Apple Ling's List: Job: Books

*(Muggle)Banker!Harry who is very good at his job (and has pretty much left the wizarding world behind. His only connection to his wizard past is (Manly epitome of Hotness!)Ron and Hedwig. Draco is a wandmaker (he took over Ollivander's shop and he puts gemstones and other shiny minerals into his wands) and he also writes a column in The Daily Prophet.
Basically Harry broke his wand and is forced to go back to the wizarding world he left behind to get his wand fixed. Wandmaker!Draco thinks he can help Harry.
Featuring a nice Aunt Petunia, smart!professional!confident!Harry, casual!easy-going!quirky!Draco, Draco being shorter than Harry (cute!), minor character death (not Harry or Draco), Harry having problems controlling his magic (that, and he gets magic-sick - a bit like motion sickness, only Harry feels ill in magical environments), Greg Goyle (Draco's best friend) owns a restaurant, H/D working together to create a compatible wand for Harry, looking and trying out gemstone compatibility, cute H/D flirty moments #Switching!fic definitely but it's only 1 bottom!Harry scene and 1 bottom!Draco scene.

Summary: Harry wasn't at school any more, nor was he fifteen. He was a successful merchant banker with a flat to die for and an owl who loved him. And he wasn't going to get into a pissing match with a stick-fiddler who'd always driven him mental.

*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'.

*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.

*EPIC CUTENESS!! DELICIOUSLY ADORABLE LIKE WHOA!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Ex-Auror turned DADA Professor!Harry who, after being fed up with all the ridiculous unofficial biographies of him that were released post-war to speculate on his life, signed some publication contracts to officially release a series of books (a biography of his Hogwarts days) with his permission (exclusive interviews about his life).... Think Ms Rowling's Potter books because in this story, those books are apparently written based on Harry's official account of his Hogwarts days (one book per Hogwarts year). From those books, the "general public" developed a "theory" that Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy are secretly in love. A tipsy!Draco decided to seek Harry out one evening to prove the theory right :p #All sex scenes happened behind the screen. Uber cuteness! Oblivious!Harry, Oblivious!Draco

Summary: Eleven years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry is approached one evening at the Three Broomsticks by Draco Malfoy, who claims that thanks to the publication of Harry's official biography, everybody in the wizarding world has come up with a very interesting theory about the two of them.

*Non-magic AU. Victorian era. Author!Draco. Draco is the poster boy of the higher elitist society (and he calls himself a traditionalist), while Harry is from the common class who have successfully built his own reputation as the 'self made man'. Draco started off as complete berk: arrogant, selfish, and prejudiced towards those of the lower classes but then he gets nicer towards the end. Harry is brave and self-righteous, but also arrogant and demanding. Both traits, he honestly didn't realize he exhibits - or maybe he's so used to pushing Draco, thinking that Draco is wrong and therefore Draco must change (or least see things the way Harry does) that he simply didn't see that he's just as arrogant and demanding (and a little bit too self-righteous) as Draco. Draco is a berk but he's an honest berk (to Harry at least) and he never pretends to be otherwise. Elitist!Slytherins. Commoners!Gryffindors. Slytherin!bashing. # Basically Draco mocks Harry in his book, Harry retaliates and everything escalates from there. Plus, while digging up secrets to blackmail Draco with, Harry discovered that Draco is gay.... and to be gay at that time is a crime. Also, Harry wrote a book too. Happy Harry/Draco ending. #No sex scenes.

Summary: It’s 1895, and in the Victorian society Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde existed in, Harry works hard to rise in society. When Draco ruins Harry's status, a battle of societies begins.

*SO AWESOME!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Told from Draco's pov. (Bestseller!) Cheesy romance author slash author of his own autobiography (another bestseller)!Draco. Hopelessly gay yet still respects and loves his wife!Draco. Astoria is AWESOME here. A bit of Draco/Astoria and Draco/OMCs. Scorpius as a quiet and good boy who is a little bit estranged from Draco. Head Auror!Harry and his sexuality crisis. Divorces and sexuality epiphanies and family drama and lots of alcohol and H/D sexytimes.

Summary: Draco Malfoy has written an explosive autobiography. Not only does lay bare his role as a Death Eater, he also makes a number of other shocking revelations. Harry Potter owls him, asking that they meet for drinks to discuss his novel.

*Bookshop owner!Harry, ill-an-awful-lot!Draco
A couple of SPaG mistakes here and there but with a mother hen!Harry and a snarky but ill!Draco is too cute!! Free books and a Draco who makes a habit out of lounging about in Harry's shop each time he falls ill... and of course, Harry worries. Also, Ginny bashing

Summary: Harry Potter was not quite sure why Draco Malfoy was always ill, but he was going to find out.

*Career Choices: Gossip Columnist!Draco, Investigative Journalist!Harry
Harry/Draco UST (past relationship and then wanting more but they're both too stubborn to admit it). Draco snooping around and playing detective with Harry. Narcissa as a valuable source for gossip. Ron/Hermione getting married. Stupid smugglers and thugs. Portkeys and Dark Objects.

Summary: Confiscated Dark objects have been disappearing from the Ministry, and journalist Harry Potter is on the case. Unfortunately, he has to drag along Draco Malfoy, gossip columnist extraordinaire, whose subject of choice is everyone's favorite desultory hero. Forced to contend with cursed objects, international smugglers, and a lesson on the value of gossip, all Harry wants is to put out a respectable article. Oh, and to forget a night that only Draco knows and will never write about.

