I don't know if it's my connection or LJ, but while it's working, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! *confettis* Here's to looking forward to 2007, may it be a better year for me than 2006. Allergies are under control for the time being, thanks for all the well wishes! Christmas swag will have to wait until my server deigns to speak to my FTP again. To ramp up to the opening of the Yuletide archive, here's a list of some of the best H/D stories that have been posted this Christmas, to be further updated later:

My Favorites:
Gone Down The Angel On A Lonely Night
Summary: Eight years after the end of the war, Harry stumbles upon Draco in an unexpected place: Islington.

Waiting for Life to Start
Summary: The Tri-Wizard Tournament is returning to Hogwarts to mark the ten-year anniversary of the defeat of Voldemort. Harry is asked to help ensure the safety of the students, a task he finds difficult, not only because he's not sure he can do it, but also because the tournament itself is unearthing emotions in him that he has kept suppressed for most of the last decade. When Draco walks off the Durmstrang ship, Harry is thrown by an unexpected attraction. Over the course of the next year, he will have to deal with those feelings as well as the aftermath of the war, something he has put off for far too long.

Good Reads:
The Reckoning
Summary: Settling the score was never so sweet.

Good-bye to Yesterday
Summary: Draco felt ready to face even a million years in Azkaban as long as it meant that at the end of it all, he would make Potter pay.

Comfort Food
Summary: Harry never falls for the nice guys.

A Test of Character
Summary: Draco Malfoy is nearly finished his Auror training. However, something comes up in his character testing which may prevent him from qualifying: he is required to befriend an old enemy.

Noticed Him Fading
Summary: Draco hates France, the Ministry, owls, and Harry Potter.

Business As Usual
Summary: Harry's Christmas isn't shaping up the way he'd imagined it would.
(NB: Cute but not necessary.)

Their Kind of Forever
Summary: The final part of Harry's Auror training forces him to walk the line between truth and lie, between the wizarding world and the Muggle world, between the life he thought he'd have and the disappointing reality. And through it all, he finds unexpected solace in a most unlikely person's company.

Take Your Silver Spoon and Shove It
Summary: So they're clones. It's not weird. (Except maybe it is.)