The Standard You Walk Past

by Bafflinghaze

On returning to Hogwarts for their Eighth Year, Headmistress McGonagall decided to room Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter together. She may have hoped for a leading example of house unity; the other students fully expected insults and fights. But nothing happened.

That was, until Harry sleepwalked into Draco’s bed.

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Genres: Fan Fiction, Fantasy, Harry Potter, LGBT, M M Romance, Romance, Magic

154 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2015

About the author

reader and writer of BL webnovels and M/M fanfic!

Reviews

[Shannon]

Being able to log the novel long random fanfics I binge on goodreads? We are truly living in the future.

[Courtney Vickers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still really freaking sweet! Draco and Harry are my OTP, literally, give me all the fanfiction!

[Natali · Rating 4 out of 5]

La historia es buena. Draco y Harry compartiendo habitación en su octavo año. Ninguno de los dos se sentía comodo y así fue durante un tiempo.
Tenemos el sonambulismo de Harry, que lo hace terminar en la cama de Draco, eso se me hizo algo muy tierno y sabía que en algún momento iba a salir a luz 😅.
Después los tenemos compartiendo desayunos juntos y es aquí donde su relación empieza a nacer, lo vemos más desde el Pov de Harry, donde él siente/desea pasar más tiempo con Draco y también como intenta que Draco sonría o interactue más con él.


Y si bien, podemos ver como esta parte 'realista' en donde alumnos de Hogwarts molestan a Draco. También como este rechazo social a la homosexualidad, lo que hace que pues por un tiempo Harry tenga pesadillas con ahora de que él lo sea.

También tenemos este desarrollo en donde Harry y Draco empiezan a salir ❤, la parte donde Hermione y Ron aceptando e incluyendo a Draco, y poco a poco su círculo de cercanos también.

Sin embargo aún siento que a la historia le faltó alargarse, o que los capítulos fueran más largos.
Más momentos en que Harry y Draco tuvieran pláticas más profundas y hablaran y sanaran heridas del pasado.
Y más escenas románticas entre ellos, fueron muy pocas 💔. Sin duda eso me hizo falta, más momentos entre ellos. Es que soy amante de ellos dos y necesitaba más.

[✧desiree✧ · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5☆’s

[ReadItAnyway_ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad

[tzbe · Rating 3 out of 5]

dnf


i thought that this fanfic was okay. the entire premise of the sory seemed for myself a bit... weird. fanfis for me must be rooted a bit in reality to buy into the story. this is why i loved in another life. i think this is okay.

[Cakebeltran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me acabo d leer esta fanfic de una sentada, estoy mal

2º vez: me lo he leido dos veces en el mismo año, ambas veces en una sentada. ESTOY MAl, AMO ESTA FANFIC. amo a harry y draco, vale??? No shame in that

[Maria Drago · Rating 3 out of 5]

At first, Draco being mute felt really off. There wasn't a tag or a warning, so I thought he was just being weird, or it was just a weird oversight for the first few Drarry interactions.
And then we find out the truth! I thought it was really cool that he was cursed (however weird that may sound LOL), and I can't believe I didn't think of that. At the same time, though...I can't believe the other characters didn't pick up on that! I simply cannot be blamed.

I looooove some good dream sharing (me, chanting internally: please get dirty please get dirty please get dirty please-). However, I had to suspend too much disbelief that Harry makes his way into Draco's bed every single night and not once wakes up before Draco in all that time. Well, until the "climax."
I think it could've been switched up, where it happens just the one night, and Draco gets all flustered before putting Harry back in his own bed, but before that, Draco gets dragged into the dream and experiences Harry's nightmare. So, as a form of helping (just like his reasoning in the fic), Draco starts treating Harry's dreams. But I think he could've done this by getting up and going to Harry and then doing basically the same thing he does in this fic (holding his hand to enter his dream and then hugging/soothing him through it). So it's pretty much the same, except now it makes more sense. And then it's also 10x funnier when Draco sees the dream of Harry kissing him. He'd think he's getting up to help with a nightmare, but it turns out to be suddenly romantic!!

Random things I liked:
Harry mistaking Luna for the person in his dream (Draco).
Harry making fun of himself in Draco's stead, and Draco approving.
Hermione acting like such a mom and requesting that Draco be properly introduced to her and Ron as if they're Harry's parents giving him their blessing.
Draco kissing Harry in the middle of the Great Hall.