*Career Choices: Harry, baker; Draco, author. Sweet & romantic :D
Harry and Draco meeting and getting to know each other anew with the help of a masking spell (Recognize Me Not), and then gradually fall in love. Luna as Draco's best friend. Harry's funny Muggle friend (Rhys). Draco as a renown Muggle and Wizarding author but rather shy and terribly insecure in person, despite his fame. Harry as a charming and relaxed young man. Island tours and strawberry desserts and Draco's pretty long blond hair and lots of kisses and sick little Teddy and then some angst, plus more kisses :D

Summary: After the war, Harry left most of the Wizarding world behind and built a new life for himself in the Channel Islands. He wanted a nice, quiet job where he could make people happy and listen to their stories. He opened a bakery and is happy with his life. Draco is a fiction author who writes under a penname, and he's currently suffering from writer's block. His agent suggests he try writing in a new environment and rents a cottage in the Channel Islands for him for the summer.

*Career Choices: Blogger!Draco, Head of the Office for the Regulamentation and Control of Interweb Publications!Harry ♥♥♥
CUTEST, FUNNIEST THING EVER!! ESPECIALLY DRACO'S BLOG POSTS... AND HARRY'S CHAT CONVERSATIONS!! OMG!! :D #No sex

Summary: Harry likes his job in the Office for the Regulamentation and Control of Interweb Publications well enough, but Malfoy's being a git and making trouble as usual. Luckily Harry can go home and chat with his new friend, the anonymous comedy blogger who's so popular with wizards and Muggles alike... Features Muggles, inter-office memos, house-elves, rubber ducks, 4am chats, and porn. Because that's what the internet is for.

Career Choices: Draco: Etiquette Instructor; Harry: Writer. ♥♥♥
Tee hee! Draco even teaches Harry how to dance and dress!! Harry being friends with Pansy. (Blaise and Pansy as Draco's best friends). Also, Harry has a bit of a minor sexuality crisis at some point in the story and a one night stand with an ex Hogwarts classmate. Plus, Draco's rather skittish when it comes to dating.

Summary: Harry doesn't understand how he's supposed to learn the genteel art of pureblood etiquette from the rudest arsehole he's ever known.

*Career Choices: Photographer!Harry/Journalist!Draco
Sweet, slow transition from not-friends to awkward friends to more and then even more! Cute little Scorpius and Teddy ♥♥♥

Summary: Being Savior of the Wizarding World isn't enough to get Harry the interesting assignments. That gives him plenty of time to focus his energy on something else...

*EPICNESS!! AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥!!!
Auror!Harry and Author!Draco. Forgiving!Friendly!Luna who gave Draco a second chance by offering him a job in the Quibbler as her replacement. A flawed!Harry who's both noble yet selfish, cares for Draco and yet keeps thinking of him as the Last Death Eater, powerful yet vulnerable in the face of temptation. A mostly redeemed!Draco but still yearns for fame and recognition, covets yet fears Harry, loves but yet is mistrustful of Harry. Plus Draco gets kidnapped and the story is told in between jumps from past to present. Some bits and pieces of the Deathly Hallows and wandlore. Happy ending despite the angst.

Summary: Draco Malfoy, the Last Death Eater, writes an account of the war with consequences that he doesn't anticipate. Seven years later, he is abducted by those he presumed dead and forced to write another.

*Author!Draco with Bodyguard!Harry. Gradual and inevitable transition into fluffy H/D romance (Flirty!Draco). Lots of yummy mansmex and cuddling and Draco comforting Harry whenever he's upset. Basically Draco's an expert in Dark Arts and/or duelling spells/curses while Harry's an expert in being overprotective :D Ginny bashing (potion and resulting dub-con almost non-con scene from said potion). Draco being portkeyed and kidnapped by baddie. #Switching between topping and bottom between the boys but it was mentioned that Draco prefers topping.

Summary: When an anonymous man from France hires Harry to protect him while visiting Britain, Harry gets the shock of a lifetime.

*Writer!Draco

Summary: Books became Draco's gateway between the world that disowned him and the world he did not understand. Flangst.

*Greeting card writer!Draco, Private investigator!Harry. Featuring cute!scheming!Lucius/Narcissa, cute Blaise/Pansy, a bit of Draco/Astoria, Draco+Muggle stapler friendship, a mystery regarding a black note book, Draco held hostage, Harry interrupting a wedding and happy ending. #Implied switching. Non-graphic description of sex. Actually, no ACTUAL (sexual) penetration

Summary: Narcissa and Lucius Malfoy ask Harry, who's currently unemployed, to discover why Draco has apparently gone Muggle.

*Part 2 of the 'Lettered' verse

Summary: Draco Malfoy has just had his fortieth birthday, is currently editor of a soft porn gay men’s magazine published in the U.S., is the author of a no-holds-barred tell all of his life as a former rentboy, and is perfectly happy. Uh, not really perfectly happy, because we wouldn’t have much of a story, now would we? Enter one Harry Potter.

*Music journalist!Harry and Musician-slash-Bartender!Draco (depressed and still traumatised from the war)

Summary: The last person Draco Malfoy expected to show up in Strangeways was Harry Potter.

*Food critic slash journalist!Harry, Gordan Ramsey-ish Chef!Draco

Summary: More than a decade after the War, Draco makes a triumphant return to the wizarding world as the successful chef/owner of Pomegranate, only to have his world thrown into disorder when Harry arrives unexpectedly in the dining room.

*SWEET AWESOMENESS!! 100% CANON BUT TOLD FROM A VERY UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥!!
Traumatised!With anger issues!Harry and Azkaban convict on parole!Draco. Editor for The Quibbler!Luna. Story told from Luna's pov. H/D practicing magic together, getting drunk together and of course, fluffy moments ;D #No penetrative sex on screen

Summary: A traumatised war hero and a convicted criminal under the roof of an eccentric journalist make for a rather odd ensemble, but Luna has never had a problem with oddities as long as they make sense.