Disability and Mental Illness
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Title: A Secret History
Author:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
warholhp
Rating: NC 17
Summary: A secret history is a version of history at odds with commonly accepted historical narrative, a history claimed to have been deliberately suppressed or fogotten. Harry Potter, struggling to make a life for himself after the war, is about to discover his. (Contains warnings) ]Harry has problems controlling his magic]
Word Count: 20,000 words
Title: Let's Pretend the War Is Over
Author:pir8fancier
Rating: PG
Word Count: 8,000 Aprox.
Summary: Post war fic. Draco spends his days debating whether or not he's crazy. Harry is the take-away king. [Mental illness - Draco]
Title: Orbit
Author:kudra_23
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,053
Summary: Harry's lying in a hospital bed and Draco's not happy about it. [Harry is in a coma]
Title: Vale Sanare
Author:rurounihime
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 23,327
Summary: Draco’s world gains a new component, just when he thought he’d sorted everything out. [Neurological damage from seizures]
Title: The Other Side of Free
Author:khateh
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 10,200.
Summary: Harry’s career as a Seeker is on the line because of an injury.
Title: Renaissance
Author:dysonrules
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 33,000
Summary: Harry wakes from a long slumber to find things terribly changed. [Harry was in a coma]
Title: Talk To Me
Author:saras_girl
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 17,500 Aprox.
Summary: When the usual channels of communication are shut down, the most surprising people can find a way in. A strange little love story. [Harry can't see]
Title: Midnight on the Janus Thickey Ward
Author:quill_lumos
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 33,000 Aprox.
Summary: After the war Draco Malfoy has been assigned community service to help atone for his 'crimes' He is well used to the graveyard shift at St Mungo's, but his life is about to change forever after a new patient is brought in for treatment. [Mental illness - Harry]
Title: A Fruit Tree in Winter
Author:bryoneybrynn
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 29,000
Summary: After failing in his task of killing Dumbledore, life doesn’t go as Draco expected. Sometimes just surviving takes everything you’ve got. And sometimes healing is something you can’t do alone. Story goes AU/AR from the end of Half-Blood Prince. [Harry is hurt]
Title: Partake of Me
Author:midnight_birth
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 7,982
Summary: As one of the most promising new Aurors, Harry is devastated to learn that due to a side-effect from losing a small magic-charged part of himself with Voldemort’s death, his body’s ability to recharge magic started to decrease to a point where he now needs frequent magic transfusions. It doesn’t help things that the only universal donor around is his school nemesis, and if Harry has a hope of continuing a career he loves, he will have to create a bond with a person he would rather never see again in his life. But perhaps things aren’t always what they seem and not everything turns out the way Harry expects it to... [Harry has problems with his magic]
Title: Draco In Darkness
Author: Plumeria
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 39,000 Aprox.
Summary: Following an accident in his seventh year, Draco loses his eyesight. After Harry elbows his way into Draco's dark world, both boys find themselves in a strange new friendship, and they each learn new ways to see each other … and themselves. [Draco is blind]
Title: A Reckless Frame of Mind & A Determined Frame of Mind
Author:lomonaaeren
Rating: R
Word Count: 151,000 Aprox. (adding both parts)
Summary: Draco is a PsycheDiver, and his newest patient is Auror Potter, who’s been a pathological liar for over a year—and has just tried to violently end his own life. [Mental Illness - Harry]
Title: Reasonable Adjustments
Author:weasleywench
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 16,100
Summary: The path to self-acceptance is just another reasonable adjustment. [Disability - Harry]
Title: Where Draco Is A Statue
Author:simmyschtuff
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 25,000
Summary: Five years after the war with Voldemort, and things happen! Ooh!
Title: The Fortunate Fall
Author:lomonaaeren
Rating: R
Word Count: 28,000 Aprox.
Summary: Draco's sure he suffered an irreplaceable loss at the end of the war. Harry's not.
Title: All Apologies
Author:1ightning
Rating: R
Word Count: 3,000
Summary: Much to his chagrin, Draco decides that it is simply not worth the bother of starting to hate Harry again.
Title: State Of Mind
Author:sara_holmes
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 52,000 Aprox.
Summary: Harry doesn't have a hero complex, he just really wants to help. However, he gets more than he bargained for after rescuing Draco Malfoy from an isolation cell in Saint Mungo's
Warning(s): Sexual content, slash, suicide references, swearing, and spooning.
Title: World On Fire
Author:b00kaddict
Rating: R
Word Count: 15,300
Summary: A mysterious little girl has been leading Draco to attempt more and more dangerous rescues as a fire-fighter. When Narcissa decides that enough is enough, she brings in the last person in the world Draco wants to talk to—therapist Harry Potter.
Title: Unkissed Kisses and Songs Never Sung
Author:femmequixotic
Rating: R
Word Count: 12,600 Aprox.
Summary: I sit silently in the shadows, staring at the tiny, pulsing ball of light that tells me my Harry's still alive.
Title: Getting There
Author:rickey_a
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 18,000 Aprox.
Summary: An attack on Malfoy Manor ends up being not what it first seemed, as Auror Harry Potter finds out. Hermione Granger-Weasley finds herself appointed as Draco's Healer, designated to work with him, the survivor of a suicide attempt. Taking his first steps down the road of self-healing, Draco discovers that life is worth living, and there's probably room for someone else to share his path.
Warning(s): attempted suicide
Title: Love Is…
Author:melusinahp
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 13,800
Summary: This is a story about love. It is not a romance.
Warning(s): Deathly Hallows situated AU, dark, dub/coerced-consent, pre-story character death (not Harry or Draco)
Title: The Curse
Author:roedhunt
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 25,000 Aprox.
Summary: Harry Potter stumbles upon Draco Malfoy one night. It’s a night that will change their lives forever.
Warning(s): Pre-Mpreg, Mention of rape.
Title: The Flesh is Frail
Author:wildestranger
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 7,800 Aprox.
Summary: War wounds are no reason to stop making fun of Potter.
Title: And We Are At Our Apogee
Author:angelgazing
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 6,000 Aprox.
Summary: Harry doesn't remember and Draco wants revenge, but it doesn't really work out that way.
Title: Obliviation
Author:dysonrules
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 28,000 Aprox.
Summary: When Harry decides to quit Auror Training in order to care for young Teddy over the summer, he has quite enough to worry about without Pansy Parkinson dumping a mute Draco Malfoy on his doorstep.
Title: Never a Breath You Can Afford to Waste
Author:owens_mom
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 19,000
Summary: Harry’s with Neville for all the wrong reasons, but he just wants to coast through his carefree summer days after vanquishing Voldemort. An intriguing run in with an old rival sends his world where else? Upside down.
Title: Anthem of the Angels
Author:kayladie
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 21,000
Summary: In the days after Hogwarts and in the midst of the war, Harry is surprised to find himself developing feelings for Draco Malfoy. At war's end, he is devastated when an unknown curse threatens to separate them forever.
Warning(s): This story is very much AU. The events of HBP happen, except Draco is not the one chosen for the mission to kill Dumbledore, so alas, no Sectumpsempra bathroom scene! It is not compliant at all with DH and Harry, Ron, and Hermione did not begin the hunt for Horcruxes until after their seventh and final year.
Title: Nightingale
Author:michi_thekiller
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 62,000 Aprox.
