Capitu's Harry/Draco Recs

Title: The Frisky Furnishings of Malfoy Manor
Author: writcraft
Rating: R
Word Count: 19,600 Approx.
Summary: The course of true love never did run smooth. // Or: Hermione has a crafty plan, Harry and Draco are fake boyfriends and wizarding traditions have a lot to answer for. Featuring awkward dates, mince pies, a saucy sofa and a line of sequined house-elf haute couture nobody asked for but got anyway.

This fic, it's just so much fun; it's just hilarious and super entertaining and yet sweet and endearing, too.

It all begins with Harry talking to Hermione. They are trying to raise visibility of same-sex relationships. Harry's bi, you see, and even though in the wizarding world sexuality isn't a big issue, there are hardly any same-sex couples in the public eye, so Hermione tells him this idea is super. And she even suggests Harry traditionally (and publicly) courts Draco.

Also in the meantime Harry, who is a Magical Renovation Specialist – not a builder, mind you! – could help Draco with his barmy furnishing at the Manor.

Of course, when Harry goes to tell Draco this idea, Draco is certainly Not Impressed™ but eventually Harry convinces him to go with it. And it's awesome! \o/ They go on dates and there's so much banter and flirting and UST and at the same time is so sweet as they grow so fond of each other. I'm sure you're going to love it. :D Awesome fic!

Title: The Malfoy Conundrum
Author: omi_ohmy
Rating: R
Word Count: 49,700 Approx.
Summary: Harry’s miserable living with his memories at Grimmauld Place, so after a chance meeting he takes the opportunity to move somewhere new. His housemates, though, are rather unexpected. Especially the blond, pointy one…

This is such a wonderful, gentle story. It's so touching and emotional because here we see a Harry who is not doing well, who is trying his hardest but he's simply not well, he's depressed and he doesn't know what to do. He's not happy where he's living, he's not happy at work, he's just existing, sort of drifting. But there's people who loves him and care for him, so to help him his boss tells him to take some time off, a work sabbatical and it's in this time that he randomly runs into Dudley, who has changed, who is glad to see Harry, who apologies and that's how Harry learns that Dudley is looking for someone to rent his room to while he travels. Harry who very much needed a change jumps of the chance, mindful of Dudley's roommates, Dick and Blaine. :D

Which of course turned out to be Draco and Blaise, and we learn why Draco's nick name is Dick (so very fitting, too, you'll see!) and we see these two, them three, actually, learning to live with each other, getting to know each other.

Harry and Draco pretty soon, after deciding to be civil, realise they have some things in common, they spend time together and start to understand each other. There are so many lovely interactions between them. Flirty, friendly banter, UST, but it's all so natural, and then the people around are seeing this happen, seeing them be happier than they've been in years. It's super sweet and lovely. :)

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

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

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

Title: Changing Tides
Author: carpemermaid
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 110,000 Approx.
Summary: Draco has spent half of his life spouting the things his father has taught him without much thought about how he feels about what he says. When he unexpectedly comes face to face with the Dark Lord, he grapples with the harsh realities of the world and struggles with his changing views on life. Instead of doing what’s expected of him fifth year, he joins Dumbledore’s Army and learns how to defend himself, how to make his own choices, and how he can be something greater than his father’s example as he grows into his own man rather than his father’s shadow. The choices he makes change both his and Harry’s fates, intertwining their paths until they converge.
Content/Warning(s): Elements of Magical AU/Canon divergence (5th year AU).

This is such a beautiful, complex story. It's slightly AU, in which, as the summary says, Draco joins Dumbledore's Army to learn to defend himself, and this decision changed Draco's life so much, and that's one of the many awesome things about this story. It shows us exactly how. We see Draco in Fifth Year, learning these spells, watching Harry, seeing a different side of him, interacting and while not everything is completely different, enough it is that Harry and Draco had the foundation for an amazing friendship that they cultivate way after the war.

We see Draco seeing Harry being so happy in the DA, sees him again at his best when he encourages Harry to reform the DA again and more than that for it to become a club where students can practice and learn.

Then they join the Auror academy and ultimate become partners, but through all these there's this amazing friendship and chemistry—something that had started back in Hogwarts grow.

