Post by Henry Lordings Jr. on Jul 12, 2008 17:10:58 GMT -5
Accepted! Welcome to Hogwarts.
[Full Name:] Henry John Lordings Jr.
[Country of Citizenship:] Dual Citizenship, United States & England
[Father:] Henry Lordings Sr. (Age: 47 // Born: July 7th, 1962)
[Mother:] Allison Lordings (Age: 43 // Born: July 4th, 1966)
[Patronus:] Manx Cat
[Cast-Magic Specialty:] Charms (Specifically Enchantments)
[Physical-Magic Specialty:] Potions
[Favorite Field of Magic:] Illusions
[Weapon of Choice:] Fire
[Handwriting:] Neat, Slanted, Spiky
[Blood Status:] Half-Blood
[Gender:] Male
[Birthday:] July 7th, 1992
[Age:] 17
[Physical Description:]
[Eyes:] Bright Royal Blue
[Hair:] Deep Auburn
[Height:] 5'7"
[Weight:] 148 lbs.
Standing at about 5'7", and weighing in at an average for the height, Henry Lordings' most notable facial feature are the almond shaped, bright royal blue eyes he inherited from his father, Henry Sr. His hair, a deep auburn, is (as his grandmother jokes regularly) nature's compromise on two unyielding sets of hair genes; While his father has dark brown hair (a feature his grandmother insists has been passed down through dozens of generations), his mother sports a dark red that she assures him is also a centuries old feature of the family's; Henry has a deep auburn that seems to be somewhere in between the two.
Henry has his mother's thin, pointed nose, thin face, and farsightedness; While he has his father's height, ears, smile, and long, thin, and agile fingers which help Henry in conducting his wand with the kind of grace he so cherishes in his spell-work.
Henry enjoys comfort in his clothing, although he does have an appreciation for just how cloths can effect one's first impressions. While at school, he follows the dress code to the letter, however, outside of school, and during the weekends, you are very likely to see him in a T-shirt (usually just a plain color, he doesn't like having messages on his shirts), blue jeans, and a pair of his favorite brown suede slip-ons. Henry also always wears (regardless of his attire at the time) the brown leather under-arm holster for his wand, which keeps his wand safe, and at the ready at all times under his left arm. During the school year, and school week, Henry wears a pair of black slacks, polished black Oxford shoes, a white long-sleeve button up shirt, his house tie, and either the gray sweater that most wear, or a suit jacket and vest to match the slacks under the required black cloak.
Due to his ocular problems, Henry wears a pair of round cornered rectangular spectacles for reading and supplementing his short range vision, which is quite poor, although, anything beyond twenty-five yards is usually quite clear to his eyes without the glasses. In recent months, Henry has enchanted these spectacles to prevent them from breaking, and to make them resistant to dirt and grime. In addition to the glasses, Henry always carries with him a golden pocket watch which was a gift from his paternal grandfather.
[Personality Description:] Clever, Cunning, Studious, and Mischievous, Henry Lordings is a diplomatic personality, a strategic thinker, and a potential leader. Resultant from several traumatic realizations stemming from events in his childhood, Henry has an absolute loathing for anyone who advocates wizarding blood purity, and anyone who holds pure-bloods in a higher respect than those of half-blood lineage, or less. His hatred stems out to those who attempt to pass laws that favor one blood status over another, whichever blood status that would be. He is also a great opponent of those who would strip from men their basic rights, and resists these groups by doing anything within his power to undermine them, even if that only means practicing defense illegally, and in secret.
While Henry is an excellent duelist, and a man who appreciates a good sparring match with a friend, he prefers the diplomatic approach to the resolution of any given problem or conflict. Often, he will choose to settle a matter through reasoned discussion rather than outright conflict, although, those who would take this as a sign of weakness are in for a great surprise indeed.
To accompany, and indeed balance, all of this, is his unusually mischievous tendencies. Henry, like any student, will cast off a rule from time to time; However, Henry frequently disregards any rules (or laws for that matter) that he believes to be pointless, or unnecessary. Chief among these disregarded rules, and laws, is the ban on defense at Hogwarts, where Henry continues to practice in secret. On the other hand, he keeps himself bound to the honor system of not performing magic or deeds that he feels are rightfully against the rules; Killing, for instance.
