Apple Ling's List: Guardian & Ward

*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).

*Absolutely beautiful!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Basically Harry's stuck in a cursed sleep and Draco is the one tasked to take care of him. Along the way, Draco falls in love with Harry and angst over the impossibility of being with Harry. Happy ending! *Absolutely love ending scene* #No penetrative sex scenes

Summary: Harry's cursed with the Sleeping Beauty curse. And in order to protect him, he's put into protected hiding until a cure can be found. And Draco's got to pay for the war somehow.

*GAAHH! KITTY!DRACO IS JUST TOO CUTE FOR WORDS! ♥♥♥♥♥
White kitty!Draco appeared on Harry's doorstep and Harry takes him in ~~squeeeee! Incredibly fluffy and cute!

Summary: Banished from his home during the holiday season with only his wand and the clothes he's wearing, Draco has no choice but to take on his Animagus form and hope someone will take him in.

*Career Choices: Animagus specialist (Harry)/Fledgling Animagus - little Siberian tiger cub (Draco). Oh, there are some cute bonding moments between Tiggy (white tiger cub!Draco) and little Rose Weasley as well as between Ryu (white tiger cub!Draco's new name by Harry) and Harry in a black panther form :D #No sex

Summary: Draco has finally completed his Animagus transformation. Too bad he hasn't figured out how to transform back. In comes Harry to the rescue, happy to help before he finds out who it is. After that, well, Draco has some explaining to do!

*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.

*HEART-BREAKING YET DEVASTATINGLY SWEET AND POIGNANT. GOOD PAIN IS GOOD. ♥♥♥♥♥♥!!!
Caretaker!Draco and a rather child-like!amnesiac!Harry. Established relationship, fights and petty arguments, both boys have their own set of personal demons and issues, an Accident and Harry loses his memory of everything he has ever known, a sick little girl whom Harry does coloring and drawing with, re-learning magic because for the better part of this story, almost everything is done the muggle way. #No graphic descriptions of sex

Summary: Harry and Draco lose their way, their paths to each other no longer as easy to cross as they were before. When Harry loses his memory, they are both given the chance to gain back something they thought was already gone, or lose it all together.

*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.

*Painfully heart-wrenching but so very touching. Happy ending... at least as 'happy' as it could be while being just as bleak. Lone survivors of the war!Harry&Draco. Harry and his unique half-Dark Creature Animagus form.

Summary: On the battlefield, surrounded by the death toll of the war, Harry seems to be the only survivor.

*Prolonged use of the Imperius Curse

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

*Post-war. Wild veela!Draco who's afraid of wands

Summary: The War went on for eight long years. Now, in the aftermath, a caged, mistreated, and completely inhuman Veela has been discovered. Harry is the only person it will tolerate... You can guess the rest, can't you?

*Auror!Harry (who is a gigantic bastard for half the story). Some Harry/Ginny. Abusive!Ron. Plot gist: Secretly-in-love!Draco, I-want-you-but-it's-so-wrong!Harry, secret love affair gone sour because of various misunderstandings and Harry being too much in denial to come out of the closet which literally BROKE Draco. Karma is a bitch, Harry looses what 'feels 'safe' to him and realises he has to confront his mistakes. Depressed!Recluse!Draco with something similar to agoraphobia (fear of open space).
#Bottom!Draco 99% of the time, except for in the extended epilogue (Bottom!Harry)

Summary: Draco is sentenced to a year of community service at the Ministry with Harry as his custodian, old hostilities arise and nobody can tell where life will lead them.

*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.

*Sex slave-slash-prostitute!Harry, Potions Researcher!Draco. Harry who had lost his memories and was beaten into submission but not broken. Magic dampening spell. Suicidal!Harry. Fear of touch. Between Harry and Draco - Draco bottoms in this piece but isn't adverse to topping, just as Harry isn't repulsed by possibly bottoming for Draco. #This fic is not for those who can't stand Harry in a meek and vulnerable position

Summary: Almost six years after Voldemort falls, Harry Potter goes missing. No one can find him, until chance would have Draco Malfoy thrust right in his path, picking up shattered pieces while trying to keep himself together.

*Broken!Not-quite-Sane!Draco, HopelesslySmitten!Harry. Happy ending. #No sex on screen - obviously.

Summary: This is a post war fiction. Draco is at St. Mungos and Harry visits him every Sunday. What is he looking to find and what happened to drive Draco over the edge?

Auror partners!Harry&Draco. Featuring going undercover as a hetero married couple with Draco as the 'wife', cross-dressing, scrapbook with Harry's pictures, unrequited love with happy ending!

Summary: In the quest to find fugitive Lucius Malfoy, Auror Harry Potter finds something else entirely.

*Some scary scenes but amazing plot! Sex toy slash kept-man!Draco (was a prostitute for awhile). Pairings: Harry/Draco (main), Snape/Draco, Voldy/Draco, Lucius/Draco, Ron/Draco and various OMCs/Draco. Morally dubious!Insensitive!Harry, Antagonistic!Defensive!Draco. Featuring a few love triangles with Draco in the middle, inability to feel hungry, inability to regulate own body heat (Draco), constant need for sex, pain = overheating of organs, all kinds of abuse, torture, rape, dub-con, suicidal thoughts, depression, violent sex resulting in bleeding, insensitive use of Obliviate, misunderstandings and relationship issues. Happy ending though.

#Bottom!Draco exclusively except Top!Draco/Harry in Ch.7 (violent dub-con), Malfoycest in Ch.3 & 9 (not graphic), Tom Riddle/Lucius in Ch.9

Summary: Draco's been placed under a very unique curse and his lover can no longer care for him. Guess who his new keeper is? ...It's Harry.

*Transfigured into a Crup!Draco

Summary: Harry Potter is forced to rescue Draco Malfoy from being made into soup when he gets turned into a crup in Knockturn Alley.

*Invisible Auror!Harry

Summary: Draco has been rescued from a life of hardship by a mystery man, and soon finds himself developing feelings. But the man remains hidden, and it takes all of Draco's Slytherin cunning to reveal his hero's face.

*War veteran!Harry and Social worker!Draco / Protective!Possessive!Harry. Warnings: Very depressing tone, character death (not Harry or Draco), violence, severe magical epidemic, non-con/dub-con Harry/OMCs (in which Harry bottomed - just one scene), special magic-draining spell.

Summary: In a Great Britain destroyed by war and plagued by magical epidemics, those who are left behind struggle to survive and find meaning.

*Mentally unstable!Draco who likes to babble and a hopelessly smitten!Harry. Rather angsty but oh so bittersweet! Love this!!

Summary: Harry comes to visit him in the hospital. Draco would be grateful, if he hadn't lost the power of internal monologue. Twisted.