Unfortunately, it was hard to get into this story because the pacing is SO off. There were various pacing issues, to the point where the plot doesn't make sense and characters are too OOC. Scenes get cut off really quickly, or switch unnecessarily between perspectives. There are often no transitions used, just jump cuts to different days, and it's really jarring and made everything feel like it was progressing too quickly.
But just overall, the romance itself advances too quickly. Not to mention, they go straight to sleep after their first kiss, which is a REALLY INTENSE ONE, mind you. It mad it hard to believe, even though there was good set-up for it. They just jump into a relationship too quickly, it felt like, with nary a complaint or qualm.

On the whole, it was a fun read, good amount of cute scenes, not terribly written, and pretty much the fluff it presents itself as with not a lot of depth to it, which isn't necessarily a bad thing (although a lot of things feel glossed over, especially regarding the background characters or their lives outside of what's happening right in front of us).

I know this is a fanfiction, but just let me be a proper critic for a second XD
(Also, I mainly write these reviews for my future self.)
No offense intended! I really admire the ambition and motivation that goes into writing longer fics like this, and I'm working on that myself!

[Vivid4674 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Both return to 8th year. Draco has been cursed so cannot talk. Harry n draco roommates. Harry every night roams hogearts because cannot slp(nightmares). Starts to crush on draco so try to slp early. Every night llnight he sleepwslk on draco bed. Draco tenderly makes harry to slp by rubbing his forhead but every morning he silently puts harry back in his bed. 1 day draco also goes inside harrys nightmare where he is concious so tries to soothe harry by donging lullaby. Later garry knows that draco was the one who entered his dream to soothe him. Children are hexing draco but he dont report. Harry saw that draco is being bullied so he rewiests draco to tell headmistress. Later draco tells everything to mam who deducts all house poi ts of guilty students.

[Gabriela M · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this one so fast, I’m not sure how that happened.
It was a decent 8th year fic, where Harry and Draco are roomed together.
Harry sleepwalks and has a lot of nightmares, Draco lets him sleep in his bed, enters his nightmares and sings him a lullaby. Draco is precious here.
I’m not sure when they fell in love, but it happened and it was sweet.

[Julia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think it was okay :) good to read in between longer fics. I actually really enjoyed the idea and it would have been great to make something much longer out of it to get a more natural character development. but still, it was a cute story!

[Sunjay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pros: Gay, easy to follow, cute
Cons: I don't enjoy combating homophobia as a primary point of conflict

[Amelia · Rating 5 out of 5]

戰爭結束後，Harry的創傷、惡夢，Draco被其他學院排擠，孤獨的兩人相互療傷的故事。
其實我覺得Harry超可憐，沒有一年是平靜的，莫名其妙被佛地魔指定為天選之人，身邊的人還因為自己過世⋯⋯我不相信戰後Harry不需要治療⋯⋯太慘了
記得Harry曾問鄧不利多自己是否要回去，不禁思考若沒有那些責任，Harry會回去嗎？

[Abhi]

I've read this before?

[Sofia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute 😸

[yesenia · Rating 4 out of 5]

bruhhh I really liked it and read it in ONE night

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

78%

[Kai · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 was okay kind of cute, no big personalities and plot was minimal

[Pacg__nkg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute but would have loved a bit more banter

[Ycidra · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,75

[Nyx · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved everything about it! ✨💕✨

[vicky :) · Rating 3 out of 5]

estuvo lindo aunque siento que el desarrollo de personajes fue muy rápido, pero si no querés pensar o sufrir mucho, la historia va como piña.

[Marta · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5

[bre · Rating 3 out of 5]

what is sleep walking per sey

[Andrea (Marauders version) · Rating 5 out of 5]

something about the fanon hp ships fix smthng in me😂❤️

[C. Roberta · Rating 4 out of 5]

So sweet love this

[Edytakocha · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 basic mega uroczy

[Isabel · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars 🌟. I love 8th year fics but this one was a little confusing but still wholesome and nice ;).

[Ryen · Rating 3 out of 5]

“The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.”

[Agus]

dnf 81%
maybe drarry while being students isn't for me