#erised 2020

FIC CLAIM: Owl Was Well

OH HO DEAR READERS, I finally get to own up to inflicting 'owl!Animagus Draco shits on Harry, like a lot' upon the world, and I'm PROUD OF IT. This was my fill for the lovely cylsus for this year's H/D Erised, and I had an absolute blast creating this gift. If any Drarry fans who follow me haven't already checked it out, I hope you'll do so now (and if you *have* already checked it out but didn't know I had written anything else, well have fun!)

Summary: Draco Malfoy is not an owl, really he isn’t. He simply assumes the shape of one on occasion when he wants to find a bit of privacy—a goal entirely thwarted because Harry Potter doesn’t understand you can’t just grab any old bird from the Owlery and force it to send your missives and deliver your packages.

Word Count: 66.8k

Rating: Teen

Warnings: Eighth Year, Hogwarts, Animagus, Owls, Snarky Draco, Snarky Harry, Sexually Adventurous Pansy Parkinson, Sexually Adventurous Blaise Zabini, Draco&Pansy&Blaise Besties, Mild Toilet Humour, Draco POV, Fighting, Brief Mentions of Animal Death(s), Invasion of Privacy, Minor Injuries

Notes: Endless thanks go to my betas @akai-anna and @shigacajun as well as my Britpicker Mairearad!

I’m so excited to claim my fic from this year’s @hd-erised! 

A Better Kind of Love

Harry, along with the rest of the Puddlemere United team, is determined that this year will be the year they finally win the Quidditch League Cup. But when a Bludger-induced fall leads to a missed Snitch, broken bones, and an extended stay in St Mungo's, that conviction is put to the test. If Harry wants to have any chance of returning to the pitch this season he has to put all of his faith in his assigned Healer. Which is no easy task when that Healer is Draco Malfoy.

Pairing: Draco/Harry Rating: Explicit Word Count: ~26k Warnings/Enticements: EWE, Post-Hogwarts, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Getting Together, Quidditch Player Harry Potter, Healer Draco Malfoy, Hospitals, Discussion of injuries, Broken Bones, Injury Recovery, Skele-Gro, Physical Therapy, Nightmares, Quidditch, Masturbation, Rimming, Shower Sex, Locker Room Sex, Semi-Public Sex Author’s Notes: Written for JocundaSykes. Thank you to everyone who held my hand at various stages in the process of writing this fic: @keyflight790, @andithiel, and @xanthippe74. A huge thank you especially goes to @gracerene09 for your as always brilliant beta help and for always being there to listen to me agonise over fics. And finally thank you to the mods for a wonderful fest, and to everyone who read this fic! 

H/D Erised Fic Claim! @hd-erised

Title: Out of the Woods

Author: @janieohio​

Pairing: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy

Rating: Teen

Word Count: ~35k

Content Tags: Post-Hogwarts, Eventual Romance, Humor, Mystery, Adventure, Supportive Friends, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Mind Healer Harry Potter, Shop Owner Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter Raises Teddy Lupin, Cute Teddy Lupin, Sassy Harry Potter, Sarcastic Draco Malfoy, Brothers Grimm, Fae & Fairies, Minor Violence, Minor Character Death, Happy Ending, Into the Woods References... see AO3 for additional Tags

Summary: 

Teddy closes his eyes, wishing beyond wishes that the two men in his life whom he loves more than anyone would just learn to get along.

A light flares.

Teddy cries out, and the room falls silent. Harry and Draco struggle to find a way to escape a world of dark fairy tales and get back to Teddy, but the challenges they face are not all hidden in the woods.

Read on AO3

Author’s Notes: 

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy & Scorpius Malfoy Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Scorpius Malfoy Additional Tags: Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Post-Second War with Voldemort, Non-United Kingdom Setting, Single Parent Draco Malfoy, Asexual Draco Malfoy, Asexual Character, Child Scorpius Malfoy, Inspired by Poetry, H/D Erised 2020, Present Tense, Luna Lovegood & Draco Malfoy Friendship, unusual careers, Quidditch Player Harry Potter, Podfic Welcome Summary:

“You’re the last person I’d have expected to stumble across on the other side of the world.” 

In which Draco's quiet single-parent life is not so much interrupted as unexpectedly harmonised.

