Tales of an Injured Fog Rat

Harry and Draco

ok but imagine: harry isn’t the only first year to discover the mirror of erised. draco finds the mirror too and when he stands in front of it, he frowns when all he sees is harry potter shaking his hand. imagine how he returns the next year to find that the mirror has been removed, but he keeps searching until he rediscovers it only to see himself holding the snitch with harry potters hand on his shoulder. imagine how he, after having figured out what it does, returns the next year, and the year after, how he grows more nervous with each return, the mirror only ever showing him images of potter grinning or potter nudging him or potter throwing his arm around his shoulder so that when draco returns to the mirror in fifth year, he’s all filled up with anger and anxiety, swearing to himself that this time it will NOT be potter he sees. when all he sees is potter taking his hand though, he snaps, throws a massive fit, tries to destroy the mirror with hexes, punches and kicks and starts screaming at it when he finds he can’t. he never returns to it after that

No, he does return. It takes him a while, but he does. He’s hesitant still, of a damn mirror, even though it’s eighth year and he’s been through a war. But somehow what this mirror holds is scarier than any fight. As he steps up to the mirror, at first, he is alone. And then, as always, Harry saunters in, throws his arm around Draco’s mirror self. Draco had been expecting this– but it usually ends there. This time, though… Draco watches in horror as Harry leans in as if to whisper something, and then pulls Draco’s chin to face him and kisses him. He spends more time sitting in front of that mirror than he ever would have before. Hours upon hours staring at Harry looping an arm around his waist, smiling at him, kissing him. The longer he sits, the more he starts to know, with an impending sense of dread, that the mirror is absolutely right.

He stops returning the day he finally kisses Harry Potter. He knows what he wants, mirrors be damned.

IT GOT BETTER

seeing as we get the books from harry’s perspective we never get a proper description of his looks that aren’t pulled down by years and years of seeing the same face in the mirror so my headcanon is that harry is - in a way - ridiculously pretty.

not like fleur, nothing over the top, just little things about him and the way he is, like how his lashes are so dark and so long, and how they are quite possibly driving a certain young malfoy up the wall.