I intend to enrol in the upcoming 2025-2026 first-year school year.

Residence
Puck was born in Westport, Ireland, but raised in Fort William, Scotland. The country of his mother’s birth, and the city she was schooled in, Sarah Maudley returned to Fort William after leaving Puck’s father. Sarah also owned a small property in Lochgoilhead, having been left the house and its small parcel of land by her parents when they died. Puck spent most of his holidays living there, and then moved permanently in Late October, 2023.

Physical Description
Just on average height for his age, Puck is a slender, but muscled, young man, having participated in the muggle sports of rock climbing, parkour, and circus from a young age. He has pale, freckled, skin and curly, strawberry-blonde hair, and grey-blue eyes with a golden ring around his pupil (central heterochromia). His hair falls just below his collarbones, and you’ll often see him with it tied in a low pony-tail. He takes to doodling on his skin when bored, and is generally found wearing black cargo pants and a warm hoodie (or singlet hoodie if it’s warmer), underneath which you might find one of the many band or franchise shirts he owns, having been raised on muggle media by his mother. He has lower lobe piercings in both ears, and has taken to wearing a fake septum piercing in order to try and convince his mother to let him get an actual one.

Puck has a scar on his left cheek, from his jawbone up to the cheekbone. This was gained after he fell whilst rockclimbing when he was nine. He has a myriad of other, smaller scars from cuts and scrapes over his arms, legs, and knees, gained from a combination of many activities, and encounters with birds and stray animals over the years. He has one scar which stretches from midway down the back of his forearm to his elbow, which if questioned about, he will say was from falling two metres down a cliff face, but was actually because he tripped on the stairs. Being raised only by his muggle mother, he did not have access to magical remedies, and when introduced to the magical world and offered to have them healed declined, both because magic was new to him at the time, and they had become a part of who he was. As they, by that time, had no negative impact on his life and wellbeing, his mother left the decision up to him.

Personality
Puck is a relatively cheerful person, and as his name suggests, is quite mischievous, though is careful to ensure that this is never at the expense of another's wellbeing. He enjoys climbing and clambering, and will often be found on top of the highest nearby object, tree, or wall. Having grown up with an absent father, he can be resentful/uncaring towards male authority figures, and is incredibly protectful of his mother. He is incredibly curious and inquisitive, interested in learning as much as he can and questioning as much as possible.

He is a very hyperactive person, and due to this, his mother enrolled him in rock climbing, parkour, and circus classes as a child, because if he was going to be climbing every visible surface, she wanted him to be able to do so safely. Puck was also born with Tourette's, which presented around the age of eight. It's mild, and after coming to terms with it and understanding the condition more, it does not often impact him in a negative way, though it did not aways help with making friends.

History
Puck was born to a wizard and a muggle mother by the name of Sarah Maudley. Sarah has never spoken of Puck's father to him, but over the years he has gathered that his father had never told his mother of his magical lineage or abilities, and due to this she had left him when Puck was three after he threatened to Obliviate her
after accidentally the magical world. Having grown up without a father didn't particularly impact Puck as his mother cared greatly for him and gave him as much love, attention, and care as she could. He has a distrust of older male figures and male authority figures as a result of this though.

Being a muggle, Sarah raised Puck in the muggle world, sending him to a muggle school from kindy through to year six, and raising him on muggle customs, culture, and foods. She did not hide the magical world from him, explaining what his occurrences of accidental magic were, and apologising she could not provide him with further information, but ensuring he knew that his father had told her of the existence of a school he would be offered to attend should he demonstrate magical ability and wish to attend.

His magic, mixed with his intense curiosity and hyperactivity meant that he found it hard to fit in, often feeling left out and lonely. He finds it hard to make friends, sometimes feeling like he's too much for those around him do to his overly inquisitive, mischievous, and hyperactive nature, or being resented for high performance both academically and athletically. Because of this he sometimes feels lonely, left out, or like he does not belong, and endeavours to entertain himself in order to cheer himself up (this can include reading, climbing, swimming, writing, listening to music, and dancing).

After his first instance of magic, Puck's mother kept a detailed record of all instances and possible instances of magic surrounding him. Times when she'd try and feed him food he didn't want and suddenly the plate held chocolates and apple in place of chicken and peas. When she'd been frustratedly arguing with a landlord on the phone and suddenly it had burst into flowers and she'd turned to find Puck sitting morosely on the stairs. When he'd come downstair in the morning with his hair blue. Times when he'd fall and come away miraculously uninjured (though as he gained more confidence in both his abilities to climb, and his abilities to fall safely, those times he did take a tumble, his magic no longer softened the fall). When his tics presented, these were times when they would involve magic. These were few and far between, but did occur, including accidentally conjuring glitter glitter, sneezing a small gust of wind, and changing his water into apple juice (something he'd done as a child quite often when upset).

