Capitu's Harry/Draco Recs

Title: Yours 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.

This story, kind of tells two stories at once. It's starts with an accident in which Draco nearly dies. We see Harry suffering, seeing his lover of two years seizing and convulsing without being able to do a thing. But miraculously Draco survives, only, it's not that simple; something claimed him, a Creature is in control of his body and now he's not really himself. He now only lives in a small part of his mind, and he'll do anything to protect Harry because he soon realises this creature that lives in him has no mercy.

At the same time, we see how Harry and Draco met for the first time six years after the war when Draco, Potions Expert gives the Auror Department a lecture. Harry's reactions when he sees him, God, those are gorgeous. You see, Harry is obsessed, and not in the usual way, he's determined to find out what Draco is up to, but Draco is not up to anything. Draco's just Draco, he has issues, social anxiety and once Harry starts seeing this different part of Draco, well, he can't help himself. He wants. And this is how we see the beginning of their relationship.

It's amazing, those first weeks of Harry being absolutely obsessed with Draco are awesome, see this thing they start having become something else, how they built their relationship. And at the same time we see and live Draco's anguish at not having control of his body, at trying to fight the Creature without putting Harry in danger, hoping Harry will realise this Draco is not really him, the ending, after everything they've gone through, worth it.

Also, this story is mainly bottom!Draco. There's some switching though! ^^

Title: Something Always (Brings Me Back To You)
Author: kedavranox
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 10,000 Approx.
Summary: The Centre for Magical Theory and Complex Spell Classifications keeps fucking with Harry’s dig sites, and he’s pretty sure Malfoy has ulterior motives.

This fic, oh, so many feels for this fic.

It starts after Harry and Draco break up, and right after it happens Draco does, well, he does something stupid and Harry learns about it, and then Harry does his own thing. But the thing is, Draco loves Harry, he was just scared, scared by his own feelings I think, and their problems with communicating certainly don't help.

It's emotional and touching, and it has great characterisations. I bit angsty, yes, but it was a beautiful ending.

Title: One Thousand Bars
Author: lumosed_quill
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 19,000 Approx.
Summary: And I will hold on hope / And I won't let you choke / On the noose around your neck / And I'll find strength in pain / And I will change my ways / I'll know my name as it's called again
Content/Warnings: veiled threat of violence/sexual assault (OMC)

Wow, this story is so full of emotions and the feels.

We have Draco in Azkaban, paying for what he's done, getting what he thinks he deserves. And then there's Harry, who goes to see him after Narcissa asked him to, but as these visits take place Harry starts seeing Draco, starts to understand why Draco is there, why Draco won't fight for his freedom. And he tries, damnit, he tries to reach to Draco, and just when Draco's about to reach too, just when it seems Draco sees things as Harry does and dares to believe things get complicated. But don't worry, it's amazing, it's an emotional journey and it has a beautiful ending.

It's gorgeous, the characterisations, the writing, the intensity, it's amazing.

Title: Leaves of Memory
Author: oldenuf2nb
Rating: R
Word Count: 19,500 Approx.
Summary: One generation removed from the second great war against darkness, the wizarding world seems in danger of forgetting the lessons learned through loss and pain. Headmistress McGonagall has a plan to both teach the young exactly what the war meant, and to ensure that Hogwarts will always be there to welcome them home.
Content/Warning(s): Epilogue Compliant.

Such a touching, lovely story.

It's about the new generation, how they don't know, how they don't understand about the war, and how McGonagall thinks it's time for them to learn and see what it was like through the memories of those who lived the war during a summer.

Amidst this Harry's going through a very difficult time, it's not only his divorce; it's the way Lily took it after she saw Harry with someone else. And then there's Draco, who is the creator of the spell that will show the memories, and more than that, will help Harry in this moment in his life. It's amazing.

Title: The Boy and the Sleeping Prince
Author: writcraft (fic) & phoenixacid (art)
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 26,000 Approx.
Summary: Harry is miserable and tired of being an Auror, coasting through life until he’s forced to make some changes. Spurred on by his passion for drawing and working with best-selling author Draco Malfoy, Harry develops a charm which gives children a magical, interactive reading experience. But when it’s time to test the spell, the two men find themselves trapped in a nightmarish fairy tale world. Can they escape unscathed, or is Draco right in his assertions that there is no such thing as a happily ever after?

