City of Woe

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Title: City of Woe

Author: Laurence Ashton

Rating: R/NC-17

Pairing: HPDM, DM/others

Word Count: 7248

Table of Contents: Link

Disclaimer: All unoriginal content is copyright J.K. Rowling, et. al. No copyright infringement is intended. This is not written and posted for profit.

Warnings: Possibly dark!Harry/dark!Draco, teacher/student, polygamy, Post-HBP, minor het. That about covers it.

Summary: Draco secretly nurtures a burning desire to prove himself beneath a glaring inferiority complex. For all of his years, dreams of dragons and Death Eaters and destruction have haunted him, even in his waking moments, and in his gut he knows that these are not really dreams. So he has held back. But holding back will get him killed when, to his great surprise, he is selected as the Champion for Hogwarts in the Triwizard Tournament. One by one, he lets his fears and boundaries fall away, and, in doing so, uncovers the mysteries of what he once was, what his past has made him, and what he someday shall become. (Summary truncated; for full, see ToC, linked above.)

Chapter Nine