1. Draco's really rather bad at flying at the start. He remembers falling off his first broom after spending only a half moment in the air. His mother had kissed his scraped knee and palms, and his father had said "You'll get better, son." Draco got back on that broom with a determination to do just that.

2. When Draco talks to Harry Potter for the first time he's very nervous. He tries not to show it, because a Malfoy heir should always be cool and collected. But he's never really talked to other children his age, besides Crabbe and Goyle of course. Draco doesn't find out until later that the scruffy boy with the bright green eyes he had spoken to was actually Harry Potter.

3. Draco thinks that perhaps Harry Potter of all people might understand him. Afterall, Draco had been told since he was born that he was important and that he would have to do very great things when he grows up, and Harry Potter has to have been told the same thing right?

4. Harry's rejection of Draco's friendship hurts Draco more than anyone might have guessed.

5. The thought that he is antagonizing someone who has saved his life had occurred to Draco once or twice, but the thought that he might be the only thing keeping Potter from becoming a carbon copy of Gilderoy Lockhart keeps him from feeling too much remorse. Besides Potter could take it. He has his entire fan club to cry to.

6. During fifth year, Pansy would swear that she had caught Draco staring longingly at a certain tousled haired, bespectacled boy hero. Draco of course vehemently denies any such accusations.

7. Harry didn't expect the abject pain and something like betrayal he saw in Draco's expression when he cast sectumsempra in the bathroom. To be fair Draco hadn't expected it either. Nor had he expected the immediate shock and horror and remorse in Harry's eyes even as Draco fell to the floor in a pool of his own blood.

8. Malfoy never learnt what Snape had said in the bathroom as he was healing Draco. Harry had been so relieved to hear Draco would live that he had looked like he wanted to hug Snape. And Snape had discovered it wasn't because he didn't want to be held responsible for the murder, but because he truly cared for Draco's safety.

9. Following Draco around in sixth year had taught Harry a lot. Such as the fact Draco always ate something sweet with every meal. And he parted his hair on the left, always on the left. Harry had also learned that Draco was not dating Pansy Parkinson. This made Harry inexplicably happy for no reason he could identify.

10. When Harry apologizes for sectumsempra a year and a half later, he also presents Draco with two gifts. Draco's wand, and a locket charmed to protect its owner against that selfsame curse. Harry had spent almost four months figuring out how to tailor the charms on the subtly jeweled necklace to that particular curse, and to Malfoy's particular person. Draco doesn't learn that until years later.

11. Draco is surprised that when Harry comes to him with an apology after sectumsempra, Draco is utterly astonished to find he's truly, and fully regretful of his actions.

12. Harry almost wants to cry with how beaten Draco seems after his parents' trials. Instead, he invites Draco to dinner. Where he kisses Draco on the cheek before he leaves.

13. Never once did Draco ever think about Harry as someone he might want to court. Never. Or, at least not until eighth year when the bastard started doing things like inviting him over for dinner, and kissing his cheek, and smiling at Draco in the corridor, and having hair that looked like it had actually been groomed and not calling him Malfoy, but Draco, and especially being bloody stupid attractive.

14. The first time Draco and Harry kiss, they are really drunk, standing in two feet of snow, and it's completely an accident. But the next one, that happens just a moment after the first, isn't. It's entirely too full of teeth and tongue, passion and love, to ever have been an accident.

15. Draco avoided Harry after that kiss in the snow. He thought that the kiss was just a drunken mistake to Harry, though he's painfully aware of how much of a mistake it wasn't for him.

16. When Harry finally cornered Draco in the charms corridor, he told him exactly how much of a mistake it wasn't for Harry either. He told him by grabbing him around his waist, and kissing him senseless.

17. The first time they have sex, Draco still wasn't all the way sure. Up until the point when Harry called it making love, instead of having sex. Then he practically melted, and they both agree that they could never have sex with anyone else.

18. Draco often looks back on the final three months of his last year at Hogwarts as his happiest at the school. Those were the months he had spent with Harry as his lover at Hogwarts. He doesn't tell Harry that though, it would be terribly sappy and unbefitting of the head of the Unspeakables, and the Department of Mysteries to express such a sentiment to the best auror of the Ministry.

19. Part of Harry's acceptance speech when he is elected Head Auror is announcing the wedding date for Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy. Harry got the most applause anyone has ever gotten at one of those stuffy affairs.

20. Four months after the marriage, the adoption papers go through. Years later, they attend their children's graduations from Hogwarts, and the weddings, and baby showers. Draco was never so happy in his life. Harry had let him have something special, a family of his own. When Draco shares this with Harry, Harry laughs and hugs Draco so tight, Draco thinks his lungs might burst, but he's still happy.