Henry's father, an engineer, and ex-military officer, believes Henry to be wasting his talent pursuing becoming an Auror, a career he calls "Military-esk"; He believes that Henry's considerable intellect, problem-solving skills, and generally high energy level would be better spent pursuing the "Inventor's path", as so many of Henry's paternal ancestors did.
[History:] Born to Henry Lordings Sr., and Allison McGhee-Lordings in Seattle, Washington on the 7th of July, 1992, Henry Lordings Jr. was, and still is, the only child of the couple. Henry's father, a muggle who worked for the arms and armor manufacturer, KevlaCorp., as a senior designer for their products, had gone into the Seattle's Best Coffee on the corner of 4th and Spring and had bought a large cup of coffee which he accidentally spilled on a woman passing him in the doorway when they inadvertently bumped into each other. The woman he had bumped into was Allison McGhee, a witch from Cambridge, England who had been living in Seattle as a liaison between the British and American Ministries of Magic had decided to walk to work one morning, had passed the coffee shop and decided to go in and get a cup. As she entered, she had one poured on her accidentally by a passing man, and, after apologizing to her almost a hundred times, the man offered to buy her a cup of coffee, and anything else she wanted. When he asked if he could sit with her after he bought her what she wanted, she found she couldn't refuse him, and six months later, they were married, ten months after their marriage, Henry Jr. was born.
Henry had an unusual childhood; He was the son of a muggle and a witch, and he didn't even know it. His mother and father had decided to wait to tell him that he was quite likely to be a wizard until he was old enough to understand it all. Both his parents, however, decided that it would be best to allow him to go and be with children his own age, and so they enrolled him in a muggle private school where he would spend his early years of education learning all the basic skills that muggles depended on, and then some. His father, a fencer by hobby, had signed Henry up to take part in fencing lessons at the school, lessons that became a fiasco as soon as they began. During Henry's first ever lesson, he was pitted against a student who had several years of practice on Henry by the instructor, and, after Henry lost to the boy five times in a row, somehow Henry made the boy's sword bend back upon itself, and poke the boy in the face. Henry, who couldn't understand how, on earth, it was his fault, was dragged to the headmaster's office by the furious fencing instructor. The headmaster of the school, an elderly man named Leonard Tellarfeld, had, to Henry's relief and confusion, found the event altogether amusing, and had allowed Henry off without so much as a warning. Henry would later find out (after he found out what he really was) that the headmaster of the school was actually a squib who had taken a muggle career in teaching in lieu of being able to work in the magical community, and that Henry had been sent to the school specifically because the man was familiar with Henry's status.
When Henry turned eleven, a most curious letter found it's way to him in the beak of a large barn owl one morning over breakfast. Dear Mr. Lordings, the letter had said We are quite pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at The Salem Institute for Magical Studies... Henry, who had been confused by the meaning of it all, had had to have it explained to him by his mother. It wasn't until she blew up the clock on the mantle-piece with her wand did he believe it was true. She had explained how many of the things he had seen her do (Like lift a washing machine with one hand, and cook extravagant meals in five minutes flat.) was actually done with the use of magic. She also explained how the things that Henry had accidentally done in the past (like making his opponent's sword poke it's master in the face, or setting Mr. Alexander's hair on fire for calling Henry's dad an idiot) was actually Henry accidentally using magic when he was scared or angry. Henry had immediately thought that his father was a wizard too, but his father explained how he was something wizards called a muggle, and how he couldn't do a lick of magic, but was fascinated with it all the same.
Just how fascinated with magic his father was, Henry didn't quite understand until Henry was dragged to the International Dueling Federation's World Finals match between America's Eileen Smith, and Germany's Hans Erstürmen; One of the most bitter dueling rivalries of all time. If Henry was interested in the duel being unveiled before him, it was nothing to the fascination Henry Sr. was displaying. Henry remembered thinking his father had been coming to these things for quite awhile, because halfway through the match, his father started yelling suggestions for spells that Smith should use on her German rival. Of course, then it turned sour; In the fifth round, Erstürmen used an illegal shocking curse on Smith, and had laid the groundwork for what happened next. There was a full blown riot that had broken out between Erstürmen supporters, and Smith supporters; Though the competitors themselves simply stood by in shock as their fans jinxed, cursed, hexed, or otherwise magicked each other into submission.
