Milo Hartman | First Year - Slytherin

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mum,

I am sorry I was horible to you. I am now your least favorite child also still your only child so still number one. Thank you mum for making me food from the microwave so I don't die.

If Jamie asks where I am you can just say I'm at a specialist school even though I have gone to Hogwarts. Or tell him I got kidnapped, he'll be very jealous.

So far I have learned that:
- Magic is very dangerous.
- my classmades are idiots

I hope I live. If you don't get anymore letters I will have been unalived

Love,

Milo

P.S

I need money.

M I L OxH A R T M A N
per aspera ad astra

Appearance:
At eleven years old, Milo stands about 149cm tall. He has fair skin, light blue eyes, and a thick mop of tousled light-brown hair, carefully arranged to seem careless. Unlike most boys his age, Milo is already quite self conscious about his appearance and makes an effort to be tidy and clean. As a result, a faint smell of slightly too much cheap shampoo and deodorant clings to him. Though chipper and carefree, there is often something aggressively guarded about him, like he's always switched on. It's as though he has already decided, before you've even opened your mouth, whether you can be trusted or not.

Mentality:
Positives:

• At face value he could easily be perceived as a model student. He is tidy, easily likable, does his homework, never whinges about chores and keeps his word.
• He is very self-reliant and rarely asks for help.
• Due to his mother's episodes and needing to pick up on signs of a mental break coming on, Milo has become quite adept at reading people.
• He is generally chipper and upbeat. The glass is half full.

Neutral:

• In an effort to be normal he overcompensates and noticeably takes care of his appearance and presentation.
• Sometimes he zones out a bit and gets lost in daydreams, or doesn't remember why he entered a room. His daydream are mild though and he snaps back quickly enough if prodded.
• He can be a bit of a class clown, which some people may consider annoying.

Negatives:

• He is aggressively guarded and hyper-sensitive to anything that puts his sanity or normalcy into question. Even an innocent jest or tease will be enough to set him off. Definitely do not bring up his mother unless you want to get punched in the face. He does not take crap from anyone.
• Because of this he can be quite intense when he feels slighted.
• He suffers from a rather extreme fear of heights to the point of actively disliking stairs. Normal stairs he can manage just fine, but stairs with gaps between the steps give him vertigo. The moving stairs at Hogwarts make him nauseous and he often plans his way to class around avoiding them. Big heights make him go pale, sweaty and sickly to the point of throwing up.

First instance of magic:
When Milo was nine he got teased by another boy at school about his mother and punched him. Somehow the boy went sailing through the air and ended up slumped against the fence several feet from where they'd been standing. Milo has never been able to explain this because he knows he's not that strong.

Family

• Melissa Meilke (mother, muggle)
• Arthur Hartman (father, muggle)

History

Reducio

If one were to trace Milo's family history several centuries back, one would find wizards on both his mother's and father's side. Edmund Hartman, born in the early 18th century was the last known wizard on his father's side while Marion Meilke was the last known witch on his mother's side, all the way back in the 16th century. Neither Milo nor his direct parents had any knowledge that there was magical blood in their family. In fact, they had never even heard of magic before the representative from Hogwarts showed up one day.

Milo is a boy who desperately wants to be normal, but isn't. You see, it's got nothing to do with magic and everything to do with his mother's episodes. He loves his mother, she's warm and kind and funny, but sometimes she gets confused. Her episodes don't happen often, only a few times a year, but he's always watching for them, always bracing himself for having to cover for her. Her voice might go flat a few hours before, or she might zone out, barely registering anything around her, like she isn't there anymore. There isn't any rhyme or reason to it, but the last time it happened she had gone out in her bathrobes into the backyard of their flat rifling through the bins and chucking waste over her shoulder. She doesn't remember doing it and neither does she remember what she was looking for.

Sometimes Milo worries he's got the same thing. Sometimes he zones out a bit and gets lost in daydreams, then snaps back to reality. It never lasts more than a few seconds though. He hasn't told anyone, but his teachers notice.

His dad thinks he shouldn't be with her, that it's not good for him to be with her. His parents have been divorced for years and the court battle over guardianship still hasn't been settled. He likes his dad, but not the rest of that side of the family. They talk about his mother the same way the schoolyard bullies do, whispering things about her behind her back, treating her like she's cracked. He hates the feeble smiles and pitiful looks he gets from them at Christmas.

Milo tries very hard to be normal. He keeps his school uniform and shoes clean, he does his homework on time, he gets good grades. On the weekends he plays footie and on Wednesdays he has clarinet lessons and he's alright at both. He'd be a model student if he hadn't got a slew of demerits to his name for losing control. When he gets mad, he gets feral. He's punched several kids, kicked a few others, even bit one. Shouldn't have done that, because now he gets called "loon", "spaz", or "nutter" behind his back.

It gets to him, not just when it's directed at his mother, but because it cuts deeper than any of his classmates might ever suspect. He hasn't mentioned it to anyone, but a lot of strange things have happened to him. Like that one time he got into a fight, punched another boy, and the lad was launched clean off his feet and sent flying into the fence. Or what about that morning after a particularly bad episode? When he came downstairs to find the kettle already boiling and the radio on, playing his favourite song. He was sure he hadn't touched them but tried not to think about it too much.

Then there are the funny feelings he sometimes gets. Go left, not right, don't take the bus today, stay away from that man. He tries to tune out the little voice in his head that says those things, but he can't deny that the little voice is often right. Sometimes he thinks he's slowly going insane like his mother, and it frightens him. He tries to ignore it.

Ignoring it became very hard when the representative from Hogwarts showed on their doorstep. He didn't believe it and still struggled to even when magic had been demonstrated to him. His mother was so pleased and proud that he tried to be happy for her, but he wasn't happy. Him? A wizard? It sounded completely mad. He wasn't happy to leave his home for Hogwarts, to abandon his mother. He just wants to fit in and be normal - why can't he be normal?

Milo is an only child currently residing in a small flat apartment in Edinburgh Scotland with his mother. His parents are divorced since as long as he can remember. His father lives in London and Milo visits him during the holidays.

T R U N K

Stats
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• Stamina: 3
• Evasion: 10
• Strength: 0
• Wisdom: 8
• ArcPower: 1
• Accuracy: 8

Abilities
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• Seer