#thegoldendawn

Chapters: 21/22 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Characters: Harry Potter, Kreacher (Harry Potter), Draco Malfoy, Hannah Abbott, Hermione Granger, Teddy Lupin, Neville Longbottom, Ron Weasley Additional Tags: Mystery, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Private Investigators, Post-Battle of Hogwarts, Slow Build, Ministry of Magic, Professors, Past Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley Summary:

Another glorious commission from @slashpalooza has slain me! Too incredible, I just cannot contain myself!

From Chapter 16: Recuperation

“I imagine you’ll not be surprised to learn I’m rather thick headed when it comes to Occlumency.”<\p>

“A failing of our Chosen One? Lucky you Rita Skeeter’s still in Azkaban,” Draco drawled, then shifted closer to Harry on the bed. Harry stiffened in surprise when pale fingers slid over his jaw and neck to hold his face at either side, his eyes widening as Draco leaned in close enough that they shared the same breath between them.<\p>

“Your heart is a stone, never showing,” he intoned softly, like a mantra, and Harry shivered as the words seemed to slide over his lips. “Your thoughts are a river, always flowing. Let some truths be found as moss on the stone. Keep your secrets within; unseen, unknown. Thoughts slide as water past fingers questing. You are the master of this testing.”<\p>

Harry felt himself sink into the words, as though the world had narrowed down to just the two of them in that moment, unable to look away from the grey of Draco’s eyes. His words finished in a whisper, but Draco remained where he was, looking at Harry just as closely. Involuntarily, Draco brushed his thumb against the softness of his beard and Harry’s breath caught.<\p>

The first of my commissions from @slashpalooza is here and I am DYING for its loveliness! I’ll simply have to keep commissioning until I have one for every chapter. (Just kidding, TGD is massive and I have to eat…or DO I?!)

From Chapter 10: Fascination

As he neared, Harry saw that Malfoy was standing before the largest Hawthorn tree he’d ever seen, so large in fact that it took him a moment to place the tree’s species. It looked out of place among the ancient Fir and Oak that towered about them, but there was a wildness to the Hawthorn tree that seemed well at home in the Forbidden Forest. Settling himself a safe distance away, not crouched or hiding now that the potential of being spotted by a magical golden eye had passed, Harry watched as Malfoy rolled the sleeves of his tunic and approached the silver-barked trunk.