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The Mystery Wife by Petronius Arbiter and Lucinda Lovegood. Draco/Severus, rated R (one nude scene and one sex scene which is not all that explicit).
The setup sounds like a trainwreck in the making: Who was the mystery woman married to Draco in the Epilogue-that-never-was? Well, it's a sex-changed Severus under an alternate identity (Sevanna Prince) which he had prepared for himself before faking his own death, and, oh, by the way, the potion he designed to effect this change also made him very hawt (fancy that).
But actually, it's really, really good. It's marked as Romance/Humour and it certainly is funny -- plenty of fourth-wall-breaking dry wit which reminded me of the style of Adams or Pratchett in various places. I stayed up til 4:40 AM to finish because I just couldn't bear to stop reading its ~76,000 words.
Contains bisexual!Draco, manipulative-aristocrat!Lucius&Narcissa, awkwardly-endearing!Harry, plenty of Yorkshire dialect (which, if not accurate, is still very convincing, since it is, as Draco notes on several occasions, almost impenetrable), a Severus who is still the personality we know and love even though he now has to get tips from Narcissa and Minerva on how to cope with menstruation and act like a lady (respectively), some Slytherin redemption, and full lyrics to "A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob on the End" in Chapter 23 (*snerk*).
Please to enjoy!
The setup sounds like a trainwreck in the making: Who was the mystery woman married to Draco in the Epilogue-that-never-was? Well, it's a sex-changed Severus under an alternate identity (Sevanna Prince) which he had prepared for himself before faking his own death, and, oh, by the way, the potion he designed to effect this change also made him very hawt (fancy that).
But actually, it's really, really good. It's marked as Romance/Humour and it certainly is funny -- plenty of fourth-wall-breaking dry wit which reminded me of the style of Adams or Pratchett in various places. I stayed up til 4:40 AM to finish because I just couldn't bear to stop reading its ~76,000 words.
Contains bisexual!Draco, manipulative-aristocrat!Lucius&Narcissa, awkwardly-endearing!Harry, plenty of Yorkshire dialect (which, if not accurate, is still very convincing, since it is, as Draco notes on several occasions, almost impenetrable), a Severus who is still the personality we know and love even though he now has to get tips from Narcissa and Minerva on how to cope with menstruation and act like a lady (respectively), some Slytherin redemption, and full lyrics to "A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob on the End" in Chapter 23 (*snerk*).
Please to enjoy!