Apple Ling's List: Length: 25,000-50,000

*Mostly pre-slash

Summary: When Harry Potter hits the lowest point of his life so far, it is not his friends who keep him honest. With Draco Malfoy's patience and guidance, Harry learns to stand on his own. The thing is, after the fact—he's no longer sure he wants to.

*8th year. Angsty hurt/comfort with a fluffy ending. Featuring Jittery!Prone to panic attacks!Depressed!Apathetic!Draco... basically this has an emotionally damaged!Draco like whoa! And a Pining!Obsessively stalker-like!Harry who's lost and wanted desperately to belong. Brief Harry/Ginny and Draco/Astoria (past Draco/Pansy). Not-Evil!Slytherins who genuinely care for Draco. Contains severe depression and anxiety that manifested in some form of numb, apathetic behavior + suicidal thoughts. Eating disorder. Nightmares and severe panic attacks. At one point Draco nearly gets himself killed and Harry rescues him. Stressful exams and classes. Touching H/D bonding moments and Draco/Astoria moments.
#Sex scenes happen off-screen.

Summary: Shortly after the war, Draco Malfoy wakes up with a new understanding, and Harry Potter needs firmer ground to walk on. Unfortunately, life is never easy, especially with the burdens of N.E.W.T.s looming closer. As Draco struggles to maintain his sanity, Harry is back to his old routine-stalking Draco.

*8th year. Lonely!Bitter!Regretful-yet-still-prickly-and-defensive!Draco (and a little bit resentful for the way everything turned out for his family post-war), and a Harry who stalks/follows Draco all over the castle trying to help. "Vulnerable!Draco" tag is to make up for "Emotionally Damaged!Draco". Told mostly from Draco's pov. Sad!Pansy and Sad!Goyle. Featuring Draco being mean to others on purpose to make up for his "relapse" in showing vulnerability (which happens more often than not), Draco being bullied (a little bit) and shunned by other Slytherins, Draco crying or feeling on the verge of tears a lot, nightmares + insomnia + stealing potion ingredients to brew Dreamless Sleep, Harry trying to befriend a prickly!Draco, Draco writing letters to Ollivander but pretending to be someone else, H/D and some tricky bit of wandlore/magical wand bonding that has one of them experiencing the other's magic/dreams and H/D secret relationship, suicidal thoughts.
#Sex scenes all happen behind the screen so there's no way to tell who Tops/ Bottoms

Summary: There are things that Malfoys simply don't do. They don't cry, or show any emotion unless entirely unavoidable. They don't back down. And they certainly don't admit that maybe, just maybe, they might be wrong about a few things.

Draco's back for his eighth year, and with everything that's changed, these basic rules will soon be called into question.

*Rather OOC but it fits the story. Basically, on the night Harry, Ron and Hermione were grabbed by Snatchers and brought to Malfoy Manor, Draco decides to help them discretely... and also managed to get himself bedded by Harry (and subsequently falls pregnant). Voldie, Lucius and Narcissa thinks Draco's unborn child is fathered by Voldie. Draco plays along... and in the mean time, the war is in full swing and Draco tries to help Harry's side of the war as much as he can, discretely. Blaise as Draco's best friend. Also, Draco is very hormonal while pregnant ;p

Summary: When Draco sees Harry captured and taken to Malfoy Manor his feelings change. He is frightened and takes solace in the arms of the one person nobody would ever suspect. Draco hides the pregnancy from everyone who could use it against either Harry or himself. How does Harry find out…? What happens after that...?

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.

*War!fic. Set directly post HBP. Basically Draco goes to Harry to seek protection for himself and his family, Harry agrees but only if Draco gives him Snape (because Harry wants to enact revenge on Snape for Dumbledore's death). So Draco tags along with the Trio, they snipe at each other something awful (the boys prank each other on a daily basis). Harry doesn't trust Draco and Draco makes sure that he makes things as difficult as possible for Harry (whining, snarking, teasing, etc etc), but slowly, eventually, they do learn to get along... somewhat :p
Featuring a bratty!Draco, occasional H/D hugs, prank war between Ron+Harry against Draco, H/D cuddling up for body heat, cute drunk!Draco, hopeful ending. #Pre-slash

Summary: Harry grins and wraps his arms around Malfoy. 'Time to go home,' he says.

'Home,' Malfoy echoes drowsily, something in his voice. It might be resentment, agreement, resignation. Harry can't tell.

*(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?

*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!

*War!fic. Harry and Draco on the run together (on the streets, somewhere in muggle New York and having to skimp on things because they don't have a lot of money), searching for a special gem stone called the Black Star which is a Horcrux. They argue and fight a lot (being broader and stronger, Harry almost always wins the fights... once, Harry beats up Draco pretty bad)... and lust after each other. Featuring pervert!Snape who squashes Draco in sleep, molests him and at one point contemplated suffocating Draco (>.< Do. Not. Like. This version of Snape), Mostly clueless!petulant!foul-tempered damsel-in-distress!Draco (he's also very jumpy and tends to cling to Harry when startled or scared), frustrated!Harry with anger and sexuality issues (frustrated that Draco's with him and that he's attracted to Draco... but can't help crushing his lips to Draco's anyways). Draco crossdressed at one point at Snape's insistence. Harry/Draco sharing a bed, holding hands in public (dragging the other everywhere), having coffee and pastries together, going clubbing, buying a ring, kissing, UST-ing and sexytimes. Also, minor character death (not H/D) and Draco making Ginny jealous (and she cries).

