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Echoes- a AU 2nd War RPG

Basics

FULL NAME: Amery Harper
NICKNAMES: None
AGE: 14
BIRTHDAY: February 3rd 1982
BLOOD STATUS: Halfblood


Family/Relationships

PARENTS:

MOTHER: Olivia Parkinson
FATHER: Fred Harper

SIBLINGS: None
EXTENDED FAMILY: Pansy Parkinson is his cousin - his mother is her father's sister but was disowned for marrying a muggle.

FRIENDS: Amery will make friends with anyone, provided they're not a muggle and he doesn't think they're stupid. He looks for people he can trust and doesn't like loud-mouths or know-it-alls. He doesn't want to be the centre of attention within friendship groups but does like to lead somewhat in his own way.

SEXUALITY: Heterosexual

SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None
CHILDREN: None


LIVING ARRANGEMENTS

LOCATION: Lives in a semi-detached house in a muggle neighbourhood in London with his parents, but in Hogwarts during term time.
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Slytherin dormitory, Howarts.

Occupation/Income

CURRENT OCCUPATION: Student

CLASS: Middle Class (muggle father is an engineer, mother does not work)

Education

HOUSE/YEAR: Slytherin/4th year
CLUBS/AFFILIATIONS: Substitute Chaser on the Slytherin Quidditch team


Politics

LOYALTY/ALLIANCE: Neutral

ROLE IN THE WAR: Amery is excellent in most of his subjects at Hogwarts, however he doesn't sway much to either side of the battle and as a 4^th year student will probably not participate in it anyway, unless he has to defend himself. 

POLITICAL VIEWS: To Amery, the wizarding world is where he loves to be and the muggle world is just dull. He hasn't really liked any of the muggles in his life and therefore generalises that he doesn't like muggles at all. He doesn't believe that they should be punished or killed or anything so extreme, just that they should be kept very separate from the wizarding world. He holds no animosity towards muggle-borns but pities them that they have to live with two muggle parents. However being a halfblood makes him feel rather inadequate sometimes and he feels he always has to prove his magical ability by being the best at everything. As for werewolves, vampires, giants etc., he doesn't believe they should be given a magical education – not because he is intentionally prejudiced but because he has never met any and doesn't think they are real wizards – they have abilities of their own kind and don't need to be taught spells to make them even more dangerous. He understands both sides of the political argument but prefers to stay out of it, fairly sure that as a halfblood he will be safe either way.


Appearance

APPEARANCE:  Tall for his age and slim, but with a young face, Amery is naturally pale but tans easily. He has dark hair and rather intense eyes. Coming from a mixed background he wears both muggle and wizarding fashions depending what the day calls for, but usually just sticks to school uniform. He speaks quietly but firmly and gives the impression of being very in control, at least of himself.


Personality

WAND: 12 1/2", ash, dragon heartstring, pliable
BOGGART: Losing his magical ability
PATRONUS: Has not learned to cast one yet.

LIKES: Hogwarts, magic, getting good grades, Quidditch, music, reading
DISLIKES: his father, being stuck at home all summer, muggles, showing weakness

STRENGTHS: intelligent, precise, motivated, polite and charming when he tries
WEAKNESSES: still developing the skill of making friends, often misses his mother, bad temper when something provokes it 

DETAILED PERSONALITY:  Due to being an only child and homeschooled before going to Hogwarts, Amery is very used to his own company and doesn't go out of his way to socialise with everyone, although he does enjoy having a few friends to go around with when he feels like it. He's intelligent and a talented wizard for his age, and is one of those irritating people who never studies but happens to ace all their assignments anyway. Despite seeming very quiet and calm, he can have quite a bad temper when frustrated and is liable to magically smash things by accident, which is just one of the things his muggle father hates about him. He doesn't like to do things that he considers to be immature, however he does enjoy annoying his father in any way possible over the summer holidays, pulling pranks and stealing his cigarettes for example. Amery can be rather naïve at times however mature he thinks he is. He is not generally mean and treats his friends well, but at the end of the day he feels looking out for his own interests is the most important thing.

History


CHILDHOOD:  When Olivia Parkinson married the muggle engineer Fred Harper after a brief romance in 1980, she was disowned by the rest of the Parkinson family and cut off from any inheritance she might have had. Unfortunately by the time the unsuspecting Fred found out she was a witch, she had already fallen pregnant with Amery, and his family wouldn't let him even think of abandoning a wife and child (not that they knew the whole story). He held out hope that his son might not turn out to be the same way as his wife, but Amery seemed to be even stranger throughout his childhood, always making unexplainable things happen by accident. By the time he was about 7 they openly disliked each other, which wasn't improved by Olivia trying to keep everyone happy. 

Thinking he might not get along well with muggle children due to the strange things that always happened around him and his quiet nature, Amery's mother decided to homeschool him until he was 11, teaching him the general school curriculum by herself as well as the violin and anything magical that didn't involve actual spells. He was happy being at home with her and never wanted his father to come home in the evenings. When he finally moved away to Hogwarts it was a relief for both him and his father, although his summers at home become more of a continuous fight every year.

HOGWARTS.  Amery loves Hogwarts and being around his own kind. His mother had told him all about it when he was younger and although she was a Ravenclaw in her day, he was happy to be sorted into Slytherin as he has very high standards for himself and an ever growing dislike of muggles. At Hogwarts he first met his cousin Pansy in the year above, who he hadn't seen before due to his mother being disowned. He likes her but is jealous of her having an all-wizarding family which he feels he should have been part of. Amery excells in all his classes without a lot of effort and has on occasion been paid by other students to write essays for them, as he has a bit of a knack for copying other peoples handwriting.

In his third year he was selected as a reserve Chaser for the Slytherin Quidditch team, and although he resents only being a substitute he keeps the position just in case he ever gets promoted up, and because his mother is proud about it. He aims to be made a prefect next year. The one thing he likes about the muggle world and misses at Hogwarts is muggle music – he has a vast collection of it on an iPod, which goes haywire and stops working within the school grounds (probably a good thing since most of his fellow Slytherins are purebloods). He has never had a girlfriend and his experience of girls is limited to hugs from his mother and a brief kiss with a distant muggle cousin at a wedding who he never saw again. However he is not in any rush and considers his grades and social standing to be more important at the moment – he was rather socially inept in first year but has gained confidence every year.