Apple Ling's List: Child Abuse

*One of the hurt/comfort classics in the H/D part of fandom. Featuring a vulnerable!needy!Draco (he also cries a lot) with symptoms of Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder (with references to past abuse and torture - sexual,magical, physical and mental abuse - which resulted in breaking his mind), and Harry as his caregiver/guardian + eventual lover. Other memorable things to take note: Evil!Slytherins (and Lucius and the Death Eaters), Narcissa committing suicide, one of Draco's "other" personalities include a 6-year-old child, Draco has a penchant for climbing into Harry's lap for comfort or tucking his face in the crook of Harry's shoulder, Harry helping Draco get dressed/bathe... even lulling him to sleep, Ron getting angry at Harry, an old Black protection curse - the Ancestral Rite, getting kidnapped by baddies, having nightmares, teenage angst, teenage lusty hormones :p Happy ending
#Mostly bottom!Draco. 1 bottom!Harry scene in between flashbacks of bottom!Draco in the last chapter. *fans self* Sexy!

Summary: When Draco Malfoy's mental health mysteriously declines, he is placed under the care of the only person he responds to: Harry Potter. Includes mental disorders (paranoid schizophrenia, Dissociative Identity Disorder, post-traumatic stress).

*AU from Book 4 onwards. Features cute big brother!Draco (Draco has an adorable younger sibling whom he dotes upon - a rather OOC!Draco but then again, almost everybody is OOC here, but not in a bad way). References to possible child abuse (the Malfoys, evil!abusive!Lucius). The Golden Trio befriends Draco and his little brother. Harry protects Draco's little brother from bullies. Playing Quidditch together, skating, swimming and generally hanging out together. Cute transition from (secret)friends to lovers.
#Mostly pre-slash, some cute kissing :D

Summary: "Great," said Malfoy, in disgust, "that's just great. That's the second time in so many days I've crashed at a sporting activity. I'm wearing a Weasley jumper of all bloody things. I'm skating with Harry Potter. And to cap it all off, I now have a wet arse. When did my life go so wrong?"

*OMG this made me cry! Poor Draco! *sniffles* It has a happy ending though - he has Harry and Harry will never let him get hurt again.
READ THE WARNINGS! CONTAINS PAST CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE (No, Lucius is NOT the abuser this time)

Fic excerpt:
“I don’t know how to say this, either. I’ve never really said it before. But there were a few times, when I was a kid, that stuff happened to me. I mean… what I mean is, the type of stuff you don’t normally talk about. I never really talked about it… I said that already, didn’t I? But it’s true.” Draco stopped and breathed in deeply. He still felt Harry’s hand in his own, and he squeezed it. Harry squeezed back.

*ALL KINDS OF WONDERFUL & SWEETNESS!! EPIC!!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Auror!Harry, Unspeakable!Draco = both staying in Grimmauld Place, sharing custody of little Teddy Lupin (Draco insists on calling the boy 'Theodore'). References to Harry's awful childhood at the hands of the Dursleys = it messed Harry up a little. Okay, a lot. Harry has serious abandonment issues and other insecurities (there are times he'd go into gloomy mood and thinks he's unwanted and family-less). Draco is a huge prat for the most part... that is until he realizes there's more to Harry than the surface he sees daily. Narcissa has a soft spot for Harry. Eventually Draco and Hermione became friends. Harry getting severely injured while on Auror duty and Draco nurses him back to health. Towards the end Harry and Draco work on a time-leaping case together at Hogwarts. References to past Sirius/Remus (implied past mpreg - not Harry or Draco). Harry's brief sexual crisis. Oblivious!Draco. Lots of sniping at each other at the beginning, usually ending with Harry losing his temper with a powerful display of wandless magic or Harry just up and leaving abruptly. Then, they become friends, then there's ust and more misunderstanding and then... cute kissy times and happy fluffy ending! #No sex :D

Summary: Upon Andromeda's death, Harry and Draco are given custody of Teddy. Their lives will never be the same again.

*8th year. Cute house unity + slow get-together fic! Featuring the Slytherins as a tight knit group of friends, protective!Draco over Goyle. Harry teaching Draco how to cast a Patronus and Draco helping Harry with Potions work. Boggarts and fears. Nightmares and comforting afters (Goyle, with Draco comforting him). Implied past child abuse and Lucius as the possible abuser. Cute!Draco!Emotionally vulnerable!Draco and Harry tucks him in for the night. Outdoor kisses and cuddles by the lake :D #No sex

Summary: Harry and Ron are forced to share a dormitory with Draco and Goyle. The Slytherins grow on them.