Summary: God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. -Jacques Deval
Warning(s): his fic contains depictions of sexual dynamics that many readers may find extremely disturbing, and, well, traumatic. That's half the point. But don't say we didn't warn you.
Title: A Frayed and Threadbare Wish
Author:libby_drew
Rating: R
Word Count: 17,500
Summary: Today's victory lies in the future. Harry and Draco's mission to find the Malfoy Legacy leads them to places – and people – they never thought they'd see. Canon compliant through Half-Blood Prince.
Title: Special Gifts
Author:oldenuf2nb
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 135,000 Aprox.
Summary: Ten years after a devastating accident costs Harry Potter the love of his life and leaves him with life altering injuries, he is asked to return to Hogwarts to help the child of an old friend, with the help of an old adversary.
Title: On One's Knees
Author:pir8fancier
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 32,000
Summary: Five years after the final battle at Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy has been paroled from Azkaban and works nights as a janitor at The Daily Prophet. Harry Potter, recently married to Ginny Weasley, is training as a Healer at St. Mungo's. One wastebasket=one head injury=our story.
Warning(s): Epilogue compliant
Title: Another Country
Author:lomonaaeren
Rating: R
Word Count: 37,000 Aprox.
Summary: Brain-damaged by a Dark curse, Harry is seeing auras that no one else can see and visions that don't come true and speaking Latin instead of English. The Healers want him to go back to normal. Draco Malfoy thinks his future should be different from his past.
Title: The Waters of March
Author:geoviki
Rating: PG
Word Count: 21,400
Summary: Voldemort's final victim resides with the other spell-damaged wizards in St. Mungo's Hospital. Harry suffers survivor's guilt and finds an unusual beta. Cream-colored knee-high leather boots make a brief appearance.
Title: Icarus Rising
Author:ryokoblue
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 47,700 Aprox.
Summary: It's the final battle. Harry's on a warpath to destroy Voldemort, but what he finds is a former school rival long ago lost to the past. A former school rival who's no longer human.
Title: Rejoicing in Their Strength & sequel Eyes That Can See in the Dark
Author:lomonaaeren
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 51,000 Aprox. (Adding both parts)
Summary: Draco is imprisoned and tortured by a mad Lucius after the war. He uses astral travel to spare his sanity. Imagine his surprise when he comes on Harry Potter, a werewolf Harry Potter, in the Forest of Dean. // sequel to 'Rejoicing in Their Strength.' Draco, for a year after the events of that story.
Warning(s): Sex, torture, violence, profanity, insanity, character death (not Harry or Draco), creature!fic
Title: Endangered Familiar
Author:ravenpan
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 7,900 Aprox.
Summary: After the war, all he wanted was some peace and quiet. What he got, was a penguin that brought the exact opposite.
Title: Hearts Open (at the Close)
Author:literaryspell
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 20,000 Approx.
Summary: Harry wins the war and loses himself. It’s Draco’s job to heal him, but that might just be impossible. Especially after Harry takes matters into his own hands.
Warning(s): explicit sex, dubious consent bordering on non-con, suggestions of mental imbalance.
Title: Life Debt Number What?
Author:chibitoaster
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 6,700
Summary: Harry saves Draco's life again. It's becoming quite a habit. This time, however, there's actually a chance that Draco can pay him back using the beltane rituals. (Harry is in a coma)
Title: The Last Time
Author:furiosity
Rating: R
Word Count: 6,500
Summary: He wished he could simply live, there in that moment, that he could pretend that he'd just come down for a spot of free time with his best friends. Instead, he had this infuriating waiting. (Draco can't talk)
Title: Unwed Wizard: Capture the Dragon
Author:fantasyfiend09
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 18,800
Summary: Reality television has come to the wizarding world, and magic has a way of improving things. (Harry is mute)
Title: Oscillate Wildly
Author:marksykins
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 55,000 Approx.
Summary: After a particularly gruelling Occlumency session, Harry practically comes apart at the seams and finds himself living partway between two lives. One is his life at Hogwarts. In the other, he's been in a mental institution for the better part of six years. What happens when Harry realises his whole life may be one elaborate fantasy?
Warning(s): Elements of Non Magical AU. (Harry has hallucinations)
Title: Close To Ever After
Author:oldenuf2nb
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 15,300 Approx.
Summary: When Harry Potter finds he's been cursed, he withdraws from the world and prepares to die. But when have things ever gone the way Harry Potter planned?
Warning(s): Mpreg
Title: All That Remains
Author:lordhellebore
Rating: R
Word Count: 21,000
Summary: In a Great Britain destroyed by war and plagued by magical epidemics, those who are left behind struggle to survive and find meaning.
Warning(s): Character death (not Harry or Draco), dub-con (not between Harry and Draco)
Title: Things Left Unspoken
Author:bridenore
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 3,400
Summary: I was looking for an excuse to leave the place when I spotted them. Six small glass vials were proudly displayed behind the counter. The liquid inside was cobalt blue. I had seen one of these in Draco Malfoy’s hand eighteen months ago.
Warning(s): drug addiction (coerced)
Title: Back From the Edge
Author:deirdre_aithne
Rating: R
Word Count: 7,900 Approx.
Summary: Faint though it seems to him, Draco hears the scrape of metal across stone echoing in his ears and with a quiet sigh of relief, he closes his eyes and hopes as he lets the darkness take him.
Warnings: graphic self harm, disability (loss of use of a limb)
Title: The Peacock Paladin and the King of the Emerald Court
Author:megyal
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 11,300
Summary: Harry suffers from chronic headaches, and it affects his work and relationships. New pain-management techniques (and their provider) may just be the relief his life needs.
Title: Let Me Be Your Voice
Author:queenie_mab
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 48,000
Summary: As the hero of the revolution, Harry leads the wizarding world in its efforts to rebuild; but first old wounds must be tended, rifts caused by hate mended, and his history with Draco Malfoy seems like the perfect place to start.
Title: Turn Or at the hex files
Author:saras_girl
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 322,000 Approx.
Summary: One good turn always deserves another. Apparently.
Warning(s): Epilogue compliant
Title: Forgive Those Who Trespass
Author:lomonaaeren
Rating: R
Word Count: 135,900 Approx.
Summary: Harry Potter was convinced he had an ordinary, if inconvenient, life. Then Ron and Hermione vanished in the Department of Mysteries. And the only person who may know where they are is a mute Draco Malfoy.
Warning(s): Horror, violence, gore, torture, profanity.
Title: Watching for a Sign
Author:bsmog
Rating: R
Word Count: 18,700 Approx.
Summary: A remix of the story of Draco’s The tattoo, which is a lovely piece by the incredibly talentedmijeli. Draco tries to cover the Mark, but the results aren’t quite what he’d hoped. Or, perhaps at the end of the day, they’re more like what he and Harry both hoped after all.
Title: This I Know Is True
Author:susannah_wilde
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 6,200 Approx.
Summary: Harry and Draco try to find the perfect Christmas gift for each other, despite having little in the world to call their own.
Title: Only For The Lucky
Author:sunseticmonster
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 63,400 Approx.
Summary: Things seem to be going incredibly well for Draco Malfoy after the war. He's working as a professor at Hogwarts and makes the papers all the time for his charitable contribution to Muggle causes. But when Malfoy is rushed into St Mungos for a psychotic break, Healer-trainee Harry Potter realizes that Malfoy's success is not all what it seems and sometimes luck can have more than one meaning.