Family
Mother: Sarah Maudley, an English teacher with a love of Shakespeare and the outdoors. A vast enjoyer of music and rock climbing, which she introduced both her children to. She uses an alteration of She and They pronouns, exposure which likely aided in Puck’s early-ish transition.

Father: ???????

Sibling: James Maudley, Puck’s older half-brother of seven years. A nerd by all accounts he introduced Puck to much of the films, tv, music, comics, games, and characters he loves today. Born deaf, James taught Puck BSL with help from their mother, and when climbing, swimming, or participating in other activities with his family or friends, carried a small ‘communicator’ device which would vibrate when a paired device signalled it to allow for his attention to be drawn to others in times of stress, need, or accomplishment (or just so he could be directed towards a hilarious happenstance occurring to his left).

Gender Shenanigans
Puck was born as Thomas Michael Maudley, and went by ‘Tommy’ and then ‘Tom’ for much of their life. Around the age of eight he started to feel like the name he used didn’t feel right, and the way people referred to him didn’t always fit. Talking to his mother about it, he began to use He/They, before realising he often shifted between them. His brother was the one who recommended changing his name and seeing if that helped, and his mother suggested ‘Puck’ on the grounds that he was ‘A mischievous creature who can’t sit still and takes to wandering the outdoors and 1 in the morning trying to give me a heart attack, just like I’d imagine Shakespeare’s charming creation would,’ and two years later, after his brother was declared legally deceased, he picked Sachin as it was a vaguely-translated, pronounceable version of Spock’s first name, James’ favourite character from a show they both loved.

His gender identity has been one of the reasons he’s felt isolated from his peers over the years, and something he’s worried about when thinking about Hogwarts.

MIA
James Briar Maudley went missing on the 14th of October, 2023 (Puck was 10), and was declared dead two months later, on the 15th of December. He was on a week-long, remote camping/climbing holiday with friends, who said that they’d last seen him and another (Mathew 'Mitch' Annan), walking down the road to the ‘shops’ (a small roadside store about an hour and a half’s walk away). Both boys were declared missing when they failed to return within three hours and a drive along the road to, and past, the shop failed to find them. Police investigation discovered that there was no record of either James or Mitch on the shop’s CCTV, though they found James’ jacket muddy behind a bush about 15 minutes (walking) from the store. The jacket had traces of blood on it, and though it could not be cross-referenced with James’ (who had nothing in a database), it matched Mitch’s, and was instrumental in their switch from missing to deceased. No further information or leads were found, and the case was closed and declared ‘cold’.

It hit both Puck and his mother hard, and two weeks later Puck was pulled out of school due to a number of occurrences of accidental magic, the most notable of which involved three boys falling from the top of the school-yard flagpole after a bout of magic threw them up when they’d started talking about James.

A year and a bit of therapy has helped both him and his mother come to terms with it, but Puck still refuses to believe his brother is dead and won’t talk about him to anyone. He wears their old climbing communication device on a necklace, and writes letters to James every now and then, which are stored in the Doctor Who tin underneath his bed. He also managed to retrieve James’ jacket from evidence once the case was closed, repairing the few tears, and scrubbing the blood out (there’s still a rather large stain on the inside of the left front panel). He’s caught his mother talking to the stars or into the fire late at night sometimes, but never sticks around to hear what she’s saying, not wanting to intrude.



Education
Puck received a muggle education from Kindy to year six, and received additional lessons outside of school to learn both Scottish and Irish Gaelic, as well as a bit about Irish history, culture, and customs, as his father was Irish, and his mother wanted him to learn about his heritage and culture.

First Instance of Magic
When he was four, Puck was swinging on a tree branch overhanging the water of a lake near his ‘holiday’ house when the branch snapped and he fell in. Though it was on the edge of the lake, the water was deep as it was a rocky drop-off, and being four, Puck could not swim and sunk. Hearing the splash his mother ran to the edge and dove in, swimming to the bottom in a panic only to find him sitting happily on the stone lake-bed, playing with the loose pebbles around him, quite 'miraculously' breathing perfectly fine. Upon being picked up and returned to the surface he threw a tantrum, no understanding why he was not allowed to play underwater.