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Seven years. One war. And a friendship neither of them ever learned how to leave behind.
Azmiria Noelle Hawthorne was never supposed to matter to Draco Malfoy.
She was a Hufflepuff with dirt beneath her fingernails, a habit of asking questions he didn't want to answer, and absolutely no interest in becoming the sort of person his world expected her to be.
Draco was a Malfoy. Proud, difficult, sharp-tongued, and raised with expectations he was far too young to understand the weight of.
They meet at eleven.
What follows is not a love story about a girl who saves him.
It is seven years of friendship and falling-outs. Greenhouses and letters. Jealousy, grief, first loves, terrible timing, choices, consequences, and a war that eventually asks both of them who they are when everything they inherited is no longer enough.
Somewhere along the way, just schoolmates becomes the hardest lie either of them has ever told.
Because Azmiria cannot make Draco's choices for him.
And loving her cannot absolve him of the ones he makes.
They can only grow up beside each other and discover whether, after everything, they still know how to find their way back.
The Serpent Resting on Foxgloves
A seven-year Draco Malfoy x Hufflepuff OC slow burn.
Canon-conscious coming of age • friendship to love • complicated characters • grief • jealousy • first relationships • war • eventual mature romance