Warning(s): Substance abuse, addictions
Title: Painted Doll & the sequel The Doll and the Puppet
Author:calrissian18 & marianna_merlo respectively.
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 3,900 Approx.
Summary: Harry is trapped in a cell, but Draco is trapped somewhere far worse.
Warning(s): physical torture, dub-con.
Title: Harry Potter Gives a Shit
Author:talithan
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 58,000
Summary: “Where are you headed?” - “No place special,” Draco fumbled, and flushed further. But then: “I can change that,” said Harry Potter. (Draco is weaken by a spell and unable to move or do magic)
Title: After Eden
Author:rickey_a
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 15,700 Approx.
Summary: Life threatening injuries are an occupational hazard even for a seasoned Auror, but Harry Potter never considered the possibility of life altering injury. And why is it that Draco Malfoy has to be the one to help him?
Title: Remind You What You Did When You Wake
Author:arsenicjade
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 22,000 Approx.
Summary: A damaged-but-not-broken Harry in the clutches of Death Eaters and a caught-up-in-circumstances Draco who's not actually evil.
Warning(s): NonCon, Sex, Torture, Violence, Character Death (not Harry or Draco)
Title: In Death’s Dream Kingdom
Author:kedavranox
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 7,500
Summary: ‘We need to get going,’ Harry says. ‘We have a lot to do if we want to finish what we started.’
Warning(s): Major character death
Title: Come For Me
Author:frayach
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 26,000 Approx.
Summary: After Draco is paralyzed in an accident, he and Harry discover a new way to make love.
Warning(s): Watersports (but please read more about this warning on the author's note).
Title: I Love You
Author:curlee_cue
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 18,500
Summary: Harry knows what love is. It’s something that grows. Something that adapts. Something that sometimes needs a little help along the way.
Warning(s): dark!Harry, non-con
Title: Atonement & sequel Heart Of Glass
Author:pir8fancier
Rating: R
Word Count: 10,900 Approx. (adding both parts)
Summary: Draco had the most overwhelming desire to kiss that mole. Put his mouth on it and suck gently, tasting and—
Warning(s): Epilogue compliant
Title: The Tender Things
Author:tryslora
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 20,000 Approx.
Summary: Five years ago Draco disappeared out of Harry’s life. Harry has never believed Draco died that night; he was sure he would have known because they were bonded. When one Deacon Malloy moves in down the street, Harry discovers that both he and his friends were right. Draco’s alive, but is he still Draco? Harry is sure of one thing: their bond is true. All that remains is to convince his husband. (Memory loss, magic loss in a manner)
Warning(s): Mpreg (only in past tense)
Title: Blind Faith
Author:jm9001
Rating: R
Word Count: 21,000 approx.
Summary: Don't think of it as losing your sight. Think of it as gaining an Animagus who never quite learned the meaning of the word 'boundaries'. (Draco is blind)
Title: All Life is Yours to Miss
Author:saras_girl
Rating: R
Word Count: 115,000
Summary: Professor Malfoy's world is contained, controlled, and as solitary as he can make it, but when an act of petty revenge goes horribly awry, he and his trusty six-legged friend are thrown into Hogwarts life at the deep end and must learn to live, love and let go. (Harry is immobile)
Title: A Piercing Comfort
Author:talithan
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 44,600
Summary: When Harry Potter hits the lowest point of his life so far, it is not his friends who keep him honest. With Draco Malfoy's patience and guidance, Harry learns to stand on his own. The thing is, after the fact—he's no longer sure he wants to. (see warnings)
Warning(s): depression, suicidal ideation, acute self-hatred, and self-worth problems.
Title: Holly and Hawthorn, Thistle and Thyme
Author:bryoneybrynn
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 31,000 Approx.
Summary: After the war, Harry can’t shake the feeling that something is very wrong with him and he has a terrible feeling he knows what that “something” might be. He has a terrible feeling Malfoy might know, too.
Title: The Price of Valour
Author:leemarchais & Romany Walker
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 400,000 Approx.
Summary: What happens when someone you hate needs you more than anything else? When it's life or death, either battle to the end, or die trying. [Harry is paralyzed]
Title: All Possible Worlds
Author: gafna
Rating: R
Word Count: 13,800 Approx.
Summary: Harry and Draco inadvertently fall through a magic mirror that reveals more about them than they ever wanted to know, changing their relationship forever. [Draco is in a coma]
Title: He Who Must Not Be Normal
Author:lettered
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 41,500
Summary: Potter has fame and fortune and posh clothes and all he wants is a simple life. Draco has a flat and a cat and a steady job and all he wants is a complicated life. Which makes you think this story has something exciting like body-swapping, but it doesn’t. Instead it has Indian takeaway and a blue jumper and people wanting a whole lot of what they can’t have, discovering themselves as they discover each other.
Warning(s): dirty talk, verbal humiliation, scar kink, reference to self-harm, mental instability, PTSD, substance abuse (and a few more on the fic post)
Title: The Picking Up Pieces Series
Author:
Tessa Crowley
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 44,000 approx. (adding both parts)
Summary: A duology comprising of "The Unbearable Burden of Caring", wherein Draco and Harry meet again fifteen years after the War (though neither of them are quite aware of it at the time), and the not-really-planned-for sequel "Sins and Scars and Shattered Things", wherein they have to deal with the media fallout of their relationship. [Draco suffers from social anxiety]
Title: Potential Gravity
Author:zeitgeistic
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 32,000
Summary: Draco is not good at Cards Against Humanity, but Harry’s not good at being human, so it all works out. Except for the explosions. And Harry’s inability to live when Draco’s not around. [Harry can't speak]
Title: Taking the Easy Way Out
Author:maraudersaffair
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 16,000 Approx.
Summary: Malfoy has disappeared, and Harry tracks him down because . . . he’s Harry Potter. Expecting to save Malfoy from worldly evils, he is surprised to find him living as a Muggle and listening to ponce boy bands. [Draco loses his magic temporarily]
Title: Sudden Wholeness or here at AO3
Author:i_claudia
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 16,000 Approx.
Summary: A series of magical murders threatens the future of Wizarding Britain, and the Ministry puts its top two Aurors on the case. Harry’s less than thrilled at the discovery that his new partner is none other than Draco Malfoy, but when the alternative is sitting back and letting his country be destroyed, he doesn’t have much of a choice. [Harry temporary loses his magic]
Warning(s): Epilogue compliant
Title: Stay Close to Me
Author:shadowofrazia
Rating: G
Word Count: 3,400 Approx.
Summary: A decade after the Final Battle, after years of memories and recovering, Harry and Draco return to Hogwarts. But the memories there are stronger than anywhere else, and Harry finds himself forced to come to terms with something he's denied for ten years. [Harry suffers some consequences due to the killing curse, his hands shake and has problems walking.]
Title: The Snitch-Maker
Author:omi_ohmy
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 21,500 Approx.
Summary: Draco is content with his Snitches, with the tap tap tap of his hammer, and the tiny gears and sharp scent of metal in his workshop - until one day Harry Potter appears, asking for help to solve a rash of Snitch-tampering in the Quidditch world. [Harry has a permanently injured knee.]
