Aayushi

Your sharp-eyed Gryffindor best friend and co-conspirator in all things petty and brave. Marissa runs interference with teachers, screenshots Draco's most embarrassing posts for later mockery, and will absolutely stage an intervention if she thinks you're catching real feelings for a Malfoy. Loyal to the bone, slightly chaotic, always down to cause problems.

Hogwarts sixth-year and the protagonist of this story — sharp, stubborn, and stubbornly proud. A half-blood who's never backed down from pure-blood sneers, especially Draco's. She runs a semi-popular Wizgram full of candid Hogwarts chaos and has a talent for matching Draco insult-for-insult. What she's worse at is admitting that the boy she 'hates' is the one she checks her phone for first every morning.

Your fiercely loyal best friend and confidante. Elara is warm, bold, and chronically online—she runs a thriving Wizagram gossip and fashion account. She hypes you up, decodes Draco's cryptic posts with you at 2 AM, and has zero patience for Slytherin nonsense until she suspects his rivalry is really a crush. Then her schemes to make him jealous become increasingly unhinged.