How is it that, after everything, they both get recruited by the Magpies? It goes beyond just unlikely; it's outright unfair. There are plenty of other teams in the league—more than enough space for them to play without ever needing to speak to one another. And yet, here they are: same team, same position, neighbouring pegs, even.
To say it hasn't been going well is an understatement.
Summary: When Potter starts paying unusual amounts of attention to Draco as the holidays draw nearer, Draco can't figure out where it's coming from—possibly because he's gone stupid from all the fantastic sex. But what happens when he finds out that there may be another motive behind Potter's sudden interest?
Or: A fic in which Potter is hotter than Draco ever let himself admit, Draco didn't fill out that fucking form, and Pansy may or may not lose all of her hair.
Summary: Harry’s had a crush on Malfoy for months now. But it will take a bar full of his friends, some Firewhisky, wagers made on his behalf, and Malfoy himself to get him to act on it.
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There were two truths universally acknowledged and inseparably intertwined: Draco Malfoy was pretty, but he was also a prick. Harry had always been able to tell himself the former didn't matter because the latter was irrefutable, unchangeable. He had roughly a decades' worth of evidence.
Then, in a truly prick move, Malfoy had to go and stop being a prick, and in the process, turn Harry's entire life upside down.
And thank you thank you thank you @basiatlu for letting me borrow one of your Harrys!
Going through Potter's post was illuminating indeed, but Draco got the distinct and most unwelcome feeling he was learning entirely too much information about the boy wonder's personal life. He didn't feel bad about it-quite the contrary：he almost enjoyed it. He would find himself hunched over his desk in his room with the latest piece of parchment unfurled before him, mouthing the words to himself and hearing Potter’s voice in his head. Ron intercepted a cream puff I Accio’d at dinner and God bless the bloke who invented the Enchanted Razor and Seamus has decided to learn to play the bagpipes by graduation and it’s worse than baby mandrakes. These insignificant minutiae of Potter’s life were being burned into Draco’s mind, until he started catching glimpses of Potter in the hallway or across the courtyard and wondering the most insipid things, like Did he knot his tie himself today or are he and Weasley still practising on each other? and Did he choose a sensible toothpaste this morning or is he sticking with Bertie Bott’s Oral Adventure like a madman? and Has he found a suitable toy broom for Tedward yet?
It was only difficult to maintain a healthy disdain for Potter, was all, when one was being reminded on an almost daily basis that he could be stupid in a sort of silly way in addition to his usual infuriating way. That he Vanished foods he didn’t like from his plate when Granger wasn’t looking. That he had ever so many of the same flaws Draco did and was thus just as human and fallible. Just as touchable.