Title: The Light More Beautiful
Author:firethesound
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 81,000 Approx.
Summary: Thirteen years after Draco accepts Potter's help escaping the horror of his sixth year, he returns to England where he makes the unfortunate discovery that Potter is still as obnoxious as ever. And worse, more than a decade overseas hasn't been enough to dim Draco's obsession with him. [Harry has a knee injury.]
Title: Rough Magic
Author:birdsofshore
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 28,000 Approx.
Summary: Malfoy's magic has run wild. But though wild magic is unpredictable and greatly feared, Harry's damned if he's going to let Malfoy rot in St Mungo's while they work out what to do with him. [Draco can't control his magic.]
Content/Warning(s): Some mild D/s themes (a little light magical bondage)
Title: On The Turning Away
Author:blamebrampton
Rating: PG
Word Count: 25,500 Approx.
Summary: It's one thing to be good at not making a besotted fool of yourself over a man when he's busy being the most famous wizard in the world and you're tucked away quietly in Wiltshire. It's quite another when you have to see him every morning. [Harry had a work accident a while back and is still in treatment - non permanent injury though.]
Title: Your is the Earth (Hold On, Hold On)
Author:chickenlivesinpumpkin
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 127,000 Approx.
Summary: When they first meet after the end of the war, Draco doesn't want anything to do with Harry. But as time goes by, Draco's growing love may be the only thing that can save them both, because after a serious accident in the Forbidden Forest, Draco's personality begins to undergo subtle changes. At first, Harry credits this to a new enthusiasm for life. But as the days pass and Draco's behavior becomes more and more mysterious, Harry begins to suspect that something bigger--and darker--is at work.
Content/Warning(s): Mental Health Issues, violence, some elements of horror.
Title: Kiss Me (Under the Light of a Thousand Stars)
Author:sophie_french with illustrations by iwao
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 115,000 Approx.
Summary: Harry rescues Draco Malfoy from Azkaban, where he has been imprisoned for three years after the war. Draco is not as Harry remembers, as Azkaban leaves its mark on even the strongest of wizards. With no memory of who he was or how he came to be in Harry's care, Draco needs Harry's help if he is to have any hope of making a full recovery. But Harry has his own demons to fight and together with saving Draco, Harry must also discover a way to find himself. [Draco suffers of OCD, trauma, momentary loss of magic and speech]
Content/Warning(s): Mildly Dubious Consent
Title: Chaos Theory
Author:Tessa Crowley
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 102,000 Approx.
Summary: Chaos: when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. One gene varies, one neuron fires, one butterfly flaps its wings, and Draco Malfoy's life is completely different. Draco has always found a certain comfort in chaos. Perhaps he shouldn't. [Draco is slowly poisoned and he loses feelings of legs and arms]
Content/Warning(s): Magical AU (canon divergence), Genius Draco, kidnapping, torture, gore (see more at story, please!)
Title: Comfort & Safety
Author:lordhellebore & eidheann_writes
Rating: R
Word Count: 2,000 // 2,200
Summary: Comfort isn't safety, and safety isn't comfort. A Remix of Comfort bylordhellebore. [Draco's leg was hurt]
Content/Warning(s): [Past] Major Character Death, depression, grieving. AU after HBP
Title: Hero
Author:leontinabowie
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 17,900
Summary: Harry is a drug addict, and helping him proves more difficult than Draco initially thought. [Harry is a drug addict.]
Content/Warning(s): Drug addiction, drug usage, referenced rape (not between Harry and Draco), non-con due to drug use (not between Harry and Draco), violence, language, sex
Title: You Just Have to Try
Author:queenvandal
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 15,000 Approx.
Summary: Seven years after the fall of Voldemort, a magic-less Harry is set upon by an unknown organization, and having Auror Draco Malfoy assigned as his bodyguard really is the least of his problems.
Content/Warning(s): Dysthymia/Depression Featured Heavily, Mentions of Suicidal Thoughts, Oral Sex, Bad Language
Title: The Guise of Forgiveness
Author:sunseticmonster
Rating: R
Word Count: 24,000 Approx.
Summary: George's new potion has caught the interest of the entire Auror Department, thanks to an article by the elusive Draco Malfoy. So, when Harry sees Malfoy in the middle of a panic attack, he attempts to make amends as a ploy to find out what's really been going on.
Content/Warning(s): Alcohol, social anxiety, panic attacks.
Title: The Fine Old Truth
Author:vaysh
Rating: R
Word Count: 9,800 Approx.
Summary: The year is 2078, Harry and Draco are both 98, an age to be proud of even for wizarding kind. Pride, though, is not on either man's mind, as they meet at Geezers Old Folks' Hotel shortly before the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts. [Draco has a limp, Harry has a heart condition.]
Content/Warning(s): Epilogue Compliant
Title: Somebody to Love
Author:khasael
Rating: PG
Word Count: 31,400 Approx.
Summary: Draco's life after the war is quite different than it used to be. When he finds himself cursed, with little hope for lifting the spell, he sets out to make the most of the time he has left. Getting to know his Aunt Andromeda and his young cousin Teddy feels like a good thing to do, even if it can't help him in the long run...or can it? [Draco's been cursed and is kind of wasting away – but not violently or anything.]
Title: The Vestigials
Author:ichigogalaxy
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 23,000 Approx.
Summary: Ron is sent to an abandoned warehouse to respond to disturbances, only to get there and find Draco Malfoy, bloody, naked and surrounded by dead people. In comes Healer Harry, assigned to help him and figure out why Draco Malfoy has shown up in St. Mungo’s after he was supposed to be dead. [Draco temporarily can't talk.]
Content/Warning(s): Blood, language
Title: Any Instrument
Author:dicta_contrion
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 130,000 Approx.
Summary: Draco Malfoy wouldn't go back to England for anything less than an exceptional case. Being asked to figure out why Harry Potter can't control his magic might be exceptional enough to qualify. [Harry can't perform magic – wild magic]
Content/Warning(s): magical disability and the diagnosis and treatment thereof [see more at the post]
Title: A Thousand Beautiful Things
Author:geoviki
Rating: R
Word Count: 104,000 Approx.
Summary: Draco Malfoy struggles with changed fortunes, shifted alliances, an ugly war, and an unusual spell, with the help of a concerned professor, an insightful house-elf, and an unexpected Gryffindor friend. [Not disability per-se, but Draco makes a Vow of Silence and doesn't speak]
Content/Warning(s): Canon divergence (AU) after OotP.
Title: Strange Bedfellows
Author:ravenclawsquill
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 30,000 Approx.
Summary: When Harry encounters a frail and fidgety Draco Malfoy at the Ministry, he just knows something is wrong and he’s determined to get to the bottom of it.
A story about Deadly Nightshade, crippling insomnia, excellent wine … and finding what you need in the strangest of circumstances. [Draco is a (recovering) Potions addict)
Content/Warning(s): Potions addiction
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Title: A Secret History
Author:
warholhpRating: NC 17
Summary: A secret history is a version of history at odds with commonly accepted historical narrative, a history claimed to have been deliberately suppressed or fogotten. Harry Potter, struggling to make a life for himself after the war, is about to discover his. (Contains warnings) ]Harry has problems controlling his magic]
Word Count: 20,000 words
Title: Let's Pretend the War Is Over
Author:
pir8fancierRating: PG
Word Count: 8,000 Aprox.
