Can folks who have read the inimitable Draco Malfoy and the Moritfying Ordeal of Being in Love have a "dis-gush-ion" with me about how freaking wonderful this story is?
I have no romance-reader friends IRL. You guys are my happy place. I have recently finished this incredible fanfic, and I need an outlet for all the wonder in my soul. We can talk about anything related to this beautiful story. I mean, my God--I've barely read any fanfics really (this was my second), and the plot, writing style/voice, and development of two full-bodied characters in heart-melting , life-altering freaking LOVE easily put this story in the 95th percentile of all the romance I've read in my lifetime. I AM AFLUTTER.
Here are some parts/lines I loved:
--the competency kink . . . I love how Draco mooned over how capable Granger was (exploding inkwells), and I mooned over his badass Auror-y (counterpoised to his complete ignorance of most things Muggle)
--their deliciously oblivious idiocy regarding their feelings, Amortentia potion and all
--heart-shaped sunglasses
--their tour of the Malfoy rose gardens, especially this description: "The sweet paralysis was coming over him again, of not wanting to move, of lightness in his veins, of limbs feeling weightless and eyelids feeling heavy. He wanted to put his chin where her neck met her shoulder and just stand there. He wanted to say things in her ear and feel her shiver against him. He wanted to linger here, being stupid about kiwi, for an age or two. He wanted to float."
--nuns
--"Tell your cat I said pspsps."
And so, so much more. But I want to hear what you all loved too. I feel immensely grateful that I found this story thanks to a few posts on this sub yet simultaneously gut-wrenchingly woeful that I'll never get to read it for the first time again. Help me process this, you wonderful people you! Please talk to me before I implode!