Well, the summary of this fic is going to give you a pretty good idea what the story is about. And it goes like that, Harry, realising he doesn't want to be an Auror, quits, and becomes an illustrator of children's books. However, he wants to create more, a fairytale world, a book in which children can go into and interact, even chose how they want their adventure to go, always reaching a happy ending. And for his, he asks Draco, who is a well-known writer, to work with him, but when they try the charm that would take them into the story, well, things don't go as expected.

Once they enter into the tale, they are faced with more than just the story they created, but aso their nightmares and fears, and the question is, will they find their Happily Ever After? Well, that's for you to discover.

There's gorgeous art along with this story, of Harry and Draco, of them in the story, truly amazing. And as an extra bonus, a fanmix at the end with all the music that inspired this fic.

Title: It Started in the Shower Series
Author: chickenlivesinpumpkin
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 124,000 Approx.
Summary: When Harry finds Malfoy in his shower at Grimmauld Place, the two boys struggle to keep their hands to themselves, not realizing that their 'enemies-with-benefits' relationship will eventually become considerably darker and more powerful. That relationship will influence the search for the horcruxes--and the war--in unpredictable ways.
Warning(s): Dub con, Dom/sub, elements of AU (canon Divergence)

This series starts as one hot (smoking hot) PWP and then it becomes so much more. Oh, so much more!

The story starts with Harry (and Ron and Hermione) on the run, hiding at Gimmauld Place, which is where Harry finds Draco showering, and he simply can't resist him. He just can't. There's delicious smut, so much dirty talking! Actually, there's dirty talking all through the fic. :D

But like I said, it becomes so much more. Here, a spoiler tag, in case you just want to go ahead and be surprised.

Anyway! Things start turning serious because the effect Draco has on Harry is apparently not natural, but induced, and this effect is magnified by the Horcrux Harry has inside him. But there are many questions to be answered yet; is it only the Horcrux making Harry feel the way he feels about Draco? Is Draco affected in any way or does he simply yield to Harry by his own free will? What will Harry do when he learns all of this?


It's really exciting figuring all this, to see them go in this emotional ride while fighting a war. At times it's devastating for both of them, but it's pretty damn amazing, too, finding the answers, and hot, god, this fic is hot!

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.


This story is so, so good.

It starts, it actually starts with Draco leaving. Harry and Draco have been partners since, well, ever, since training, but Draco's not well in Britain any more, and Harry, Harry is not well without Draco at all.

And when he finally realises why, he goes looking for Draco to Beirut.

It's incredible, the writing is so very good, there's so much delicious pining, and delicious sex!, and there are all these intense feelings between them, and they are so perfect together, as partners, lovers and friends. Read it, you're going to love it. :)

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.

This is a beautiful series, both parts are incredibly touching.

In the first part Harry and Draco meet, only they don't know it's each other. They meet at a Masque Ball at the ministry, but you see, Draco suffers of social anxiety, he can't bear to be around many people, or new people, however, despite this he feels a connection with Harry, eventually though his anxiety gets the better of him and he runs, but they start corresponding. Draco is a writer and though he uses a pen name Harry manages to send him a letter, but then when Draco realises it's Harry, well, he feels his world shattering, and on top of this, his life is exposed by the Prophet (that Rita!) who outs him as this famous novelist.

In the sequel Harry and Draco have been together for a while, blissfully happy, but now that Draco's gone public there are people who wants him to pay for his crimes during the war, and send him to Azkaban, and while that might sound dramatic, agnsty even, you have no idea how heart breaking and touching it is.

And god, is it ever! It's poignant and intense, but at the same time it's beautiful and amazing.

Title: Second First Chances
Author: megyal
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 16,000 Approx.
Summary: There are only two good facts about Harry and Draco's disastrous marriage: it had been relatively short, and they had managed to produce a very lovely child. However, if they don't work together, they just might lose him.
Warning(s): Mpreg

Oh, lovely, amazing flangst.

This story starts when Harry and Draco have been divorced for a few years and their son Oscar Orion falls ill with a disease that can only be cured with magical transfusion, only neither Harry or Draco at a close enough match to help him heal.

