Lumos

FNGDFJAKJFBMDF;KDJ!!!! This story was unbelievably amazing and ridiculously hot and incredibly written and above all, just absolutely beautiful!!!The choice of eighth year Hogwarts was perfect. Inter-house fraternization was a great way to introduce some fresh and wonderful group dynamics as well as two of my favorite tropes: room sharing, and enemies to lovers. But it was the psychological and emotional perfection of this time period which really allowed the story to take on a whole other level of meaning. There is such a feeling of freedom which abounds throughout the fic. It's not that the students were left unaffected by the ravages of the war, but there is a palpable sense of excitement and joy in finally being allowed to experience all those "normal" things that people of this age should. It's a time of discovery--of new friendships, and budding sexuality, post-war.Wonderful characterizations. McGonagall, Dumbeldore, Madame Pomfrey and the Sorting Hat were a delight. Ron(!!!!) and Hermione were incredible.Draco was beautiful and perfect. He's just this side of experienced, still prickly and snarky, but also uncertain and vulnerable. And Harry! Your Harry made me fall to pieces. His naivete--combined with all that latent power, and a slightly jealous and possessive streak--was a totally hot mix.Their underlying sexual tension and chemistry was smoldering. Most importantly, you wrote scenes which were believable and appropriate, given the canon background, their ages, the school setting, and their relative (in)experience. But you also imbued their encounters with a tentative eagerness and intimacy, and in doing so, you created something that was as hot as the most explicit porn. Gorgeous and touching and oh so incredible. And those lessons on wandless magic---can I tell you, they're some of the most sensual scenes I've ever read, not just in this fic, but anywhere.40k words of absolute magic. It flew by in a heartbeat, and I loved every single second of it. <3<3<3<3

This is so great!! I love the idea of the sorting hat choosing roommates, especially its choice of Ron and Stephen Cornfoot. Ron needs more Ravenclaw influence in his life, and that bit where Ron was teaching him how to fly at the end was so sweet! Hermione finally bonding with the Ravenclaw and Slytherin girls and gaining female friends at last was also awesome and honestly long overdue. But most of all of course the Harry and Draco interaction! So hot!! The intimacy of the wandless magic lessons and the two of them bonding over Voldemort being awful really sold it for me. Great story all around! :D

I need a freaking sequel, it's way too hot and sweet to not have a sequel !

This was amazing! I liked Harry's realisation that, shit, this is more than just mutual wanking sessions. But my favourite parts have to be the lessons about wandless magic, especially the one where Draco suddenly gets it. Thank you for writing and sharing!

This was absolutely gorgeous! I love how they worked together on the magic and how they were so open in those times when they were alone together. And I could totally imagine Harry blurting out, "it's nothing," because he hadn't the time to figure out how he would tell Ron. Plus it's easy to want to keep something that wonderful to yourself, to cherish in private, at least for a while. But I was really glad he reacted immediately, knowing that he'd screwed up. And go Ron for being supportive.Wonderful story. :)

This was amazing. You are a gifted writer. Every little bit was perfect.

I'm speechless?? this is beyond amazing and easily a new favorite. thank you so much for sharing!

I really really need to know who wrote this so that I can read more of their stuff because this was amazing. I loved everything and I need a sequel pretty please!

aslkflskfjl!!!! LOVE!!!!!! OMG!!! :D I love this. :D More at LJ! <333

ahhhh just pure perfection! Goodness, I am a mess of wonderful feelings and lskdjfoerfjosWill head to LJ for coherency

THIS WAS MIND MELTINGLY HOT AND BRILLIANT AND I AM ALL FLAILY FOR YOU OVER ON LJ!!!!!! <33333

This was amazing, so wonderfully written, and amazingly well-paced. I loved the characterizations, the growth and exploration for both of them. Can't wait to see who wrote this!!

This is perfect. Just perfect. I love it.

For something so smutty, I didn't expect it to be so beautiful, but it was. Thank you.

I absolutely loved this! I loved the wandless lessons. This was just wonderful.

This was great! So sweet. I loved their dynamic and how they were able to talk about the trauma of the war. The sex was hot and emotional, and I really digged how you wrote Malfoy. It was so sneaky how he got Harry into bed and how he played it off as if he was quite neutral about the whole thing. Such great characterization! I also appreciated Ron and Hermione and Goyle. They rounded everything out. Awesome!