Fortunately for the innocent crowd present, who had not been spared the slings and arrows of the die hard group's spells, someone at the American Minitstry of Magic had had the decent sense to send a squad of Aurors to police the proceedings. Henry had watched as the Auror captain, a man named Jordan Williamson, ran up on the dueling stage, and, with a bang like an 88mm cannon that shook dust from the ceiling, which caused a tangible shock-wave to pass through the air, brought the crowd back into an orderly state. There had been something about that man that had captured Henry's attention, and it wasn't the fact he cast a spell that would put the sound of a artillery piece to shame. The fact that that man had single handedly brought order to a room of hundreds of battling bitter enemies had entranced Henry; That kind of force for peace, justice, and order was something that Henry respected, and wanted to be. From that day onward, he did everything he could to become an Auror.
It was shortly after this event that Henry went off to his first year at Salem Magical Institute (not to be confused with the Salem Witches Institute), where he was finally amongst youngsters of his own kind; young witches and wizards from all over the country...thousands of them. Henry quickly proved to his teachers, and indeed himself, that he was more than a capable student, but one who was skilled, and easily adaptable to concepts beyond his years. Henry found a true appreciation for Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Enchantment and Transfiguration; Especially enjoying Enchantment, a field of study rarely seen outside the United States, and covered in most countries by Charms, though not as thoroughly. At the end of Henry's second year at Salem, his father was promoted, and transfered to the British branch of his company, KevlaCorp, and thus saw to Henry's transfer to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; Salem Magical's Scottish counter-part.
While his father was taking up his new mantle of Director of KevlaCorp-Britain, Henry was proceeding with his third year of magical education at his new school: Hogwarts. Henry found Hogwarts an inhospitable place; He found the castle's layout confusing, the schedule off kilter, and the teachers odd, and he missed his friends from Salem; but there was little he could do. In an attempt to gain an appreciation for his new school, Henry delved as deeply as he could into the History of the ancient school. He quickly became a veritable lord of the library, where he spent many of his off hours reading through every book that caught his fancy. He continued to excel at his classes as he had done at Salem, but shunned the concept of gathering around him a new group of friends; He couldn't find it in himself to betray his friends back in the United States by gathering to him replacements.
Henry's third, fourth years, and a good portion of his fifth for that matter, passed with business as usual, however, a series of closely spaced disasters rained down upon him, and the rest of the school. First, the ban on Defense Against the Dark Arts fell upon the educational process like a ton of bricks. Then, shortly afterward, the Deva takeover of the school was realized. Both events stuck Henry hard, but for different reasons. Firstly, the an on Defense Against the Dark Arts put a serious damper on his ambitions to become an Auror, however, Henry resolved to continue learning the material in secret. Secondly, the Deva takeover of the school awakened in Henry an innate hatred of purists, a hatred that stemmed from his earliest and most mysterious memories.
[Pros and Cons:]
Pros:
1. Henry is extremely observant of his surroundings, and can remember small details for long periods of time. Likewise, he has the same affinity for remembering details from books, often being able to recall this information in direct quotes for several weeks after he has read it.
2. Has a sturdy belief in equality for all wizards regardless of their blood, and doesn't believe for a moment that anyone within the magical community should be more worthy of magical education than others.
3. He has an extremely strong will, and a focused mind, and has always found it quite easy to focus his thoughts so he could cast voicelessly, or resist intrusions upon his mind, though intrusions upon his thoughts have been few and far between.
Cons:
1. Henry can easily be considered fairly obsessive, for instance, in order to allow himself the time needed to practice defense in secret, he intentionally failed his O.W.L.s in History of Magic, and Divination, two subjects that held interest for him, but were unnecessary.
2. Over the course of his life, he has allowed his duties to overcome his desires. He has allowed, for instance, his education to take precedence over personal relationships, and as a result has very few true friends.
3.While Henry does have a relative respect for rules, he rarely follows them if he can avoid doing so. It has nothing to do with ignoring them for fun, he finds that most rules are relatively pointless, and so often disregards them, however, he never does so in public.
[Dueling Pros and Cons:]
Pros:
1. Henry has an incredible gift with the manipulation and use of fire, and is a master of Ignis-Lore, an ancient and obscure branch of elemental magic lore which is seldom delved by wizards.
