Apple Ling's List: Job: Unusual

*Cuteness!! Like WHOA!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Non-magical AU. Super assistant/secretary!Draco. Cute Draco + Weasley bromance/friendship/hilarious boss+assistant (PR agency run by Augusta Longbottom) relationship. Draco's impeccable fashion taste (and the way he chooses his Weasley boss' clothes for him, because Weasley does not have a single fashion conscious bone in his body. That, and he kept staining his clothes with food stuff) Cute Draco + Pansy friendship (and gossip sessions) and the League of Snarky Secretaries. Cute toddler Teddy and big bro!Draco relationship. Andromeda dotes on Draco. Harry's love of all things coffee. Mean!Harry at first (but he has a very good reason for his asshole-ish behaviour, you'll see).

Summary: Draco is Weasley’s assistant. Except for the week he’s not. Whose brilliant idea was that again? Featuring offices in Edinburgh, an epic Measley Bromance (that no one will admit exists), several unrequited crushes, fantastical revenge scenarios, coffee snobbery, the dreaded – yet adorable – toddler terror, promises of organ swapping, a play about Scottish history (no one cares), sequins, and the League of Snarky Secretaries!

Summary: Fifteen years after the war, Draco is still struggling to survive. Living in squalor and under heavy Ministry restrictions, Draco takes Pansy's advice on an option he had never thought to consider before. A means to regain everything he lost and more, courtesy of the wizarding hero --Harry Potter.

*(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.

*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
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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?

*Gentle, quiet and romantic ~~happy sigh~~ ♥♥♥♥♥
Ex-Professional Quidditch player!Harry (for the Canons) turned owner of a lovely pub in Hogsmeade!Harry (The pub's name is "The Stag and Flower"). Private potions (and potion ingredients) supplier turned Potions Professor at Hogwarts!Draco. Past Draco/Astoria (and she's quite a cunning bitch in this) and Harry/OMC (and that OMC is a total bastard!). Featuring Ron/Hermione and Ginny as Harry's close friends, Harry's knee injury, Draco being lonely and depressed, Drunk!Draco, Draco with lovely, long hair, Sympathetic (to Draco's plight)!Harry, Harry walking Draco home, a little bit of a love triangle between Harry/Draco/Harry's ex (with Harry in the middle) sweet fluff. #No sex scenes. Just a sweet, slow and convincing buildup to H/D getting together :p

Summary: When Harry's life is turned upside down, he decides to start over. In so doing, he learns that he and Draco Malfoy might have more in common than he ever could have imagined.

*Head Auror!Harry, Charm inventor!Draco. ~~OMGSQUEEEEEE!! Deliciously sexy and hot! *fans self* ♥♥♥♥♥
Basically Draco invents a new messaging charm for the Aurors that works a bit like cellphone text messaging, but for some reason Harry has been (accidentally) receiving most of Draco's sexy messages to Blaise (and the messages got him hot and bothered.... and lusting after Draco).

Summary: Draco has convinced the Auror department to test his new messaging charm for secure communications. Harry really would have preferred that he not find out through messages like, 'Yeah, tonight you're going to beg me for it,' that the system wasn't as secure as they thought.

*International liaison officer (between different wizarding ministries)!Harry. Social worker!Draco (working for the New York State office of children and family services)
#Story setting in New York (mostly). Basically, Harry bumps into a Cute!Domestic!Single father!Draco with two adorable sons (one, a hyper chatterbox and the other, small and quiet), was charmed off his feet by Draco's boys and Draco himself, decided to woo Draco. Featuring Lucius and Narcissa as parents who genuinely love Draco and misses him terribly when he "disappeared" post-war, Draco with a new baby brother, Draco with muggle friends and seemed to have given up magic for good, Domestic!Draco in an apron (with a baby on his hip) scene, fluffy first date (with a disastrous start, the result of Harry's naivety LOL!) and other dates with Draco and his boys.
#Story jumped a bit too fast from H/D just getting re-acquainted to falling in love and then getting married but it's still delightfully adorable

Summary: Seven years after the war Harry and Draco are living completely different lives, so what happens when their worlds collide again? Why Love of-course!

*Awesomeness!! ~~omgsqueeeeee!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Harry works with the Department of Misuse of Magic (sort of like a Narcotics Agent), Draco brews illegal (and addictive) potions. Basically Harry is out to arrest the gang of drug (addictive potion) dealers Draco brews for and so Draco is tasked with the duty to keep Harry occupied and distracted from his job. But right from the start, it was never about deceiving Harry but more on the fact that Draco finds himself genuinely attracted to Harry. Featuring H/D bickering at each other like an old married couple, buying each other coffee and sending the coffee to the recipient through a delivery service, dinner dates, Harry teaching Draco how to drive, Draco teaching Harry how to ski, sexytimes and a little bit of angst... but there's a happy ending :D

Summary: In which Draco's life is shady, Harry is out to save the world from itself, and revenge turns sour.