Summary: Draco must find something for the Dark Lord.

*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.

*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.

*ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL IMAGERY & AN INTERESTING TAKE ON LUCID DREAMING! ♥♥♥♥♥
Healer!Harry, coma patient!Draco. Exactly what the summary says. Draco's subconscious and soul is trapped in a otherworldly place. Harry is determined to save him, but convincing Draco to allow himself to be saved is a whole new battle. Side pairing Ron/Hermione. Contain a slightly neurotic!Draco but not insane... or at the very least, not Bellatrix-insane, and Lucius and Narcissa who aren't evil bastards, who truly love their only son. #No sex

Summary: 5 years after the war and Harry finds a bedridden Malfoy trapped in a rose garden within his own mind. It's Harry's job to get him out by going in and visiting him there. It won't be easy though, especially considering the fact that Malfoy may have already gone mad.

*Post-war, Hogwarts 8th year. Cliche Drarry plot but it's super fluffy and cute (and I was craving fluff when I stumbled across this :D). SPaG mistakes here and there, and OOCness but with lots of fluff. Shy!Blushing virgin!Meek!Draco, Powerful!Over protective!Ready-to-kill-for-Draco!Harry. Heavy Lucius bashing (I'm uncomfortable with the "Let's-Kill-Lucius-In-Cold-Blood" scene but I understand that it's an important part of the plot). A teensy tiny bit of Ron bashing. Super supportive!Ginny. Loving!Narcissa. Harry/Draco 'trial' relationship plot - basically Harry made a deal with Draco to try dating for a month as a trial thing, and then see how it goes :D

Summary: Harry doesn't want to end up with Ginny, she knows that and understands but no one else knows that Harry's little secret is that he's gay and completely besotted with Draco Malfoy. Harry knows it's unlikely but thats where the deal comes in.

*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

*ABSOLUTELY SQUEE-WORTHY!! ALL THE HEARTS!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Best Trainee Healer!Draco, Trainee Healer!Harry. Classmates!Harry and Draco in trainee healer classes (because Draco's Healer license got suspended and he had to go back into training). Draco in casual, sometimes oversized clothes. Draco tutoring Harry. Lonely!Quiet!Draco who is always by himself. Completely smitten!Pining!Harry while Draco remains oblivious. Devoted father!Draco to a sick little Scorpius. New ministry law that strips past D.E sympathizers of most of their rights - Draco losing his job, Scorpius banned from getting medical treatment. Harry marrying Draco so that Scorpius would receive better medical care instead of being shunned for Draco's past D.E status. Portrait!Snape who helps Draco.

Summary: A series of attacks by a group of neo-Death Eaters causes the Ministry to implement a new set of restrictions on former Death Eaters and their children. When Scorpius falls ill, Draco decides that he will do anything to save his son, even if it means marrying Harry Potter.

*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.

*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.

*AWESOME LIKE WHOA!! EPIC!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Auror!Harry with PTSD, Trainee Healer!Draco. Established Harry/Gin but with Harry/Draco too (infidelity on Harry's part). Sort of like a Draco/Harry/Ginny love triangle (Harry cares for Draco but refuses to leave Ginny). Harry has a problem controlling his magic and tends to have sudden wild magic explosive incidents - only Draco is capable of calming him down (usually through sex - bottom!Draco). Draco's group of friends: Lavender Brown (she's AWESOME!!!), Neville, Theo Nott and Seamus Finnigan - hanging out at The Brewery (testing muffins :D). Harry/Draco secret relationship. People being not nice to Draco because of his name and D.E ties. Angst. Pining!Insecure!Draco. Confused!Harry. Hot sex scenes (OMG the office hidden-below-the-desk blowjob!). Loads of UST. Harry being an insensitive meanie for half the fic but he has his issues and I feel sorry for him at times. Happy H/D ending.
#Bottom!Draco for the most part and only 1 Top!Draco scene towards the end and omg they're all so sexy!! *drools*

Summary: Potter needs control; Draco needs forgiveness. They shag; Lavender gives advice; they yell; Seamus makes muffins; they fight; and everyone else drinks far too much coffee for their own wellbeing.

*CUTE!!
Hogwarts 8th year. Mostly crack-ish but with a tiny bit of plot. Veela!Sex God!Mostly-a-Bottom!Draco with Veela Mate!Harry. A little bit of Blaise/Draco, various OMCs/Draco (one even made a painting of Draco's lovely bum LOL) and Harry/Ginny. Ron/Hermione (mostly Hermione) is convinced that "Harry/Gin and 3 Potter kids in the future" is the "normal" way things should go and tries her best to make sure Harry stays with Ginny (including but not limited to providing Harry the potion equivalent of Viagra and accidentally transforming Harry's sperm into the magical equivalent of Super Sperm). Poking fun at Harry/Gin failed-sex scenes (Ginny broke little Harry jr that one time she tried to ride him LOL). Harry's sexuality crisis. Harry being an insensitive prat to Draco after having sex (with Draco) for the first time. Misdiagnosis of Draco's "Veela condition". Sick!Draco, worried!Harry, happy fluffy H/D mpreg ending.
#Mostly bottom!Draco but with minor references to Harry possibly bottoming later. One Top!Draco scene towards the end.

Summary: Now that Voldemort is dead, Harry and Draco assume an eighth year at Hogwarts will be nothing but parties and Quidditch (and, as time allowed, revising for the N.E.W.T.s), but you know what they say about those who assume. They may be legally of age, but that doesn't mean that the confusion and drama of being a teenager has ended.