The sex. God. It just...the UST that lasts forEVER, the fact that it's not really resolved until the very end, the Draco-being-a-cocktease (and have I mentioned how much I LOVED Blaise in this? god...), Harry Wanting but being so confused and running away from Feelings and then proceeding to jerk off over it while telling himself how WRONG it is. The rough sex UP AGAINST A WALL. Then the mention of bruises from makeup sex at the end and just...YES. I love that they're set up to be all sunshine at first which seems so wrong only it doesn't seem wrong from the narrative perspective, which is wrong in and of itself, but that then there's a REASON for that, and the end shows them being more Harry-and-Draco, fighting all the damn time, Draco being a diva, Harry being longsuffering but putting up with him because he loves him, and.....yeah. Yeah. *_____*
What else. Oh, the SCRAPBOOK. Oh god. I died. I wasn't sure if it would be egomaniacal of me to go OH MY GOD IT'S LIKE MY FIC, but then there was the underlined "subtle nuances" and I just about shrieked my head off. Again, that could just be coincidence and I'm letting my ego run away with me, but I still died. So even if you hadn't intended it that way, I still love you muchly for it. :DDDD
There were just....so many things about this fic that hit my buttons, both sexual and non-sexual. The magical theory had my dork side screaming. The geographical and environmental stuff had me flailing with glee. The political undertones, the social interactions, the differences between Durmstrang and Hogwarts that were underlined in a non-invasive kind of way, the portraits and the house elves and the other geeky things about schools that we get a lot of in the books... That's the other thing - I love how it read like it could have come straight out of the series, only the porn was FAR too good for it to ever have come from JK. It just had this sense of.....genuine HP that makes me VERY happy. And I like that you didn't forget about the other people, about Ron and Hermione and Ginny and Neville and KINGSLEY YAY *___* It was just...
...I think I'm out of words. Just. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH, SANTA. I cannot WAIT to find out who wrote this.