Summary: Post war fic. Draco spends his days debating whether or not he's crazy. Harry is the take-away king. [Mental illness - Draco]
Title: Orbit
Author:
kudra_23Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,053
Summary: Harry's lying in a hospital bed and Draco's not happy about it. [Harry is in a coma]
Title: Vale Sanare
Author:
rurounihimeRating: NC 17
Word Count: 23,327
Summary: Draco’s world gains a new component, just when he thought he’d sorted everything out. [Neurological damage from seizures]
Title: The Other Side of Free
Author:
khatehRating: PG 13
Word Count: 10,200.
Summary: Harry’s career as a Seeker is on the line because of an injury.
Title: Renaissance
Author:
dysonrulesRating: NC 17
Word Count: 33,000
Summary: Harry wakes from a long slumber to find things terribly changed. [Harry was in a coma]
Title: Talk To Me
Author:
saras_girl Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 17,500 Aprox.
Summary: When the usual channels of communication are shut down, the most surprising people can find a way in. A strange little love story. [Harry can't see]
Title: Midnight on the Janus Thickey Ward
Author:
quill_lumos Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 33,000 Aprox.
Summary: After the war Draco Malfoy has been assigned community service to help atone for his 'crimes' He is well used to the graveyard shift at St Mungo's, but his life is about to change forever after a new patient is brought in for treatment. [Mental illness - Harry]
Title: A Fruit Tree in Winter
Author:
bryoneybrynn Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 29,000
Summary: After failing in his task of killing Dumbledore, life doesn’t go as Draco expected. Sometimes just surviving takes everything you’ve got. And sometimes healing is something you can’t do alone. Story goes AU/AR from the end of Half-Blood Prince. [Harry is hurt]
Title: Partake of Me
Author:
midnight_birthRating: PG 13
Word Count: 7,982
Summary: As one of the most promising new Aurors, Harry is devastated to learn that due to a side-effect from losing a small magic-charged part of himself with Voldemort’s death, his body’s ability to recharge magic started to decrease to a point where he now needs frequent magic transfusions. It doesn’t help things that the only universal donor around is his school nemesis, and if Harry has a hope of continuing a career he loves, he will have to create a bond with a person he would rather never see again in his life. But perhaps things aren’t always what they seem and not everything turns out the way Harry expects it to... [Harry has problems with his magic]
Title: Draco In Darkness
Author: Plumeria
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 39,000 Aprox.
Summary: Following an accident in his seventh year, Draco loses his eyesight. After Harry elbows his way into Draco's dark world, both boys find themselves in a strange new friendship, and they each learn new ways to see each other … and themselves. [Draco is blind]
Title: A Reckless Frame of Mind & A Determined Frame of Mind
Author:
lomonaaeren Rating: R
Word Count: 151,000 Aprox. (adding both parts)
Summary: Draco is a PsycheDiver, and his newest patient is Auror Potter, who’s been a pathological liar for over a year—and has just tried to violently end his own life. [Mental Illness - Harry]
Title: Reasonable Adjustments
Author:
weasleywench Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 16,100
Summary: The path to self-acceptance is just another reasonable adjustment. [Disability - Harry]
Title: Where Draco Is A Statue
Author:
simmyschtuff Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 25,000
Summary: Five years after the war with Voldemort, and things happen! Ooh!
Title: The Fortunate Fall
Author:
lomonaaerenRating: R
Word Count: 28,000 Aprox.
Summary: Draco's sure he suffered an irreplaceable loss at the end of the war. Harry's not.
Title: All Apologies
Author:
1ightningRating: R
Word Count: 3,000
Summary: Much to his chagrin, Draco decides that it is simply not worth the bother of starting to hate Harry again.
Title: State Of Mind
Author:
sara_holmesRating: NC 17
Word Count: 52,000 Aprox.
Summary: Harry doesn't have a hero complex, he just really wants to help. However, he gets more than he bargained for after rescuing Draco Malfoy from an isolation cell in Saint Mungo's
Warning(s): Sexual content, slash, suicide references, swearing, and spooning.
Title: World On Fire
Author:
b00kaddictRating: R
Word Count: 15,300
Summary: A mysterious little girl has been leading Draco to attempt more and more dangerous rescues as a fire-fighter. When Narcissa decides that enough is enough, she brings in the last person in the world Draco wants to talk to—therapist Harry Potter.
Title: Unkissed Kisses and Songs Never Sung
Author:
femmequixoticRating: R
Word Count: 12,600 Aprox.
Summary: I sit silently in the shadows, staring at the tiny, pulsing ball of light that tells me my Harry's still alive.
Title: Getting There
Author:
rickey_aRating: NC 17
Word Count: 18,000 Aprox.
Summary: An attack on Malfoy Manor ends up being not what it first seemed, as Auror Harry Potter finds out. Hermione Granger-Weasley finds herself appointed as Draco's Healer, designated to work with him, the survivor of a suicide attempt. Taking his first steps down the road of self-healing, Draco discovers that life is worth living, and there's probably room for someone else to share his path.
Warning(s): attempted suicide
Title: Love Is…
Author:
melusinahpRating: NC 17
Word Count: 13,800
Summary: This is a story about love. It is not a romance.
Warning(s): Deathly Hallows situated AU, dark, dub/coerced-consent, pre-story character death (not Harry or Draco)
Title: The Curse
Author:
roedhuntRating: NC 17
Word Count: 25,000 Aprox.
Summary: Harry Potter stumbles upon Draco Malfoy one night. It’s a night that will change their lives forever.
Warning(s): Pre-Mpreg, Mention of rape.
Title: The Flesh is Frail
Author:
wildestrangerRating: NC 17
Word Count: 7,800 Aprox.
Summary: War wounds are no reason to stop making fun of Potter.
Title: And We Are At Our Apogee
Author:
angelgazingRating: PG 13
Word Count: 6,000 Aprox.
Summary: Harry doesn't remember and Draco wants revenge, but it doesn't really work out that way.
Title: Obliviation
Author:
dysonrulesRating: NC 17
Word Count: 28,000 Aprox.
Summary: When Harry decides to quit Auror Training in order to care for young Teddy over the summer, he has quite enough to worry about without Pansy Parkinson dumping a mute Draco Malfoy on his doorstep.
Title: Never a Breath You Can Afford to Waste
Author:
owens_momRating: PG 13
Word Count: 19,000
Summary: Harry’s with Neville for all the wrong reasons, but he just wants to coast through his carefree summer days after vanquishing Voldemort. An intriguing run in with an old rival sends his world where else? Upside down.
Title: Anthem of the Angels
Author:
kayladieRating: NC 17
Word Count: 21,000
Summary: In the days after Hogwarts and in the midst of the war, Harry is surprised to find himself developing feelings for Draco Malfoy. At war's end, he is devastated when an unknown curse threatens to separate them forever.
Warning(s): This story is very much AU. The events of HBP happen, except Draco is not the one chosen for the mission to kill Dumbledore, so alas, no Sectumpsempra bathroom scene! It is not compliant at all with DH and Harry, Ron, and Hermione did not begin the hunt for Horcruxes until after their seventh and final year.
Title: Nightingale
Author:
michi_thekillerRating: NC 17
Word Count: 62,000 Aprox.
