Apple Ling's List: Genre:Mystery

*Absolutely beautiful! ♥♥♥♥♥
Auror!Harry who is also a dog animagus nicknamed Fluffy :p Blind!Draco (who is also a writer - He writes gay romance novels) and Harry is his bodyguard.
Basically Draco finds himself blind after an attack in Diagon Alley. Auror!Harry offers to pose as Draco's guide dog (in animagus form). Harry makes an adorable dog and is sweet and protective and PERFECT! Draco is terribly insecure, very self-punishing and has basically lost of faith in the Wizarding World he has left behind to live in the Muggle world, but doggy!Harry and Harry himself, gives him back his happiness and confidence. Draco collects old, discarded books because he couldn't bear to throw them away (aww!). Cute H/D bonding and hurt/comfort moments. Also, cute flustered!Harry moments when he finds himself attracted to Draco. And cute Draco+doggy!Harry moments. Plus, the cutest, fluffiest ending ever *loves*
Smooch Fest link: http://hd-smoochfest.livejournal.com/110188.html

Summary: Don't think of it as losing your sight. Think of it as gaining an Animagus who never quite learned the meaning of the word 'boundaries'.

*Hollywood actor!Draco, Bodyguard!Harry. Past Harry/OMC (and that OMC is a total ass). Featuring Draco as a famous actor in the muggle world, a brooding!lonely!Harry, Draco's phobia of fire, Harry's love for all things cheesy (Taylor Swift songs and romance novels)... and is also a closet romantic, Draco's nightmares, lots of bickering and snark and happy, sexy ending :p
Smooch Fest link: http://hd-smoochfest.livejournal.com/111217.html

Summary: Harry Potter has spent the last seven years doing everything the Wizarding World's saviour and Golden Boy shouldn't - breaking it off with his childhood sweetheart, quitting Auror training, and living in isolation in Muggle London. Having just gotten out of an emotionally and financially abusive relationship, Harry hasn't been out of his house in weeks. Meanwhile, after disappearing from the Wizarding World and moving to America for seven years, Draco Malfoy has become a famous Hollywood actor and is back in England to film his latest movie. When Draco begins to receive serious threats, he asks for a Wizard bodyguard to be assigned to him, and who should be more fit for the job than the fallen-from-grace Man Who Lived Twice himself? But can Harry and Draco set aside their differences and work together, or is this just a disaster in the making?

*Ex Head Auror!Harry turned host of a homely lodging/bed and breakfast sort of thing (a Cumbrian manor which also happens to be H/D's home), Potions Master!Draco. Established H/D (civil partnership). Ginny + Astoria friendship. Epilogue compliant with teenage Next Gen (everybody being friends with everybody with the minor exception of James Sirius... because he hates Draco's presence in his father's life)
#Basically someone dies, everybody suspects Draco did it, Harry does his best to protect Draco, Ron and the Aurors investigate, Draco angsts (and War-related fears start bubbling close to the surface again, leaving him tensed, worried and scared most of the time), Arabella Figg plays detective. Oh, and a scary but minor hostage scene and a (near fatal) injury scene.

Summary: "There's a dead Ministry official sprawled across the sitting room floor," I announce before collapsing into a chair at the kitchen table. "This can't be good for bookings."

*Auror!Harry (with Auror partner!Zach Smith), Daily Prophet's star reporter and youngest millionaire/publisher/owner of the Daily Prophet and its other subsidiaries!Draco. Basically Harry has the hots for Draco but is deeply in denial (and in the closet) and so Harry pines (and surfs the internet for porn. Lots and lots of gay porn). Draco wants Harry too but is too stubborn and prideful to admit it (so he's all bitchy). Zach has issues with his sexuality (so he passes off as a foul-mouthed homophobe most of the time). In the mean time, someone is out to kill all (ex) Death Eaters (while Harry and Draco are cooped up in a safe house and are slowly dying of sexual frustration). Zach and Draco are pretty vulgar sometimes, but Zach's vulgarity usually involves homophobic slurs while Draco's vulgarity is.... well, he fancies himself a sexual deviant... a sex god. Also, I don't know why... but I find Draco's passion for his work and his bragging about being a top-notch writer/reporter is TEH CUTE!! And erm, at one point Draco offers Harry sexual favours in exchange for a story :p #Implied switching but graphic sex scenes are all deliciously top!draco

Summary: Harry/Draco. When former Death Eater informants start turning up dead, Auror Harry Potter must take star Daily Prophet reporter (and owner) Draco Malfoy into protective custody.