OMG i love it so much.so simple and yet so beautiful!!

This is absolutely breathtaking. Thank you for sharing this gem!

This story is absolute H/D perfection. There's really not a single thing that could have been improved. Great job, MA!!!

This story was beautiful. Thank you for sharing it :)

"...and there was light, and it was beautiful."WHAAAAT A GREAT ENDING PHRASE. You are awesome, that little thing left me speechless.

I so enjoyed this - it's the first Drarry fic I've read in months, and I'm so glad I picked this one to start back in with! I may be shallow, but I have to admit that I loved that the story didn't waste any time and got right into the sexual tension and the after-dark activities :) But even so it never felt gratuitous, and I adored how this was at heart a story of sexual awakening and exploration - of two young men who were new to things and still working out what they liked and wanted. The awkward intimacy was delicious.And all of it was just beautifully written too, with natural dialogue that gives us glimpses of what all the characters have been up to without ever being info-dumpy. Harry's dawning realization that he likes Draco and wants to be with him was endearing, and I so appreciated how the misunderstanding that led to Harry almost hexing Nott and putting himself in the infirmary didn't feel overdone or stupid. Harry knew immediately that he had screwed up, and he wanted to fix it ASAP.Also really loved the depiction of wandless magic and how seamlessly it was worked into the story. The whole thing was wonderful and rewarding to read. Thank you!

Hello, this was absolutely great! So many steamy scenes, great work!

What a brilliant example of writing genuinely arousing, sexual fiction without resorting to crudity. This felt remarkably natural, and for all Harry retained a lot of his blundering naivety, he was also presented as being able to learn and recognise his errors.The teaching sessions were every bit as emotionally powerful and arousing as the sexual exploration, and more profound for building an understandable connection between them both.And McGonagall's reaction to the whole wandless magic thing was priceless. A definite keeper!

This was an absolute joy to read. Loved every minute I spent enjoying this fic. Thank you so much for bringing this into my life.

this was wonderful! i loved everyone making friends in other houses, especially hermione and the girls ♡

This was so amazing and so exactly what I love to read 8D - and so well written, thank you thank you thank you!! ♥♥♥

Such a sweet and smart story. I really liked the bit with harry calling back his spell and not just going in a duel with nott. Thank you xx

By everything that is holy, this story was beyond amazing.

Oh, but that was lovely! I'd say 'smoking hot' but that would be a misnomer when I really mean to tell you that the burgeoning heat that poured out of this tale was pure and white-hot! Well done!

This was so awesome to read, I'll probably read it again!!! Such good characterizations Thank You so much :)

This is a very well written fic, I quite enjoyed it, you don't often find a story with this much description and detail that isn't overly... smutty? I am not sure that's the word I'm looking for or not, but this story was suggested to me by a fellow Drarry shipper, and I shall be giving my gratitude to her for sharing such a gem with me.

OMG!!! It's hot, fun and sweet altogether. Thanks for sharing this incredible story.And maybe I wonder.... the extent to which their explorations. When and where their first? *seems like a long long journey to goJust give me a notice when you decide to make a sequel. Lols.....

So that was rlly fucking nice and wonderful to read...Haven't had such a good long read in a while thanks for vunerable postwar drarry and supportive friends and interhouse unity and Hufflepuff positivity and such... (And some pretty nice smut tbh) So yeah this is amazing, you are obviously really good at this, thank you! (It's 2:30 am forgive my lack of cool sounding compliments.)

Beautiful story. I loved every second!

I should have been asleep hours ago but this gorgeous thing pulled me in from the very beginning and kept me there until the end. I loved every minute of this deftly written, smart, humorous, heartwarming, poignant fic. The way you built up the intimacy and the UST between them while actually still giving them a resolution to the tension of a sort was masterfully done. I could have read another 100k of this fic and not because it needs more, but because I loved it so much. This really is terrific. A fabulous depiction of Draco and Harry, but also a really attentive and thoughtful portrayal of Ron, Hermione, Millicent, McGonagall, Pomfrey and Goyle too. I LOVED the way Hermione expanded her friendship group and had a moment of tipsiness in the library (LOL :D) but still retained her closeness to Ron and Harry and I also adored the misunderstanding with the sweets and the Quidditch magazine which made me laugh out loud. Really there are too many bits I loved in this to identify just one, some beautiful turns of phrase and some moments of the kind of warm, charming humour and dialogue which felt so like the Harry Potter series to me (apart from with added wanking, which from my perspective makes your story better :D).Really super job with this. Loved it. Perfectly paced and the story just flew by. Thank you for this fabulous fic <3

Oh, this was so, so wonderful. I enjoyed every word. You know how sometimes a story sucks you in from the first word? Well, this. I adored both of their characters and all of the supporting ones as well. I love that Harry was a little conflicted, but not melodramatic. Draco's prickliness and vulnerability was also perfect. Thank you so much for writing and sharing this!

