STELLAR LEGENDS [HARRY POTTER- ASTORIA X BLAISE]

PRELUDE: HER NAME WAS ASTORIA

Astoria Greengrass is gifted. 

And she knows that. She has known she was always talented, always intended and meant for big things, but she never flaunts it like Daphne did. She never wears it on display like a couture dress in a casual setting or an old woman with too much makeup and too much jewellery- red lipstick in her teeth, blue eyeshadow smudged all over like colouring outside the lines and coral rouge splatter on the cheeks. 

Nonetheless, she is gifted. She can play three instruments, she can dance, she can speak four languages and she excelled in just about every subject but for some reason, that's never enough for her family. She knows it's because she'll never be like Daphne. Never as smart, never as beautiful, never as put together because she's not the oldest and she'll never amount to Daphne's brilliance. She knows she'll never win their approvals and it'll never gain their affections but she at least wanted the approval of her sister, Daphne.

Daphne with her charming smiles and devilish smirks, her long blonde hair and lean figure reigning the halls. Even in gaudy Slytherin robes, Daphne's green eyes, high cheekbones and perfectly structured face stun anyone she comes across. Daphne is anything but not perfect. She is flawless; every boy wants her, every girl wants to be her, every teacher dotes upon her, her mother dresses Daphne up and takes her on regular shopping trips, her father praises Daphne in every fucking owl letter and hands her every one of his precious family heirlooms while Astoria is neglected and forgotten at the side of her road. Her mother and father might treat her like she never existed but Daphne will. At least, Astoria hopes on that. 

She never does and Astoria is always disappointed. 

When she was under the sorting hat at Hogwarts, the hat determined she is a hat stall between Slytherin and Ravenclaw. Truly, deep inside, she knows she is a Ravenclaw, but she begs for the hat to put her in Slytherin so she could possibly be accepted by her family. It didn't but Astoria has no doubt that even if she ended up in Slytherin, her family's love for her will always remain the same.

In Ravenclaw, she feels even more isolated. People look at her with fear and intimidation because of her family, because of her status. They didn't touch her, they didn't talk to her but Astoria doesn't mind being alone. She tries to ignore her life at Hogwarts and her life at home but it's harder every year. 

When she goes home for the holidays, she's constantly reminded that her sister is prettier than her or that she is a disappointment. She is constantly reminded that her talents still aren't good enough for love so she drinks until she feels like she is happy and she douses herself in enough drugs to convince herself that everything in her stupid life is okay. She grows to be a pretty face, not as pretty as Daphne, but good enough to fuck for one night. She breaks hearts left and right to inflict the same pain she has felt all her life and she walks away from relationships and friends because nobody ever loves her enough for her to learn what it's like to give a part of yourself into something.

But maybe one day, that will change. 

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ASTORIA

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