career choices for both Harry and Draco are fantastic, the way really tricky subjects are explored so sensitively and tenderly, and the way Harry and Draco interact, from the first tentative conversations to the brilliant UST that develops between them. The story sucks me in so completely every time I read it and I end up lost in it, unable to stop reading until I reach the end. 

Summary: One good turn always deserves another. Apparently. 

I mean, what is there to say about this fic that hasn’t already been said. It’s an absolute fandom classic, for good reason, and will always be one of those fics I turn back to when I need to sink into a meaty fic that reminds me why I started reading Drarry fics in the first place

Summary: When Gawain Robards asks him to form Special Branch seven-four-alpha, Harry Potter knows they'll have to work outside the confines of the law--even though they are the law.

These fics are perhaps the best auror partners fics I’ve ever read. The relationship between Draco and Harry is hot and perfect, the OCs are incredible, the plot really clever and totally absorbing, and the smut smoking hot. Special Branch seven-four-alpha have completely stolen my heart, and I love reliving their adventures. 

Summary: Draco is lonely, Harry hates the press and it won’t stop raining in London. Harry discovers a magical street that’s close to disappearing forever and Draco realises he’s one rainy night in Soho away from finding everything he’s been searching for.

series are fantastic too. 

Summary: A love story. Several of them, really.

This fic always feels so real and raw to me, a really brilliant exploration of love in all it’s complex forms. All the relationships are perfectly developed, and Harry’s emotions come through so well - I always end this fic feeling a whole bunch of complicated but eventually hopeful feelings. Plus the smut (both het and slash) is so hot. 

Summary: Living with Draco was difficult; living without him is unbearable. But if there’s one thing Harry learned from the war, it’s that even when one life ends, the rest of the world goes right on living.

Oh this fic. It breaks my heart every damn time, but I just can’t get enough. It’s absolutely one of my favourite fics of all time, and it’s stayed with me since the first time I read it. There are certain images (I won’t spoil them) that make me want to cry every time I think about them, this fic is just that good at tearing your heart out (in a good way, to me at least!). I will always always rec this fic so hard. 

Summary: Harry has spent the last twelve years in Romania, not returning to England as often as he knows he should. It's complicated. But when Ginny asks him to be her best man and help her plan her wedding, he can't say no. Having a reckoning with his choices, with himself, won't be easy. To say nothing of seeing Draco again.

I love getting back together fics, and this is one of my favourites. I love the idea of Harry going to Romania and oof Harry with dragons is a hot image. I’m a big Ginny fan and this fic treats her so well - it’s lovely to see her happy and friends with Harry. The tension between Harry and Draco is delicious, and the sex is just incredible. 

Summary: Harry Potter is the Boy Who Lived. 12 years after the war, he's become the Boy Who Lived For Everyone Else. He has the perfect wife. The perfect house. The perfect job. The perfect friends. Only nothing feels perfect. Until one day he stumbles across a club called Release and begins a journey of self-discovery that takes him to a very different place.

I started reading this fic while it was being published and fell hard and fast. I reread it for the first time while it was still a WIP - I decided to reread the whole thing when the final chapter published, so I could get the full effect of the fic. Q has written such an incredible fic here, that touches on trauma and guilt and relationship breakdown so perfectly, all while having a brilliant slow burn relationship between Draco and Harry. It’s angsty and hot and you really should read it.