—in honor of mtg reaching 47k reads on wp & 9 bookmarks on ao3
Asterope Malfoy had always wanted nothing more than to make herself gold, whether it meant being her parents’ golden child or breaking free from her family’s extremely dark and shockingly evil reputation. After being sorted into Hufflepuff, Asterope chose the latter of options, she changed her name, disowned herself from her family, and did everything her family wouldn’t do. The last thing she wanted was to wind up in the Triwizard Tournament, have a year long identity crisis, all the while falling in love with her best friend and yet, that’s exactly what happens.
While Asterope couldn’t have predicted that she would be tossed into a game of survival alongside Harry Potter, she should’ve known fate would have it out for her. After all it was well known that things never did go easy for the members of the noble and most ancient house of Black who tried to free or better themselves. Traitors to the Black family have met cruel fates dating back centuries and unfortunately, Asterope was no exception. She would find herself the centre of decade old prophecy that could end with her dying as a villain painted black rather than living as a hero made of gold…
Esrom Riddle née Trelawney wanted her husband dead for what he did. The certainty of his death would be a long wait, at the hands of child no less. If Esrom Riddle played her cards right, it would be at the hands of his own flesh and blood, his worst fear. She didn’t care what she had to do, who she had to hurt or turn into a pawn to get what she wanted. Esrom Riddle never expected that her own pawns would play their own games, not even her third eye could have predicted the mess she made to ensure her husband’s death…
… Aurelia goes back to her work only to be interrupted hardly ten minutes by none other than Neville, he gives her a sheepish look after poking her shoulder “Hey, Ari, can you help me with this, uh, question here?”
Nervously, Aurelia glances at Neville and the parchment in his hands. His round face is bright red and his hands are shaking, she nods her head “Aye, sure what is it?”
“Why are you ignoring me,” Neville says quickly, almost in one breath but he gives her a determined stare.
Aurelia blinks, smiling slightly “Wow that was — wow, well played, Plant Boy.”
Neville gulps but the sly smile on Aurelia face makes the bold question on the tip of his tongue easier to say “I think the, um, answer is supposed to be, uh, longer than that.”
Aurelia laughs, smiling widely, she gives him finger guns and wink “I’m sure you’re right, Plant Boy but Sinistra is staring at us and I’m sure she knows just as well as we do the answer isn’t one she wants discussed on her watch.”
“After class then,” Neville says, it’s not really a question, Aurelia can tell he wants answers and he deserves them but she can’t give him truthful ones.
“Aye, after class, Plant Boy.” Aurelia agrees, smiling fading as she instantly regrets saying yes to this. What if he knows, what if Lyra actually told him and he’s going to —
“I’ll hold you to it, Sunflower Girl,” Neville say …
i’d like to thank both @itseatyourdamnapplesand@lost-in-the-shelves for helping me flesh out some future plans of make them gold (read here)! i got this idea for how i wanted part three to go and i wasn’t sure if it would be interesting to read, if it sounded right as a plot, and all that jazz! and they were both super helpful about it, and they were very kind, and i just really appreciate them!!!
❝songs for chapter sixty of make them gold, hope this scares you! this is all just ANGST baby. best played on shuffle.❞
☀️⭐notes ──── hello for anyone interested, I made a spotify playlist for chapter sixty of this book because that chapter is my favourite and it’s the one i had first planned when i started this story so i’m a little hyped for the chapter, i’ve only posted chapter 48 right now but i have every chapter up to 59 done and i’m working on chapter 60 as i post this and it’s so devastating so I thought I should make a playlist to keep y'all on your toes until the time comes for me to publish chapter 60! if you have any theories as to what chapter 60 and this playlist entails please hit my ask box up because i’d love to hear them!!
… She blinks, startled by the fact that he’s genuinely annoyed. In the time she’s known Neville and Aurelia, he’s never been anything but patient with her and to see him act like this, it leaves a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach, Abigale frowns and scuffs her feet against the snow-covered ground.