And we see both POVs, too! Harry, through the story see him grow and learn more about his heritage, discover it, sort of, and feel like he belongs, learning costumes and sharing them with his friends, with Draco. It's a journey, from them being young and living through so much to finding each other and happiness. Amazing!

Title: Like Clockwork
Author: agentmoppet
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 40,000 Approx.
Summary: Draco has never been very good at trusting others, and Potter is no exception. But if they're going to survive this, they need to accept that they're holding each other's lives in their hands, and--worst of all--they're going to have to work together.
Content/Warning(s): a bit of drinking as a coping mechanism, memory loss

This story is just so cool! It's case!fic with Unspeakable Harry Potter working with Curse Breaker Draco Malfoy. :D

The whole thing starts when a package is delivered to Weasley's Wizard Wheeze and as it explodes it hits Ron, putting him into a coma. Draco, who happened to be there (though, granted, he was there to spy on Harry ^^) and is the best Curse Breaker agrees to take the case, and Harry's going to help him.

It's super interesting, because to work on this spell they sort of have to go into the spell, which manifests as a small room, much like the inside of a clock, actually. The catch is that when they come back from that place, that room, they won't be able to remember anything that happened in there once they are back to the real world. But if they go back to that room, they will remember everything that happened both in their previous visit and the outside world.

And of course Harry and Draco get along in that room/spell, and of course once they are outside they don't and everything is difficult. It's awesome, this contrast, but also the way how even though they apparently don't like each other in the real world, they trust each other to be safe in that place, and together work to solve this mystery. Pretty awesome, I'm telling you. :D

Title: No One But You
Author: ustorycollector
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 11,000
Summary: Harry and Draco are friends. More than friends. Close friends. Which might be a little annoying for... well, everyone else around them.

This fic is such a darling of a story. Like, seriously. There's Harry who is a Quidditch player and there's Draco who is his [unofficial] Healer. And they are really good friends and they are also like, dating AF only neither of them realises even though everybody knows, you know? :)

Yeah, oblivious boys being absolutely cute and a bit flirty, plus, there's some smoking hot smut, too! \o/ Awesome! Trust me, it's going to leave you with a big smile on your face. ^^

Title: dirtynumbangelboy
Author: dirtynumbangelboy
Author: magpie_fngrl
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 39,400
Summary: After Harry’s unfortunate encounter with his ex, Draco Malfoy makes him a proposition. Draco wants his parents to stop matchmaking him, Harry wants to make his ex jealous. All they need to do is simply pretend they’re in love. Problem is… Draco already is.

Oh my god, this story is so gorgeous! There's sooo much pining! \o/ But that comes later on, the story actually starts when Astoria ~dumps~ Draco. They've been pretending they are a couple to placate their parents, though both very much gay, and Astoria is ready to – not just come out, but find someone.

Which leaves Draco at the mercy of Narcissa and Lucius who continuously try to match him with proper prospects, I suppose. ^^

Enters Harry, who is coming out of a long-term relationship, not completely over his ex and, well, they think this mutually beneficial arrangement is a great idea: Harry doesn't look as if he's still pining for his ex and Draco's parents leave him a lot. They only have to pretend to be in love. But yes, Draco already is. And he pines so beautifully let me tell you. Because, he's got this image, this ~bad boy, party guy image, but as they start spending time together Harry sees a different side of him. He sees how much he's changed, his kind side, and in return Draco sees more of Harry as well. Of course, of course it's not that simple, because as they get to know each other better these feelings that they are pretending, and in Draco's case trying to repress, only grow stronger.

Seriously, seeing these two fall [harder] in love is gorgeous! They have so much chemistry, they are so good together, you'll love it! :D

Title: Phoenix Repair Services
Author: carpemermaid
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 20,500
Summary: Phoenix Repair Services — We’ll bring it back to life as if it was new! Draco hires a suspiciously private wizarding handyman to fix his kitchen when he returns home to find it destroyed. He expects a middle-aged wizard with greying hair and a pudgy gut to show up. Instead, he gets Harry Potter—with a utility belt and a charming smile—who is more attractive than he has any right to be.