*Auror partners!Harry and Draco. Some idiots trying to revive Voldy. De-aged!Harry. Hero-slash-Harry's-guardian!Draco. Supportive Ron/Hermione. Harry and his cuddly moose toy and childish drawings. Pinky promises to make each other happy, among another things. Loyal house-elves. Draco's Patronus. #No sex

Summary: Ickle Harry wants to stay with his newest hero.

*Cute getting-together!fic with the kids trying to match-make Harry and Draco together. Implied past child kidnapping and possible abuse suffered at the hands of the kidnapper (Teddy) and an almost!kidnapped case (Scorpius). Implied past actions of self-harm (Draco). Mute!Teddy (result of a curse). Scheming!Slytherin-esque!Lily Luna Potter. Heavy Ginny bashing.

Summary: Lily Luna Potter has a plan; one that involves Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy and his father, Draco. And she just knows that with this plan, she'll be the ultimate Slytherin. And maybe, just maybe, her father will be happy again.

*LOVES!! OMG SO MUCH LOVE!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥!!!
Basically Harry learning to trust Draco enough to tell him... everything. From the abuse he suffered at the Dursleys' hand and then more. And Draco stays :D #No sex

Summary: I don't know the boy in the cupboard. I'm not sure that I ever did. Those aren't my memories, aren't my feelings. They belong to someone else. Someone that I'm not sure even existed. It's just a story. Something that people have told others just to make an average person seem more heroic at the end of the tale.

*EPICNESS TOO AWESOME TO PUT INTO WORDS ♥♥♥♥♥♥!!!
Timeline from mid-war to a few years post-war. From Auror!Harry to Integration Officer!Harry plus Rentboy!Junkie!Draco
Broken-but-still-Canon!Draco with lots of issues (including but not limited to PTSD, rape trauma, acute fear of... too many things to name, drug use, prostitution, self-neglect, self-harm, depression, suicidal tendencies, unplanned fatherhood...) Hero!Harry for the most part (but in the end Draco was the one who saved him), baby Scorpius, werewolves, lost of magic because of a Dark Curse, dementors and general bleakness plus hurt/comfort and happy ending. #Switching but it's more bottom!Draco than bottom!Harry

Summary: Draco finds his own way to cope with being a failed Death Eater at Voldemort's headquarters. Voldemort finds a way to destroy the wizarding world even after his death. Harry is trying to hold the world together while his mind quietly comes apart.

*BEAUTIFUL BEYOND WORDS!! (But it's a little bit disturbing in some parts - READ THE WARNINGS!! Don't say I've not warn you!!) STILL, I LOVE IT ANYWAY!!
Auror!Harry. Victim of domestic abuse!Draco (Marcus/bottom!Draco). Harry has a kink for infantilism (with Harry play-acting a baby). Draco and his pet fishes (This Draco really likes fishes :D) Draco fears being alone and "unloved". Harry's almost completely asexual at the beginning of the story (Fear of sex?) Victims of violence self-justifying the abuse done to them in a desperate bid for love. Betrayal. Forgiveness. Learning to accept one's self, both the good and the bad... and the odd. #With H/D - I can't tell who bottoms but I really don't care about that part.

Summary: Both Harry and Draco are terrified of love, albeit for different reasons. Harry's never been in love, but he's seen enough of love's dark side to know he never wants to be. Draco, on the other hand, has been in love, but that love nearly killed him. Eventually they find that only the other can help him imagine life - and love's - infinite forms and possibilities.

*Healers!Harry and Draco. Abused!Harry... while Draco has his own issues. Both H and D tending to an abused little girl with uncontrollable wild magic. H having nightmares. H/D and office desk sex!

Summary: As the tenth anniversary of the War approaches, a difficult case at St Mungo's forces Harry to seek the assistance of his former enemy and face the past.

*Beautifully written and very touching!! Contains fatherly!Snape (to Draco), a vicious curse used to brand 'traitors', abusive!Lucius, protective!motherly!Narcissa, minor character death, Draco as an affectionate drunk, nightmares, Draco teaching Harry sword-fighting techniques and other hurt/comfort scenes.

NOTE: AUTHOR F-LOCKED CERTAIN ENTRIES. YOU NEED TO FRIEND HER TO READ!

Summary: Is it possible to capture a dragon when you suddenly find one within your reach?

*Creature!fic AU. Author's warnings: age difference (18/30), size!kink, dub-con, Alpha/Omega, heat cycle, knotting, bareback, fisting, very light D/s, double penetration, implied mpreg, jailbait flashback, underage sex flashback (14/16), crying during sex, dirty talk, too many gratuitous sex scenes (is this a warning?)

Summary: As the heir to a multi-million-dollar corporation, Draco is surprised that this is only the second time he's been kidnapped. If he thought the first time was terrible, he really has no idea.

