Mental
Magical AccidentsHogwarts Eighth YearDeveloping RelationshipHarry Potter - J. K. RowlingMind MeldComing Outof sortsLegilimencySwearingSlow BuildMind ControlAngst and HumorAccidental BondingGetting TogetherRomance

Mental

by sara_holmes

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CHAPTERS

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186.7K

RATING

4.8

Summary

Harry has had quite enough of sharing his mind with someone else, thankyouverymuch. A miscast Legilimecy spell says otherwise.(Fic from 2010 FF archive being uploaded here.)AND FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME, STOP REPOSTING THIS ON WATTPAD. I DO NOT WANT IT ON WATTPAD. YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO POST THIS ON WATTPAD.

Reader Reviews

BethofAus

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Well ! A different fandom for me, but well done. A good start.

SolsticeLostHerMind

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Aw, Neville, you poor thing. This is exciting! Can't wait to see how Harry and Draco manage to drive each other batty. :)

bonedoll

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Hurray! Thanks for posting this here!

btaz2

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OH boy this is going to be a fun ride!

Driverpicksthemooseic

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I have been waiting for a new Legilimency!fic for so long. Thank you, I'm super excited to see where this goes! <3

adafrog

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Uh oh.

beauxbatonboys

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IM SO EXCITED I CAN FINALLY READ IT ON HERE OMG THANK YOUUU!!!! (also, how long will it take between the chapters bc i rly wanna binge read it but i dont know how long i can wait)and again thx thx thx so much i just adoore this fic

Chapter 1

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Hi, I'm sorry to bother you on such an old fic, but...I was in the middle of reading this on ff.net, and suddenly, there was an error message saying that it didn't exist anymore. I'm so into this story and I love it so much and am more or less devastated. Do you know what happened, or did you delete? I just so desperately want to finish reading this story. Thank you for your time...

Chapter 1

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So I noticed that you ff account doesn't exist??? There's literally nothing on it... I had I bookmarked be you're one of my favorite authors. :(

Kelsarian90

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Omg I'm going to have a fangirl squee moment. You're alive and well I hope and you're posting your fics on AO3!!! Gah! The excitement is in containable. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you. You're an amazing author and I absolutely love your fics! I was actually binge reading your stuff when your account got X'd and I either in the middle of Get Some or Number Seven I'm not sure anymore. But thank you thank you.

smirkingcat

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one of my all time favs going to reread it again later tonight great story really! and great work by you!

Chapter 1

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I can't describe how devastated I was when I discovered that your FF.net account had been deleted. You're by far one of my favourite Drarry authors, alongside Anna Fugazzi, Cheryl Dyson and faithwood. I've followed your writing for about five years now, and I remember eagerly awaiting every single new chapter of Mental. I must have commented a dozen times on many of your stories (probably under anonymous names), and my bookmarks were full of your work. I rarely reread fanfictions, but Mental was one of the precious few that I could sit down and read, chapter after chapter, back-to-back. I can't describe how much I adore this story, or how much I adore you for reposting it here.I swear, I'd pay for hard copies of your work! You're also a huge part of the reason that I ended up writing fanfiction myself!!Thank you! <33

Chapter 1

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Hiiiiii!I just wanted to re-read mental because its one of my all time fave fics (thank you so so so much for writing it, i've read it at least 10 times because it was just THERE when i needed comfort or something to smile about and lets be honest. There is nothing better then the boys being mind-linked like that :)Anyway, I just noticed its not on ff net anymore and it's not been updated here so i'm kind of freaking out ._. are you going to start uploading again? Pretty pleaseeeee that story is amazing :) cheers!

Chapter 1

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Will there be more chapters? I'm excited to see where this is going I love your writing style

incaseyoufic

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Aaaaaah I came to re-read this, because I've read it twice before, on ff.net!! So sorry to hear about your account being deleted! Please upload the rest!! @_@

BrokenRoses13

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Oh man I absolutely loved this fic on your FF! I’m so happy I found it here to read again! Draco and Harry ending up in each other’s minds is the best premise lol

Wonderfulwaytooweird

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This story was amazing, as can be expected from such a talented writer such as yourself. I loved the scene where ginny and harry were arguing over Draco, when she yelled at him in the Great Hall. It reminded me so much of the scene in HBP right after the bathroom fight with Draco. Harry is upset that he's going to miss the game because he has detention with Snape. So the golden trio are in the Great Hall, and Hermione is reprimanding Harry when Ginny cuts off Hermione and defends Harry, telling Hermione basicially their game was none of her concern. I thought this was super cool, because they are in a similiar situation, but this time the roles are reversed, ginny believing it was her business and his friends sticking up for him. I don't know if you did this on purpose or not, but well done.

