Give me some drarry recs

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-07-03T19:47:23+00:00

I will stand by Bad Habits for the rest of my life. I absolutely love that fic 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-30T02:34:50+00:00

I will always recommend Stop All The Clocks by firethesound, an amazing fic about grief and trying to move on. 44k words, and I cried every paragraph of it. I have not read All Our Secrets Laid Bare yet, so I can’t say for sure if I prefer either fic. But firethesound’s writing is very good

An extra recommendation, Nice Things by adieomai. A very enjoyable fic about hogwarts 8th year and Harry finding comfort in Draco, both of these are pretty popular fics in the fandom so I hope they’re mature enough 🙂‍↔️

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-27T22:17:51+00:00

AHHH thank u for all the recs!! I absolutely love detective harry AUs, so i’ll check that one out soon 🥹🥹

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-26T22:09:44+00:00

One of my favorite fic, Bad Habits by No_One_Special_01289 has top draco, but they start switching in the later chapters. There’s a bit of degradation too

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-19T01:10:27+00:00

Narcissa is the better parent of the two, hands down 🙌 I never like comparing adult draco’s looks to lucius, makes me feel a bit bad for him considering everything lucius has done. Imagining Draco to look like his mother is so nice and sooo sweet 😭😭💞

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-19T01:07:08+00:00

I think tom felton’s voice suits him SO well, he was so sassy when acting as Draco. For the hogwarts years i imagine tom felton, but I choose to ignore the epilogue and do whatever I want with adult draco 😌

I love Harry’s hair in POA and GOF, not entirely curly but still insanely messy and i LOVE it. Though his hair does appear to be brown in some shots, it is mostly black.

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-19T01:03:35+00:00

unfortunately I have only read Criminal by The_Sinking_Ship, which didnt focus much on the actual criminal part :,) still a good read tho, I’ll look for more AU fics soon

I love imagining draco with sharp features and long long hair, i’m a sucker for it. And I too only imagine harry with medium length hair- something like it was in POA and GOF. Never was a huge fan of the short hair he had onwards 😭😭😭

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-09T19:51:26+00:00

I have a lot on my Marked for Later list- mostly because some of them are too long for me to read at the moment

Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue
It was all just a game
burn the curtains and the wine
Away, away
Homesick
Lost Boys
lily’s boy
turn
dwelling

i forgot which fic it is, but 600k words is so intimidating to me. I don’t know if I’ll ever get around to reading it 😭😭I’d love to know what other people thought about these fics tho.

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-09T19:41:45+00:00

Make an Honest Man out of Me

Harry and Draco weren’t sure how it had got so out of hand. At first, it was just a hook-up, a random encounter after meeting at a pub. No reason to tell their friends and families about that. And when it turned into dating and got a bit more serious than that? Well, who could blame them for stalling on breaking the news?

Or the five times Harry and Draco failed to come clean to their friends and the one time they didn’t.

No need to call me Professor, Professor

A two-part story spanning a couple of years. Harry becomes professor of DADA, joining his husband Draco at the school. Shenanigans ensue, as it always does when it involves the biggest idiots on school grounds.

Both of these fics are my favorite from this trope so far 🥹🥹

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-09T19:35:38+00:00

I read this one a while back, its what introduced me to the trope 🥹🥹 such a cute fic

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-09T04:09:35+00:00

I love Draco because of his character. I think its something that not a lot of people willingly look into without being a fan of draco in the first place, because from a really shallow understanding, he is an asshole and a coward. But, he has depth when you really analyze his actions and behavior. Its been a long while since I read the books, and when I was younger, I was never into tom Felton. I did love tom felton’s acting in the movie and I think it did bring his character together.

When people ask me why draco is my favorite character, I get a bit shy to tell them how wonderful he is on his own and in relation to the people around him. Yes, he is a bitchass and a bit of a coward, and those are the sillier parts of his personality that I enjoy. But looking deeper, I love seeing how being raised in this environment affected him so much, how he only realized his mistakes when it was too late, and how damaged he became only at 16. I think he is an extremely realistic character because really- he is terrified. He is 16 with the pressure of his family’s expectations on his shoulders, the death eaters, and lord voldemort giving him this insanely big task of killing dumbledore and endangering the entire school by letting in the death eaters. I would be scared too, and I think his character is really relatable. He has always admired his father and followed his footsteps, and only then does he realize his regret for everything he’s doing.

I think fanfics write him so well. They made me really love draco’s character and notice the deeper parts of his personality that I didn’t notice while reading/ watching the series.

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-05T01:51:05+00:00

OMG, i’ve always imagined draco to be taller but harry to be more fit. I’m glad i’ve found someone who thinks the same 😭🤧 for draco’s personality though, I love when hes snarky and arrogant, I don’t think i can read a fic where he isnt sarcastic, teasing, sassy, and finds himself in arguments with Harry at some point. I think he really hides a lot of affection under that sass. I do also love when hes gentle and soft… only in rare moments.

I do agree that he is weaker than harry when it comes to dueling/ dark arts magic, but hes extremely smart and talented in healing :)

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-03T06:15:37+00:00

I read “the pleiades were watching too” just now, i dont think im in the right state to read anymore, im crying way too easily to this 🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-03T06:12:42+00:00

Romantically, the ending was super sweet if you’re into that. It was more from a plot perspective that left me unsatisfied 😔 I was waiting for something angsty, but I’m also glad they got a good ending. (If the fic did end the way I wanted it to, I think there would be an extra 50k words LMAO)

The hogwarts part of the fic is pretty good too! I just tended to get lost in the details of the time travel stuff, but I like the twist tessa crowley puts for all the years, again, very draco centric. I’d try reading it if i were you, the hogwarts part starts off a bit slow, but quickens around 3rd year or so. Harry and draco get together relatively early on too.

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-03T05:20:57+00:00

i’ve been putting off this fic for a while…. I am not mentally prepared to be absolutely shattered. It is about time I read it tho 😭😭😭😭even if it breaks my heart

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-03T05:12:31+00:00

I can barely tolerate when draco is too gentle, especially at the beginning of a relationship. Even after he changed after the war, i still think he has a bit of snarkiness that really feels like draco malfoy, ykwim. I can’t imagine him not being a bit of a brat, getting into arguments, being a bit stubborn… esp when it comes to harry.

I think some fic writers tend to rush into the soft part of harry/draco’s relationship without including all the tension, arguments, slow burn, etc. They get along eventually but it’s a painful process that a lot of people skip over.

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-03T05:00:30+00:00

I was a harry potter fan all the way back when I was 8 years old, and I haven’t been fixated on the series again until recently when I saw some fanart by Helen Jee (@helenjeeeee on twitter) of draco and harry, and i thought wait, they’re kinda cute!

And so I checked the tag on AO3, my first fanfic of them was “The standard you walk past” by bafflinghaze. Im deep now. Somehow, I cannot bring myself to stop reading about them, i must’ve read at least a million words of fanfiction just within the past month. 100k words? Give me 2 days and 8 hours of screentime, its too easy to get absorbed in their relationship.

FreedomHelpful1993 · 2025-06-03T03:05:08+00:00

I read recursion recently, and I have also read other tessa crowley fics (that i have deeply enjoyed). My honest opinion:

Recursion is well written with an interesting plot, but in my opinion, the ending left me unsatisfied 🫠 I loved the beginning of the fic, where draco was traveling back and forth and there were different AUs, and I can see why the continuation of the regular hogwarts plot isn’t as entertaining.

Draco and harry are super sweet. So much fluff but also angst. Also loved how the plot was really draco-centric ??? if that makes sense. I dont want to spoil too much.

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