A Fangirl's Utopia

Title: When the Songbird Stopped Singing

Author: nherizu

Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, Draco/Astoria (more towards friendship), past Draco/Pansy, Harry/Ginny, Hermione/Ron, a very brief mention of Patil twins/Theodore.

Summary: Shortly after the war, Draco Malfoy wakes up with a new understanding, and Harry Potter needs firmer ground to walk on. Unfortunately, life is never easy, especially with the burdens of N.E.W.T.s looming closer. As Draco struggles to maintain his sanity, Harry is back to his old routine—stalking Draco.

Rating: R (Mature)

Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended and no profit is being made.

Warning(s) (highlight for details): * Language, emotional and behavioural issues, eating disorder, angst (but with lots of fluff, too . . . all right, it'll make it hurt/comfort, lol), mild violence, a brief mention of (very) minor character death(s). *

Epilogue compliant? EWE.

Author's Notes: See part 1. :)

Part 1, Part 2

( When the Songbird Stopped Singing Part 3 )

Part 4

Title: When the Songbird Stopped Singing

Author: nherizu

Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, Draco/Astoria (more towards friendship), past Draco/Pansy, Harry/Ginny, Hermione/Ron, a very brief mention of Patil twins/Theodore.

Summary: Shortly after the war, Draco Malfoy wakes up with a new understanding, and Harry Potter needs firmer ground to walk on. Unfortunately, life is never easy, especially with the burdens of N.E.W.T.s looming closer. As Draco struggles to maintain his sanity, Harry is back to his old routine—stalking Draco.

Rating: R (Mature)

Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended and no profit is being made.

Warning(s) (highlight for details): * Language, emotional and behavioural issues, eating disorder, angst (but with lots of fluff, too . . . all right, it'll make it hurt/comfort, lol), mild violence, a brief mention of (very) minor character death(s). *

Epilogue compliant? EWE.

Author's Notes: This is a hd_smoochfest fic. I tried to include all the requests, though it turned out to be a bit longer than I expected. The result is this somewhat 'Growing Up/Moving Forward' fic. I wanted to show Draco's recovery and character development little by little in this story, and I hope I was able to pull it off.

Thank you so much to Mrs Daisy and Ms Tya for sharing their experiences in dealing with Alexithymia and Emotional/Behavioural Disability, to my dear beta readers pionie, annalisemarie99, dannyfranx and saras_girl for helping me to make this piece better, to my lovely friend finite_farfalla for giving me advice. Last but not least, thank you to all the mods for their patience, and to mewthmeow for such a brilliant prompt. I really enjoyed writing this fic. :D

( When the Songbird Stopped Singing Part 1 )

Part 2.