*EPIC!! *so much love* ♥♥♥♥♥
Auror!Harry, criminal!Draco.... but still, they love each other.

Summary: At the end of the day, Harry will do whatever it takes to keep Draco. No matter what he's done.

*ROMANTIC, SEXY AND UTTERLY BEAUTIFUL *loves*
Harry and Draco work for a cozy little (muggle) workshop in Amsterdam that makes musical instruments. And at one point Harry tends a bar. Basically Harry took to traveling and touring aimlessly in an attempt to cope with the aftermath of the War, he bumps into Draco, they have super hot, sexy, delicious sex and then Draco leaves. Harry obsesses (and pines) over their one night stand and decides to chase after Draco.... and he ends up in Amsterdam where he gets a job in a quaint little workshop, the same place Draco works. Meanwhile, Draco pines hopelessly after his gorgeous ex while half-torn between wanting Harry and wanting to strangle Harry. Smoking, drinking, touring, partying, pining (Draco pining after his ex and Harry pines after Draco) and delicious sex!

Summary: After years of running away, Harry crosses paths with an all-too familiar face and follows him to Amsterdam.

*UBER CUTENESS ♥♥♥♥♥
Veela-by-potion!Draco (also a freelance potions researcher), Auror body guard!Harry. Tee hee! Basically Harry guards Draco from being sexually assaulted by perverts while Draco tries to find an antidote to his Veela dilemma, and then, halfway through Harry notices Draco's getting sicker and naturally Harry saves him :p Noble!Draco... and it's sort of endearing to read about him that way.

Summary: "Let me get this straight," Harry peered at Dawlish over the top of Malfoy's case file "Malfoy's brewed a potion that, erm, bottles Veela characteristics, and has without proper testing, research or Ministry approval ingested it?" Harry paused, waiting for Dawlish to nod before continuing, "Now you want me to guard him from the sexual advances of hormonally crazed bystanders, while he works on making an antidote?"

"Excellent, Potter. You were paying attention. That's the second time this week."

*~~SQUEEEEEE!!! CUTENESS!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Snarky Knight Bus conductor!Draco is LOVE!! Auror!Harry (who takes the Knight Bus). Supportive best friend!Blaise. Trying to make the best out of their rather unfortunate circumstances!Narcissa. Smitten puppy!Harry (so adorably smitten with Draco that it's such a delight to picture him all soft and smiley and half in love with Draco). Oh, and Draco saves (heals!) Harry at one point and there's some sexy hot boy smex on board the MOVING Knight Bus. #No penetrative sex (too bad!)

Summary: After the war, the Malfoy fortune begins dwindling. Draco swallows his pride and gets a job the only place he can find one: the Knight Bus.

*OH, GLORIOUS, SO GLORIOUS ANGST! EPIC!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Draco-centric. Philanthropist!Draco and he works part time in St Mungos. Past Harry/Draco relationship. Draco has intimacy issues (amongst others, like self-esteem issues). Harry left. Draco pines and goes into depression. A little bit of Harry/OMC and Draco/OMC as they both tries (and fails) to move on. Ron/Hermione as friends who genuinely cares for Draco. Pansy as Draco's close friend. Harry's enchanted Everlasting candle on their bedside. A shared magical journal between Harry and Draco. Draco seeing a muggle psychiatrist for the depression. Past attempted suicide. Draco working with children. Angsty flashbacks to the times Harry and Draco were still together. HAPPY DRARRY ENDING!!

Summary: They say that when a person loses one of their senses, the others heighten in an attempt to make up for the lack. I think he must have been one of mine. I notice such insignificant things now that I never had before. I can almost taste the sunrise, like vanilla and tangerines blended into one smooth, delicious, summertime kiss. I sit in the park across the street from home, watching the day begin. The sun peeks over the horizon in a futile attempt to catch a glimpse of the night sky that is now retreating in its presence, for no two things so entirely opposite could ever coexist in the same place at the same time...I wonder how that escaped our notice for so long.

*SQUEEEEEE ♥♥♥♥♥♥ SOOOOO SEXY!!!
Draco is the gorgeous founder (and esteemed designer) of sexy male underwear! Auror!Harry, with Harry being Draco's bodyguard in this one. Lots of sexy underwear (omgsqueeee soooo sexy!!!) and a cute, smitten!Harry... and delicious sexytimes! :D

Summary: Auror Potter has a bit of an obsession and Draco is in an interesting line of work. What happens when Harry receives an emergency assignment at Malfoy Manor?

