1 – 4 of 4 Works in N.E.W.T.s | Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests
Summary
When a dormant Veela bond awakens between the golden boy of Gryffindor and a penniless, orphaned Draco Malfoy, they must navigate a destiny neither of them chose while a shadowy purist sect circles ever closer, determined to claim them both.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 80,236
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
All Draco wants is to put the war behind him. He has done the work – he apologised, made himself into a better person, but a chance encounter with the wizarding world's Golden Boy has unexpected consequences.
Harry just wants to act like the normal teenager he is for once - going back to Hogwarts was supposed to give him that. Instead, he's rooming with Malfoy, out of all people, and ends up with a mysterious illness that isn't going away.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 60,196
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Two months after the war and Harry is struggling to cope with life. Having faced his mortality, and being plagued by incessant nightmares from the battle, he becomes a recluse as Summer gets underway. One day he is left to his own devices and finds an old potions textbook which may have the answer he needs. He decides to take drastic actions to relive the childhood he and Sirius never got to share.
After the war, Draco was acquitted for most of his crimes, and is released on house arrest under the care of an appointed guardian. Having his magic suppressed and monitored is one thing, but his Mother's cousin was an entirely different matter.
How is he going to cope when he has to live at Grimmauld Place with his cousin, Sirius Black, a baby Potter and no magic!
[Rating will change in later chapters]
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 346,916
- Status:
- Completed
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Egggnoodles, Fae_vorite, iero0, Ladderofyears
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
18 Sep 2021
Summary
Hogwarts is the very last place that Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy want to return to after the war. The Castle feels claustrophobic and stifling. Both feel trapped within its walls.
Harry is traumatised by the war, by his sudden breakup from Ginny, and by the knowledge that his friends all know what they want to do with their life.
Meanwhile Draco is reeling. He has narrowly escaped an Azkaban prison sentence and is struggling under the strict rules of his probation. He doesn't know where his mother is, and finds himself a pariah among the other students.
The last thing that either student wants is mandatory Mind Healing. What has happened to them feels so big and devastating, that writing to a stranger feels farcical.
Even so, they are not given a choice.
Harry and Draco are both given a shared magical diary, and soon they begin writing letters to an anonymous fellow student.
Their letters, terse at first, grow longer as the days pass. Before long, each wizard confesses their secrets and their fantasies, their wishes and their dreams.
What will happen when their true identities are exposed? Will their vulnerable new relationship be destroyed before it has even begun?
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 288,304
- Status:
- Completed