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Harry takes the DADA position at Hogwarts after a near-fatal Auror injury, expecting a quiet year close to his kids. What he isn't expecting is Draco Malfoy — four years into his tenure as Potions professor, sharp-tongued and self-possessed and nothing like the boy Harry remembers.
As Harry's marriage to Ginny starts to dissolve under the weight of things left unsaid, he finds himself drawn into Draco's orbit: joint lessons, Tuesday marking sessions that run too long, a Christmas that changes everything. Draco is guarded and brilliant and devastatingly competent, and Harry can't stop noticing him.
The problem is that Harry is straight. Or thought he was. And Draco — who has been quietly, hopelessly in love with Harry since sixth year — has built his entire life around the certainty that some things are never going to happen.
A story about second acts, the courage it takes to stop performing the person everyone expects you to be, and two men who spend an entire year almost seeing each other clearly.
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Harry travels to arctic Norway on the trail of dragon egg poachers, only to find he's been assigned to work alongside the only NorMagPol Auror north of sixty: one Draco Malfoy. It's been ten years since they crossed paths, and Malfoy isn't exactly what Harry expected or remembered. For one thing, he wears a lot more hand-knits?
When a sudden winter storm strands the pair, unable to use magic to rescue themselves, they take shelter in a one-room Norwegian hytte.
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27 Jun 2026
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What Dreams May Come by firethesound_HP_archive for slytherco
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Dec 2020
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If Harry had to get called into work on his day off, at least he was able to get Malfoy called in too.
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13 Jun 2026
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In the twelve years after the war, Harry attends sixteen weddings. As friends and acquaintances vow their lives to one another, he watches quietly from the sidelines. Step by step, Harry pieces himself back together, builds a life from the wreckage of his past and falls, slowly and thoroughly, for Draco Malfoy.
A story told in sixteen parts, of patient and transformative love, of queerness, of reaching out and holding on. Featuring plenty of pining, Gilderoy Lockhart getting married in a fever dream of glitter and product placement, and Rita Skeeter spitting a steady stream of venom at Harry and Draco's every move.
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08 Jun 2026
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“I don’t understand how this is of any concern to you, Malfoy,” Harry said, crossing his arms over his chest. Draco blinked at the use of his last name, something that Harry only used with him in jest these days. “I’m merely spending time with my Auror partner, who is from another country, and has no one here. I would do the same if it were you.”
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04 Jun 2026