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Bancroft Serafino
Status:
Pure-blood
Birthday:
11 Jan 2009
Nationality:
Irish
Residence:
Glenullin, Ireland
Function:
First year, Ravenclaw
Wand:
34,3 cm redwood and unicorn hair
Physical Description: Describe what your character looks like. They must be human - no horns, tails, animal features or unusual colored hair or eyes unless wearing contacts or dying their hair in which case please state. Bleached white hair and piercing blue eyes, people notice me. Incredibly tall or me age, I stand at five foot 2, towering at times several inches above my peers. I expect to be as tall as my father when I grow up so it is to be expected but because of this I am often presumed to be older than I actually am. I have a preference for wearing white, but not for a shock aesthetic but rather because I hate dirt and filth. I keep myself very clean and I am very sensitive to scents, my stomach can easily turn with a foul stench.

Mental Description: What is your character like. We will not accept characters that practice self-harm. I am incredibly neat, to the point where it might be pathological. If it is, I am not under any treatment for the behavior but I need to have everything in a certain order, placed in a certain way or I find myself frustrated and agitated. This has caused me to be rather meticulous regarding my person, my attire and of course my living quarters. I often rise earlier in the day than my peers and I am often up slightly later due to this eccentricity, which leaves me sleep deprived on fuller days.

I have a fascination with snow and large bodies of water, but I prefer to keep my distance from both. I like to have a sense of control over my surroundings

Biography: What was your character's life like pre-Hogwarts. Describe your family, your friends and your home life. I am the middle son of an upper class pureblood family. We come from old money, my great-great-great... something or other grandfather was a brilliant alchemist and the wealth he earned provided for my family for subsequent generations. This was an appearance that my family has maintained for the sake of reputation but in truth we had gone mostly broke due to frivolous spending practices over the past century and minimal contributions by my predecessors.

I still lived comfortably, learned under the tutelage of some of the great minds in the wizarding world. I dressed well and by all appearances by family was flourishing with their only son the highlight of these gatherings. Indeed, good eye if you took note of the fact that I am a middle child, that much is true but my older and younger brothers are squibs and for that reason they were exiled from the family. I do not know where either of my siblings are, my mother told me that they live with a distant aunt. One of my tutors confided to me that they believed my siblings were dead. In truth, both were lies, or at the very least inaccuracies. My brother, a decade my senior had run away as a teen and he had come back and taken with him my younger brother two years ago.

First Instance of Magic: Please describe your character's first instance of accidental underaged wandless magic. My parents were actively looking for an instance of magic in me, distressed that their eldest was a squib. Attempts to startle, fright or elicit strong emotional responses from me as a young child were not uncommon but magic was not something someone can summon from a child. It happened on its own without my parents insistence. I was five, playing with my brother when we squabbled as children often do. A disagreement over the overship of a toy that I would have won on strength alone being two years senior. I had pushed him back without touching him, he was hurt and did not deserve it but I lacked empathy being only 5 myself. My parents oddly no different in the terms of emotional intelligence when they saw the altercation, more excited over my exhibition of magic than my brother's injuries, that incident marked the end of their assessments of me but started their indifference and disappointment in my younger brother to whom they were always cold to.