Post by edgar timothy bones on Apr 7, 2012 13:58:32 GMT -5
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[/b][/div]edgar timothy bones
sixteen ▪ hufflepuff ▪ hunter parrish
history & personality;;
there's really not much to tell about my life. i grew up in muggle london. my dad's got a decent job at the ministry, my mum's a homemaker, and they're still madly in love. i've got an older sister, amelia, and a younger brother, patrick. we all get along pretty well, but i'm closer with my brother. we were always running around outside with the muggle kids while amelia was inside reading. we had occasional playdates with wizarding families, too. mostly with the yaxleys, who lived closest. i never got along with the yaxley boy much, but i liked his sister, alessia. essie wasn't like a lot of the other pureblood girls i'd met. she liked to run around outside with the boys and didn't mind getting dirty. we were best friends.
that's really all there was to my childhood. a normal, boring family... a great best friend... minimal training in preperation for hogwarts... a lifelong appreciation of muggles. i went to hogwarts when i was eleven and, as expected, got into hufflepuff. essie wound up in slytherin like the rest of her family, but we didn't let it get between us. the guys in my dorm thought i was nuts. 'you're going to study with a slytherin?' they'd say. or 'you can't sit at that table during lunch! that's the slytherin table!' i didn't really care. essie and i remained the best of friends, sitting at each other's tables during meals, and meeting during free periods. we told each other everything. we still do.
i never became a prefect like my sister and brother. i'm too reckless for that. i average about five or six detentions a year, much to my mother's annoyance. it's not for anything really bad, like beating up a first year or something. i tend to wander at night, if i can't sleep. it's amazing how much you can learn about the castle when you explore it alone at night. and i occasionally skip a class or two. only history of magic or astronomy or something though. none of the really important classes. yeah, i'm on the quidditch team, but it's no big deal. i'm not totally obsessed like bagman and moran. i'm not going to be a pro player - i'm definitely not that good. it's just something i do to fill my time, like all those clubs i'm in.
what am i going to do with my life? you know, i haven't really given it much thought. i know what i don't want to do. i don't want to get some boring desk job that'll get me enough money to live on, but won't make me happy. i don't want to marry some girl my parents pick out just because she's pretty. i want to do something i actually love doing - i just haven't decided what that is yet. that's why i keep so busy at hogwarts. i'm always trying new things, hoping to discover my true passion. i get jealous of people who know what they want to do this early. i was probably the only person in my year who couldn't tell sprout what career i wanted to have last year.
the only thing i know for certain is that i want this war to end. i live around muggles. i'm still friends with some of the muggle kids i grew up with. i just can't understand why the dark lord doesn't like them, or why he's so dead set on getting rid of muggleborns. doesn't he realize that most muggleborns are smarter than purebloods? seriously. try comparing lily evans to, say, peter pettigrew. don't get me wrong, pettigrew's a nice bloke and all, but he's not exactly top of his class, is he? right, so, i wouldn't mind seeing you-know-who and all his followers go to hell. in fact, i've even managed to sign up for the order of the phoenix. it's a hush-hush right now, but i'm in. i haven't found the right way to tell anyone yet. honestly, i'm afraid of how my siblings and essie might react, finding out that i'm ready to go and risk my life while killing some purist buggers whenever i get the go-ahead. sometimes it even scares me to think about, but i know it's the right thing to do.
odds & ends;;
okay, my wand is thirteen inches, elm, and has a phoenix feather core. it's great for transfiguration and defensive spells. i've never seen a dementor, yet, but i think my worst memory would either be when i was caught spying on much older slytherin students in first year and they tried to curse me, or the time amelia got the dragon pox and had to go to the hospital when we were kids, and i thought she was going to die.
thankfully i can conjure a patronus, a small mouse. the memory i use is also from when i was a kid, playing in the yard with essie and patrick and amelia - one of the few days my dear sister came outside. i guess i'd see myself in the mirror of erised, happy, with a wife and kids, and all my friends and family in the background. the war would be over. while dealing with boggarts, i see the people i love being killed by you-know-who.
i guess it's pretty clear, i'm all for the order. i have no sympathy for you-know-who and his spineless supporters. i'm a hufflepuff and proud of it. just entering my sixth year, a decent chaser for the house quidditch team, and member of pretty much every club or advanced class there is. like i said, not much to tell.
