The Light That is Blinding Me by leontinabowie

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Title: The Light That is Blinding Me
Author: leontinabowie
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 23,000 Approx.
Summary: After Flourish and Blotts stop stocking the books of Harry’s favourite author, he is directed to a queer bookshop and discovers it’s owned by none other than Draco Malfoy, who has more in common with Harry than either of them realise.
Content/Warning(s): Brief scene of homophobia, depictions of anxiety and panic attacks

This is such a lovely fic. After Harry finds out that Flourish and Blotts is not selling queer books Luna suggests Harry to try a new one in York, Rainbow Reads, and of course once he goes there, Draco is the shop owner.

It's so lovely because they bond over their love for a certain author and they start to get to know each other, Harry spending more and more time in York, which does Harry so much good – he suffers from anxiety and panic attacks, you see, and just, seeing their friendship and attraction turn to something more is wonderful. :)

Heartlines by shiftylinguini

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Title: Heartlines
Author: shiftylinguini
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 72,200 Approx.
Summary: Harry never expected he’d end up chipping away at his virginity while wandless and bonded to Malfoy in Northern Europe. // He never expected that would turn out to be the least surprising thing to happen while out on their training expedition in the middle of nowhere, either.
Content/Warning(s): bonding!fic

This fic, oh my god, this fic! It's Harry and Draco trainee Auror partners, who just so happen to be attracted to each other, and who are about to go in an training exercise wandless and bound to each other, so you know it's going to be awesome.

But wait! There's more! The thing, just before this trip Harry and Draco had a ~moment. Okay, they went out for drinks and Harry kissed him and of course things got awkward and they had been getting along so well, you see, but now they aren't quite talking. Only obviously they have to talk in this mission, and the beautiful thing is, they actually do talk. Harry says he didn't regret kissing him and Draco said he surprised him and, well, things are a bit less tense but it's full of sexual tension. And then they share a bed AND well things get really interesting.

One of the things I loved the most is seeing Harry and Draco like this. They are honest with each other, they haven't forgotten who they are, or who they were, but they are growing, they accept the people who were, the mistakes they made and have learnt from them.

There's of course the ~issue~ of Harry's virginity which, as the summary says, he's been chipping away as the trip progress. But there's more than that, too, because this bond was a last-minute addition, and it's very suspicious of both the bond caster – a foreign specialist, and the instructor, who hates Draco and practically gave them no choice but to accept it.

It's interesting and amazing, funny and sexy, seeing them getting to know each other even better, seeing them experiment and admit their feelings and finally build something real. Most awesome.