(Ignis-Lore: The study of the nature of fire, it's subtleties, and it's uses.)
Cons:
1. Henry refuses to use, and by extension is almost physically incapable of using Dark Magic. While some would consider this a pro, it gives him a significant disadvantage in a duel to the death.
[Role Playing Example:]
Henry entered the library and made right for the row marked C-5 on which was kept books about the use of water based plants in potion making. So many times had he haunted these aisles that his feet carried him automatically to the row on which his desired book was likely to be kept.
"Okay..." said Henry, consulting the small leaflet he had been keeping with him. Flourish and Blotts, inundated with orders, had run clean out of copies of Magical Flora of Western Europe, and Henry had had to hope the library would have a copy he could use until his new copy arrived. "...Helga Herbum..."
He ran his finger along the spines of the books on the third shelf up, and found what he was looking for. He pulled an ancient looking copy of Magical Flora of Western Europe and flipped open the front cover, noting immediately that there was scribbling and scratchy writing spread all over the inside of the book. By the grace of...something...there was nothing written on the pages which truly mattered.
When he was satisfied that the book contained the information he needed, he took it and made his way to a cushy armchair in the corner. He opened the book to page one-hundred and fifty-two and began to read.
Henry continued to read the article until he found all the information he needed for his Potions essay, and pulled out quill, ink, and parchment so as to begin his assigned paper.
It took around an hour for Henry to complete the assigned three feet, and another half hour checking, and writing a final version (A habit which had been impressed upon him at muggle elementary school). He rolled up the final version of the essay and tucked it carefully in his bag. He stood, returned the book to the precise space where he had found it on row C-5, and, throwing his bag over his shoulder, made his way out of the library, hoping against hope that his copy of the only text book he wasn't able to procure was on it's way to him now in the clutches of some unfortunate owl.
[Full Name:] Henry John Lordings Jr.
[Country of Citizenship:] Dual Citizenship, United States & England
[Father:] Henry Lordings Sr. (Age: 47 // Born: July 7th, 1962)
[Mother:] Allison Lordings (Age: 43 // Born: July 4th, 1966)
[Patronus:] Manx Cat
[Cast-Magic Specialty:] Charms (Specifically Enchantments)
[Physical-Magic Specialty:] Potions
[Favorite Field of Magic:] Illusions
[Weapon of Choice:] Fire
[Handwriting:] Neat, Slanted, Spiky
[Blood Status:] Half-Blood
[Gender:] Male
[Birthday:] July 7th, 1992
[Age:] 17
[Physical Description:]
[Eyes:] Bright Royal Blue
[Hair:] Deep Auburn
[Height:] 5'7"
[Weight:] 148 lbs.
Standing at about 5'7", and weighing in at an average for the height, Henry Lordings' most notable facial feature are the almond shaped, bright royal blue eyes he inherited from his father, Henry Sr. His hair, a deep auburn, is (as his grandmother jokes regularly) nature's compromise on two unyielding sets of hair genes; While his father has dark brown hair (a feature his grandmother insists has been passed down through dozens of generations), his mother sports a dark red that she assures him is also a centuries old feature of the family's; Henry has a deep auburn that seems to be somewhere in between the two.
Henry has his mother's thin, pointed nose, thin face, and farsightedness; While he has his father's height, ears, smile, and long, thin, and agile fingers which help Henry in conducting his wand with the kind of grace he so cherishes in his spell-work.
Henry enjoys comfort in his clothing, although he does have an appreciation for just how cloths can effect one's first impressions. While at school, he follows the dress code to the letter, however, outside of school, and during the weekends, you are very likely to see him in a T-shirt (usually just a plain color, he doesn't like having messages on his shirts), blue jeans, and a pair of his favorite brown suede slip-ons. Henry also always wears (regardless of his attire at the time) the brown leather under-arm holster for his wand, which keeps his wand safe, and at the ready at all times under his left arm. During the school year, and school week, Henry wears a pair of black slacks, polished black Oxford shoes, a white long-sleeve button up shirt, his house tie, and either the gray sweater that most wear, or a suit jacket and vest to match the slacks under the required black cloak.
