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Title: Foundations!verse
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Categories: Post-canon, EWE, romance, healers, rehab, drama, humor, adoption
Length: Super Epic (354,266 words -- Reparations is 87,376 words; the sequel, Foundations, is 236,075 words, and there are several related one shots)
Warnings: Minor character death, discussion of drug addiction and recovery (from the standpoint of staying or becoming drug free)

Author on LJ: saras_girl
Author Website: Saras_Girl , and on FFn

Author's Summary:
Reparations: Harry is about to discover that the steepest learning curve comes after Healer training, and that second chances can be found in unexpected places.
Foundations: When one door closes, another one opens – with a bit of a push. Life, love and complications.

Review:
You'd think it would be easiest to write a review for your all time favorite fanfic, but I find it a little daunting. There's too much to say, and not only due to its epic length, so I'll hope that if you aren't a regular HD reader who will undoubtedly have seen this verse, you might give it a try on the basis that years after I first read it, this is still my favorite.

Sara's Girl makes all moments engaging, from betting dessert over who had the worst shift at the hospital, to stopping a murderer, and from office supplies (how does she make even that warm and inviting?!) to getting Draco Malfoy to open up to something more with Harry Potter.

I love that this starts with a believable amount of antagonism between them, and that the forced proximity of Harry working under Draco in ChemDep allows for greater understanding. I love that Sara's Girl gives every moment care and attention in a way that makes you feel you're there. Draco is reserved but much mellowed underneath due to all he's been through. Harry didn't like it as an Auror trainee, but is just right becoming a Healer and getting on with his life. Narcissa is wonderfully written, as are the brilliant original characters, and Hermione, Ron, and Ginny.

After I enjoyed Reparations, it surprised me that I loved its sequel, Foundations, even more. There was a lot to be worked out between them still and to be dealt with after the upheaval of all that happened at St Mungo's. Plus there are the plot lines with young Clive, and Draco getting to run the program his way. And if you're missing the flapping cupboard after that, don't worry; he appears in a couple of the related one shots, including one of my favorites, Cupboard Love.

Above all else, the thing I love about Sara's Girl is the generosity and warmth in many of her characters, both minor and major, even in their darkest moments, and even after it's been momentarily obscured by their anger or fear. If you've read it already, you may well have been moved by it too. I read her work, and I think, yes, I want to listen more and find the best in people, even when it isn't easy or comfortable. I can't ask for much more than that.

If you've already read her other works, here's a heads up, in case you missed it, that she posted a new lovely epic length story for hd_smoochfest 2013 that was recently de-anoned: All Life is Yours to Miss.

Foundations!verse Series at AO3 (newly added just days before this post! :)
Foundations tag on LJ
Reparations at FFn, Foundations at FFn