Capitu's Harry/Draco Recs

Title: Fever Dream
Author: lomonaaeren
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 8,000 Approx.
Summary: Surrender. Dreams. Flowers. Heat. This is Harry's haven, which he earned and chose.
Warning(s): Slavery, D/s relationship.


I love, I love the dream-like quality this story has. I love the way Harry gave himself to Draco. I love the peace it gave Harry.

Title: You're Not Alone & its sequel Death and Life are Separated by a Single Breath
Author: alaana_fair
Rating: R
Word Count: 3,200 Approx.
Summary: The war leaves Harry broken. Can Draco fix him? // Everything we do has the potential to change someone’s life. Sequel to You’re Not Alone.


Such a touching story, about the difference a single person can make in our lives. Lovely.

Title: Snapshots
Author: elfflame
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 5,700 Aprox.
Summary: Draco wakes up in a strange place, with Harry Potter watching over him.


This is a lovely story. Draco wakes up next to Harry, but he doesn't remember anything of their life together, and so Harry shows him an album, and tells him everything; how they came to be together, how Draco's memory lost started and what has happened since.

It's such a gentle story, and it has beautiful art accompanying it.

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.


This is a cute story. Just as the summary says, Harry only wanted some peace and quiet, but there's this penguin that has come to disturb him.

I love Harry's POV as much as I love Draco the Penguin's.

Title: Burn, Burn
Author: marguerite_26
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 9,800
Summary: The tireless dance of the flame, random and hypnotic, burned Draco’s retinas but he refused to look away. Closer, closer he reached until his palm hovered above the tiny flame. Three, two, then one inch away.
Warning(s): Disturbing imagery, self-mutilation, light bondage


In the aftermath of the war, it's hard for Draco to find peace. Perhaps, not surprisingly, it's not easier for Harry either. But hope and help can be found, even from the most unlikely sources.

This is a beautiful 8th year story. Draco struggling with his demons, and Harry, Harry is too, fighting his own. This fic is the beginning of them and their way to find solace.

Title: Six Ways In Which Harry Potter Was Like Bambi's Dad (And A Few Ways In Which He Wasn't. At All.)
Author: brummell
Rating: R
Word Count: 6,800
Summary: See title; it's a bit more literal than it seems. PLEASE read the warnings! This is set in a post-DH AU wherein the death of Voldemort has not led to the stability and peace that everyone expected; Harry and an underground New Order are fighting to free the Wizarding World. Or something.
Warning(s): Mpreg

It took me a while to read this story, all because I couldn't get past the "But it's a deer!". And I was a fool, because this story is quite incredible.

Draco gives birth to a natural Animagi while Harry is away. And yeah, it's got a cracky premise, but the story is so very special and touching, and very possible in a magical world where so many things are. And it's like nothing you've read and nothing like you expect it to be. It's amazing, it's what it is.

Title: Sex On Fire
Author: gypsyflame
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 11,800 Aprox.
Summary: A life-threatening injury brings Malfoy back into Harry’s life.


Harry has been injured, he's in the hospital and he wakes up to find out Draco is the Healer in charge.

God, I love how these two bicker about absolutely everything. And I love Draco taking care of Harry. And I love Harry listening to Draco and taking care of himself because of Draco. And I love how Draco faced his own fears because of Harry.

Title: The Virtues of the Common Cold (and Other Wizarding Primers)
Author: sheafrotherdon
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,600 Aprox.
Summary: A little comedy, a little fluff, a little snark-tastic Malfoy to get the New Year off to a good start

This is such an adorable story. Short and sweet and fluffy and it's going to make you smile.

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


One of the most memorable Healer!Harry story ever written. I think one of the things that makes this story so special is how very IC they remain through the fic. You can perfectly see this Harry taking care of Draco in this manner, you can almost feel their hesitation, and then you can taste their want.

It says Epilogue Compliant, but most of the story happens before the epilogue, though you can see it's heading there, and only the last part is completely compliant. Though thankfully, the author has written the ending to please our fluffy hearts.

This fic is amazing.

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.


