Title: The Full Four Seasons
Author: ravenclawsquill
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 49,200 Approx.
Summary: Draco Malfoy just wants a quiet life. He has a successful business, a lovely wife, and a delightfully horrible circle of friends. He’s fine. Or, he was fine until Harry Potter thundered into his life with all the subtlety of a blast-ended skrewt and turned everything on its head. Now he’s beginning to wonder if ‘fine’ is enough, after all.
Content/Warning(s): Infidelity (Draco/Astoria)

This story is amazing. It's truly fantastic. Oh my god. It starts when this one day Draco goes to his favourite coffee shop to get his weekly 'proper' coffee and finds Harry tending the counter. Harry's left the wizarding world some five years before, so it's really a shock to see him out of the blue like that.

But Draco goes back to the coffee shop and though this time it isn't Harry making his coffee (and not as good as Harry either!), Harry is there and they start talking. At first is, you know, Potter and Malfoy, a bit awkward and stand-offish, but as time passes they strike an unlikely friendship, a genuine friendship to the point that Draco encourages Harry to come back to the wizarding word. He suggests that if he doesn't want to navigate the press and all that his coming back implies, he could hire a RP firm to help him with that (Parkinson Zabini). Harry, feeling he's ready to come back and come out – officially, agrees and sets to set up a charity Ascendio, to provide a safe place and support for young LBGT people.

But there's so much more than that. Draco is married to Astoria, who by the way is amazing, she's his best friend and she's smart and confident, and just wonderful all around, and Draco does love her, very dearly, but he's living in denial, denial who he is and who he wants and they both have all this pressure to start a family—and now that Harry's made his way into Draco's life, Draco is simply unable to keep denying who he is.

There are so many feelings, the denial, but in a way that gets to your soul and you understand Draco and where he's coming from, so much UST, just, there, all the time, in every amazing interaction Harry and Draco have, growing and simmering under the surface. Harry and Draco's characterisations are beautiful, but so are everybody's; Astoria, Pansy, Hermione. Slow burn, but not too slow.

I know people can be wary of infidelity fics, but this story is not about that, or not only about that, it's about coming to terms with who you are, about finally being honest to yourself and the people you love, about understanding and love. It's truly wonderful.

Title: He's So Lucky (He's A Star)
Author: digthewriter
Rating: R
Word Count: 21,500
Summary: Potter has everything he could ever ask for. The perfect life. Then why does he look so sad when no one else is looking? Except for Draco, because Draco’s always looking.
Content/Warning(s): First person point of view. Infidelity implied (not between Harry/Draco). In the closet-scenario. (more at the post)

This fic is just lovely. :) You see, Draco works as a photographer for The Oracle, a wizarding news publication, far more legit than the Prophet. He covers a series of events and investigations, but when it comes to Harry, he always looks pass what the eye sees. He sees Harry, apparently living a perfect, happy life, but Draco knows it's all for show, he sees the hints of sorrow and loneliness. And it's not until he discovers something very off about his marriage to Ginny that he finally approaches Harry.

Harry, realising Draco knows what's going on, opens up to him, tells him the truth about him and Ginny, about himself, and they start meeting, talking, being friends. But there's more than friendship, no matter how they try to pretend otherwise, their mutual attraction (and obsession!) cannot be ignored. Really, very sweet, the slow progress of their friendship until they admit it's more, lovely. ^^

There's no graphic sex on screen, but switching is very much implied.

Title: Of Endings and Beginnings (Series)
Author: SasuNarufan13
Rating: R
Word Count: 29,000 Approx.
Summary: Being the lover on the side was something Harry wasn't proud of, but he put up with it just so he could be with him. One discovery, however, turns his world upside down (first part summary).
Content/Warning(s): Mpreg, Infidelity

This is a series and while it was written in a different order, this is the chronological time line and the order I suggest you to read it for the series to make the best sense: A Wonky Start, Starting Over, Starting Again, Starting Anew.

It's a story about Harry and Draco having a secret relationship while Draco is still married to Astoria. Harry started feeling unwell and discovers he's pregnant. From them we see Draco getting divorced and living with Harry, having their baby girl and well, starting their new life together.

All but the first part (from Harry's POV) is written from Scorpius POV, and it's wonderful. He's a very quiet little boy, but he sees things, he see his dad being happy, he starts getting to know Harry, feeling a bit awkward around him, then loving his little sister and realising Harry is part of his family, all this happens while Astoria feels a lot of resentment towards Harry and Draco, but we see everybody coping really well, becoming a family. It's lovely.

I know it says the series isn't completed, but that just means the author might (and will according to A/Ns) visit this universe in the future and add a new part. But the story of H/D and Scorpius is quite completed, I assure you. :)

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: Your Heart's the Moon
Author: kedavranox
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 3,800 Approx.
Summary: I'm a space bound rocket ship and your heart's the moon/ And I'm aiming right at you/ Right at you. Inspired by mijeli's art, Be redeemed.
Warning(s): Drug use, implied infidelity


This story is incredible, it captures this moment between Harry and Draco's relationship, and it shows you how dysfunctional and even volatile they are together, and perfect, simply perfect. It's very intense.

Title: A Broken but Happy Sound
Author: thusspakekate
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 8,000 Approx.
Summary: Sometimes we do terrible things for no reason, other times we have terrible reasons.
Warning(s): Infidelity

This story has so many FEELS. It's perfectly angsty and amazing.

