#drarry plotty fic

Title: Always Already Pairing: Harry/Draco Length: 170k / 19h45 Rating: E Tags: time travel, getting together, saving the world, plotty, angst with a happy ending, identity issues, forced proximity, sectumsempra scars, time turner, wibbly wobbly timey wimey, theoretical physics, unspeakables, department of mysteries, teacher Harry, healer Draco, marauders, the philosopher's stone, the resurrection stone, the deathly hallows, the master of death, Draco Malfoy in the Muggle world, Legilimency, Legilimency sex, fathers and sons, young severus snape, Dallas (TV series), spoilers for Dallas (1980), moustaches, 1979 Ford Cortina Warnings: See author's note for details Summary:

Harry and Draco are perfectly fine, separately minding their business in 2004, when the Unspeakables conscript them into service… in the First War against Voldemort.

Come for mutual pining and forced proximity in a 1980 hotel room, stay for young Sirius and philosophising about immortality and wormholes. And an eighties cowboy soap opera.

I know a lot of you have read this when it was being posted as a chapter fic, so I'm late to the game, but just in case you haven't...you should.

@oflights is masterful in the storytelling and pacing for all 134K words. There are switches of timelines, places, and POV for the various chapters. From the beginning, you know something bad happened to Harry and Draco in the past and you know an additional bad thing happened to Draco, which about crushed Harry. However, as you learn about what is going on in different timelines, you get so caught up in the storytelling of one timeline you forget that there's more and then the hammer comes down. We are told from the start that there is a happy ending. Keep that in mind...always.

It reminded me of when I first read Turn. There was the beginning with Harry upset with kids and life and then there was the whole alternate life with Draco. You got lost in it and loved it even though somewhere in the back of your mind you knew it would end.

Three of the big standouts in the story is the magical lore and the exploration of the underworld. Good grief, what a concept. And second is Scorpius. You will love him to pieces. Also there is this very cute strange little pup that you'll become very attached to.

I'm not telling much of the plot here because it has to be experienced. But Harry being Deputy Headmaster at Hogwarts is where it starts. Draco an expert Curse-breaker lives in Hogsmeade with Scorpius and Scorpius attends Hogwarts.

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