Due to his ocular problems, Henry wears a pair of round cornered rectangular spectacles for reading and supplementing his short range vision, which is quite poor, although, anything beyond twenty-five yards is usually quite clear to his eyes without the glasses. In recent months, Henry has enchanted these spectacles to prevent them from breaking, and to make them resistant to dirt and grime. In addition to the glasses, Henry always carries with him a golden pocket watch which was a gift from his paternal grandfather.
[Personality Description:] Clever, Cunning, Studious, and Mischievous, Henry Lordings is a diplomatic personality, a strategic thinker, and a potential leader. Resultant from several traumatic realizations stemming from events in his childhood, Henry has an absolute loathing for anyone who advocates wizarding blood purity, and anyone who holds pure-bloods in a higher respect than those of half-blood lineage, or less. His hatred stems out to those who attempt to pass laws that favor one blood status over another, whichever blood status that would be. He is also a great opponent of those who would strip from men their basic rights, and resists these groups by doing anything within his power to undermine them, even if that only means practicing defense illegally, and in secret.
While Henry is an excellent duelist, and a man who appreciates a good sparring match with a friend, he prefers the diplomatic approach to the resolution of any given problem or conflict. Often, he will choose to settle a matter through reasoned discussion rather than outright conflict, although, those who would take this as a sign of weakness are in for a great surprise indeed.
To accompany, and indeed balance, all of this, is his unusually mischievous tendencies. Henry, like any student, will cast off a rule from time to time; However, Henry frequently disregards any rules (or laws for that matter) that he believes to be pointless, or unnecessary. Chief among these disregarded rules, and laws, is the ban on defense at Hogwarts, where Henry continues to practice in secret. On the other hand, he keeps himself bound to the honor system of not performing magic or deeds that he feels are rightfully against the rules; Killing, for instance.
Henry's father, an engineer, and ex-military officer, believes Henry to be wasting his talent pursuing becoming an Auror, a career he calls "Military-esk"; He believes that Henry's considerable intellect, problem-solving skills, and generally high energy level would be better spent pursuing the "Inventor's path", as so many of Henry's paternal ancestors did.
[History:] Born to Henry Lordings Sr., and Allison McGhee-Lordings in Seattle, Washington on the 7th of July, 1992, Henry Lordings Jr. was, and still is, the only child of the couple. Henry's father, a muggle who worked for the arms and armor manufacturer, KevlaCorp., as a senior designer for their products, had gone into the Seattle's Best Coffee on the corner of 4th and Spring and had bought a large cup of coffee which he accidentally spilled on a woman passing him in the doorway when they inadvertently bumped into each other. The woman he had bumped into was Allison McGhee, a witch from Cambridge, England who had been living in Seattle as a liaison between the British and American Ministries of Magic had decided to walk to work one morning, had passed the coffee shop and decided to go in and get a cup. As she entered, she had one poured on her accidentally by a passing man, and, after apologizing to her almost a hundred times, the man offered to buy her a cup of coffee, and anything else she wanted. When he asked if he could sit with her after he bought her what she wanted, she found she couldn't refuse him, and six months later, they were married, ten months after their marriage, Henry Jr. was born.
Henry had an unusual childhood; He was the son of a muggle and a witch, and he didn't even know it. His mother and father had decided to wait to tell him that he was quite likely to be a wizard until he was old enough to understand it all. Both his parents, however, decided that it would be best to allow him to go and be with children his own age, and so they enrolled him in a muggle private school where he would spend his early years of education learning all the basic skills that muggles depended on, and then some. His father, a fencer by hobby, had signed Henry up to take part in fencing lessons at the school, lessons that became a fiasco as soon as they began. During Henry's first ever lesson, he was pitted against a student who had several years of practice on Henry by the instructor, and, after Henry lost to the boy five times in a row, somehow Henry made the boy's sword bend back upon itself, and poke the boy in the face. Henry, who couldn't understand how, on earth, it was his fault, was dragged to the headmaster's office by the furious fencing instructor. The headmaster of the school, an elderly man named Leonard Tellarfeld, had, to Henry's relief and confusion, found the event altogether amusing, and had allowed Henry off without so much as a warning. Henry would later find out (after he found out what he really was) that the headmaster of the school was actually a squib who had taken a muggle career in teaching in lieu of being able to work in the magical community, and that Henry had been sent to the school specifically because the man was familiar with Henry's status.
