best fics I read this month [DMHP / HPDM / SW]
I read a lot of fics this month and here are the ones I had a great time reading. Some of them I actually got from this subreddit's recs as well. Feel free to reply your own list! also tried my best to categorize dmhp/hpdm/switch so here ya go:
once upon a (wet) dream - HPDM
Once a year, Harry has a very strange dream. Meanwhile, in real life, he’s falling for Draco Malfoy.
hide me (from the masochistic marking of time) - HPDM
After Scorpius is bitten and turned into a vampire, Draco makes the decision to join his perpetual child for all eternity. With Healer Potter around, it’s all sure to run smoothly. Right?
lay your weapons down, baby - HPDM
What started as a fight the third night back has turned into a ritual. You don’t talk. You don’t ask questions. You just meet in the abandoned classroom on the fourth floor when one of you gives the other that look. You fight. You call. You leave. And you finally get some sleep.
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In which the boys fight until they fuck. Then, they fight and fuck. Then, they just fuck until the fucking isn’t fighting anymore but something else entirely.
tastes like soap - HPDM (lightly implied switch HP)
Harry goes to the foam party hoping to finally have casual sex. Draco goes to the foam party expecting yet another night of casual sex. Harry and Draco do not have casual sex.
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stay - dynamic not implied throughout the story (but it's so fucking good it made me cry)
Life is all about what we do with the opportunities we're given - the ones we miss and the ones we refuse to let pass us by.
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mirror, me - HPDM/DMHP
Harry’s current predicament is, he can admit, rather dire. Being caught stalking aside, he thinks his nose might be broken. Humiliation licks up his rigid spine, but along with it is a prickle of ill-advised anticipation, a foolish thrill at what Malfoy might do.
Harry is a little lost. His house is rejecting him and his friends and family are busy and moving on. To cope, he turns to what’s tried and true; following Draco Malfoy. The first time was an accident. Sort of.
trying new things - HPDM/ DMHP, implied switch
University, as Hermione keeps insisting, is a time for trying new things. For Harry's friends, that seems to involve a bewildering array of experiences: collecting a Ravenclaw harem, drinking in Muggle pubs, developing new and terrifying feelings for your best friend, Muggle philosophy, something called a "slippery nipple" and Blaise Zabini whispering terrifying things about "expanding sexual horizons."
For Harry himself, it mostly involves dealing with f*cking Malfoy.
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wands at the ready - DMHP
Draco keeps visiting Borgin and Burkes. Harry intends to find out why. He doesn't intend to get locked in a walk-in safe with him while wearing the Invisibility Cloak. But since Harry's here, he'll make the most of the situation.
fave quote: "Oh, and I color my hair to make it lighter. I'm not naturally this blond."
the minister and I - DMHP
After three years in Azkaban and another nine as an Auror, Draco Malfoy is installed as the head bodyguard to Minister for Magic Harry Potter.
This is the story of a love that spans two decades, told while alternating between non-linear flashbacks and the events of one single night that will change both of their lives forever.
freely given - DMHP
As a young child, Harry Potter had always wanted swim lessons. He never got them. As an adult, he runs into Draco—an excellent swimmer and disconcertingly fit to boot—at a muggle pool. Naturally, he calls in his life debt for swim lessons (a totally normal thing to do, thank you very much). He gets more than he bargained for.
now I know in part - DMHP (softdom Draco *_*)
Harry Potter is the savior of the wizarding world. Draco Malfoy is a reformed Death Eater turned Ministry Curse-Breaker. Five years after the war, they're brought together by another mysterious curse
Draco Malfoy and The Potter-Led Workplace Harassmen - DMHP
Draco was becoming hysterical. He was losing the plot.
“You test all your products, Potter?” He was flirting. Draco was half convinced he’d start laughing. Or sobbing. Hopefully he’d look down and find he’d forgotten his trousers, and was dreaming.
The smile stretching Potter’s lips was utterly filthy, and he was still in Draco’s space. “Matter of fact, I do.” Potter was flirting back. Oh lord. Draco was having an out of body experience. “Where do you think the product descriptions come from?””
Or: Draco works in the business tax office at the Ministry, and gets bothered with Potter’s brainless questions far more often than he wants. And inflicted with his presence. And confronted with his various wares. Which would be bad enough, but Potter owns a bloody sex toy shop. This has to be some kind of sexual harassment, surely?