DRARRY ESCAPRIL 2020

List:

1. Dawn – Harry preps the shop to open and sees his new next door neighbor must be
here already! They’ve been loading in plants and getting the shop ready for ages now,
and he’s asked some of the worker guys but they just say the guy’s round here
somewhere. So he goes to see who it is—maybe it’s opening day? And he sees him:
Draco Malfoy. (Switch POV to Draco.) Draco hasn’t seen him yet—the sun’s just
coming over the horizon and Draco’s thinking how this is just a new dawn for him.
Then, in a weirdly familiar voice he hears, “Draco Malfoy?” and he turns and they
fight because Harry doesn’t believe he’s here opening a muggle shop and they both
get pissed.
2. Growth/decay – Draco, feeling guilty, brings Harry a bouquet which Harry jokingly
asks him to say what it means in flower language and he gets annoyed. Harry tries to
patch it up (hey, I brought a peace offering too!) with a café au lait and a croissant so
Draco feels better after a while. They talk about nothing really. Introduce side
characters, Draco interviews part-timers.
3. Is anyone listening? – Harry’s lonelier than ever. Ron and Hermione visit sometimes,
but with the new baby it’s hard for them to make it out. Spurred by this, he invites
Draco over for dinner and then immediately freaks out because that’s not nerve-
wracking at all. They agree to try being friends! Draco and Neville are friends kind
of, so Nev pops over to see how Draco’s doing with the shop and just has to go see
Harry, too. Of course, he also lays bait for both of them to actually talk to each other.
4. Earthly pleasures! – Draco hires a teenage part-timer to help out. They have dinner
together, and it starts entirely awkward but it’s okay. Wine (that Draco brought, ever
the hostess that one) helps loosen them up a bit, plus they agree to try to be friends
and to do this again sometime! There’s a bit of awkwardness as Harry sees Draco to
the door what with the whole goodnight kiss situation, but it’s kinda sweet actually.
Harry lives in Grimmauld Place.
5. The view from up here – This’ll be a plottier chapter. Set up side plotlines – the part-
timers’ love line, maybe? Plus Draco and Harry reflecting on the war and how
they’ve changed. Also a customer’s plotline. Maybe it’s one of the stressed college
kids who are always coming in, and today she’s crying so Harry invites her to go next
door with Draco because there’s not enough room in the back. It’s all very nurturing
and whatever.
6. Obsession – Ron and Hermione visit. Draco comes by for a coffee and kind of asks
him out (to visit Hogwarts) and then Ron and Hermione promptly make fun of Harry.
Harry visits their kid, thinks about being lonely.
7. Chemical Reaction – This is when Harry first thinks something’s up. He brings Draco
a coffee (we’re friends now or whatever) and Draco has mail sitting on the counter.
 He glances at the one on top of the stack and Draco’s like “don’t touch that!” and
Harry’s like “no, I’m going to check it because it looks suspicious.” And then does a
basic diagnostic charm he learned while he was (very briefly) an auror and figures out
it’s charmed with a curse so he’s like “We have to call the aurors” and Draco’s like
“no they’ll just think I’m a death eater wasting their time” and Harry’s like “no? Why
would they do that?” and then Harry’s like wait. Has this happened before and
Draco’s super guilty and says yes and Harry’s pissed and calls the aurors and they get
it dealt with but there’s some awful auror who complains about it the whole time
because some people just don’t learn, do they? And Harry makes Draco promise not
to keep stuff like that from him and Draco nods and tells him that that’s the real
reason he moved shop locations and Harry hugs him and it’s cute.
8. Hometown – Draco visits Narcissa, Harry visits Godric’s Hollow. They both visit
Hogwarts (mentioned it at dinner, this is what he was asking him out for) and it’s
honestly kind of sweet. McGonagall says hi, so does Hagrid.
9. Natural light -
10. Parasitic
11. Heaven/hell
12. Submerged in water
13. The city
14. Pink, like your brain
15. Euphoria
16. Bearing fruit
17. Grief
18. How did the sky look?
19. Tough to be a bug
20. Moon
21. Hands, wrists, teeth
22. Into the woods
23. Focus on the texture
24. Black hole
25. Extinction
26. Serpentine
27. Fight or flight
28. ___ as a weapon
29. Monochrome
30. Dusk