Summary: God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. -Jacques Deval
Warning(s): his fic contains depictions of sexual dynamics that many readers may find extremely disturbing, and, well, traumatic. That's half the point. But don't say we didn't warn you.
Title: A Frayed and Threadbare Wish
Author:
libby_drewRating: R
Word Count: 17,500
Summary: Today's victory lies in the future. Harry and Draco's mission to find the Malfoy Legacy leads them to places – and people – they never thought they'd see. Canon compliant through Half-Blood Prince.
Title: Special Gifts
Author:
oldenuf2nbRating: NC 17
Word Count: 135,000 Aprox.
Summary: Ten years after a devastating accident costs Harry Potter the love of his life and leaves him with life altering injuries, he is asked to return to Hogwarts to help the child of an old friend, with the help of an old adversary.
Title: On One's Knees
Author:
pir8fancierRating: NC 17
Word Count: 32,000
Summary: Five years after the final battle at Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy has been paroled from Azkaban and works nights as a janitor at The Daily Prophet. Harry Potter, recently married to Ginny Weasley, is training as a Healer at St. Mungo's. One wastebasket=one head injury=our story.
Warning(s): Epilogue compliant
Title: Another Country
Author:
lomonaaerenRating: R
Word Count: 37,000 Aprox.
Summary: Brain-damaged by a Dark curse, Harry is seeing auras that no one else can see and visions that don't come true and speaking Latin instead of English. The Healers want him to go back to normal. Draco Malfoy thinks his future should be different from his past.
Title: The Waters of March
Author:
geovikiRating: PG
Word Count: 21,400
Summary: Voldemort's final victim resides with the other spell-damaged wizards in St. Mungo's Hospital. Harry suffers survivor's guilt and finds an unusual beta. Cream-colored knee-high leather boots make a brief appearance.
Title: Icarus Rising
Author:
ryokoblueRating: NC 17
Word Count: 47,700 Aprox.
Summary: It's the final battle. Harry's on a warpath to destroy Voldemort, but what he finds is a former school rival long ago lost to the past. A former school rival who's no longer human.
Title: Rejoicing in Their Strength & sequel Eyes That Can See in the Dark
Author:
lomonaaerenRating: NC 17
Word Count: 51,000 Aprox. (Adding both parts)
Summary: Draco is imprisoned and tortured by a mad Lucius after the war. He uses astral travel to spare his sanity. Imagine his surprise when he comes on Harry Potter, a werewolf Harry Potter, in the Forest of Dean. // sequel to 'Rejoicing in Their Strength.' Draco, for a year after the events of that story.
Warning(s): Sex, torture, violence, profanity, insanity, character death (not Harry or Draco), creature!fic
Title: Endangered Familiar
Author:
ravenpanRating: PG 13
Word Count: 7,900 Aprox.
Summary: After the war, all he wanted was some peace and quiet. What he got, was a penguin that brought the exact opposite.
Title: Hearts Open (at the Close)
Author:
literaryspell Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 20,000 Approx.
Summary: Harry wins the war and loses himself. It’s Draco’s job to heal him, but that might just be impossible. Especially after Harry takes matters into his own hands.
Warning(s): explicit sex, dubious consent bordering on non-con, suggestions of mental imbalance.
Title: Life Debt Number What?
Author:
chibitoaster Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 6,700
Summary: Harry saves Draco's life again. It's becoming quite a habit. This time, however, there's actually a chance that Draco can pay him back using the beltane rituals. (Harry is in a coma)
Title: The Last Time
Author:
furiosityRating: R
Word Count: 6,500
Summary: He wished he could simply live, there in that moment, that he could pretend that he'd just come down for a spot of free time with his best friends. Instead, he had this infuriating waiting. (Draco can't talk)
Title: Unwed Wizard: Capture the Dragon
Author:
fantasyfiend09Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 18,800
Summary: Reality television has come to the wizarding world, and magic has a way of improving things. (Harry is mute)
Title: Oscillate Wildly
Author:
marksykinsRating: NC 17
Word Count: 55,000 Approx.
Summary: After a particularly gruelling Occlumency session, Harry practically comes apart at the seams and finds himself living partway between two lives. One is his life at Hogwarts. In the other, he's been in a mental institution for the better part of six years. What happens when Harry realises his whole life may be one elaborate fantasy?
Warning(s): Elements of Non Magical AU. (Harry has hallucinations)
Title: Close To Ever After
Author:
oldenuf2nbRating: NC 17
Word Count: 15,300 Approx.
Summary: When Harry Potter finds he's been cursed, he withdraws from the world and prepares to die. But when have things ever gone the way Harry Potter planned?
Warning(s): Mpreg
Title: All That Remains
Author:
lordhellebore Rating: R
Word Count: 21,000
Summary: In a Great Britain destroyed by war and plagued by magical epidemics, those who are left behind struggle to survive and find meaning.
Warning(s): Character death (not Harry or Draco), dub-con (not between Harry and Draco)
Title: Things Left Unspoken
Author:
bridenore Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 3,400
Summary: I was looking for an excuse to leave the place when I spotted them. Six small glass vials were proudly displayed behind the counter. The liquid inside was cobalt blue. I had seen one of these in Draco Malfoy’s hand eighteen months ago.
Warning(s): drug addiction (coerced)
Title: Back From the Edge
Author:
deirdre_aithneRating: R
Word Count: 7,900 Approx.
Summary: Faint though it seems to him, Draco hears the scrape of metal across stone echoing in his ears and with a quiet sigh of relief, he closes his eyes and hopes as he lets the darkness take him.
Warnings: graphic self harm, disability (loss of use of a limb)
Title: The Peacock Paladin and the King of the Emerald Court
Author:
megyalRating: NC 17
Word Count: 11,300
Summary: Harry suffers from chronic headaches, and it affects his work and relationships. New pain-management techniques (and their provider) may just be the relief his life needs.
Title: Let Me Be Your Voice
Author:
queenie_mabRating: NC 17
Word Count: 48,000
Summary: As the hero of the revolution, Harry leads the wizarding world in its efforts to rebuild; but first old wounds must be tended, rifts caused by hate mended, and his history with Draco Malfoy seems like the perfect place to start.
Title: Turn Or at the hex files
Author:
saras_girlRating: NC 17
Word Count: 322,000 Approx.
Summary: One good turn always deserves another. Apparently.
Warning(s): Epilogue compliant
Title: Forgive Those Who Trespass
Author:
lomonaaerenRating: R
Word Count: 135,900 Approx.
Summary: Harry Potter was convinced he had an ordinary, if inconvenient, life. Then Ron and Hermione vanished in the Department of Mysteries. And the only person who may know where they are is a mute Draco Malfoy.
Warning(s): Horror, violence, gore, torture, profanity.
Title: Watching for a Sign
Author:
bsmog Rating: R
Word Count: 18,700 Approx.
Summary: A remix of the story of Draco’s The tattoo, which is a lovely piece by the incredibly talented
mijeli. Draco tries to cover the Mark, but the results aren’t quite what he’d hoped. Or, perhaps at the end of the day, they’re more like what he and Harry both hoped after all.Title: This I Know Is True
Author:
susannah_wilde Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 6,200 Approx.
Summary: Harry and Draco try to find the perfect Christmas gift for each other, despite having little in the world to call their own.
