Darling, We Were Never Friends

**𓆙 Darling, We Were Never Friends 𓆙**

Marigold Augusta Longbottom has spent her entire life caught between two worlds.

On one side, there's the weight of the Longbottom name, the legacy of being Frank and Alice Longbottom's daughter, and a grandmother determined to ensure she never forgets where she comes from.

On the other, there are the Weasleys, Quidditch, found family, and the kind of chaos that only Hogwarts can provide.

Goldie expects her fourth year to be filled with classes, Quidditch matches, and keeping Fred and George from convincing her to test their latest inventions. She certainly doesn't expect to find herself spending more time around Draco Malfoy. A boy she's known for years through pureblood gatherings and has found perfectly insufferable for almost as long.

But as the Triwizard Tournament arrives, old prejudices deepen, friendships are tested, and the wizarding world inches closer to war, Goldie discovers that some people are far more complicated than they first appear.

Over the course of four years, enemies become reluctant allies, rivals become friends, and somewhere between shared secrets, impossible choices, and a war that threatens to tear their world apart, Goldie finds herself facing a truth she never anticipated:

Draco Malfoy was never meant to matter.

And yet, somehow, he becomes everything.

✦ Years Four through Seven
✦ Slow Burn
✦ Enemies to Lovers
✦ Found Family
✦ Quidditch
✦ Pureblood Politics
✦ Theodore Nott, Pansy Parkinson & Blaise Zabini Friendship
✦ Eventual Smut
✦ Canon Divergence
✦ Emotional Damage (because apparently I enjoy suffering)