Notes:

Forged through flowing water

written for @hd-erised 2020 as a gift to @ohdrarry​

Drarry | E | wc 40k

Warnings: none apply

Tags: 

Desi Harry, Black Hermione, Healer Draco, Auror Harry, Diplomat Hermione, Discussion of colonialism, trapped in an enclosed space, magic theory, international travel, pining, enemies to friends to lovers, tattoos, magical tattoos, Sikhism, celebration of Hindu holidays, gratuitous amount of Indian food, decolonization, pining, accidental marijuana consumption, kissing under the influence, happy ending, promises made promises kept, rimming, mutual handjobs, Bill Weasley cameo, Blaise Zabini cameo, Curses, Dark Magic, Mention of Injured Children

Summary:

When Hermione sets up a diplomatic mission to begin repairing the damage British colonisation did to Indian magical communities Harry isn’t going to pass on the opportunity to visit and help his family’s home country. Maybe he should have asked a few more questions about the personnel she had recruited for it before signing on because Malfoy surely has an ulterior motive to be there.

Or

Harry goes back to India to rediscover some of his lost roots. He meets Malfoy there. Hijinks ensue!

Excerpt: 

They were set up in an absurdly luxurious hotel smack in the middle of the business district. Hermione scored the diplomatic suite but if his room was anything to go by, they were all in luxury rooms. Somehow it didn't feel right. Neither did the marble under his feet as he walked through the foyer to get out of the perfectly weather-controlled air of the hotel and into the sticky warm air of the afternoon in the city. The sounds and smells of the city assaulted him all at once and pushed every other thought aside for a moment. It felt like being in Delhi for the first time: the giddiness of being back in his family's home country; the thrum of a different kind of magic in the air; the colours everywhere, vibrant under the warm light of the sun starting to lower towards the horizon. He picked a direction and walked, wide-eyed and hungry to get his fill of images, of women in colourful sarees, of men in kurtas, of rough streets under his feet, of white buildings shining under the yellow sun. He filled his lungs with the smell of spices and flowers the deeper he went into the city. Even the smog seemed sweeter somehow, and the sound of car horns less discordant.

With every step and every breath his simmering anger subsided, mellowed by something sweeter, like the knowledge he was in a place where his family had prospered and in some small way, he was there to protect it and give back what he'd received. When he found himself in front of a gurdwara he stopped, suddenly wondering how far he'd got from the hotel. More than that, the sounds and smells coming from the temple kitchen made him question exactly how long he'd been out. His body was still set on the London timezone, so it could have been fifteen minutes just as easily as an hour. As much as he wanted to walk inside, cover his head and sit down for langar in the middle of a crowd of faces, brown as his own, where he could disappear for a moment, he was technically working, so he turned around and retraced his steps until he found the hotel.

We had planned to announce our 2020 fest today, but find that our thoughts are elsewhere: with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, and the millions of other Black people who have been and are being terrorized and killed by white supremacy.

Black lives matter. We stand in solidarity with the BLM movement, and in unequivocal opposition to the state-sanctioned violence, neglect, discrimination, and inequity that diminish Black people’s safety and well-being.

We know that many fans, including BIPOC fans, look to spaces like this one as a respite from the real world; H/D Erised will run this year as usual, with our announcement to come next week.

We also know that fannish spaces can and do harbor and replicate white supremacy. Before we proceed with this year’s fest, we ask you to join us in taking time to learn and think about how white supremacy manifests in fannish spaces. As a starting point, we recommend adding some of these works to your queue:

Zina Hutton's posts at Stitch's Media Mix, especially "Whose Job Is It To Fix Fandom?", "What It's Like Being Fandom Critical While Black," the "What Fandom Racism Looks Like" series, and her new series "Fandom Racism 101."

TaLynn Kel's "America's Whiteness Problem is Part of Your Fandom," published as part of her collection Still Breaking Normal: A Fat, Black, Femme, Geek Navigating an Anti-Black World 

DJ Wilson's "What 'Harry Potter' Doesn't Teach Us About Allyship & Activism" at Black Girls Create 

Rukmini Pande's Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race (consider buying from one of these independent Black-owned bookstores)

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’ The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (those bookstores again)

@transformativeworks's Transformative Works and Cultures issue  "Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color"

@fansplaining's episodes on Race and Fandom: Part 1 and Part 2  

As we read, listen, and talk, we’re thinking about what we can do – individually and as community members, in fandom and outside of it – to do the work of anti-racism. We hope you’ll join us in asking: Where does racism appear in fandom? What can we do when we see it? BIPOC fans have written about what they need to be safer and more comfortable in fannish spaces; how can anti-racist allies work to make that happen?

Yours in grief and solidarity,