Chapter 1

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love this so goddamn much- you know that you beat out the half blood prince word count wise, right?

dewgreen

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thank you SO MUCH for writing this. truly, i can't say that enough times. it's easily one of my absolute favourite things i've ever read in any fandom - all fandoms combined, in fact - and it's just. absolutely brilliant. the slow burn, the learning to tolerate each other, then becoming friends, then slowly more, but all the while in the most realistic, believable way- god. it's all so fantastic. it's never a straightforward route, and there's setbacks and misunderstandings and draco being draco and harry being obtuse but they're fated and linked and it's just so much. the angst nearly bloody killed me, for one thing- my chest was achy and my tummy all twisty and i was Beyond Emotionally Invested. and then the resolution was so believable, so in character, it made all that angst melt away. that's the other thing: this was so in character for both harry and draco. the way you characterised them and ron and hermione and seamus and blaise and theo was just excellent. none of those characters were outside of our realm of expectation from them and that's what made so much of this so realistic, despite the fact we're talking about wizards and magic and illegal telepathic bonds.just THANK YOU. i'll be coming back to this universe over and over again for a long time to come, i can just tell. <3

sunshinedrarry

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Second time reading it <3 <3

FloraAnneFauna

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I just almost had a heart attack because I remembered this fic last week and I went looking for it on ff.net, AND IT WASNT THERE, and I was terrified that I'd never find it again.Then I thought to check on AO3, even though I was pretty sure it was on ff, and lo and behold! (And honestly I'm relieved it's on this site, I much prefer reading over here). I actually thought I'd dreamed up this story until I saw a translation on ff.net, so unless it was a mutual dream, I knew it had to be real. So I'm gonna go through and read it all again :D

RikasGrayWolf

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*snorts Hard* HAH!!!! Omigawd, i love it already. Drarry is my jam. Tis one of my longest running ships. And I do so love a slow burn ♡.♡-R.G.W

raiining

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Ooooooh dear

Nereisi

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Sooner or later I will comment again and I'll tell you properly and professionally how amazing is this workIt's literally one of the best drarry ff I have ever readBut now I can't think straight and I wanted you ti know how much I loved this work soHere I amWriting a dumb commentBut yeahI LOVE THIS FANFIC

Chapter 1

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managed to read the whole thing in about 6 hours.. loved every second of it..

jadepresley

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Ahhhhhhhhh I'm so happy to have found this fic again!!! This was my first ever drarry and the story that made me fall in love with them!!! I'm bouncing after one chapter!!!!

parakeetwuvs

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Is this the only fic you moved over, or are there others? This was amazing by the way, totally loved it!

thegirlwhodreamswhileawake

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Dear Sara_holmes, I have been reading your stories back when u were on FF . And I was wondering if u could help me find one of the stories that was on your favorites page back on FF. It was a Harry Potter fic where both Harry and Draco are sent to an alternate universe of themselves and the have to figure out how to get back to their original time . Please and thank u. P.s please upload more of the Harry Potter fic too please. :)

Deelovestoread

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I love your stories, I went to reread some of your older HP stuff and could not find it. Can you reload Ask Again Later and State of Mind? Thanks

Amongthedeep

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Keep going sweetheart, love that you're making your older work available here, thank you so much! ≤3

Chapter 1

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I finally found it! I saw a link for this story a couple of years ago and decided to read it and basically fell in love with your storytelling until; one fateful, awful night, my phone died and cleared my browser tabs right after I had cleared my history and this story was lost to me. This was before I had an ao3 account so I didn't have it saved or bookmarked and it was before my idiot brain realized I could make bookmarks on chrome. Anyway, long story short, I have been searching for this fic for years and I've finally found it! I'm going to read it over from the beginning and THIS TIME I'm going to finish it. I'm downloading it as we speak just in case something happens. Can never be too careful. Thank you for writing this. I love Love LOVE IT!!!

raiining

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Heheheheh. Love it.

royaltea

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was just thinking I hadn't been this consumed by a drarry fic since Bond in high school and then I saw the note that it was in fact from the very same time period :') loved it. Thank you for this ♥️

AncientHelena

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so, i'm currently going through all my bookmarks and leave comments under all the fics i loved, because i finally need to tell writers that you are doing a great job, my judgy ass likes your story and you fill my life with joy. thanks for sharing your gift with me <3i've been re-reading this fic for years. sorry for not saying it before but you did a great job. love it.