When Henry turned eleven, a most curious letter found it's way to him in the beak of a large barn owl one morning over breakfast. Dear Mr. Lordings, the letter had said We are quite pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at The Salem Institute for Magical Studies... Henry, who had been confused by the meaning of it all, had had to have it explained to him by his mother. It wasn't until she blew up the clock on the mantle-piece with her wand did he believe it was true. She had explained how many of the things he had seen her do (Like lift a washing machine with one hand, and cook extravagant meals in five minutes flat.) was actually done with the use of magic. She also explained how the things that Henry had accidentally done in the past (like making his opponent's sword poke it's master in the face, or setting Mr. Alexander's hair on fire for calling Henry's dad an idiot) was actually Henry accidentally using magic when he was scared or angry. Henry had immediately thought that his father was a wizard too, but his father explained how he was something wizards called a muggle, and how he couldn't do a lick of magic, but was fascinated with it all the same.
Just how fascinated with magic his father was, Henry didn't quite understand until Henry was dragged to the International Dueling Federation's World Finals match between America's Eileen Smith, and Germany's Hans Erstürmen; One of the most bitter dueling rivalries of all time. If Henry was interested in the duel being unveiled before him, it was nothing to the fascination Henry Sr. was displaying. Henry remembered thinking his father had been coming to these things for quite awhile, because halfway through the match, his father started yelling suggestions for spells that Smith should use on her German rival. Of course, then it turned sour; In the fifth round, Erstürmen used an illegal shocking curse on Smith, and had laid the groundwork for what happened next. There was a full blown riot that had broken out between Erstürmen supporters, and Smith supporters; Though the competitors themselves simply stood by in shock as their fans jinxed, cursed, hexed, or otherwise magicked each other into submission.
Fortunately for the innocent crowd present, who had not been spared the slings and arrows of the die hard group's spells, someone at the American Minitstry of Magic had had the decent sense to send a squad of Aurors to police the proceedings. Henry had watched as the Auror captain, a man named Jordan Williamson, ran up on the dueling stage, and, with a bang like an 88mm cannon that shook dust from the ceiling, which caused a tangible shock-wave to pass through the air, brought the crowd back into an orderly state. There had been something about that man that had captured Henry's attention, and it wasn't the fact he cast a spell that would put the sound of a artillery piece to shame. The fact that that man had single handedly brought order to a room of hundreds of battling bitter enemies had entranced Henry; That kind of force for peace, justice, and order was something that Henry respected, and wanted to be. From that day onward, he did everything he could to become an Auror.
It was shortly after this event that Henry went off to his first year at Salem Magical Institute (not to be confused with the Salem Witches Institute), where he was finally amongst youngsters of his own kind; young witches and wizards from all over the country...thousands of them. Henry quickly proved to his teachers, and indeed himself, that he was more than a capable student, but one who was skilled, and easily adaptable to concepts beyond his years. Henry found a true appreciation for Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Enchantment and Transfiguration; Especially enjoying Enchantment, a field of study rarely seen outside the United States, and covered in most countries by Charms, though not as thoroughly. At the end of Henry's second year at Salem, his father was promoted, and transfered to the British branch of his company, KevlaCorp, and thus saw to Henry's transfer to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; Salem Magical's Scottish counter-part.
While his father was taking up his new mantle of Director of KevlaCorp-Britain, Henry was proceeding with his third year of magical education at his new school: Hogwarts. Henry found Hogwarts an inhospitable place; He found the castle's layout confusing, the schedule off kilter, and the teachers odd, and he missed his friends from Salem; but there was little he could do. In an attempt to gain an appreciation for his new school, Henry delved as deeply as he could into the History of the ancient school. He quickly became a veritable lord of the library, where he spent many of his off hours reading through every book that caught his fancy. He continued to excel at his classes as he had done at Salem, but shunned the concept of gathering around him a new group of friends; He couldn't find it in himself to betray his friends back in the United States by gathering to him replacements.
Henry's third, fourth years, and a good portion of his fifth for that matter, passed with business as usual, however, a series of closely spaced disasters rained down upon him, and the rest of the school. First, the ban on Defense Against the Dark Arts fell upon the educational process like a ton of bricks. Then, shortly afterward, the Deva takeover of the school was realized. Both events stuck Henry hard, but for different reasons. Firstly, the an on Defense Against the Dark Arts put a serious damper on his ambitions to become an Auror, however, Henry resolved to continue learning the material in secret. Secondly, the Deva takeover of the school awakened in Henry an innate hatred of purists, a hatred that stemmed from his earliest and most mysterious memories.
