FIC: Of Infinite Longings

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Title: Of Infinite Longings
Author: lauren3210
Prompt: Draco has been hiding his love of literature because he can't be a cool Prince of Slytherin that way. Left with no expectation this year, Draco throw himself to the thing he loves.
Word Count: 6730
Rating: R
Contains: A lot of talk about books being the best thing ever; author’s shameless use of characters to explain why books are the best thing ever; books, basically.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Epilogue compliant?: Noooooope.
Summary: Draco likes books. Harry doesn’t, but he thinks he might like Draco.
Author’s Notes: Dear prompter, my brain decided that you meant Muggle literature, I hope that’s okay. None of the quotes used are mine, I just borrowed them to help make my point about books being awesome. Title taken from the poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.

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Comments

[gracerene]

I really enjoyed this one! The writing was beautiful, and I LOVE bookish!Draco. Especially when it comes with a side of glasses!Draco. :D

Harry hadn’t meant to follow him. Well, okay, he had, because he’d gone upstairs to his dorm room and collected the map and the cloak, and then followed the little label on the map all the way here, invisible and silent as possible, so the following thing would probably look a little premeditated to an outsider, but he truly hadn’t meant to.

LOL! I loved this part, and there were so many other lines that I thought were just perfect.

Really enjoyable read and I adored the ending. :D

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, darling! ♥

[leontinabowie.livejournal.com]

This was a lovely story, and it was written beautifully. I loved how romance centred around the book, and Draco wearing reading glasses is a wonderful image.

A very enjoyable read :)

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! ♥

[fauxpersonae007.livejournal.com]

That was an amazing use of description, I felt the atmosphere so much. Loved this, it was so beautiful!

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

What a lovely comment, thank you so much! ♥

[zeitgeistic.livejournal.com]

The ironing spell! Aww. This was soft and sweet and lovely. Thank you!

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reading, darling! ♥

[fantasyfiend09.livejournal.com]

This was so sweet. I love seeing Draco through Harry's eyes. The only think hotter than bibliophile Draco is bibliophilephile Harry. What? Totally a word!

I love Draco being friends with Hermione, and their relationship in this was wonderful. It's one thing to find another nerd, but quite another to find a person who reveres books like Hermione does. She had better never tell Draco about ripping that page out about basilisk in second year! He was just adorable with his reaction to Ron folding a corner. Like a kicked puppy. Poor Ron, I could definitely see his side, too.

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

Absolutely a word! Thank you darling, I'm glad you enjoyed it! ♥

[rainfallsdown8.livejournal.com]

This was lovely! I love that Draco has a love for Muggle literature! Thanks for sharing.

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

And thank you for reading and commenting! ♥

[groolover.livejournal.com]

I loved this so, so much. At first I thought it was going to be like "The Reader" (which is one of my all-time favourite H/D stories), but you went in a different direction, and did it perfectly - I like this story even better. The atmosphere was totally magical throughout. Thank you.

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

Wow what a lovely comment, thank you so much! ♥

[huldrejenta.livejournal.com]

Beautiful and atmospheric! The scene where Draco read out loud to Harry was wonderful (and I love the book he read from :)), and a really lovely ending. Truly lovely fic! ♥

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

Thank you, lovely, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! ♥

[chojangmi.livejournal.com]

Thank you for taking my prompt and turn it into this lovely piece!
Muggle literature, perfect I especially adore Draco's kicked puppy and Hermione's rage over the dog eared page, you captured it really well (I feel disturbed everytime I see dog eared books in my local library) and I really adore your take of Ron and Hermione And Harry, repairing the page for Draco Who can let that face clouded? Not Harry obviously.
Kudos for you MA!

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! I share a mad and passionate love affair with books, so I couldn't not pick this prompt and run away with it. Thank you for giving me such a lovely idea, and for the lovely comment! ♥

[crystalgreene.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed this so much. So much atmosphere! Yours is now my favourite literary library. And your take on Drarry? Subtle and sizzling all at the same time. Loved it!

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

I thought for sure that I'd tracked this post, so I can't think how I managed to miss this comment! Thanks so much for reading, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! <3

[felixfvlicis]

I was looking at your master list, and this story immediately intrigued me. Then I read it and, oh, my god. I don't even know where to begin, so I apologize in advance if this comment seems all over the place.

I loved the structure of the story, how you nearly started in medias res and then built around it -- it worked perfectly, and the repetition of the beginning just before the climax was so . . . careful and thoughtful and just all of the feels.

I love that Harry finds normal so incredibly boring, so what does he do? Tries to figure out what Draco is "up to". Sigh.

“I like it,” he said, turning the leather bound book over in his hands. “It says things that I feel but don’t know how to express.”

“Like what?”

“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

Oh, god. Can I just live in this little piece of the story? Please? It's full of a romantic fragility that just lingers throughout the whole story. Perfectly executed.

I adore Draco's elusiveness in this, he's just out of Harry's reach, but right there, laying open, in the pages of the books that he reads. You made him romantic, and my, did I fall.

And Harry falling for him as he reads . . . so overcome with desire that he can't stand to stay suspended in another moment without touching Draco. Literally everything.

This was beautifully written. Please know that I enjoyed it immensely. I am going to read as much of your work as possible. Your writing reaches me in a way that not many stories are able to.

Thank you.

♥