*Bookkeeper!Harry, grumpy!pining!Draco and a cute little boy. Oh, and best friend!Pansy :D #No sex scenes

Summary: It wasn't that Draco had always hated Christmas.

*GAAH!! SO AWESOME!! *loves* ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Part 3 (Final part) of The Intellectual Love Affair series (it's a trilogy). Master Brewer!Draco (BAMF!Potions expert). Harry/Draco as official business partners (and lovers). This fic is the aftermath of Draco's rescue by Harry and Hermione from his abuser, plus the continuation of evil politicians' (Charlemagne Diggory) attempts in destroying Harry/Draco, their reputation and potions business. BAMF!Hermione and BAMF!Milicent (Hermione/Milicent scheming together is beyond awesome!). Draco is both strong and vulnerable in this piece (abuse trauma, nightmares and still recuperating from his injuries... and yet still a BAMF!Hero). Evil!Lucius and Narcissa who are hell-bent on helping baddies destroy Harry and separate Draco from Harry. Harry+Draco+Hermione+Milicent working together against baddies. Also, Harry gets thrown in jail - Draco, Hermione and Milicent work together to prove Harry's innocence. Awesome court trial scene! #Mostly bottom!Draco but with subtly implied future 'switching'

Summary: Harry and Draco are finally, slowly, coming together, but the aftermath of Draco's freedom is nightmares, legal challenges, and dangerous political pressure in the form of Charlemagne Diggory.

*GAAH!! SO AWESOME!! *loves* ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Part 2 of The Intellectual Love Affair series (it's a trilogy). Master Brewer!Draco (BAMF!Potions expert). Not-so-recluse!Harry because he's officially helping with Draco's apothecary business (Harry/Draco as business partners and close friends). Harry/Draco pre-slash turning into slash (Harry starts to actively pursue Draco) and bits of Draco/Daphne Greengrass (a bit of Harry/Ginny friendship). Evil baddies are still after Harry and Draco - this time, they're determined to destroy everything accomplished by Draco and hurt Harry (by hurting Draco because Harry cares for Draco). Violence, torture, dark curses, illegal use of memory charms and Legilimency (used as a torture device) and sexual abuse (Draco) - and the resulting injuries. Potions shop talk, political stuff, powerful wandless magic (Harry), Harry's fear of his own magic, Draco's selective amnesia (memory charms), kidnapping (and the awesome rescue plan), dueling, graphic torture & sexual abuse scenes.

Summary: Draco and Harry start marketing the Desire potion, only to encounter opposition from Draco's debtors, manipulative Slytherin women, and politicians running for Minister.

*GAAH!! SO AWESOME!! *loves* ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Part 1 of The Intellectual Love Affair series (it's a trilogy). Master Brewer!Draco (BAMF!Potions expert), Recluse!Harry who makes a pretty successful home-based business of creating and developing magical film for wizarding cameras. Depressed to the point of near suicidal (sometimes)!Hermione. Basically Harry gets Draco to help him create a new potion to help Hermione deal with her depression - a new potion developed from a potion Harry's currently using as a medication of sorts. Draco's an opportunistic, manipulative businessman at first (focused on the profits and benefits he could get from working with Harry), then as the story develops he changes for the better and starts to care. Evil baddies (Cordelia Nott and others) are out to destroy Draco (and later on, Harry too). A corrupted politician named Charlemagne Diggory. Harry's mysterious past + incredibly powerful magical abilities + awesome wandless/wild magic + competent potion brewing abilities (although Harry's not as good as Draco when it comes to potions) + attraction to all things Malfoy. Lots of potions shop talk. # Harry/Draco pre-slash and past Harry/Ginny

Summary: When Ron dies, Hermione falls into a deep depression. Desperate to relieve her symptoms, Harry reluctantly approaches independent apothecary Draco Malfoy for help.

*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.

*Pretend philanthropist!Draco (and then, later he took over management of a small little muggle animal shelter but this was because he genuinely cares, unlike his past donations to other charities and organisations). Basically, Draco wants his old hawthorn wand back (Harry is still keeping it) because his new one doesn't work for him. Harry refuses to return the wand because he believes Draco doesn't deserve to have it back. So Draco sets out to prove he has changed by donating to charities and claiming to have seen the error of his ways and wanted to turn over a new leaf - mostly, he tries to manipulate Harry into giving back the hawthorn wand to him. Draco adopts a bad tempered little Jack Russell terrier named Pyxis. There's a little bit of Harry/Ginny at the beginning. Happy ending!

Summary: "You haven't done one brave or noble thing in your life, Malfoy. Then you come into my house and ask me why I won't do the right thing for you? What have you ever done for anyone?"