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Drarry Community Rec List: Hilarious Banter

A massive THANK YOU to everyone that participated by voting and/or sending in a rec to share!

Recs are sorted by length. Tried my best to tag the creators based on their known Tumblr accounts, but I couldn't find everyone. If anyone does know an account for the ones untagged, drop a comment and I'll edit the post!

ON WITH THE RECS!

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📚 rational economic actors by @yellowfork Explicit | 8k words | 2025

Rec'd by @the-forbidden-forest: This is Draco Malfoy in all his best unhinged glory. I love him and I love Yellowfork. Additional major tags/themes (via reccer): Coworkers, Draco Malfoy is obsessed with Harry Potter (and his new forays into gay sex), First time bottoming

📚🎨 Spoiled Little Brat by @fastbrother (art by @appleslightning) Teen | 9k words | 2024

Rec'd by @suzieburself: Hogwarts professors with the perfect petty relationship. The dialogue is crisp and the characterization is perfect. If Draco doesn’t make you want to laugh, cry, and punch him, is it really Draco?

📚 The Venice Job by nishizono Explicit | 25k words | 2007

Rec'd by @scarredsnake: Auror fic with fake dating, drarry who act like they hate each other guts (they're smitten with each other and just don't know it yet) and a harry who is definitely not gay! (he doesn't have internalized homophobia, he just ""isn't gay""). I loved this fic because it's so drarry in a nutshell, and draco is hilarious, annoying and a little shit overall. Also it's a good case fic!

📚 Hissy Fit by @dysonrules Mature | 28k words | 2010

Rec'd by @ira-dunfort: Parselmouth Harry is an Auror, Draco is not, but a registered snake Animagus. They are ordered to work together to solve a series of crimes, for wich Harry does all the legwork while Draco hangs around his neck, talking his ears off.

📚 Rookie Moves by peu_a_peu Explicit | 75k words | 2023

Rec’d by @its-the-allure: The funniest thing I have ever read, ever, fic or trad pub or anything else. This is a must read!!!!

📚 Socratic Methods by @thecouchsofa Explicit | 79k words | 2025

Rec'd by Anon: Couldn't get enough of the back and forth between the two of them (especially during the first "event"), and the sexual tension they're dancing around makes it that much better. A second rec by a different Anon: The banter in this one needs to be studied! I laughed out loud so many times and I loved how the relationship progressed

📚 From Clouds To Rain by @shewhxmustnxtbenamed Explicit | 106k words | 2025

Rec'd by Anon: From Clouds to Rain is one of my all time favorites for banter! It’s a cozy Muggle AU where Harry is filling in as Draco’s assistant. It’s just SO MUCH BANTER, and all of it is SO CUTE and I just AH I love it. Draco is so soft, even when he’s trying to be cold and stoic and just their dynamic is AWESOME Additional major tags/themes (via reccer): Trans!Harry, angst and fluff and smut, angst with a happy ending

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Drarry Community Rec List: Hogwarts Professors

Drarry family, I hope you discover something new and wonderful to read from this list. Thank you to everyone who sent in recs!

Also, if you enjoy long fics this is the list for you: the majority of the recs have a word count of over 50,000 🎉

If you know the tumblr accounts for the untagged authors, please leave a comment with their username.

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📚 Happy Returns by @toomuchplor Teen | 6k words | 2024

Rec'd by Anon

📚 More Than That by joosetta Explicit | 10.9k words | 2013

Rec'd by @tackytigerfic: [One] of my favourite fics ever.

📚 A Gift of True Esteem by @apliddell Explicit | 53.9k words | 2022

Rec'd by Anon

📚 Finely Drawn Lines by @the-sinking-ship Explicit | 61.4k words | 2022

Rec'd by Anon: It is beautiful and sexy and so much fun!

📚 Transfigurations by Resonant - @petymology Explicit | 71.2k words | 2003

Rec'd by @tackytigerfic: [One] of my favourite fics ever.

📚 Bolts by @lqtraintracks Explicit | 114k words | 2021

Rec'd by Anon: As everything is by this author, this fic is brilliant!

📚 All Life is Yours to Miss by Saras_Girl Mature | 114k words | 2013

Rec'd by Anon: Good chance most people have read it already, but this is like THE professor fic of all time for me. It's so sweet and genuine and it just lives in my head rent free along with my sweet, darling boy, Stanley <3

📚 A Soft Place to Fall by @amomorii Explicit | 143k words | 2024

Rec'd by Anon: This fic is beautiful and a wonderful Drarry story with an unexpected character you will fall in love with!

