draco: imprecise and (very) impatient in baking, precise and patient in potions

harry: (sorta) precise and (semi) patient in baking, (very) imprecise and (very) impatient in potions

drarry are opposites despite both activites being exact sciences. harry becomes so good at baking that eventually he just eyeballs + improvises the recipe, it makes draco so ⁉️⁉️ this is draco standing in the kitchen, mad as hell about not being able to bake, only to watch harry ponder a measuring cup, shrug, and dump a whole bag of flour into a bowl ⬇️

he's even MORE MAD when the cookies come out PERFECT. how? HOW?? after a few times (with draco stewing and glaring at harry's very chaotic method of baking), harry admits he created a spell that makes everything perfectly measured out. safe to say draco is FUMING and impressed for 2 days.

baking should come just as easy to draco but it doesn't click (initially). he always ends up with flour all over him. measurement cups and spoons are confusing, especially when recipes can be in cups or grams. he gets impatient while waiting for room temp butter so he mega overheats it with a charm, burning it. he substitutes tartar sauce for cream of tartar and it turns out horrible 😭

meanwhile, potions is harry's worst enemy. he's improved thanks to his more hands-on teacher (cough, draco wrapping his arms around harry to help him stir appropriately, but nothing they do is appropriate, cough). even so, he's damaged draco's potions lab 8 times so far because of his messy way of doing things.

he can brew decently if he 200% concentrates, but he's literally dating a potions master who can brew 300x better than him, critiques harry if he cuts at the wrong angle, and so outrageously attractive when he brews that it's distracting. it's pointless to even do potions, yet harry likes to make one for draco once in a while, just to give back and take care of him. even if he spends 2 weeks trying (and redoing) draco's skincare potions by secretly brewing at night, just to impress and surprise draco... he WILL do it!