*Prolonged use of the Imperius Curse

Summary: Everything is just a side effect of something bigger, isn't it? Compliant up to HBP.

*Redeemed!Still in-character!Martyr!Draco. Featuring evil!abusive!Lucius, frigid-but-still-cares-somewhat-for-her-son!Narcissa, best friend(Draco's)!Vincent Crabbe, house elf Biddy, graphic torture, blood, Mislocator magical compass, dagger coated with icy potion, excessive use of Unforgivables, potion to suck magic and life (Soul's Eclipse) + counter potion (to use as an anchor/shield/sacrifice), forced Legilimency, mind-cast Crucio, mindfuck, wandless magic, wandless healing, (attempted)suicide by self-starving, sacrificing(for Harry)!Draco, snake bite + anti-venom potion, spell to bury someone in leaves, faerie ring + music, sleeping back-to-back, forest tracking/camping, temporary bonding, Draco is hydrophobic (fear of water) due to past trauma and Harry has abandonment issues... plus Oblivious!Harry. #Nothing sexual, just kissing.

Summary: Draco swore revenge on Harry for Lucius's imprisonment, and for once, he keeps his promise. The old rivalry turns deadly when Draco abducts Harry for Voldemort. But when Draco's world turns upside down, the fight to save himself and Harry begins.

*BLOODY BRILLIANT ♥♥♥!! An alternative take on events directly after HBP. Death Eater!Draco turned Light Side. Graphic torture, rape, gore, Werewolf mauling, heavy bouts of Cruciatus (and its after-effects), forced mindfuck, spell to link mind and magic together with Legilimency, Horcrux destroying, camping in the woods, Blood magic, spell to disrupt Dark Mark Summons and nightmares. Slight handicap on Draco's left arm because of Dark Mark. A bit of Lupin bashing. Cute Ron/Hermione. Draco-worshipping!Kreacher. Overprotective!Narcissa. Cold!But-ultimately-i-love-my-son-more-than-my-Master!Lucius.
Courageous!Extremely protective!Draco-is-my-Everything!Harry. Terrified!Insecure!Self-sacrificing(for Harry)!Smitten!Draco.

Summary: Au DH. Harry is captured after setting off on his own to find the remaining Horcruxes, and is kept alive for Voldemort's own nefarious games. Draco Malfoy is assigned to look after him, and does so to protect his own self interest. Or does he?

*SO INCREDIBLY CUTE!! LOVES!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥!! Loads of fluffy Drarry moments, Draco's past abuse at Lucius' crazy hands resulting in Draco having trust issues and other insecurities, Harry having issues with rejection and abandonment, some homophobic bullying and name-calling, some Ron bashing, supportive Ginny and cute Blaise/Neville

Summary: 6th Year novella-rewrite. The aftermath of Draco choosing to do the right thing. It effects Harry's life too, in a way no-one expected.

*Contains evil!abusive!Lucius, Seven League Boots, spying ghosts, some Justin Finch-Fletchley/Draco (coupled with elements of BDSM), a bit of Harry/Cho, an almost Harry/Draco/Justin love triangle. Draco+Neville = Friends (playing Quidditch), Draco being kind to Dobby, Harry stalking Draco, sleepy half-dreaming groping (H/D), Draco being adorably confused with Muggle things, sexuality issues and some homophobic bullying. Absolutely gorgeous characterisation of Harry and Draco!

Summary: It is a swashbuckling tale of love, friendship, romance, redemption and vengeance, and of the messy business of coming to terms with the differences between who you are and who other people want you to be. Or, in other word, growing up. It is very, very, very loosely inspired by Pride and Prejudice, among other things.

*Auror!Harry de-aged into a 10 year old. Potions Professor!Draco (who's also little Harry's guardian). Harry's tattoo. Very cute! Slight mentioning of past child abuse at the hand of the Dursleys. #No sex (yet) on screen but with subtly implied switching at the end.

Summary: A potions mishap has Harry and Draco meeting on entirely new-or is it old?-ground.

*Inception movie inspired. Auror partners!Harry&Draco (specializing in crimes involving children). Legilimens/Occlumency expert!Draco. Construction of dreams, hopping between dreams/memories. Past child abuse. Sexuality issues. Flangsty pining. Horcrux possession. A bit of past Blaise/Draco, misunderstood Harry/Ginny, Harry/OMCs. Christmassy ending. #No (graphic) sex on screen.

Summary: When Harry Potter cannot be awakened from a self induced dream state, can his Auror partner Draco Malfoy find a way to wake him before an unforeseen threat in Harry's mind destroys them both?