Infidelity stories are hard, because it's not easy sympatise with the cheater when the other party doesn't deserve it. But this is written from Draco's POV, who hurt Harry terribly, and it takes you with him, how terrible he is feeling, how he knows and understands the mistake he made, and how he doesn't dare to hope and ask Harry for forgiveness.

It is angsty, but it's incredible. Brace yourself and read it, because it's totally worth it.

Title: Snakes and Ladders
Author: mayfly_78
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 18,700 Approx.
Summary: Twenty years later and there’s a new subversive threat to the wizarding world. Draco would rather not get involved either way, much less work with Harry Potter for the Ministry’s behalf. Epilogue compliant.
Warning(s): Epilogue compliant


I thought I had recced this story before, because it's one of my favourites Epilogue Compliant fics, but I had it confused with a different one.

Draco is going to play spy for the Ministry inside a Pure Blood elitist group, and Harry is going to be his familiar in his animagus form (and you're going to love what he turns into!), so he comes to stay with Draco at Malfoy Manor.

The sexual tension is so very lovely here, and so hot. You see, Harry has been denying—repressing, his sexuality for years, but being so close to Draco, wanting him so badly, he simply can't do it any longer.

I love Harry and Draco's characterisations. They are both so mature, and composed, but their feelings are so intense at the same time. I'm telling you, the UST is delicious, and the plot is amazing as well.

Title: Life's Hidden Forces (can only be discovered by living) or at AO3
Author: kabal42
Rating: R
Word Count: 17,600 Approx.
Summary: It is never easy to love or need - especially not when it hurts to do so.
Warning(s): Epilogue compliant, infidelity, polyamory, Dom/sub (non explicit)


This is an infidelity story, Harry has been seeing Draco for years, but now the time to come clean to Ginny has come. The problem is, he doesn't want to hurt Ginny, he cares for her, he really does, but he can't live without Draco.

Harry and Draco's relationship is a Dom/sub, but it's more than that, too. He loves Draco, and Harry will try to make Ginny understand why he can't leave him.

You might think it can't work, that it doesn't work that way, but you'll see in this story it does. It's more than just about the sex, it's about feelings and understanding, and having that someone that makes you feel alive. It's incredible.

Title: A Rose In the Garden
Author: kedavranox
Rating: R
Word Count: 3,500 Approx.
Summary: Draco faces the consequences.
Warning(s): Infidelity


This is such a heart aching story, about what probably is the hardest moment in Harry and Draco's life together. It's lovely written, so much emotion and feeling.

Title: The Burning Times
Author: Dracos_DirtySecret
Rating: NC 17
Word Count: 267,000 Approx.
Summary: Six years ago, Draco Malfoy left his new husband with the promise that he would return. Locked away in a Muggle prison for a crime he committed out of rage, he returns years later to what he hopes is a new life with his husband, & finds in his place an empty bed, & a world that has no right to exist.
Warning(s): Mpreg, Character Death (not Harry and Draco), Non Con (not between Harry and Draco), AU


This story is fantastic. (And sorry for what I think it's my longest rec yet. >.<)

It's the Wizarding world worst nightmare. The Muggles are aware of the Magical world's existence, and they are persecuting wizards and witches, keeping the them in prison, witches in camps and bounding their magic.

This fic tells three stories at the same time. No, it's not confusing, yes, it's incredible.

It tells how Harry and Draco got together, back when Voldemort was the threat, not the Muggles. It tells how their relationship was at first secret, and how Draco was a spy for the Order. It tells how these persecutions started, how the Muggles slowly starting killing and trapping wizards, binding their magic, and what happened to Draco while being in prison in a different country and how Harry went through this without him. And these two merge into the main story; Draco returning to England years after, finding the Wizarding World nearly extinct but for those few who have survived by hiding, unaware of everything Harry had suffered and realising how much he had, and all the struggles he endures, all he does until he finally frees Harry and the other prisoners who are barely alive in the Muggle prisons and camps.

It's almost stark, nearly a Dark story, but not because it's hopeless, but because it's so very dramatic, the persecutions of the Muggles, the abuse, mental, psychological and physical wizards and witches suffer is almost disturbing.

It's touching, it's so incredibly touching, the struggles, God, everything Harry and Draco went through, together and apart. Harry constant, growing dread about what's happening in the Wizarding world while the Muggles attack them, and Draco being away in prison, lost from the world, unaware of everything Harry and his world is going through. But I must stress, while there's plenty of Angst, and indeed, I'm tagging this entry as angst, it's not only angst. There are parts, many parts, that will make you smile, parts that will remind you how strong they are, and how together they can overcome anything.

Just like a tragic story, this fic, as it portrays everything the characters go through, it also shows you all these things that are worth going through hell and back, you know?

It's mainly told from Draco's POV, but it switches to others, which can be a bit distracting, but the story is so good even with that distraction.

There's only a bit of a downside, and this that the sequel From the Ashes is incomplete, and probably abandoned, as it hasn't been updated since 2009. But it's not that this fic ends in a cliffhanger, just, you would have liked to know more of their story. But it's really great. One of those epic stories you remember.

Oh, Also, while in this story they switch, it's mainly bottom!Harry.