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"Harry leaves after the war and goes to live as a hermit somewhere in South America and years later, Draco stumbles upon him"
And then I said:
I want to have Draco teach Harry the Dark Arts because Harry can't defeat Voldemort otherwise and blablabla moral dilemmacakes
And of course it doesn't occur to me until I'm in the middle of a lengthy pontification to my father, the subject of which I can't even remember, that the second bit could very well perfectly explain the first.
Because, yes, see, ... I think that when it comes down to it, Harry may very well need Dark Magic to defeat Voldemort. And he'd do it, too. He's already slowly learning that there's no pure right or wrong, and that sometimes you have to do something evil to do good. The end justifies the means, or so he tells himself, and so he has Draco teach him the Dark Arts, because the Aurors really only know how to defend oneself from the Dark Arts, and Snape is ... either dead or on undercover, so he can't teach Harry, and Draco isn't all that good himself, but he knows the basics, and he knows how to get better at it.
And Harry defeats Voldemort, and the war is over, and people try to rebuild everything, and get on with their lives, and they start avoiding Harry, because Harry is a living, breathing reminder of things that were; he's the Boy Who Lived, the boy who defeated Voldemort before he ever turned eighteen, and they want to turn him into a legend, but you can't turn someone into a legend when they're right there.
And of course, people wouldn't really trust him, because he'd be (one of the?) most powerful wizards ever, and he'd be well-versed in the Dark Arts, so who's to say he won't be tempted by it, and that makes people avoid him even more.
And in the end, he can't take it anymore, so he goes on a "trip", except he doesn't return for weeks, months, travelling the world, and the owls get fewer and farther in between, until one day, after he's been gone for about a year, they just stop, and Ron and Hermione are worried, of course, but they're trying to rebuilt things, and to rebuild their own lives, and get married and start a family, and so as time goes by, even they start to forget that Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived To Defeat Voldemort, was and is a real, human, breathing person, and is still alive out there somewhere.
Time passes, and years go by, and suddenly the tenth anniversary of Voldemort's defeat rolls by, and Draco suddenly realises that that whole travelling the world thing might have been the one good idea Harry's ever had. Because he's spent the first five or six years after the war first testifying against the Death Eaters, because he knows them, he's seen them at Malfoy Manor enough times, talking to his father, and he can blow up their "I was forced/coerced/mislead" defenses, and then at the same time and later, decrypting his fathers plans and notes and dismantling the Death Eater's secret hideouts and whatnot, destroying any trace of them, so that any new Dark Lord Wannabe will have to start from scratch.
So Draco decides to follow Harry's example and go travel, and at first he visits some old friends, fellow ex-Slytherins, some Death Eater children whose parents are in Azkaban and who were sent abroad to grow up somewhere where their parents' victims can't spit them in the face every day, and after that he goes traipsing across Europe and North America, and then he's kind of out of ideas of where to go and what to see, but he doesn't want to go back yet, so on a whim (because hey, it's Draco, his every whim is his command, or something), he decides to try and track Harry down -- not that he expects to find Harry, or even wants to find him, but it's something that gives him direction, a reason to travel.
After a while, he starts really getting into it, because Harry covered his tracks better and better, but there's that slight victory whenever he gains on Harry some more, because ha! He's outsmarting Harry, and even after all these years, besting Harry Potter is still one of his favourite things in the world. But it still comes as a surprise when, two years after he started looking, three years after he left the UK, he's standing on a dusty market place in some godforsaken South American town, and trying to find a hotel, or any place to stay, and he's cursing and whinging and suddenly he hears a voice informing him that he hasn't changed a bit.
And that would be where my story would start, with Harry and Draco, thirty, thrity-one years old, meeting again in the middle of nowhere, and siestas and talking and flashbacks. I can't figure out if this'd be gen or slash, but I'm thinking gen, right now. Which is. Weird. Well, it's not like I've not written gen before, you know.
God, I swear, I can write an 850+ words outline of a fucking bunny, but I can't write a single word of the actual story that's due tomorrow! I hate my brain.
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I actually have some vague dialogue bits in my head, and some flashback bits, but nothing concrete enough to write, yet.
I will, though. Some day. Soon.
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I think you've got the makings of a brilliant epic on your hand.
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I wish I could make it slash, but really, I can't see how, not without taking away from the rest of the story. Although part of me wants to then write a sequel, in which Draco convinces Harry to come back with him, and blablabla reunioncakes, and Harry just feels more and more that he doesn't know anyone anymore, except for Draco, because Draco's the only one who doesn't treat him like a legend, and stff happens, and then I can see it turning into slash.
Well, fuck. I just talked myself into writing two epics! (And just watch, I'll breed a third bunny just to make it a trilogy, because I'm anal like that.
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But thanks. ^___^