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   A Quiet After by joafterall

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - Fandom  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M, M/M
   • Complete Work

   14 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Harry Potter & Ginny Weasley
   • Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
   • Draco Malfoy & Harry Potter
   • Harry Potter
   • Ginny Weasley
   • Draco Malfoy
   • Minerva McGonagall
   • Hogwarts Students
   • Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
   • Lights Camera Drarry
   • Draco Malfoy is Bad at Feelings
   • Death Eater Draco Malfoy
   • Draco Malfoy & Harry Potter Friendship
   • Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE
   • Slow Burn
   • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
   • Post War
   • Healing
   • redemption arc
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Mutual Pining
   • Original Character(s)
   • Forced Proximity
   • Complicated Relationships
   • Ministry of Magic (Harry Potter)
   • internal struggles
   • Silent Conversations
   • Eventual Smut
   • the return to hogwarts
   • Past Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley
   • Gay Male Character
   • Harry Potter is Obsessed with Draco Malfoy
   • Draco Malfoy is So Done
   • Draco Malfoy is a Little Shit
   • they still hate each other a little
   • Minor Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley
   • Golden Trio | Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley Friendship
   • Good Friend Neville Longbottom
   • Luna Lovegood Being Luna Lovegood
   • harry Potter the boy who overthinks
   • Drarry
   • Draco Malfoy's Dark Mark
   • Nudity
   • Fighting
   • Sneaking Around
   • Light Angst
   • Post-Second Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter)
   • How Do I Tag

   Summary

   The war is over, but peace doesn’t come easy.

   Harry returns to Hogwarts for his final year not as the Chosen One, but as someone trying to figure out who he is without a war to fight. The world seems ready to move on - but Harry isn’t sure how. He wants normal. Quiet. A chance to just be Harry.

   Then Draco Malfoy walks into the Great Hall, late and alone, and everything shifts. Stripped of his wand and shadowed by a silent Ministry escort, Malfoy is nothing like the boy Harry once knew, but Harry notices him anyway. Watches him. Wonders. He's not supposed to care. But the more he tries to look away, the more he can’t. Because something’s wrong, and Malfoy is carrying it like a secret he’s been forced to keep.

   The war is over - but not every story is finished. And not every enemy stays an enemy.

   Language:

   English

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