This is one of those stories that took me ages to decide to read, but not because of the warnings, though there's that, but mostly because of everything that was said about it.

It's true that this story is heart-aching. During the war, Draco's mind was tortured beyond limits, and he has now the awareness of a child.

And it's that, the story of Harry and Draco. It moves back and forth, from them being at Hogwarts on their sixth year, fighting constantly, literally and bloodily, to the start of their relationship, to the present, with Draco in this child-like condition.

It's painful, very much so, the loneliness in which Harry lives, even now that he has Draco. There is this line that struck me deeply, well, there are many, many parts of this story that are vivid in my mind but "They were always so worried about that, about him being alone. As if there wasn't a difference between alone and lonely."

That is part of what makes it so aching, that Harry is sort of living half a life, half the real life, and half the life he's always pretending, inside his mind.

It's beautiful though, as shocking as some parts are, it's a gorgeous story, and if you read it, and you should, it will stay with you for a long time.

Title: Do Me a Favor, Don't Do Me No Favors
Author: nursedarry
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 12,500
Summary: To get where he is now, Harry's had lots of help, for which he's always been grateful. But that's not what it looks like to everyone else. And what about this saving the day compulsion? Teddy, Andromeda, Charlie Weasley and Draco Malfoy don't have the answers, but they do help Harry ask the right questions.


Just as the summary says, it's not that Harry isn't grateful, it's just that he doesn't know how to say Thank You. But all that is about to change when Draco saves his life.

Sweet and lovely, with Harry learning about himself thanks to Draco.

Title: Every Fifteen Seconds
Author: bsmog
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 20,540
Summary: The faceless men Draco Malfoy fights these days don’t offer redemption or salvation. They don’t offer answers or even friendship. Draco is tired of answers, and though he still has a few friends, most of them have lives of their own and can’t understand how Draco is still haunted by the ghost of someone he hasn’t seen in four years. And as for salvation, Draco gave up on that years ago. Because even the Saviour couldn’t be saved.


When I first read this story I was a bit wary of it because of the warnings (don't neglect to read those), but once I started I couldn't stop—it's that good. It's so very gripping and intense.

It has a very different Harry; he's lonely and kind of bitter, and he leaves Draco just as their friendship is about to take a turn, after they kissed. And the story about how Draco came to be at where he is right now is really interesting, and it works so well on this fic, as unusual as it is. I also love the flashbacks, how they actually start being friends, that's intense as it's the action happening at the present, but in a different way.

It's not what I call a 'light read', all fun and entertaining, but pretty incredible in its own way.

Title: In the Name of Science
Author: morgana_fire
Rating: R
Word Count: 25,000 Aprox.
Summary: Harry has seen some strange cases being an Auror, but none stranger than his latest one. It only gets more complicated when his magic begins to fail and he gets involved with Healer Malfoy.


This is a very interesting story with a lot of conspiracies. Harry's life is a mess, Ginny left him, he's not speaking to his friends, but he finds in Draco something his life has been lacking.

It's got a very intriguing plot, and plenty of romance.

Title: Moving Beyond Regret
Author: oldenuf2nb
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 10,000 Aprox.
Summary: What happens when we let others define our relationships for us?


Harry and Draco were together for all the right reasons, but they broke up for all the wrong ones. But when Harry needed Draco the most, Draco was there, and so Harry learns some truth he didn't see before, and he's decided to make things right this time.

It's so, so lovely, Draco taking care of a sick Harry. A bit of angst and a bit of fluff and a sweet ending.

Title: Make Love
Author: plotting_pen
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 16,300
Summary: When Draco thinks he can sink no lower, Harry Potter proves him wrong.
Warning(s): Mpreg


This is very, very dramatic. Draco and Narcissa are trying to survive after the war. Their lives are so different from what it used to be. Draco takes any job he can to support her, both of them. And then this one night at a Ministry function Draco was working at Harry, apparently drunk, kisses him, and they have this intense and passionate sex, and Draco gets pregnant.

It's a journey, from that moment, to everything Draco goes through after he finds out, until Harry finds him again and the baby is born.

Dramatic and angsty, but so very worthy with a lovely ending.