Chapter 1

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When Draco started actually communicating with Harry properly, I slapped my thigh very very strongly. And now my thigh hurts. So thanks a lot for getting me so worked up that i hurt myself

lydialovesdreaming

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One of my all time favorite fics!Its a classic,its everything i want in a drarry fic.u write so good i was so obsessed for weeks when i read it!comeback sara if u read this!

Chapter 1

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Random fact: This was actually the first Harry Potter fanfiction I had ever read and ever since then I’ve been shamelessly reading hours of fanfics a day and I do not regret any bit of it. I first clicked on this story a year ago and now I’m reading it... life is funny like that I guess

slytherin_drarry_lover

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Hey would it be alright if I posted your story on Instagram, I will obviously credit and will tag your Instagram too if you would like

babyvfan

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Hi Sara *waves excitedly*I feel like I am in the presence of royalty and I should bow or something since you are regarded very very VERY highly in the drarry community regarding fanfic writers. Ever since I joined the drarry-loving, drarry-shipping train and I shattered tumblr/other people favorite pages for recs, a story by you always pop up. With people saying you are amazing, your stories are so unique and awesome and must-reads.For this story, there were already a number of things that had me intrigued, particularly the accidental bonding, which I'm always a sucker for. And to me, one of the fastest ways to get a drarry relationship starting. What finally finally got me to reading after this fanfic sitting in my TBR fanfic pile for...god knows how long...a good friend of mine, Luxis, HIIIIIGHLY recommended this to me. Saying nothing but the best things. How it's one of her ultimate favorites, the characterization of Draco and Harry are so spot-on, the romance is so amazing. And how it's one of those stories where you fall into its so easily until the end. Which is exactly what I want. I will say. I am surprised by Draco. Usually in 8th year fanfics that take place after the war, Draco is so reserved and isolated since the Malfoys have fallen out of favor in the public eye. And Draco has no one to lean on and doesn't talk to anyone. But here, he's the same prat we know and love. So that was definitely interesting to see. And I am very intrigued

redeyedwrath

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Oh man!!! I remember being so sad and confused when your FFnet got deleted because I loved this story so much and didn't think I would ever find it again. Then I forgot your username and I was CERTAIN I'd never find it again, but it turns out you have an AO3 profile and uploaded this fic so I am OVER THE MOON. This was the first Drarry fic I ever read and it holds a special place in my heart - thank you so much for reuploading it and allowing us to continue to enjoy this lovely, lovely story <3

Gabe97

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Hello! I read a translation in French of this fan fiction but sadly the person stopped posting after chapter 11. Can I translate the remaining chapters? Of course I will add a link to your work here and say it's a translation! Thanks

gavran

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Well, fuck

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The best fanfiction i've ever read in my life. I re-read this every couple of years since i discovered it on tumblr in 2011. Thank you for sharing your writing talent and re-uploading this after FF died. -Cheers xx

mazzledazzle

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This was so incredible, I loved the progression in their relationship and it was so so funny!!

Chapter 1

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This is so brilliant ❤️💖❤️💖❤️💖❤️💖❤️💖😁 ahhhhhhh I can't wait to hear all their thoughts... ABOUT EACHOTHER 😍

Welcometohellie

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https://my.w.tt/0jDB2ZXGp8 ^please copyright, I reported it but only the creator can take action

Conzieu

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I have had a couple of successful stories (Although nothing compared to yours) so I know that no matter what, one never gets tired of getting a nice comment.I liked that you concentrated on the relationship and went for positivity in every other aspect. A light-hearted postwar world is a pleasant surprise. Your development of the relationship is deftly handled, and realistic, your Harry a calm and mature 18 years old who still has some teenager and goofiness to him.I enjoyed reading the story very much, thank you.

Lazyac69

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I haven't read this story. I'm just commenting on the Wattpad part.I don't even understand how people use Wattpad; it's a laggy and bloated website. Just how and why would someone submit themself to that kind of torture...I don't understand. You're better of using Twitter as a writing platform (which isn't saying much).

Constellations_Of_Thoughts

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"So you can wield a sword like a pro, but still can't cast any spells in a straight line?" epic! thought I'd comment mid read since I'll be forced to stop there anyway (and study for the exam tomorrow) the accuraracy and in characterness of this is perfect. not just nev or harry but also ron and mione.

justahalfling

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This fic is a comfort fic for me, I come back to this when I need some familiarity and comfort in trying times. Thanks so much for writing this and also uploading it to A03, Sara!! I would be so sad if I couldnt read it again anymore