1k words minimum because come on, even if it’s a poetry challenge you should still, you know,
write. Try to do it all?
General plotline:

- Soft. Maybe kidfic, but that’s hard, maybe hurt/comfort? Still hard. But easier than
kidfic?
- Def w/ R/Her.
- Just a series of oneshots? Def easier and I don’t have time to do a plot outline unless I
have a death wish, which honestly? I probably do. But also is this really less time
consuming because then I have to write 31 half-plots which is honestly more work than
one big plot but I don’t know anymore.
- Auror partners? I know, it’s cliché, but at this point I don’t know. They need to at least be
friends because there is NOT enough time to write a whole enemies-to-lovers arc in 31
days. Well? Maybe there is. If I have a death wish.
- Flower shop AU? WAIT. It’s a flower shop/coffee shop AU and Draco just aggressively
flirts with flower combinations until Harry notices I LOVE IT. But there has to be more
plot than that? Maybe they start as like enemies/I-haven’t-seen-you-since-the-trials so
there’s a bit of bad blood there but it’s sorted out soon and then they get to be lovers!
That’s cute. Maybe their meddling part-time teenagers set something up? That’s fantastic.
- Okay, so Harry owns a café—Muggle, because he’s sick of getting weird fans. He’s been
there for a couple of years and the clothing store next door is okay, but very, very, very
Muggle-ish. It’s owned by a nice lady with a couple of kids (and a wife?) and they’re
nice enough but Harry never bothered to get close to them. She’s moving locations
because her shop is actually doing quite well.
- Pansy, Blaise, and everyone basically gave up on Draco. He, in turn, hasn’t talked to
them in literal years. He’s literally just a grumpy old man who likes to read Oscar Wilde
and learned to play piano because he was bored okay? He stills wears very nice silk shirts
because he’s Draco and old habits die hard, but he’s a crotchety old man inside. He’s
owned his shop for a few years but needs to move because his lease ran out and he’d been
looking to move for quite some time now. Of course, that’s what he tells Harry. Actually,
he’s been getting death threats from people who are still mad about his death eater stuff
(and of course this is the singular plotline so it’s very dramatic).
- Draco buys the shop because it was the first one with the proper space and window room
for everything. He doesn’t really bother with checking out the area because he is (as
aforementioned) an old man. This was a big mistake. A very, very big mistake.
- Because guess who owns the café next door? That’s right, Harry freaking Potter. Have a
good time with that one chief. On move-in day Harry walks to Draco’s shop to introduce
himself because he is nothing if not courteous and sees it’s Draco fucking Malfoy and
promptly loses his mind but keeps it together. After all, it’s not every day your childhood
nemesis/ex-death eater moves in next door!
- Needless to say, it goes very, very badly. Harry feels really bad about it and brings him
coffee and a croissant as a peace offering. Great minds think alike, because right next
 door Draco’s pissed at himself because he’s desperate to prove that he’s changed, he’s
not the child he used to be—even if those choices he made weren’t really choices.
- Some tropes we have to have because I’m a sucker for them: meeting Ron and Hermione
and them doing the parental check on Malfoy, Ron and Hermione not being too
surprised/making comments about sixth year and snickering about it, Harry having
nightmares and Draco comforting him, flower language all the way through because
Draco is such a nerd, meddling teen part-timers, the boyfriends talk, the first kiss that’s
always so fricken mind-searing, Draco being guilty and Harry being guilty and they both
yell at each other to STOP, all that. Incredible.
- Okay I’m going to write now!
- Name of their shops? Draco’s – Floresco Harry’s – logo is a lion which Draco makes fun
of because that’s not cliché at all. The name is