For the Can You Make It To the End Challenge (Round 2, Andromeda/Ted, Hogwarts library), the Colors of the Rainbow Competition (Yellow- write about any Hufflepuff) and the Lover's Day event at Hogwarts (Trope- Rivals to friends to lovers)

Rivals

The first time you two meet goes somewhat like this:

You are haughty and gorgeous and you know everyone is staring because you are Andromeda Black and you are a goddess, a galaxy. The world wants to know you, love you, be you, kill you. It is always those at the top who have the furthest to fall.

You realize this much too late.

...

He is Ted Tonks and he is inferior- mudblood, Hufflepuff- but there are people who adore him, who say he's kind and fair and honest and perfect.

You taste blood in your mouth when you hear it. You are the queen, not him, for you are a Black and he is inferior.

You hate him for it and you vow that you will make him regret making him your enemy.

Friends

Later, years later, Nymphadora will perch on the seat of her chair and ask if you became a bloodtraitor for her father.

It sounds like a star-crossed romance but you know it is a lie to say yes, because in reality it does not go like that.

It starts like this: you spend more time in the library than anywhere else and one day you stumble onto a Muggle Studies textbook and you cannot look away, just stand, eternally enthralled.

And flash forward, weeks later, it is Bellatrix who catches you reading and screams murder, but it is your mother who threatens to burn you off the family tree.

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Ted Tonks is beyond horrible at charms and you used to catalogue it with a haughty smirk for every time you beat him to success.

But now, you are at odds with the rest of your family (contract burned, family name dishonored) and maybe that's why you agree when Professor Flitwick asks you to tutor him in the library this Friday.

….

The thing is, you can't hate him no matter how much you try. You try your best- glare, manipulate, insult- but he comes back every Friday with a smile and a new nickname for you. You glare at him for "Andy", hex him at "Andro," and don't talk to him for a week "Aneda."

But finally, he shows up with another package of pencils for you (you mentioned once you hated quills and you don't even know how he remembers that) and a simple "Dromeda."

That's when you fall head over heels.

Lovers

In every story, the princess marries the prince in a lavish ceremony at sunset, family and friends cheering in the background.

But this is no fairytale. You are far from a princess and you refuse to put him into the role of a knight in shining armor. You two have carved your own fairytale from scratch with every defiant moment and this time around hand-in-hand, you both step into the future of your dreams.