*HBP 6th year. Harry and Draco stuck in an orphanage in an Alternate Reality, with other orphaned children... but Draco remembers everything about his Hogwarts days while Harry acts as if he doesn't remember. Featuring a fatherly!Snape who genuinely cares for Draco, an unusual Snitch and necklace with a 'protection' rune, Christmas in an orphanage, flashbacks of Draco's childhood where Lucius is a caring father. #Mostly pre-slash and a bit of kissy scenes :p

Summary: Three Days before Christmas, Draco wakes up in a 1962 muggle children's home where he is told his parents have died. The only person he recognizes is Harry Potter, who claims to have no memory of Hogwarts or magic.

*Deliciously angsty but with a happy, fluffy ending! *loves* ♥♥♥♥♥
Very unique and original plot when it comes to the clashing/merging of different Universes or Alternate Universes kind of plot. A nice blend of Potter-verse Epilogue compliant and a new Alternate Universe without Harry's existence (in which no one remembers Harry except for Draco). Basically, Draco realizes one morning that his entire universe has changed and that his best friend and the love of his life, Harry Potter no longer exists in his world and he wants some answers. Most of the Harry/Draco parts were told from Draco's flashbacks prior to the sudden plunge into an Alternate Universe. Contains Harry+Draco friendship in the Epilogue compliant world even though they both loved each other in secret (because they're both married with wives and children). Cute Scorpius. A teensy bit of Astoria bashing. Harry being blessed with the power of Old Magick. James and Lily Potter's (Harry's parents) sad, so very sad fate (Okay, I'll admit I find parts with James and Lily very painful to read *sniffles*). Warning for suicide but there's a happy ending for everybody, especially Harry and Draco. #No sex scenes

Summary: One day, Draco woke up in a world where Harry Potter didn't exist.

*Healer!Draco specializing in Memory Magic (one of the foremost experts in the field). Professional Quidditch Player!Harry in a cursed-induced coma. Contains a very charming, slightly vulnerable and rather lonely Harry (as he pines after Draco). Also, Harry has his memories addled by an assailant which lands him in Healer!Draco's care. Weasley bashing - minus Ron, his wife Hermione and George. Supportive Ron/Hermione and George who knew about Harry's "secret love" (aka Draco). Harry's crazy stalker fans. Draco has nightmares. #No penetrative sex.

Summary: Because Potter could give him prestige and power again if he cured him of this coma. That was all. Or so Healer Draco thought before he started looking into Harry Potter's memories.

*TOO EPIC FOR WORDS ♥♥♥♥♥♥ *flails*
Mostly Epilogue compliant but with a clever magical twist! Harry works for Hermione in the Blood Reparations Department. Draco is a lonely recluse at first. Later on, Draco helps Harry with his work. There are 2 main plots that weaves around each other in this fic:
Plot 1 - Draco is accused of murdering a muggleborn witch. Narcissa claims the life-debt Harry owes her and demands that Harry investigate the matter to prove Draco's innocence. Then, Pureblood supremacist groups and Muggleborn rights groups try to start a 3rd war. New evil mastermind called the Masked Lady.
Plot 2: Harry can't stop having sexy dreams of an alternate life he has with Draco. Harry and Draco both have sexy visions of themselves as lovers in mirrors. Some powerful magical force is trying to force them together despite the marriage vows made to their respective wives. Also, the same powerful force kept hurting Draco and making Harry save him. Plus, Draco is compelled to save Harry a couple of times too.
#Harry and Draco are both BAMF!Heros in this, although for the majority of the story Harry plays the Savior/Protector-role while Draco tries not to lean too heavily on Harry's strength and ability to save/protect/comfort him. Eventually Draco learns to save himself... and Harry. Ginny and Malfoy-wife bashing. Hermione's role is... divided between BAMF!Heroine and Cold Meddling Bitch (P.S. - I dislike Hermione a lot more than I dislike Ginny in this fic) throughout the story. Awesome!Narcissa. Life debts and marriage vows, the appearance of dragons and zombies, Draco's extreme claustrophobia, near drowning, near fatal overdose on a potion, a cuddly Scorpius who's almost always glued to Draco like a clingy cute koala, an equally cuddly kidlet!Albus Severus, Harry's Guardian Angel owl, a teensy bit of Harry/Draco/Ginny love triangle, metal-cased dead Malfoy ancestors, violence and torture. Also, cute Scorpius + Albus Severus kiddie friendship (all the children are tiny kidlets in this piece) *coos* Happy Harry/Draco ending.

Summary: Harry is too busy ten years after the war to help out just one family, but that's exactly what he has to do. And as he hunts their enemy, magic no one understands is hunting him.

