Bettyblue

The Abduction of the Seraglio, starring Harry and Draco. AU - well, sort of.

Harry, Draco, snow, a shared sleeping bag and snogging. What more can you wish for?

The Malfoy code of conduct, murder, deciet, extracurricular studies and Wizard’s Chess, the Pureblood Way.

Five years after Harry and the rest left Hogwarts the Wizarding world finally celebrates the defeat of Voldemort. But it’s not that simple. Albus Dumbledore’s worst suspicions come to life and he enlists Auror Ron Weasley to help him. On Dumbledore’s request Ron sends a reluctant Harry on a mission with an even more reluctant Draco Malfoy looking for a missing dark lord, a lost fortune and clues to a mystery. Helpful friends, violent foes, spells, charms and all that. A fair amount of violence, death and destruction too. Not to mention some cross-dressing, intentional and unintentional, crimes, snakes and different kinds of Dark Magic. And maybe some romance.

The real reason Oliver Wood stayed so long in the showers when Gryffindor lost the Quidditch Game to Hufflepuff in PoA. Games, bets and oh, those Slytherins.

Hope springs eternal, that someday everything will be different, even those things we cannot change.

Wizards are born with teeth. Some toys with fire. Time: Mid-October 1981. Setting: The waiting room in the Ministry of Magic's Child-Ward Department. Players: Lily Potter; her son Harry, almost 15 months old; Marjorie Rutherford, a nanny; her ward Draco Malfoy, about the same age as Harry.