lomonaaeren

Title: The Same Species As Shakespeare
Disclaimer: J. K. Rowling and her associates own these characters. I am writing this for fun and not profit.
Pairings: Draco/Harry, Hermione/Ron, Lucius/Narcissa
Rating: R/M
Warnings: AU; ignores DH except for a few minor details. Violence, profanity, sex, major angst, creepy obsession, WiP.
Summary: Harry has been casually fascinated by Draco Malfoy for a long time. Draco has wanted to get one over on Harry Potter for the same length of time. When a person who seems intent on getting Draco in trouble for crimes he didn’t commit throws them in each other’s way, neither is exactly averse to the situation. But obsession, whilst perhaps a good idea in the abstract, is going to prove a very ugly reality.
Author’s Notes: Dedicated to hpstrangelove, who made a very generous contribution to the fight for marriage equality as part of the LJ community livelongnmarry, and provided me with the prompt for this novel in return. The title comes from the following quote by Aldous Huxley: “Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.” The chapter titles come from various Shakespeare plays; the name of Tudor Palliser is a play on Anthony Trollope’s character of Plantagenet Palliser.

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