*Cute, sexy fluff! Aurors!Harry and Draco. Draco is also a Spy for the Ministry (to keep an eye on the stupid!Death Eaters that are in hiding). Basically, there is a new Death Eater on the block and he's charismatic and smart... and he wants Harry dead. Draco tries his best to keep Harry alive, while Harry refuse to stop flirting with Draco. Harry's excessive flirting and Gilderoy Lockhart-like obnoxious behavior makes Draco think Harry isn't serious about liking Draco so Draco shies away from Harry's numerous attempts at wooing Draco. Draco ended up saving Harry several (Draco is Harry's sort-of-bodyguard) times and becoming a hero! CUTE HARRY-COURTS-DRACO!FIC #No sex scenes (yet)

Summary: Draco just wants to do his job and keep the newly competent Death Eaters from assassinating Potter. Potter just wants to flirt with him. It is not much fun to be Draco Malfoy right now.

*OMG SO AWESOME!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Epilogue compliant. Senior Aurors!Harry and Draco as partners. A dangerous serial killer slash evil mastermind hell-bent on world domination is on the loose killing lots of people, breaking into foreign ministries and killing more people and trying to destroy the wards that protect the Wizarding world from the muggle one. Harry and Draco forced to stay together in an apartment for the duration of their investigation while away from England. Awesome magical details of spells and curses, wards and magical theories, potions and magical rituals. Potions expert!Draco who is also awesome at understanding complicated magical theories. Harry finds himself falling for Draco because he admires the way Draco works and his intelligence. Consulting Snape together (Snape gave Harry the fatherly version of "Hurt Draco and you will pay" speech) At one point Harry gets kidnapped and injured... but Draco saves him. Violence, torture and lost of magic.... and the resulting injuries. And then both try to save the world. Happy ending!
#No penetrative sex

Summary: A series of magical murders threatens the future of Wizarding Britain, and the Ministry puts its top two Aurors on the case. Harry's less than thrilled at the discovery that his new partner is none other than Draco Malfoy, but when the alternative is sitting back and letting his country be destroyed, he doesn't have much of a choice.

*Aurors!Harry and Draco (co-workers and both stuck with night shift duty at the DMLE). Also, Vampire!Harry. Draco-centric fic. Murder mystery case with corpses drained of blood. Draco has a habit of annoying his boss (night shift boss of the Auror dept) by submitting ridiculous expense reports to demand compensation for the silliest things ever. Plus, Draco refuses to wear his Auror uniform. Harry and Draco work together to solve the murder case in secret. At one point, Draco gets caught by the baddie and Harry comes to the rescue :D

Summary: Draco is stuck in career purgatory on the night shift in the Auror Department. The powers that be won't let him near any important cases, but he knows he can prove himself and get promoted if he can just crack a big case. When Harry Potter shows up after getting himself banished to the night shift as well, how will he affect Draco's plans?

*YAY!! DELICIOUSLY FLANGSTY RENTBOY!FIC ♥♥♥♥♥
Undercover Auror as a rentboy!Harry, Rentboy!Draco. Murder mystery cum undercover investigation cum prostitution plot. Tattoo-ed and/or scarred rentboy corpses. Skinny!Pretty!Rentboy!Draco who is best friends with Lavender Brown and Pansy Parkinson. Harry Glamour-ing himself to look like someone else and tries to pass off as a new rentboy in the whorehouse Draco works for. Interesting OCs - the prostitutes who are Draco's colleagues (Portia, Carl, etc etc) and a creepy client (Daft Davey). Draco is very protective over Lavender and Pansy. Draco got injured at one point and Harry helds his injured arm until Draco falls asleep (aww!) Snarky!Prideful!Draco who didn't want to be saved, least of all by Harry. Brilliant Auror!Harry with a soft spot for Draco (especially Draco) and his friends. Happy Drarry ending! #No Drarry sex

Summary: Someone's killing rentboys in Lower Knockturn, and the case is getting attention from the top. No one at the Ministry wants another Ripper, stalking Knockturn Alley or moving into Muggle London. Harry Potter agrees to go undercover, but can he keep his identity a secret when Draco Malfoy is the rentboy assigned to show him the ropes?