Title: Only For The Lucky
Author:
sunseticmonsterRating: NC 17
Word Count: 63,400 Approx.
Summary: Things seem to be going incredibly well for Draco Malfoy after the war. He's working as a professor at Hogwarts and makes the papers all the time for his charitable contribution to Muggle causes. But when Malfoy is rushed into St Mungos for a psychotic break, Healer-trainee Harry Potter realizes that Malfoy's success is not all what it seems and sometimes luck can have more than one meaning.
Warning(s): Substance abuse, addictions
Title: Painted Doll & the sequel The Doll and the Puppet
Author:
calrissian18 & marianna_merlo respectively.Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 3,900 Approx.
Summary: Harry is trapped in a cell, but Draco is trapped somewhere far worse.
Warning(s): physical torture, dub-con.
Title: Harry Potter Gives a Shit
Author:
talithan Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 58,000
Summary: “Where are you headed?” - “No place special,” Draco fumbled, and flushed further. But then: “I can change that,” said Harry Potter. (Draco is weaken by a spell and unable to move or do magic)
Title: After Eden
Author:
rickey_aRating: NC 17
Word Count: 15,700 Approx.
Summary: Life threatening injuries are an occupational hazard even for a seasoned Auror, but Harry Potter never considered the possibility of life altering injury. And why is it that Draco Malfoy has to be the one to help him?
Title: Remind You What You Did When You Wake
Author:
arsenicjade Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 22,000 Approx.
Summary: A damaged-but-not-broken Harry in the clutches of Death Eaters and a caught-up-in-circumstances Draco who's not actually evil.
Warning(s): NonCon, Sex, Torture, Violence, Character Death (not Harry or Draco)
Title: In Death’s Dream Kingdom
Author:
kedavranox Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 7,500
Summary: ‘We need to get going,’ Harry says. ‘We have a lot to do if we want to finish what we started.’
Warning(s): Major character death
Title: Come For Me
Author:
frayach Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 26,000 Approx.
Summary: After Draco is paralyzed in an accident, he and Harry discover a new way to make love.
Warning(s): Watersports (but please read more about this warning on the author's note).
Title: I Love You
Author:
curlee_cue Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 18,500
Summary: Harry knows what love is. It’s something that grows. Something that adapts. Something that sometimes needs a little help along the way.
Warning(s): dark!Harry, non-con
Title: Atonement & sequel Heart Of Glass
Author:
pir8fancier Rating: R
Word Count: 10,900 Approx. (adding both parts)
Summary: Draco had the most overwhelming desire to kiss that mole. Put his mouth on it and suck gently, tasting and—
Warning(s): Epilogue compliant
Title: The Tender Things
Author:
tryslora Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 20,000 Approx.
Summary: Five years ago Draco disappeared out of Harry’s life. Harry has never believed Draco died that night; he was sure he would have known because they were bonded. When one Deacon Malloy moves in down the street, Harry discovers that both he and his friends were right. Draco’s alive, but is he still Draco? Harry is sure of one thing: their bond is true. All that remains is to convince his husband. (Memory loss, magic loss in a manner)
Warning(s): Mpreg (only in past tense)
Title: Blind Faith
Author:
jm9001Rating: R
Word Count: 21,000 approx.
Summary: Don't think of it as losing your sight. Think of it as gaining an Animagus who never quite learned the meaning of the word 'boundaries'. (Draco is blind)
Title: All Life is Yours to Miss
Author:
saras_girl Rating: R
Word Count: 115,000
Summary: Professor Malfoy's world is contained, controlled, and as solitary as he can make it, but when an act of petty revenge goes horribly awry, he and his trusty six-legged friend are thrown into Hogwarts life at the deep end and must learn to live, love and let go. (Harry is immobile)
Title: A Piercing Comfort
Author:
talithan Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 44,600
Summary: When Harry Potter hits the lowest point of his life so far, it is not his friends who keep him honest. With Draco Malfoy's patience and guidance, Harry learns to stand on his own. The thing is, after the fact—he's no longer sure he wants to. (see warnings)
Warning(s): depression, suicidal ideation, acute self-hatred, and self-worth problems.
Title: Holly and Hawthorn, Thistle and Thyme
Author:
bryoneybrynn Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 31,000 Approx.
Summary: After the war, Harry can’t shake the feeling that something is very wrong with him and he has a terrible feeling he knows what that “something” might be. He has a terrible feeling Malfoy might know, too.
Title: The Price of Valour
Author:
leemarchais & Romany WalkerRating: NC 17
Word Count: 400,000 Approx.
Summary: What happens when someone you hate needs you more than anything else? When it's life or death, either battle to the end, or die trying. [Harry is paralyzed]
Title: All Possible Worlds
Author: gafna
Rating: R
Word Count: 13,800 Approx.
Summary: Harry and Draco inadvertently fall through a magic mirror that reveals more about them than they ever wanted to know, changing their relationship forever. [Draco is in a coma]
Title: He Who Must Not Be Normal
Author:
lettered Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 41,500
Summary: Potter has fame and fortune and posh clothes and all he wants is a simple life. Draco has a flat and a cat and a steady job and all he wants is a complicated life. Which makes you think this story has something exciting like body-swapping, but it doesn’t. Instead it has Indian takeaway and a blue jumper and people wanting a whole lot of what they can’t have, discovering themselves as they discover each other.
Warning(s): dirty talk, verbal humiliation, scar kink, reference to self-harm, mental instability, PTSD, substance abuse (and a few more on the fic post)
Title: The Picking Up Pieces Series
Author:
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 44,000 approx. (adding both parts)
Summary: A duology comprising of "The Unbearable Burden of Caring", wherein Draco and Harry meet again fifteen years after the War (though neither of them are quite aware of it at the time), and the not-really-planned-for sequel "Sins and Scars and Shattered Things", wherein they have to deal with the media fallout of their relationship. [Draco suffers from social anxiety]
Title: Potential Gravity
Author:
zeitgeistic Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 32,000
Summary: Draco is not good at Cards Against Humanity, but Harry’s not good at being human, so it all works out. Except for the explosions. And Harry’s inability to live when Draco’s not around. [Harry can't speak]
Title: Taking the Easy Way Out
Author:
maraudersaffair Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 16,000 Approx.
Summary: Malfoy has disappeared, and Harry tracks him down because . . . he’s Harry Potter. Expecting to save Malfoy from worldly evils, he is surprised to find him living as a Muggle and listening to ponce boy bands. [Draco loses his magic temporarily]
Title: Sudden Wholeness or here at AO3
Author:
i_claudia Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 16,000 Approx.
Summary: A series of magical murders threatens the future of Wizarding Britain, and the Ministry puts its top two Aurors on the case. Harry’s less than thrilled at the discovery that his new partner is none other than Draco Malfoy, but when the alternative is sitting back and letting his country be destroyed, he doesn’t have much of a choice. [Harry temporary loses his magic]
Warning(s): Epilogue compliant
Title: Stay Close to Me
Author:
shadowofrazia Rating: G
Word Count: 3,400 Approx.
Summary: A decade after the Final Battle, after years of memories and recovering, Harry and Draco return to Hogwarts. But the memories there are stronger than anywhere else, and Harry finds himself forced to come to terms with something he's denied for ten years. [Harry suffers some consequences due to the killing curse, his hands shake and has problems walking.]