📚 A Secondary Education by Thunderbird587 Explicit | 234k words | 2018

Rec'd by @its-the-allure: One of the HOTTEST Drarry I have ever read, featuring a confident gay Harry and a recently-divorced bi-curious Draco. Harry gives him a thorough secondary eduction.

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Drarry Community Rec List: Magically Powerful Harry 🪄

We have one hell of a rec list this round...y'all came out in force for this one!

Recs are sorted by length. If you know the tumblr accounts for the untagged authors, please comment and I'll tag them.

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📚 the same old witchcraft (when your eyes meet mine) by @phdmama Explicit | 4k words | 2024

Rec'd by Anon: The one where Harry uses his powerful magical abilities to invent a sex magic spell and must prove to Draco that it exists. It’s a gem! Additional major tags/themes (via reccer): Secret relationship/fuckbuddies, semi-public sex

📚 let gravity win by @phoenixortheflame Explicit | 4k words | 2024

Rec'd by @its-the-allure: What if Harry Potter was a little bit like the devil — in a good way?

📚 Stupid Love by @the-sinking-ship Explicit | 16k words | 2020

Rec'd by Anon: I love how in this fic, Draco tells himself that everything Harry does is rude and disgusting and that the weird feelings he gets when he hears Harry laugh or sees Harry rip through a ward are nothing more than hate. It’s simultaneously hilarious and so hot!

📚 on the divine agony of longing by @flimsi Explicit | 25k words | 2024

Rec'd by @babysitterpng: feat. possessive and jealous harry, snarky draco pining, and misunderstandings! the descriptions of harry's magical prowess were just chefs kiss. Additional major tags/themes (via reccer): humour, post-hogwarts

📚 Most Arrogant and Loving of Men by Lomonaaeren Explicit | 30k words | 2018

Rec'd by @badwolfblues: For magically powerful Harry, I immediately think of how much I love this fic. Draco’s seduction of Harry in this is so good, and I love when Harry learns to take care of himself first sometimes. Harry’s friends are not painted in the best light, as a warning. Harry is scary powerful and the whole thing is delicious Additional major tags/themes (via reccer): Angst, violence, minor character death

📚 Like Lightning at Your Fingertips by artistic_license Teen | 43k words | 2019

Rec'd by @scarredsnake: beautiful eighth year fic! there's parseltongue, there's action, there's bed sharing, there's slow falling in love! their relationship is so very sweet and vulnerable <3

📚 I Am Not Who I Became by mab_di Explicit | 93k words | 2019

Rec'd by @its-the-allure: Incredible character study of both boys after the war. Gripping. Beautiful writing. Angsty. Hot.

📚 Writing to Reach You by @youhavemyswordandmybow Explicit | 106k words | 2025

Rec'd by Anon: I just love how sweet the whole thing is. And I love the epistolary part too. Additional major tags/themes (via reccer): Magically powerful Harry, epistolary (though only intermittently), fell first/fell harder, mild Ginny bashing, discussion of miscarriage

📚 To have a Home by @myaulophobia Explicit | 127k words | 2024

Rec'd by @dewitty1: Absolutely outstanding (⁎⁍̴̛͂▿⁍̴̛͂⁎)*✲ﾟ*｡⋆♡💜💙💚💛🧡❤️🩷💗💕💖

📚 A Sword Laid Aside by @korlaena Explicit | 128k words | 2018

Rec'd by Anon: This is such a fantastic fic revolving around older Drarry. It has so much action and humor and heart. Harry is overly powerful and there is a mystery behind that. Overall an incredible fic!!

📚 All Magic Flows by hypata Teen | 397k words | 2025

Rec'd by Anon: Fantastic world building, I love the found family themes and the (well paced, incredibly) slow burn between Harry and Draco. They write magic in a way that scratches the right part of my brain. I think Hypata says it best, in their own words: A British soap-opera paced crime-drama with Western undertones.

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Introducing the Drarry Rec Room!

A space for 18+ Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy fans to share recommendations based on a rotating theme, category, or trope voted on by the community.

After a theme has been chosen, anyone can submit a rec via the ask box. Recs will then be compiled into a list and shared, and the cycle continues with a new poll for the next theme. More details here!

VOTING IS CLOSED

Drarry Community Rec List: Curses/Cursed Objects and/or Kinky for Kinktober 🎃

Here we are again with another banger of a rec list just in time for Halloween, all submitted by Drarry readers! The vote was so close for this one that we went with two separate themes, but bonus 'points' to those of you that submitted fics that fit both themes. There's one on the list that fits both that three separate people recommended, omg.