[Pros and Cons:]
Pros:
1. Henry is extremely observant of his surroundings, and can remember small details for long periods of time. Likewise, he has the same affinity for remembering details from books, often being able to recall this information in direct quotes for several weeks after he has read it.
2. Has a sturdy belief in equality for all wizards regardless of their blood, and doesn't believe for a moment that anyone within the magical community should be more worthy of magical education than others.
3. He has an extremely strong will, and a focused mind, and has always found it quite easy to focus his thoughts so he could cast voicelessly, or resist intrusions upon his mind, though intrusions upon his thoughts have been few and far between.
Cons:
1. Henry can easily be considered fairly obsessive, for instance, in order to allow himself the time needed to practice defense in secret, he intentionally failed his O.W.L.s in History of Magic, and Divination, two subjects that held interest for him, but were unnecessary.
2. Over the course of his life, he has allowed his duties to overcome his desires. He has allowed, for instance, his education to take precedence over personal relationships, and as a result has very few true friends.
3.While Henry does have a relative respect for rules, he rarely follows them if he can avoid doing so. It has nothing to do with ignoring them for fun, he finds that most rules are relatively pointless, and so often disregards them, however, he never does so in public.
[Dueling Pros and Cons:]
Pros:
1. Henry has an incredible gift with the manipulation and use of fire, and is a master of Ignis-Lore, an ancient and obscure branch of elemental magic lore which is seldom delved by wizards.
(Ignis-Lore: The study of the nature of fire, it's subtleties, and it's uses.)
Cons:
1. Henry refuses to use, and by extension is almost physically incapable of using Dark Magic. While some would consider this a pro, it gives him a significant disadvantage in a duel to the death.
[Role Playing Example:]
Henry entered the library and made right for the row marked C-5 on which was kept books about the use of water based plants in potion making. So many times had he haunted these aisles that his feet carried him automatically to the row on which his desired book was likely to be kept.
"Okay..." said Henry, consulting the small leaflet he had been keeping with him. Flourish and Blotts, inundated with orders, had run clean out of copies of Magical Flora of Western Europe, and Henry had had to hope the library would have a copy he could use until his new copy arrived. "...Helga Herbum..."
He ran his finger along the spines of the books on the third shelf up, and found what he was looking for. He pulled an ancient looking copy of Magical Flora of Western Europe and flipped open the front cover, noting immediately that there was scribbling and scratchy writing spread all over the inside of the book. By the grace of...something...there was nothing written on the pages which truly mattered.
When he was satisfied that the book contained the information he needed, he took it and made his way to a cushy armchair in the corner. He opened the book to page one-hundred and fifty-two and began to read.
The moonshade plant is most useful in the creation of potions
which would inflict long term effects upon the drinker. Having a most
potent agent for sleeping droughts as well, moonshade is a quite essential
component in the creation of powerful sleeping droughts such as the
Drought of Living Death and the Drought of Poisonous Sleep...
which would inflict long term effects upon the drinker. Having a most
potent agent for sleeping droughts as well, moonshade is a quite essential
component in the creation of powerful sleeping droughts such as the
Drought of Living Death and the Drought of Poisonous Sleep...
Henry continued to read the article until he found all the information he needed for his Potions essay, and pulled out quill, ink, and parchment so as to begin his assigned paper.
It took around an hour for Henry to complete the assigned three feet, and another half hour checking, and writing a final version (A habit which had been impressed upon him at muggle elementary school). He rolled up the final version of the essay and tucked it carefully in his bag. He stood, returned the book to the precise space where he had found it on row C-5, and, throwing his bag over his shoulder, made his way out of the library, hoping against hope that his copy of the only text book he wasn't able to procure was on it's way to him now in the clutches of some unfortunate owl.
---------------------N.E.W.T.s Classes---------------------
| Potions |
| Transfiguration |
| Charms |
| Astronomy |
| Herbology |
| Muggle Studies |
| Arithmancy |
| Ancient Runes |
| Care of the Magical Creatures |