Well, this is such a cool fic. It's Handyman!Harry for your pleasure. And for Draco's, too, obviously. ^^

So the fic starts when Draco arrives after a rather terrible day, ready to relax with some wine to find his kitchen, (newly remodelled, too!) basically destroyed. After cleaning up as best he could, he decides to Floo Pansy and ask her about her repair people who fixed her bathroom extension and yes, Pansy knows someone all right. :D

So the next day Draco's confronted with - and I quote: Harry Potter standing on his doorstep with an honest-to-Merlin utility belt clipped around his hips. And you know it's only going to get better. There's flirting, there's Harry in dungarees (getting wet, because of course, oh my god), there are extra works for Harry coming up (at Draco's, naturally) and so much more (hung!Harry!). It's super fun and sexy, goes without saying. :D

Title: Embers
Author: shiftylinguini
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 41,200 Approx.
Summary: Werewolf Alphas aren't meant to be alone, or to suppress their ruts indefinitely like Draco has been since he was bitten eight years ago. He needs company, companionship, to knot ― he needs an Omega Heat Companion. At least, that’s what the Healers say, and even Draco can admit contacting the person they’ve referred him to might be nice. //Of course it turns out to be bloody Potter.
Content/Warning(s): A/B/O Dynamics, Alpha Draco Malfoy, Omega Harry Potter, Werewolves, heat cycles, knotting (there's more at the post and all so very yummy, too!)

If you like ABO stories you're in for a treat with this fic. And you know, even if you don't you should totally read this fic because it's fantastic.

It's from Draco's POV, and it's start with him, already being turned a werewolf for almost eight years, goes to see a Healer (Pansy insisted!) because he's been having these fainting spells, but the Healer refers him to a Mind Healer, since there's nothing physically wrong with him.

The Mind Healer pretty quickly figures out the problem: he's been taking heat suppressants and bearing his heats alone for too long, and each heat leaves him exhausted. It's taken his toll on him. The Mind Healer suggests him then a Heat Companion. Someone to helps him through his heat without the suppressants.

Of course, as the summary says, it turns it Potter. But you see, Harry is nothing like Draco imagined. Harry is open, and candid, and honest talking about all that, about his turning and him being an Omega and you know, their chemistry is insane, you can already tell.

And then there's all the sex, which is smoking hot, and intense. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. :D

Title: Divination For Dickheads
Author: Seefin
Rating: PG
Word Count: 6,900 Approx.
Summary: It doesn't actually turn out to be the worst birthday present he's ever been given.

This fic is adorable! There's Seer!Draco here!

It starts with it being Harry's birthday and Ginny's gift to Harry is a session with Draco. Who Harry has a huge crush on. And who Harry is Very Bad at flirting with.

But it's OK because Draco seems to know something is going on. And it gets better because then Harry invites Draco to his birthday party (at an aquarium!) where a bit more of bad flirting might or might not ensue. It's really wonderful. :D

Title: Home County
Author: Seefin
Rating: PG
Word Count: 10,700 Approx.
Summary: Harry is an architect and the reluctant part-owner of his own firm. Malfoy works at The Ministry but doesn’t actually have a proper job title even though what he does sounds as though it’s pretty important. It would probably be harder not to become friends, when they have to sit through endless, dull meetings with each other, and skirt around some truly terrible weather, and deal with Harry’s irrational hatred of his assistant, and build thirty whole houses from the ground up in a wet field outside of London.


This fic is just delightful. :) As the summary says, Harry's an architect and Draco works for the Ministry, and the ministry wants Harry & Co (who is basically Cho and another Harry who is Harry's assistant, LOL) to built an entire complex, which they do, only that involves a lot of Draco hanging around Harry's office and Draco being cute and Harry and being smitten with Draco and Draco with Harry. *nods* Delightful, I'm telling you. :D

Title: Momenti Diversi (at DW) or here at AO3 (Series) (locked for logged users)
Author: zarah5
Rating: R
Word Count: 33,500
Summary: In which you'll find the Italian sun, some sexual tension, a reluctant Harry and a persuasive Draco.
Content/Warning(s): slightly AU post HBP.

This story is amazing! Just amazing. It's a Post War fic, in which Harry, in dire need of a break after the war, finds solace in Vernazza. He's been living there for a while; a happy, peaceful life, until this one day Draco – who is Head Auror by the way! – shows up and he's determined to persuade Harry to come back.

