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Written for Battle of the Astronomy Tower [Ghost]
Matchmaker
Blaise had tried to play matchmaker with them by using his friendship with both Pansy and Astoria to get them to become a couple. He could see that they liked each other.
To some extent his plan had worked as Draco had almost never been around while trying to complete whatever task the Dark Lord had given him. Draco's cold grey eyes looked more and more exhausted every day to the point where Blaise was almost worried for his fellow Slytherin. Almost.
Blaise had hoped that his two friends would be able to have a relationship and with all the happiness it brings forgive him for setting them up.
Draco had come out of his slump enough to notice at some point that he was setting his future betrothed up with another and had confronted him in the middle of the Slytherin Common Room, disgust rolling off every inch of his tired form, eyes a furious silver lake blue.
He wished he had been fearless at that moment and able to stand up to the Malfoy Heir but he knew that Malfoy was above him in the hierarchy and was currently cutting him down to a point where he was near the First Years.
He felt no shame in his actions though, as un-Slytherinlike as it was to do favours without a reward. If you don't stand for something you won't fall for anything, and he had fallen.
"Just leave me alone, will you?" Blaise snarled at one of the First Years as they approached.
The entire Slytherin House had noticeably made him an outcast to the point of even the Gryffindors noticing it. As much as he tried to hide it, it was taking its toll on him. The entire Slytherin House was like an invisible animal farm where everyone just followed the animal at the top of the food chain.
They never had any identity for their need to be close to the most powerful person. Blaise had an identity. One he had not relinquished through his past six years at Hogwarts. He had pretty much been disowned from the House of Snakes and no one else in the school wanted to be friends with a snake because of the reputation Death Eaters had given them.
"What's prejudice? Nothing, but crap," Blaise snorted to himself as he sat near the Black Lake and watched as Potter's group of friends settled on the other side of the lake.
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure," his mother had often told him absently as she acquired a new husband with a sizeable fortune behind his name.
He had succeeded but the cost he had to pay was a lot larger than he had expected. He had all the regrets and mistakes that were memories made to help him continue as he was.
At some point even that was not enough and he found himself at the top of the Astronomy Tower looking down.
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste? He thought despairingly. Astoria and Pansy had finally announced that they were officially a couple only the day before. They had forgotten about him though, as the Slytherin Hierarchy ordered.
He knew one thing though, as the thought raced through his mind.
Gravity can't forget to pull me back to the ground again.