Title: The Snitch-Maker
Author:
omi_ohmy Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 21,500 Approx.
Summary: Draco is content with his Snitches, with the tap tap tap of his hammer, and the tiny gears and sharp scent of metal in his workshop - until one day Harry Potter appears, asking for help to solve a rash of Snitch-tampering in the Quidditch world. [Harry has a permanently injured knee.]
Title: The Light More Beautiful
Author:
firethesound Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 81,000 Approx.
Summary: Thirteen years after Draco accepts Potter's help escaping the horror of his sixth year, he returns to England where he makes the unfortunate discovery that Potter is still as obnoxious as ever. And worse, more than a decade overseas hasn't been enough to dim Draco's obsession with him. [Harry has a knee injury.]
Title: Rough Magic
Author:
birdsofshore Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 28,000 Approx.
Summary: Malfoy's magic has run wild. But though wild magic is unpredictable and greatly feared, Harry's damned if he's going to let Malfoy rot in St Mungo's while they work out what to do with him. [Draco can't control his magic.]
Content/Warning(s): Some mild D/s themes (a little light magical bondage)
Title: On The Turning Away
Author:
blamebrampton Rating: PG
Word Count: 25,500 Approx.
Summary: It's one thing to be good at not making a besotted fool of yourself over a man when he's busy being the most famous wizard in the world and you're tucked away quietly in Wiltshire. It's quite another when you have to see him every morning. [Harry had a work accident a while back and is still in treatment - non permanent injury though.]
Title: Your is the Earth (Hold On, Hold On)
Author:
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 127,000 Approx.
Summary: When they first meet after the end of the war, Draco doesn't want anything to do with Harry. But as time goes by, Draco's growing love may be the only thing that can save them both, because after a serious accident in the Forbidden Forest, Draco's personality begins to undergo subtle changes. At first, Harry credits this to a new enthusiasm for life. But as the days pass and Draco's behavior becomes more and more mysterious, Harry begins to suspect that something bigger--and darker--is at work.
Content/Warning(s): Mental Health Issues, violence, some elements of horror.
Title: Kiss Me (Under the Light of a Thousand Stars)
Author:
sophie_french with illustrations by iwaoRating: NC 17
Word Count: 115,000 Approx.
Summary: Harry rescues Draco Malfoy from Azkaban, where he has been imprisoned for three years after the war. Draco is not as Harry remembers, as Azkaban leaves its mark on even the strongest of wizards. With no memory of who he was or how he came to be in Harry's care, Draco needs Harry's help if he is to have any hope of making a full recovery. But Harry has his own demons to fight and together with saving Draco, Harry must also discover a way to find himself. [Draco suffers of OCD, trauma, momentary loss of magic and speech]
Content/Warning(s): Mildly Dubious Consent
Title: Chaos Theory
Author:
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 102,000 Approx.
Summary: Chaos: when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. One gene varies, one neuron fires, one butterfly flaps its wings, and Draco Malfoy's life is completely different. Draco has always found a certain comfort in chaos. Perhaps he shouldn't. [Draco is slowly poisoned and he loses feelings of legs and arms]
Content/Warning(s): Magical AU (canon divergence), Genius Draco, kidnapping, torture, gore (see more at story, please!)
Title: Comfort & Safety
Author:
lordhellebore & eidheann_writes Rating: R
Word Count: 2,000 // 2,200
Summary: Comfort isn't safety, and safety isn't comfort. A Remix of Comfort by
lordhellebore. [Draco's leg was hurt]Content/Warning(s): [Past] Major Character Death, depression, grieving. AU after HBP
Title: Hero
Author:
leontinabowie Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 17,900
Summary: Harry is a drug addict, and helping him proves more difficult than Draco initially thought. [Harry is a drug addict.]
Content/Warning(s): Drug addiction, drug usage, referenced rape (not between Harry and Draco), non-con due to drug use (not between Harry and Draco), violence, language, sex
Title: You Just Have to Try
Author:
queenvandalRating: NC 17
Word Count: 15,000 Approx.
Summary: Seven years after the fall of Voldemort, a magic-less Harry is set upon by an unknown organization, and having Auror Draco Malfoy assigned as his bodyguard really is the least of his problems.
Content/Warning(s): Dysthymia/Depression Featured Heavily, Mentions of Suicidal Thoughts, Oral Sex, Bad Language
Title: The Guise of Forgiveness
Author:
sunseticmonster Rating: R
Word Count: 24,000 Approx.
Summary: George's new potion has caught the interest of the entire Auror Department, thanks to an article by the elusive Draco Malfoy. So, when Harry sees Malfoy in the middle of a panic attack, he attempts to make amends as a ploy to find out what's really been going on.
Content/Warning(s): Alcohol, social anxiety, panic attacks.
Title: The Fine Old Truth
Author:
vaysh Rating: R
Word Count: 9,800 Approx.
Summary: The year is 2078, Harry and Draco are both 98, an age to be proud of even for wizarding kind. Pride, though, is not on either man's mind, as they meet at Geezers Old Folks' Hotel shortly before the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts. [Draco has a limp, Harry has a heart condition.]
Content/Warning(s): Epilogue Compliant
Title: Somebody to Love
Author:
khasael Rating: PG
Word Count: 31,400 Approx.
Summary: Draco's life after the war is quite different than it used to be. When he finds himself cursed, with little hope for lifting the spell, he sets out to make the most of the time he has left. Getting to know his Aunt Andromeda and his young cousin Teddy feels like a good thing to do, even if it can't help him in the long run...or can it? [Draco's been cursed and is kind of wasting away – but not violently or anything.]
Title: The Vestigials
Author:
ichigogalaxy Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 23,000 Approx.
Summary: Ron is sent to an abandoned warehouse to respond to disturbances, only to get there and find Draco Malfoy, bloody, naked and surrounded by dead people. In comes Healer Harry, assigned to help him and figure out why Draco Malfoy has shown up in St. Mungo’s after he was supposed to be dead. [Draco temporarily can't talk.]
Content/Warning(s): Blood, language
Title: Any Instrument
Author:
dicta_contrion Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 130,000 Approx.
Summary: Draco Malfoy wouldn't go back to England for anything less than an exceptional case. Being asked to figure out why Harry Potter can't control his magic might be exceptional enough to qualify. [Harry can't perform magic – wild magic]
Content/Warning(s): magical disability and the diagnosis and treatment thereof [see more at the post]
Title: A Thousand Beautiful Things
Author:
geoviki Rating: R
Word Count: 104,000 Approx.
Summary: Draco Malfoy struggles with changed fortunes, shifted alliances, an ugly war, and an unusual spell, with the help of a concerned professor, an insightful house-elf, and an unexpected Gryffindor friend. [Not disability per-se, but Draco makes a Vow of Silence and doesn't speak]
Content/Warning(s): Canon divergence (AU) after OotP.
Title: Strange Bedfellows
Author:
ravenclawsquill Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 30,000 Approx.
Summary: When Harry encounters a frail and fidgety Draco Malfoy at the Ministry, he just knows something is wrong and he’s determined to get to the bottom of it.
A story about Deadly Nightshade, crippling insomnia, excellent wine … and finding what you need in the strangest of circumstances. [Draco is a (recovering) Potions addict)
Content/Warning(s): Potions addiction
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