The characterisations are wonderful. We get to see Harry's life, his routine (he works at a Gelateria and swims naked every day in the ocean!!!!11!!!1) and he see Draco coming and knocking everything skew and being utterly charming and sexy while he does that. Not to mention, yeah, persuasive.

And oh my god, there's so much sexual tension between these two. It's pretty amazing, fun, witty and just wonderful.

Title: The Things They Never Say
Author: bixgirl1
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 9,200 Approx.
Summary: “Do we always have to fight first?” Harry asks breathlessly, shoving his hips forward in a quick rhythm. // Draco’s hands still them, and he pulls off for a moment; glances up at Harry with an are you daft? expression. His lips are shining and plump. “Can you imagine it as this much fun otherwise?” he asks rhetorically. // Harry and Draco don't know how to talk. So they do other things instead.

This is such a hot, intense fic. It's kind of non-linear because it starts with Harry and Draco fighting/fucking (more fucking than fighting at this point, really! :D). But we also get to see how the whole thing started.

Draco is a reporter for the Daily Snitch an he's been pestering Harry for a quote in the week of the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts. Obviously they start up fighting, which ends with them actually fucking.

But it's just that, this thing they do, they fight and then they fuck, until maybe they don't need to always fight? It's amazing because they are the worst at trying to communicate and at the same time they are obviously so invested and—read it, it's hot, intense, and sweet, in a very Harry/Draco sort of way. :D

Title: The Miseducation of Draco Malfoy
Author: magpie_fngrl
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 37,600
Summary: "Instead of laughing about it, Harry, you could use this experience to educate Malfoy in Muggle culture.”
“I have no wish to educate Malfoy in anything,” Harry said, although the thought of unleashing a confused and annoyed Malfoy in Muggle London sounded quite entertaining.
Or the one where Zacharias Smith writes a tell-all and Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy are assigned community service in Muggle London.

This story, let me tell you, is fantastic!

Zacharias Smith has written a tell-all book about Dumbledore's Army, and in it suggests that Harry and Draco, well, he suggests that Harry and Draco had have the hots for each other for ever. Draco is Most Displeased. So much that he leaves his sort of self-imposed insolation and goes looking for Zach and punches him in the face, basically.

Auror Harry is called to sort the public disorder but ends up punching Zach himself as well. And that's how both Harry and Draco end up assigned in community service in Muggle London. It's glorious! At first Draco is all stand-offish, you know, but they have to be there for three months so eventually they start talking (oh my god, Harry asks for advise on breaking up with someone he's causally seeing, you see) and soon Draco discovers Cosmopolitan and Coca Cola and he loves it, and they start going out, to the cinema and—well, you should just read it because it's fucking brilliant. :D

Title: The Fear is Just an Illusion
Author: x_melodic_x
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 37,800
Summary: Voldemort is dead but the war is far from over. Draco, once again, is torn between protecting his family and doing what is right. Secret meetings, conflicting loyalties, and grey morals bring Harry and him together but it’s also what could threaten to tear them apart.
Content/Warning(s): I don't think there's Weasley/Ron bashing in this fic as such, but there's definitely an unflattering characterisation of Ron and George Weasley. Though they see the error in their ways. ^^

This fic is so good. It starts immediately after Voldemort's defeat. It's in this moment that Lucius makes the decision to hide, and in doing so he looks for other Death Eaters, and so he found a small cell that is still planning to remain active, and Draco is caught up in this, because he hates what this group stands for, but there's so little he can do for the other side, the "good" side , they are eager for revenge, so giving himself (or his family) up is just not an option. He's trapped with no good choices all over again. This time though, Harry found him, by pure chance, and so Draco starts being Harry's spy within this new group.

But you see, Harry has little power over the Ministry and everything they are doing for the sake of "peace." So Draco only talks to Harry and, god, there's so much grief and fear and anger, and in between they are knowing each other all over again, and it's confusing and amazing and at time the only good thing going on for the both of them.

I don't know if I'm making this story justice, but it's got great characterisations of Harry and Draco and is amazing and touching and dramatic. Very powerful.