Title: Just Not Cut Out for Torture
Author: ShiloQuetchenbach
Beta: None
Type: Chaptered
State: Complete (has two associated follow-up one-shots)
Rating: Teen and Up
Word Count: 58,005
Warnings: Minor Character Death (mcd), mentions of previous abuse
Summary: Drarry Hogwarts 7th year AU. The summer before 7th year, a restless Harry Potter is captured and taken to Malfoy Manor. Together, he and Draco Malfoy escape to Grimmauld place, where they are instructed to stay put while the Order takes care of more urgent business. Left out of the Horcrux hunt, they hatch their own plans to defeat Voldemort. Kreacher and the sentient Black House play a pivotal role, joined by a reluctant Snape and all the usual suspects. With the help of their friends, Harry and Draco learn to tolerate one another, defeat Voldemort, and even death itself. In this alternate Battle of Hogwarts, pranks and scheming carry the day.
Tags: War Time, Hogwarts Era - alternate 7th year, Adventure, Alternate Timeline, Magical AU, Angst / Drama, Humor, Fluff, Coming Out, Inter-House Unity, Pining, Down & Out! Draco, Enemies -> Friends -> Lovers, Prisoner!fic, Minor Character Death, Unusual POV, Black House POV, Kreacher POV, Background Pansy/Ginny, Background McGonagall/Snape, Background Hermione/Fred/Luna/George
Quote: Draco laughed. "Merlin, Harry. You argued with the Sorting Hat. Not only that, you bloody well won. You'd have made a smashing Slytherin."
Harry looked startled. "Huh. Never thought of it like that."
Draco smiled fondly at him. "Of course you didn't. You're a Gryffindor." Then he pulled Harry roughly against him, and silenced whatever he was about to say with a kiss.
Which quickly turned into five kisses, and then ten, and then Draco stopped counting and his world narrowed to a scorching hot mouth, a sly tongue that tangled with his own, devious fingers that trailed fire up and down his body until he was burning, burning, burning. Until he felt his fears and insecurities falling away in soft flutters of ash. Until he felt himself consumed in Harry's inferno, and thought he knew what the phoenix felt like, as it was reborn from flame.
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Just Not Cut Out for Torture (HP - Drarry)
FanfictionDrarry Hogwarts 7th year AU. The summer before 7th year, a restless Harry Potter is captured and taken to Malfoy Manor. Together, he and Draco Malfoy escape to Grimmauld place, where they are instructed to stay put while the Order takes care of more...