Recs are sorted by length. As always, if you know the tumblr accounts for the untagged authors please comment with their username!

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📚 Mirror, Mirror by @the-forbidden-forest Explicit | 2k words | 2025

Rec'd by Anon: Cursed object and absolutely delicious smut! Short and sweet and definitely worth a read! <33

📚 into an animal being by @eleadore Explicit | 2.6k words | 2025

Rec'd by Anon: This one's just kinky, no curses! Draco spells himself a vagina because he has a breeding kink, but he doesn't want Harry to know and hides it with snark and deflection. Harry figures it out 😉 Additional major tags/themes (via reccer): Breeding kink, sex magic, established relationship

📚 Lay Your Weapons Down, Baby by @mushroomheadgirl Explicit | 6k words | 2021

Rec'd by @dewitty1: Summary: In which the boys fight until they fuck. Then, they fight and fuck. Then, they just fuck until the fucking isn’t fighting anymore but something else entirely.

📚 Reasonable Precautions for the Investigation of Suspicious Artefacts by @xalandrix Explicit | 6.6k words | 2024

Rec'd by Anon: xalandrix really nails it with this one!!! it’s funny and just the right amount of cracky, and then so earnest and hot.

📚 Purple by @faiell Explicit | 8.9k words | 2024

Rec'd by @its-the-allure: First fic that came to mind to fulfill the rec ask for cursed object AND kinktober!

📚 Warlock Farnunckle's Curious Collection of Erotic Artefacts by Anonymous (until 2025 Career Fair reveals) Mature | 17.3k words | 2025

Rec'd by @icedmarcha: its kinky AND has cursed objects!! its the perfect fit!! This fic was delightful, hot, and funny! such creative uses for magical artefacts, along with steamy suggestive scenes. Can't go wrong! Additional major tags/themes (via reccer): Coworkers to Lovers, Mutual Pining, and Good Draco Malfoy trying to be better educated about Muggles.

📚 The Vault of Heaven by @dodgerkedavra Explicit | 23.3k words | 2025

Rec'd by @lifeisphantasmagoria: This fic is so hot and funny and hot and Harry is a disaster. I love this fic so much! Additional major tags/themes (via reccer): Ritual Sex, Bonding Curse, Fuck or Die, Light Dom/Sub, Orgasm Delay/Denial and multiple orgasms, crying during sex

📚 Higher and Higher (Temptation) by birdsofshore Explicit | 28.4k words | 2016

Rec'd by @badwolfblues: I thought of this for cursed artifacts but it is also kinky! It’s a classic for me, with yearning, dominance/submission, and Harry causing problems for everyone.

Rec'd by Anon1: Hi! For the list i could like to rec Higher and higher (temptation) by birdsofshore! It's amazing!!

Rec'd by Anon2: would be shocked if no one submitted this fic, classic cursed object kinky fic

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Happy New Year, Drarry family! A new year also means #DecemberDrarryRecs - spin-off of @hprecfest - has sadly come to an end.

Thanks to everyone who jumped in on the fun! So many great recs were shared. Below are links to the #DecemberDrarryRecs tagged blog posts from the participants. Enjoy!

Recs by @arminaa8 Recs by @badgerslippers Recs by @cailynwrites Recs by @its-the-allure Recs by @smugrobotics

Drarry Rec Theme Poll: Round 2

In case you missed it, click here for the previous rec list for the hilarious banter theme!

AO3 is back AND it's Friday, so let's celebrate by gathering up some drarry fic recs that fit the chosen theme:

HILARIOUS BANTER 🎉

The ask box is open and ready for your rec submissions that fit this theme!

This is all pretty loosey-goosey (am I figuring this out as I go? MAYBE) but there are just a few guidelines to help keep things organized:

✅ Include a direct link to the work (fic, art, etc.). All necessary information will be gathered from the provided link. ✅ It's encouraged (but optional) to include a brief sentence or two about why you love it/are recommending it. It's also optional, but helpful, to list a few other major tropes/tags that fit the work (other than the current theme). ✅ Anon submissions are welcome! Recs submitted under your username will be attributed to you. ✅ For the time being, please only submit one rec per cycle (this may change, depending on how many are submitted). ❌ No AI generated works or self-recs, please.

There isn't a hard deadline to submit for this very first round of recs, as it's unknown how may recs will be submitted overall and how long people will need. Playing it by ear this first go round.