But do not fret, it's got a beautiful ending, and what's just as beautiful is the journey to get there; things are very hard and tense between Harry and Draco at the beginning, but the grow and join their efforts, they share worries and love and find each other again by the end. It's a gorgeous story.

Title: The Jabberwock
Author: blithelybonny
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 9,200
Summary: It’s out there, and it’s hungry. And the students have a choice to make.
Warning(s): Major Character Death


This story is gorgeous. God. Harry and Draco's characterisations are just fantastic.

It happens at an 8th year trip to a Creature Preserve, where the group find itself trapped in a cave, and the only way to escape is to distract the beast that lurks outside.

I don't want to say more, but it's amazing, amazing and heartbreaking.

Title: Moments Like These
Author: charmed310
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 9,600
Summary: For years Draco and Harry have met twice a month in posh Muggle hotels to engage in a little extra-marital fun, no strings attached. Things take a turn when Draco admits his true feelings for Harry.
Warning(s): Infidelity


This story goes exactly as the summary says; for years Harry and Draco have been meeting in secret, but the night Harry hears Draco confessing his love, everything changes.

It comes with lovely flangst, sexy, hot sex and a beautiful ending.

Title: And I Know the Spark
Author: firethesound
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 15,000 Approx.
Summary: All Draco cares about is keeping Potter alive, and he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.
Warning(s): 6th and 7th year AU, infidelity, dub-con/non-con, torture, character death of minor OCs (including children)


I love AUs, this a really great (and angsty!) Hogwarts Era Au, in which Harry and Draco got together in 6th year, until Draco decides to become a spy for the Order so he can protect Harry, only he does it without telling Harry because he knows Harry would stop him, and the only way Harry would leave him is hurt him badly. It happens though, and then when Harry is taken prisoner at Malfoy Manor is up to Draco to save him.

It's hurts, everything Draco goes through while he's trying to protect Harry, knowing Harry thinks the worst of him, it's painful, but it's got a great ending. Lovely story, full of pain, but there's hope, too.

Title: Stop All the Clocks (This Is the Last Time I’m Leaving Without You)
Author: firethesound
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 44,000 Approx.
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.
Warning(s): Major Character Death


This story is heart-breaking beautiful. It's without doubt one of the best Character Death story I've ever read.

The author wrote perfectly the devastating pain that is to lose the most important person in your life, and I have no words to describe how beautiful and painful it is this journey, seeing their relationship begin, bloom and end in this tragic way, everything Harry went through until he's trying for the first time to find solace after his loss. It's amazing and painful and beautiful.

Title: Burial Ground
Author: writcraft
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 2,600
Summary: Draco and Harry move into Malfoy Manor, but the house is not keen to welcome new inhabitants.
Warning(s): Horror, Major Character Death, Dark


This story is amazing and dark and brilliant. You see, Harry just moved in with Draco to Malfoy Manor, but soon he starts to feel something, a presence there, watching him, and when Harry is gone, Draco starts feeling it too, only he thinks it's Harry, Harry calling for him.

It's amazing, because the way it starts is so very lovely, so gentle, and before you know it, it's chilling and takes your breath away.

Title: In Trance
Author: thrilladdict
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 18,000 Approx.
Summary: Harry turns into a cat and is looked after by Draco Malfoy. After a soul journey and much insanity, Harry finds himself completely smitten with the git.


Harry's life has been a bit chaotic after the war, but he still believes Draco is up to something, when he finds out Draco has been taking a potion to help him to study better, to calm him, that is, so he can focus, Harry demands Draco gives him so, which he does, which helps Harry to calm, only he helps him to find his animagus form. A kitten. A Bengal kitten, and he's the cutest thing, because he's both aware and not aware of it. He's not quite aware at first, and he grows attached to Draco, but later on, well! Later on he starts getting to see a new side of Harry and he ends up being a smitten Kitten.

Super cute, and fun, but it's very touching, too, when Harry comes back to himself, his confusion about his feelings for Draco, everything they went through while he was Draco's kitten and missing what they had as a human, and of course, those feelings he couldn't quite voice as a cat. A lovely story.