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Jareth was tired of dealing with the goblins, he was tired of acting like an evil child snatcher to frighten the muggle children, and he was tired of trying to live in a place that he didn't like. Most of all he was tired of being the Goblin King. He had never wanted the job nor did he like it. If it wasn't for the threat of never rejoining the Unseelie Court he would have given the post to another long ago. He knew that the only reason he was placed in the Underground was for punishment, that and no one else wanted the job.
It angered him that he was also banned from the fey courts. Wasn't being in charge of the goblins torture enough? Not that Jareth especially enjoyed the Unseelie court, it was more he enjoyed being around other people. He never actively joined other's conversations but it was enough for him to listen to them talk.
By nature all fey are social creatures, Jareth did enjoy being around others but he didn't enjoy the gossip they seemed to relish in. He always had the hope that one day he would find someone that felt the same way. But because of one simple mistake in his youth Jareth was left in charge of the Underground, a place that no fae wanted to be for the goblins hated social interaction. Although with time Jareth came to appreciate some of the goblins under his rule and even care for a select few, but that didn't mean the goblins were in anyway able to interest Jareth mentally like the fae or even a human.
Not that he completely gave up human contact, but most of the humans he met didn't stay human for long. Those wished away to his kingdom were turned into goblins, since they were all young children at the time; they never remembered anything before they were goblins. That was another draw back to Jareth's already limited human contact; all those he dealt with were either drama-filled teenagers or spoiled babies. That didn't stop him from hoping that one day he would get someone sent to him that he could actually enjoy spending thirteen hours with, then again if that ever happened he wouldn't want to turn them into a goblin. Of course since he was king he didn't have to do anything he didn't want to but if he didn't turn the human wished to him, the Unseelie court would know and he wouldn't be allowed to return ever again, and the Unseelie knew how to keep a grudge. This realization didn't stop him from spying on the humans, especially the wizards, well one wizard in particular.
Most of the fae chose not to associate with the wizarding world. It wasn't that the fey didn't like wizards but more like wizards didn't trust the fae. They saw them as uncivilized cretins that stole children. Jareth didn't mind wizards because he knew that if he ever was permanently banned from the Fairy courts he could live in the wizarding world without too many problems. Sure after a few decades he would have to start using glamour but that was a price he would have to pay. Wizards may have had an extended life but the fey were immortal.
Since he always had the option of joining the wand wielders, the fey name for a wizard, Topside he liked to keep on eye on them; not only that but every once in awhile he would get a wizarding child. It was rare since it was almost viewed as a crime to wish away another however that didn't stop the younger children from wishing their siblings away. Usually when that happened the parents would get involved and the child would be returned unharmed, for not even the fairy courts didn't want to get caught up in the wizarding legal system.
Jareth wasn't that upset that he didn't get more wand wielders in the Underground. Sure they would be more accepting of the rules of the Labyrinth but they would also cause more trouble. Given that most held the theory that because of their magic they were better than all other magical creatures. Although recently Jareth was learning that not all wand wielders were the same, that some of them were quite different at least one was vastly different from his peers. There lied the main reason Jareth watched the Topside … Severus Snape.
He had found the boy quite by accident. He had over heard one of the Topside goblins ranting about the influx of students at the bank and how most were the rudest creatures he have the displeasure of meeting (that was saying a lot coming from a goblin). Then the Topsider went on to say one small boy was very polite and could even speak some goblin. This of course impressed all the goblins. For a human to learn goblin was a show of honor and trust which wasn't something a wizard would normally practice. Apparently the goblin took the boy to his vault teaching him some goblin and explaining about Gringotts. At once Jareth was intrigued for the goblin to teach another and to actually tell about the bank … well it just wasn't done with an outsider. This boy must have been something special for the goblins to act this way. Jareth was determined to find him and learn how and why he could get the goblins to trust him so easily.
Once the goblins were done with their conversation he went to find the one that had first mentioned the boy. Once he gathered a little more information about the boy it was almost too easy to find him at Hogwarts. The first time Jareth saw Severus he was smitten with the small boy. There was a dark innocence about the child that called to him. For awhile Jareth just watched the boy then one day as he sat watching Severus sitting by the lake he noticed a group of boys approaching him. He had hoped that they were just going to join Severus but then again he already knew that Severus wasn't well liked. Watching the others torment Severus made Jareth feel helplessness something he had never experienced before. That day he knew that he had to do something for the lovely creature he had fallen for so easily. He decide right then and there that he would entire one of the boy's dreams and plant the thought of wishing Severus to the goblins.
