"I cannot believe you are even trying to use that as an even vaguely valid reason," Draco dismissed. "That's something Parvati would do, you two are becoming too close," he glowered. "Apparently so, since you've taken up with her copy!"
Draco leaned back slightly, not wanting to know what turned Iggy on about Padma.
"Yes, I know they are very different girls. I didn't just pick one randomly, you know. Unification doesn't mean a damn thing," he added. "If anything, I'd want to avoid that entirely," Draco warned.
He would never tell Iggy this, but... there was a small part of Draco that was genuinely unhappy about this. Because Parvati was his... out of everything in his life, she was the one thing he had gotten to choose. He got to marry her because he loved her, it was nothing to do with politics, or work, or family, or money... She was honestly the only thing he felt he could name that had nothing to do with any of that. And if Iggy married Padma, he felt like he was now forced to share Parvati, somehow. Share her family. Parvati's family would not also be Iggy's family. This one woman who was completely his own was now no longer solely his.