character(s): draco malfoy | narcissa malfoy | lucius malfoy | asterope malfoy ( oc ) | maeve macleod ( oc ) | molly weasley | fred weasley | ron weasley | george weasley | ginny weasley | percy weasley | ollivander | elias black ( oc )
warning(s): main character ( asterope malfoy ) suffers from a ptsd flashback, minor violence recalled through flashback | draco malfoy is a kid and surrounded by his family thus he acts differently than how we see him act through harry’s perspective
summary: With the arrival of their Hogwarts letter, it meant that the Malfoy twins were off to Diagon Alley. Asterope Malfoy, marred by an encounter with a werewolf, has been the shame of her family so a trip to Diagon Alley meant being left in the care of their Squib maid. However, she will soon find out that being left with the Squib maid meant she could get away with things that her parents would never let her do like befriending the Weasleys and getting a pet cat.
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“I wonder what kind of wand Draco’s gonna get,” Mae says to Aurelia.
She shrugs her shoulders, studying her wand “M'not sure, probably something boring.”
Mae laughs and shakes her head “you seem real impressed with that wand of yours, wee moon.”
“Oh, I am,” Aurelia says, “I think Draco should be at Madam Maulkin’s right now, can we go there … I wanna rub it in his face that my wand is cooler than his is!”
“I don’t think he’s got his wand yet, wee moon,” Mae says.
“So, why would that stop me from bragging about my wand?”
“What if his wand ends up being cooler than yours?”
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.❞
i finally got over my writer’s block for chapter 57 of make them gold and honestly it’s wild from start to finish and i love the chaos involved. also it’s where draco’s redemption starts, aurelia gets into a fist fight, and everything starts to fall apart for our dearly beloved, asterope.
❝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).❞
I just got the best comment on Make Them Gold ( which you can read here,) and it SENT ME! I’m not sure anything can top this.
“Harry and aurelia are just the epitome of that tumblr post that goes "whatever souls are made of, your and mine are the same ( derogatory )”fromitsjustajreally
… “Dying is easy … Much easier than what I’m going through now.”
“You don’t have to face this on your own,” Neville says, “I’m here for you … So is Olivia, Susan, and Hannah. You never have to go through this alone, we can help … I want to help.”
Aurelia smiles sadly, wishing more than anything she can tell him everything (he’d certainly change his mind then!), she leans over and kisses his cheek “Thank you.” …
Aurelia Black, had come out of the Triwizard Tournament a winner and survivor alongside the famed Harry Potter. Dealing with not only the loss of her dear friend but the return of Lord Voldemort as well, Aurelia is holding everything together with a piece of thread and it’s on the verge of snapping. She’s not sure just how much longer she’ll last but once she takes a look at the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, she knows it’ll take a miracle for her to make it to the end of the year. And if she’s not going to make it through this year, you bet, Aurelia will take that pink toad down with her.
Everything has changed, Aurelia has changed and she’s afraid that she’s too far gone at this point and once that thread snaps, it’ll be too late for her. And she supposes this is oddly fitting, considering her name and what it means — the sun-faced star, the golden one — perhaps Robert Frost was right when he wrote Nothing Gold Can Stay. Of course, that would mean she would have had to be golden and she never was — a copper-filled girl trying so desperately to live up to the name bestowed up her but never quite reaching that goal. Perhaps, now she never will …
book two: nothing gold can stay, order of the phoenix
❝nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower; but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay.❞
—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…
❝You said I killed you — haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe — I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad.❞
❝but i know a love like this will end in tragedy, you know every kiss suspendin’ gravity burns us both to love this close, we lose ourselves and i know we won’t get out alive but only the lonely survive!❞
❝From the very start, Asterope Aurelia Malfoy and Neville Frank Longbottom had always been an odd pair. But, they were a good pair — a connected-at-the-hips, a they-go-hand-in-hand pair. They have seen each other through it all, from Asterope disowning herself and taking on a whole new identity to Neville being almost disowned for letting an escaped convict into his common room. They were two halves that made a whole, together they grew to become better than anyone expected them to be — they made themselves gold.❞
character(s): asterope malfoy ( oc ) | neville longbottom | hannah abbott | olivia newton ( oc ) | hargrid | minerva mcgonagall | draco malfoy | elias black
warning(s): none that i could find
summary: The time for Asterope Malfoy to be sorted arrives and it doesn’t go like anyone expected. Ending up in Hufflepuff is not what a Malfoy should do but Asterope had never been very Malfoy-like. Perhaps it was time for her to make her own identity.
or in which aurelia black is born …
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They come to a stop, the Sorting is about to begin. Aurelia doesn’t want to disappoint her parents. Not again. In front of her, Neville is dealing with the same fear. He wants to be in Gryffindor but he thinks it might be easier and better if he’s sorted into Hufflepuff.
Without thinking, Neville grabs Aurelia’s hand. Although, he’s wary of her because of the things Lyra had told him about her, he can’t help but find comfort in her. There’s something about her that’s oddly familiar, he can’t put his finger on it but he feels as though they’re meant to be friends. When Aurelia squeezes his hand, he realises what he has done and quickly pulls his hand away.
He goes to apologise but he falls silent as the Sorting Hat starts singing its’ song. The whole hall bursts into applause when the Sorting Hat finishes singing. It bows to each of the four tables and becomes still again.
“I’m sorry that I keep grabbing your hand.” Neville apologises.
warning(s): main character ( asterope malfoy ) has a nightmare because of the ptsd she suffers from
summary: Asterope Malfoy is finally heading to Hogwarts and before she even steps foot in the castle she’s gone and sort of befriended two Blood-Traitors and Muggle-born. The young girl always knew that Hogwarts she would meet strange new people, her Squib maid told her she would question everything she had been taught, Asterope just didn’t expect it to happen so quickly. But, Asterope was a lonely child, always yearning for a love she had lost before she could even remember it properly, and she would throw everything she knew down a drain just for one good friend.
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“Maybe, try reading it out loud. Uh, that’s what my grandpa use to tell me when I would learn hard words. You — You might see it in a, uh, a new light,” Neville suggests.
Aurelia stares at him, long and hard, he turns bright red as her green eyes burn into his skull. Then she smiles and tells him that he’s brilliant, this only makes him turns even more red.
“Do you mind if I do that now?”
“No, uh, not at all. Um, go ahead,” Neville says shyly, gesturing to the book with his chubby hands.
Aurelia opens the book and begins to read, her Scottish accent transitions smoothly into a southern accent as she reads the book to him. It doesn’t take long for Neville to be lulled to sleep with her very soothing and very impressive southern accent, his head rests upon her shoulder. She’s very worried that he might drool on her but she’s even more worried about waking him up. Aurelia falls asleep shortly after him, her head comes to rest upon his head and his hair is very fluffy. Between, the rhythmic sounds of the moving train and the fact that Aurelia had been having trouble sleeping the last couple of days, it’s not long before Aurelia has fallen into a deep sleep.