I’ll confess, I read this several days ago, and have only just reached a state of semi-coherency. I am ruined. That was utterly fan-fucking-tastic.I have left an embarrassingly long comment on LJ. Truly, this is a spectacular fic. I’m not sure 40k has ever gone so quickly, or with so much wanking!

I wish this was FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLION words long so that I could read every single one. Seriously, this is incredible. The writing is positively luminous, pun intended. Can't wait to see who wrote this one so I can go read every other word you've ever written. Thank you so much for putting this out into the world!

This was a beautiful story! You seemed to hit the correct resonance of the characters styles and personas. I especially loved the ending as too many stories end with a sex scene, this ended with the hope for a new future. Thank you!

this is glourious holyfucking shit

This is absolutely spectacular. I want to say more but I'm at a loss for words right now. Beyond amazing! Also, as the clock struck midnight on New Years, Harry was standing in the doorway in nothing but his black pants, so I'm pretty sure that bodes well for all of us for 2017! Thanks for such a wonderful way to spend my night! <3

I just can't believe how unbearably lovely this story was . There was just so much depth in each character , so much ... beauty . I loved this for more than one reason. Thank you for reminding us that every now and then we need some lumos in our lives. Thank you

Utterly gorgeous! <3I was completely drawn in by the way the characters were depicted, and down the side characters like Hermione, Ron, Millicent, and Goyle--even Nott to some extent. One of my favourite moments was when Harry watched Nott have a go with Draco, who just looked into the distance, his mind somewhere else to just get it over with.Definitely going in my fave list! :)

This was absolutely spectacular. I am just dying over the writing style - something about it felt so real, so canon, so young and honest and male and just plain FUN. I could go on and on reading stories in this voice, in this universe, until I just flat out keeled over from feelings!!! An incredible job. I'm such a sucker for powerful!Harry, and this story really did him justice! I'd love to hear everything from Draco's perspective too (although that may just be my brain plotting to squeeze more of this wonderful world out of you!). Thank you for sharing this! It's one of my new favorites.

AAAhhhhhh I loved this so so much!!!!!! I can't remember ever reading a fic this quickly, I just couldn't put it down. Thank you!!!!

This was so so so amazing. I love how quickly they sorted up together, and how nonchalant Draco acted about it. But the wandless magic part was pure genious. That was way more intimate than anything else they'd done. Also, I think McGonagall's reaction to them doing wandless magic, being more angry than impressed and making them go to classes for it was definitely unexpected! The ending is really gorgeous, both of them with their hands lit up by lumos. I would love to see some fanart of that scene. :]

GOD. I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE JUST LIKE YOU KNOW A NICE LIL BED TIME FIC WITH BOYS FOOLING AROUND SOMETIMES BUT FUCK WHAT THE FUCK. I LOVED LOVED L O V E D THE CONCEPT OF 2 PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT HOUSES BEING PICKED FOR DORMS. INTER-HOUSE UNITY!!!!! YES PLEASE!!! Harry was such a boy. Draco too, but Harry just popped boners at random jskfljdskfkl. OH AND HERMIONE FINDING FRIENDS THAT CONNECT WITH HER REALLY TOUCHED ME. SHE NEEDED THOSE FRIENDS FAR EARLIER AND IM KIND OF BITTER THAT, FOR THE SAKE OF IT NOT BEING PRACTICAL, SHE HAD TO BE IN GRYFFINDOR. Hermione talking about sex and homework with girl friends did me so good I can die peacefully. Thank you for this wonderful fic.

Oh wow.This is exceptional

Okay holy shit this was by far the best drarry I have ever read, it's was well written, the plot was fucking fantastic, and it was finished! Okay I just really loved it and I want to thank you for writing it! Love it, bye!