Cake

Harry Potter Works #9

by Astolat

Fandom: Harry Potter
Relationship: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
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Harry tried not to care when after the war, everyone he knew seemed to have made an agreement to stop paying attention to birthdays.

Genres: Fan Fiction, Harry Potter

8 pages, ebook

Published August 4, 2016

About the author

I've written fanfic and made vids in a really ridiculous number of fandoms. Over the years, I've also used the pseudonyms shalott and the lady of shalott. All my work is available on the AO3 and you can also find me online in various other places.

http://ao3.org/users/astolat
http://astolat.dreamwidth.org/
http://astolat.livejournal.com/
http://astolat.tumblr.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/astolatvids
http://intimations.org/fanfic/ (outdated)

You are welcome to add and review any of my stories here if you like, and I also love comments at AO3 or any of my other online haunts. I also have a blanket permission policy for noncommercial transformative work of my work (eg, podfic, remix, fanart, etc) -- I love to be linked to anything you do, but you don't need to ask permission.

Reviews

[☾⋆⁺ Nurse After Dark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Content Rating: Explicit
Setting: Post war
Tags: Harry is a sad panda but presents make it better

So Harry very sensibly didn’t mind, he didn’t, except every single bloody time his birthday came round, he woke up with the clear sharp knowledge that it was his birthday, and once again he wasn’t going to get anything and no one was going to remember or care, and it sent him right back to the Dursleys, to the cupboard, to being the unloved scrap beneath the stairs, especially after a few years there when he’d learned to hope for more.

Aww, post-War Harry finally processing through childhood trauma is one of my favorite believable adult!Harry arcs. And then Draco had to go and send him a present and the rest happened and I'm a little ball of putty in Astolat's hands. Well played, writer. Well played.

“No one seems to care anymore,” Harry said, before he could help himself.
“Yes, you’re all too busy saving the world. Take a bloody weekend off once in a while.”

This is my favorite version of post-war Draco. The sass and snark are still there, but there's a level of maturity and gravitas to his person.

[GrEatE · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5*
strange little story, has a cracky feel to it, or is it just me?

[Diane]

VERY short to be listed on GR, but I like it.