“Well, it’s not that she’s confiding in me or anything, like, we’re not even hanging out for fun. I’m teaching her Legilimency and Occlumency, she needs it because of Professor Black, who’s like a total twat,” Abigale says quickly.
Neville’s annoyance fades back into concern “What did Lyra do to her, is that why she hasn’t talked to me?”
“Well, Longbottom, it’s up to her to tell you that. And she will, she doesn’t want to lie to you, she’ll tell you anything — anyway, I’ve got to, like, go. I will tell her to talk to you, don’t worry, Longbottom, I am rooting for you,” Abigale says, winking at him. …
… Apparently all the professors were told by Dumbledore to pass the message along to Aurelia because on the way up she passed Professor Flitwick and Professor Sinistra both tell her a similar message. And Aurelia finds herself very uneasy and angry by the time she gets to his office. She doesn’t understand why he wants to speak with her, she hasn’t done anything wrong.
Entering the office she’s met with sight of Dumbledore and Umbridge — ah, fuck this can’t be good. Aurelia shakes in both anger and nerves as Dumbledore and Umbridge leer at her, they both look feverishly excited about something and that makes Aurelia feel very queasy. She scuffs her feet against the ground, biting her lip and she wants to stand tall but she feels very small “Why am I here?”
“Did the professor who told you I needed to see you not tell you why I’ve requested to speak with you,” Dumbledore questions, sounding slightly exasperated as he spares a glance at Umbridge, Aurelia shakes her head.
Dumbledore doesn’t look like he’s going to explain but it’s not like he would get the chance to because Umbridge clears her throat and pulls out a long black envelope with the Ministry of Magic emblem on it in gold ink. …
tom riddle and esrom riddle ( née trelawney ) circa 1957
❝It was true that Tom Riddle was conceived under a love potion and thus he would grow up with the inability to love another and it was true that he didn’t love Esrom Trelawney; she didn’t love him either. Their marriage was nothing more than a vow that bonded them together, tied his power to hers and vice versa. But at one point they did love each other, deep down, that was long ago back before their relationship was devastated by Tom Riddle’s perverse need for power and immortality. It was true that Tom Riddle could’ve loved Esrom Trelawney and she could’ve loved him but he loved power more and he would stop it nothing to live forever. It was tragically true that any chance for them to love the other died in nineteen-forty-six alongside Tybalt Riddle. Any chance that Tom Riddle had at becoming the most powerful wizard in the world or becoming immortal had died that day too. It was ironic that the one thing that could have saved Tom Riddle would lead to his downfall. It was true that Tom Riddle and Esrom Trelawney could have loved each other but instead they only ever ended up killing each other in many different ways.❞
❝songs for chapter sixty of make them gold, hope this scares you! this is all just ANGST baby. best played on shuffle.❞
☀️⭐notes ──── hello for anyone interested, I made a spotify playlist for chapter sixty of this book because that chapter is my favourite and it’s the one i had first planned when i started this story so i’m a little hyped for the chapter, i’ve only posted chapter 48 right now but i have every chapter up to 59 done and i’m working on chapter 60 as i post this and it’s so devastating so I thought I should make a playlist to keep y'all on your toes until the time comes for me to publish chapter 60! if you have any theories as to what chapter 60 and this playlist entails please hit my ask box up because i’d love to here them!!
BOOK SCREENCAPS: eye of the hurricane, book one| goblet of fire
❝Asterope Malfoy (Natalia Dyer), Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis), Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson), Ginny Weasley (Abigail Cowen), and Olivia Newton (Lana Condor)inHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.❞
❝every friend group has ━━━ a himbo (cedric diggory), a mean bisexual (olivia newton), an even meaner lesbian (hannah abbott), she/theys (asterope malfoy), he/theys (justin finch-fletchley), a token straight that’s on thin ice (zacharias smith), an astrology bitch who has everyone’s birth chart’s memorized (susan bones), and a short king (ernie macmillan).❞