*SO AMAZING I'M ALL TEARY-EYED BECAUSE THIS IS... GAAH, SO AWESOME I CAN'T FIND WORDS WORTHY ENOUGH TO DESCRIBE ITS AWESOMENESS!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Auror!Harry (with Auror partner!Ron) and a rebellious!Draco who has suddenly decide he needs to face all his fears before it's too late (he has a list of things he wants to do and he asks Harry to help him). Harry is reckless, more than usual, in this story and Ron (and everyone else who knows Harry) thinks Harry has a serious death wish, which to be honest isn't that far from the truth. Frightened!Quirky!Earnest!Draco with his fears, insecurities and desperation to face all of them, actually grounds Harry and stops him from doing crazy reckless things that could get him killed. Draco with his weird theories of muggles (especially muggle women LOL!) and his hilarious visit to the Dursleys (with a magical potted plan that gives you rabbit ears!!). Flying on a hippogriff, facing werewolves (Draco's boggart is a werewolf), bonding moments and hilarious chats with Harry. Sexytimes (Draco bruises way too easily), Harry's tattoos and angst and the discussion of feelings and Harry and Draco bonds for real and then happy, happy ending!
#Heavily implied switching, graphic and detailed penetrative sex scene is bottom!Draco. In other scenes, Harry was the one on the receiving end of a lovely rim-job and fingering.... unfortunately, nothing more than that. Regardless of Top/Bottom, every sex scene is sinfully delicious!!

Summary: "There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance." -- John Lennon

*COOL AUROR!FIC d(^^,)b ♥♥♥♥♥
Auror partners!Harry and Draco (plus, Auror partners!Ron and Daphne Greengrass). BAMF!Auror Malfoy yay!! Senior officer!Cho Chang who is supposed to break in Aurors!Harry and Draco. Patrolling Knockturn Alley while also on another secret mission from Minister Shacklebolt (as part of a special but secret team that responds only to the Minister and Head Auror). Interesting Knockturn Alley characters: Magenta (works in a brothel). Death Eaters, Obliviators gone rogue, abuse of the Obliviate spell, sighting of the Morsmordre in a muggle town, underage muggleborn witches/wizards, etc etc. Draco going undercover as a prostitute and friend of Smoke (another male prostitute) in a Knockturn Alley brothel. Everywhere Harry and Draco went, everybody seemed to think they're 'together' and sometimes Draco plays along with it :D

Summary: Responsibility weighs heavily on Draco Malfoy's shoulders as he completes his Auror training. He plans to redeem his family name, do his sworn duty, and create a new life for himself. It doesn't help, however, that his new partner is the one man who could be his undoing: Harry Potter.

*ZOMG SUCH A SQUEE-WORTHY FIC!! 100% MADE OF AWESOME!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Head Auror!Harry (with a gift for wandless magic), Seer!Draco (who is rather eccentric at times but utterly adorable still). As the story progresses, Harry finds Draco's eccentricity endearing :D Also, Draco's eyes go milky whenever he receives a vision/premonition. Draco's cute owl D'Artagnan. At the beginning of the story, Draco was stuck in a mental ward. Harry and Draco staying together in Grimmauld Place (Draco wearing Harry's clothes ~squeee!). Suspicious deaths to cover up an illicit paper trail that has to do with some Great Big Conspiracy (which Harry and Draco are determined to crack). Some of the signs that point to said Great Big Conspiracy involve the Gemini cluster of stars, invoices/receipts of some renowned pureblood males (Lucius Malfoy, Sirius Black) for donating sperm, suspicious accounting numbers etc etc. Draco was Obliviated once in the past and there was this super fancy, super cool scene where a trained Obliviator helped Draco regain his memories and break the hold of the spell on him! Draco having sexy visions of him and Harry having sex (both Top!Draco and Bottom!Draco). Hot sexy Drarry wall sex!!! Cute side pairings: Baker!Ron/Hermione and Auror!Seamus/Obliviator!Zach Smith... then there's Castor Malfoy (~squeeeee!)
#The most graphic and detailed sex scene is bottom!Draco. Top!Draco scenes are mostly only mentioned in passing.

Summary: A stray unforgiveable gives Draco a gift he can't give back and it helps him uncover a family secret linked to a series of murders five years later. With the help of Harry Potter they work together to solve the mystery of a familiar constellation.

*Auror!Harry (and Auror partner!Neville), Draco is a pretty burlesque (crossdresser) performer. Cute side pairing: Neville/Hannah (Neville's letters to Hannah). Pansy as Draco's best friend (whom Draco suspects - but isn't sure - is a criminal but he protects her identity from the aurors anyway). Ancient curse that allows a pureblood male who is also the last heir to the bloodline (and gay at the same time) to transform into a female for his "mate" in order to get pregnant and continue to bloodline. Lots of sexy UST and "I must have you right now, right here" sex scenes. Sick!Lonely!Insecure!Draco with a So-Horny-I-Cant-Think-Straight!Suspicious!Harry (who is also over-protective of Draco). Harry and Draco staying together. Draco gets hurt by baddies at one point and Hero!How-Dare-You-Hurt-My-Mate-I-Keel-Yooo!Harry to the rescue. Happy H/D and Neville/Hannah ending.

