Harry Potter: I'm Not Very Clever, So I Coast in Ravenclaw

[A slow-burn romance, an older love interest, a Hogwarts setting, an ensemble cast, and plenty of female friendship. A gloomy, sensitive student who keeps reflecting, growing, and persevering despite her clumsiness, paired with a gifted, well-read, sickly beauty and top student. Today is another day to strive toward becoming a power couple.

She takes part in the plot and triggers butterfly effects, but never forgets that studying is her first priority.]

Aelios doesn’t want to follow in her father’s footsteps, so Slytherin is out;

but she doesn’t want to cause a huge fight with her family like her uncle did, so Gryffindor is out too.

“Very well, since you’ve made up your mind, you’d best go to Ravenclaw!”

...Does Hufflepuff not even deserve to be mentioned???

[Original female protagonist, the posthumous daughter of Regulus Black. Her mother is Lucius’s younger sister, making her Draco’s cousin; they grew up together, and she has been childhood friends with Astoria’s older sister Daphne. No canon couples will be broken up.

She is cowardly, selfish, and unlikeable, and enjoys sulking in a corner like a gloomy mushroom. Please don’t read if that bothers you.

She has a crush on Cedric in the early and middle parts of the story, but eventually lets go of her obsession and falls in love with the original male lead. Romance is not the main plot, though. Ultimately, the heroine’s goal is to redeem herself.]