there's really not much to tell about my life. i grew up in muggle london. my dad's got a decent job at the ministry, my mum's a homemaker, and they're still madly in love. i've got an older sister, amelia, and a younger brother, patrick. we all get along pretty well, but i'm closer with my brother. we were always running around outside with the muggle kids while amelia was inside reading. we had occasional playdates with wizarding families, too. mostly with the yaxleys, who lived closest. i never got along with the yaxley boy much, but i liked his sister, alessia. essie wasn't like a lot of the other pureblood girls i'd met. she liked to run around outside with the boys and didn't mind getting dirty. we were best friends.
that's really all there was to my childhood. a normal, boring family... a great best friend... minimal training in preperation for hogwarts... a lifelong appreciation of muggles. i went to hogwarts when i was eleven and, as expected, got into hufflepuff. essie wound up in slytherin like the rest of her family, but we didn't let it get between us. the guys in my dorm thought i was nuts. 'you're going to study with a slytherin?' they'd say. or 'you can't sit at that table during lunch! that's the slytherin table!' i didn't really care. essie and i remained the best of friends, sitting at each other's tables during meals, and meeting during free periods. we told each other everything. we still do.
i never became a prefect like my sister and brother. i'm too reckless for that. i average about five or six detentions a year, much to my mother's annoyance. it's not for anything really bad, like beating up a first year or something. i tend to wander at night, if i can't sleep. it's amazing how much you can learn about the castle when you explore it alone at night. and i occasionally skip a class or two. only history of magic or astronomy or something though. none of the really important classes. yeah, i'm on the quidditch team, but it's no big deal. i'm not totally obsessed like bagman and moran. i'm not going to be a pro player - i'm definitely not that good. it's just something i do to fill my time, like all those clubs i'm in.
what am i going to do with my life? you know, i haven't really given it much thought. i know what i don't want to do. i don't want to get some boring desk job that'll get me enough money to live on, but won't make me happy. i don't want to marry some girl my parents pick out just because she's pretty. i want to do something i actually love doing - i just haven't decided what that is yet. that's why i keep so busy at hogwarts. i'm always trying new things, hoping to discover my true passion. i get jealous of people who know what they want to do this early. i was probably the only person in my year who couldn't tell sprout what career i wanted to have last year.
the only thing i know for certain is that i want this war to end. i live around muggles. i'm still friends with some of the muggle kids i grew up with. i just can't understand why the dark lord doesn't like them, or why he's so dead set on getting rid of muggleborns. doesn't he realize that most muggleborns are smarter than purebloods? seriously. try comparing lily evans to, say, peter pettigrew. don't get me wrong, pettigrew's a nice bloke and all, but he's not exactly top of his class, is he? right, so, i wouldn't mind seeing you-know-who and all his followers go to hell. in fact, i've even managed to sign up for the order of the phoenix. it's a hush-hush right now, but i'm in. i haven't found the right way to tell anyone yet. honestly, i'm afraid of how my siblings and essie might react, finding out that i'm ready to go and risk my life while killing some purist buggers whenever i get the go-ahead. sometimes it even scares me to think about, but i know it's the right thing to do.
odds & ends;;
okay, my wand is thirteen inches, elm, and has a phoenix feather core. it's great for transfiguration and defensive spells. i've never seen a dementor, yet, but i think my worst memory would either be when i was caught spying on much older slytherin students in first year and they tried to curse me, or the time amelia got the dragon pox and had to go to the hospital when we were kids, and i thought she was going to die.
thankfully i can conjure a patronus, a small mouse. the memory i use is also from when i was a kid, playing in the yard with essie and patrick and amelia - one of the few days my dear sister came outside. i guess i'd see myself in the mirror of erised, happy, with a wife and kids, and all my friends and family in the background. the war would be over. while dealing with boggarts, i see the people i love being killed by you-know-who.
i guess it's pretty clear, i'm all for the order. i have no sympathy for you-know-who and his spineless supporters. i'm a hufflepuff and proud of it. just entering my sixth year, a decent chaser for the house quidditch team, and member of pretty much every club or advanced class there is. like i said, not much to tell.
lizzy ▪ pm, email ▪ eastern
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