Summary: Harry and Neville are looking for the infamous Dragon Lily, a Dark witch active throughout Europe and Asia. Instead, they find the Tuxedo Angel, a beautiful witch performing in Rome. Harry quickly discovers that the Angel is not what she seems, and fights his attraction to her, while both he and the Angel are drawn into a web created by ancient magic that pulls them together, whether they are ready for it or not.

*AWESOMENESS!!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Curse-breaker!Draco. Evil house dropping things on Harry with the intent to harm him. Curses and dark objects. Cool curse-breaking magic (on Draco's part). Pureblood wards and talking indoor snake motifs/doorknobs/house decorations inside Grimmauld Place (Parseltongue). Repairing the Black family tapestry with gold thread spun from a Galleon and cool magic. Loyal!Happy!Kreacher. Snarky!Snape with a wicked sweet tooth. Best friend!Pansy. Supportive Ron/Hermione. Brilliant!Methodical!Bossy!Still-a-rude-prat!Draco (coffee addict and has a huge kink for Parseltongue :p). Harry and Draco bonding over curse-breaking activities and ancient family history (the Noble House of Black). Harry and Draco staying in a house together. Draco saves Harry from a crazy house and Harry saves Draco later while on an Auror mission. Lots of sexy UST and then even sexier sexytimes behind closed doors :p
#Graphic bottom!Draco (with Parseltongue smut!) and with a mild bottom!Harry scene (which happened behind the scenes... kinda wished there were more of that bottom!Harry scene but.. *pouts*)

Summary: Harry's house is trying to kill him, and only one person can help him: pity it's Draco Malfoy.

*GAH!! SO CUTE AND FUNNY!!!
Auror!Harry (very Sherlock Holmes-esque!), Draco is a Muggle-Liaison Officer of the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes (and also Harry unofficial partner for a particular murder investigation featuring a "ninja" in a feathered costume). Freak accidents cum murder case featuring modified WW.Wheezes products as the murder weapons. Potions expert!Draco. Draco also tends to wear extremely weird clothes when interviewing muggles or investigating a case. Goyle as Harry and Draco's friend slash housekeeper slash caregiver. Lots of cute snarkery, humour, H/D bonding moments, interesting investigation clues and a lovely twist at the end :D

Summary: He had been on medical leave for a month and was bored out of his mind. All he wanted was to go grocery shopping. And then he just happened upon a Muggle horrifically killed by a Wheeze, a ninja who might be a showgirl, and Malfoy looking like a fashion disaster (but it turned out there was a good explanation for that). As far as Harry was concerned, it hadn't ever been his fault to begin with.

*SWEET LOVELY FLANGST!! *loves*
Auror!Harry who has a talent for purposefully controlling/constructing the fabric of his dreams. Draco is a natural dream-walker/wanderer (He wanders between dreams). Lonely!Hurt-and-betrayed!Stuck-in-a-cursed-sleep!Draco. Harry saves the day. A bit of Draco/OMC (which makes Harry terribly jealous). Draco lives among muggles in a small, peaceful village. Amortentia as a medical cure. Harry and Draco in a domestic setting with fluffy sexytimes. #Only 2 sex scenes (too bad!), one of each: Bottom!Draco and Top!Draco. Both equally hot and delicious!!! :D

Summary: Dying, wet autumn bracken covered Malfoy. A few stray rusted orange and phlegm-yellow leaves with browning holes that looked like blood-stained bullet wounds lay scattered on and around him where the September winds had blown them.

*SWEET FLANGST!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Guest speakers at Hogwarts!Harry and Draco. Draco is also an expert on Dark Arts, especially on magical (cursed) fire - Fiendfyre. Draco + Pansy = best friends. Cute side pairing: Ron/Pansy. A little bit of Draco/OMC. Draco has a cute talkative mirror in his room (the mirror soothes him every time Draco has nightmares or bad dreams). Draco's fear of fire and smoke... and of suffocating (Draco has panic attacks). Naughty students with pureblood bigotry. Draco has issues with commitment. He's also insecure and doubtful of the idea of him and Harry together. Missing students and kidnappings. Harry and Draco saves the day!

Summary: Draco is the wrong man for the job. Potter is insufferable. And as if it all wasn't bad enough, who the hell died and made Draco hero for a day?