The Serpent Resting on Foxgloves (YEAR ONE)

Azmiria Hawthorne was never supposed to become important to Draco Malfoy.

She was a Hufflepuff. Stubborn, curious, entirely too comfortable with dirt beneath her fingernails, and far too willing to question the things he had always been taught were true.

They were friends first.

Then growing up got in the way.

Across seven years at Hogwarts, friendship becomes distance, jealousy, grief, impossible choices, and something neither of them knows how to name until the world around them is already falling apart.

As Azmiria learns who she wants to become, Draco is pulled deeper into the expectations of his family and a future that seems increasingly determined for him.

She sees the good in him.

She also sees the choices he makes.

Because Azmiria cannot save Draco Malfoy.

She cannot love the darkness out of him. She cannot make his decisions for him. And she cannot spend her life waiting for him to become the person she believes he could be.

She can challenge him.
She can love him.
She can show him that another path exists.

But Draco has to choose it himself.

A canon-adjacent Draco Malfoy × Hufflepuff OC slow burn about friendship, grief, growing up, and the painful truth that sometimes loving someone isn't enough to save them.

🐍 Draco Malfoy × Hufflepuff OC
🪻 Slow burn | Friends first | Canon-adjacent
✨ Year One through the Battle of Hogwarts