Malcolm McGregor | Year One | Hufflepuff

Wand:

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Willow

Willow is an uncommon wand wood with healing power. Its ideal owner often has some usually unwarranted insecurity, however well they may try to hide it.

While many confident customers insist on trying a Willow wand because they are attracted by their handsome appearance and well-founded reputation for enabling advanced, non-verbal magic, Willow wands consistently select those of the greatest potential, rather than those who feel they have little to learn. The Ollivander family has a proverb about owners of Willow wands: "He who has furthest to travel will go fastest with Willow."

Wand Choice:

Said to carry the power of healing; often chooses owners who are unsure of themselves in some way.

Flavor:

Healing spells often have a mild analgesic effect.

Thunderbird Tail Feather

Wands from Thunderbird feather have the ability to sense danger and are even capable of casting curses on their own if their owner is in dire need, but they are hard to master because of their sheer power. Thunderbird wand cores are contrary and hard to tame; wielding and controlling them requires considerably skilled witches and wizards, as these wands are volatile in the wrong hands and must be carefully matched. Taking from the nature of the Thunderbird they are talented in producing weather-related magic, especially those spells that cast storms.

These wands are however also highly prized by Transfigurers as they excel at performing both extremely complicated and large-scale Transfigurations for reasons yet unknown. Some Magizoologists speculate that the Thunderbird's control over the weather might be an ability rooted in Transfiguration, but this has not yet been proven.

The ideal owner for a Thunderbird wand is brave and persistent. These wands favor those people who have a fighting spirit, who simply don't know when to quit. Masters of a Thunderbird feather wand are frequently competitive, enjoying all forms of competition, be it in sports, card games or academic studies.

Appearance:

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At 5 feet tall, Malcolm is pretty tall for his age. His hair is short, blond, and typically a little messy. The exact hue varies based on how much opportunity he's had to be outside in the sun, ranging from a sandy color that emerges in the summer to more of a dirty blonde shade as days shorten and he spends more and more time indoors. He has blue eyes. He has a light dusting of freckles that are more prominent during and shortly following the summer months. He tends to wear hand-me-downs, but sometimes they have enough money for him and his twin to get something new as a treat. Most of the clothes he gets are from muggle shops, since they're more practical for farmwork than robes are. That's fine by him, since he also happens to think muggle clothes are more comfortable. He's paraplegic due to an accident that happened when he was still really young, meaning he's wheelchair-dependent. It's a wheelchair that's been enchanted to hover when need be, but he's still nervous about having to navigate Hogwarts, especially the moving staircases - the thought of which makes him anxious to no end.

Mental Description:

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Malcolm takes a while to warm up to new people, but once he considers you his friend, his loyalty knows no bounds. If he makes you a promise, he'll do everything in his power to keep it. While he's happy to lend a helping hand, asking for help has never been easy for him. That said, if someone does help him, he doesn't only feel grateful, but he's also driven to return the favor. He's not closed off to new ideas, and he doesn't tend to be stubborn, but being a good person is important to him, and when he's slotted something into the category of 'good' or 'bad', he stands his ground about it - and Merlin does it take a lot to convince him he's wrong about those things.

Even though he was raised to respect the traditional way of doing things, he hates bullying and especially bigotry towards other people (though he puts up with it when it's directed towards himself). He knows it's not impossible he'll hear people use the M-slur used against Muggleborns at Hogwarts, and he's sure that's going to end up with him getting into a fight or two at some point. But if that's what he ends up in detention for, so be it.

He's curious and practical - it typically takes him doing something himself to really wrap his head around a new concept. He's not a troublemaker or a class clown, but he has a tendency to be a creative problem solver, his mam jokingly says it's him 'thinking sideways'. His humor tends to be in the form of quippy punchlines and even though he doesn't laugh loudly unless you really get him going, there's often a wry smirk on his lips. He'll lie when it's necessary, but all in all, he's generally very honest, and he has a tendency to be a bit spontaneous... some might say impulsive.

Malcolm loves nature - exploring trails, gardening, stargazing, birdwatching, you name it. He's also particularly fond of painting, collecting chocolate frog cards, playing his Irish flute (carved from a fallen branch from one of his family's maple trees), and photography and scrapbooking. He picked up a love for reading from his mam, and he's constantly borrowing books from his cousins. Similarly, his da's cooking has inspired him to try his hand at it himself - even if he does have a long way to go to catch up with his skills in the kitchen. He also likes turning mundane activities into games or competitions. His mam was on the duelling club and made captain of the Hufflepuff team when she was at Hogwarts, and Malcolm hopes to follow in her footsteps.

When his letter came, it wasn't quite the joyous occasion he was hoping it would be. Instead he felt awful, because his twin brother Conall's didn't receive one. The two had never been apart, and the thought of having to leave him behind felt like he was abandoning him. He initially wanted to write to Hogwarts asking if they'd made some sort of mistake, but mam and da sat the boys down and explained that just like how there are magical kids born to non-magical families, there's also the opposite, non-magical kids who are born to wizarding families. They explained that these 'squibs' aren't allowed to go to Hogwarts. That got Malcolm mad on his brother's behalf and for a long while he was stubbornly set on the idea that if Conall couldn't come with him, then he wouldn't go either. It wasn't until Conall himself came and told him he didn't want Malcolm to give up his chance to become a wizard on his behalf that he finally relented.

Still, Malcolm is filled with a lot of anxiety and guilt over the separation, but he's trying to be positive about it. He's planning on writing him as often as possible and making a scrapbook about his time at Hogwarts for him, but he still has that feeling in his gut telling him this might drive a wedge between himself and his brother, so this is really hard for him. He's bringing along one of two plushie bowtruckles his gran made them before she passed, knowing the other one's rarely far from Conall.

First Instance of Magic:

When Malcolm was 5, he became very sad after his gran passed away, and a torrential downpour started as a result despite there being no clouds in the sky.

Clubs:

LGBTQUIAP+ CLUB
Little Acts of Kindness
Obscuro Orchestra

Threads:

Pre-Hogwarts (1st August 2014-31st August 2025)

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July 2025:

The Helping of Custard - Malcolm finds an adorable bunny on his family's farm. He names it Custard. (Solo) (Finished)

Violet Vitriol - Learning that there's an upcoming pre-Hogwarts Summer Camp also means learning that said Summer Camp includes a Flying Horse Derby his family's going to help sponsor (meaning he's obligated to attend said race and the recommendation that the students wear 'fantastical' high-society clothing is more of a requirement in his case). That said, they don't exactly own anything fitting the bill. Well... besides a particular, purple fashion disaster several centuries out of date... (Solo) (Finished)

1st Year (1st September 2025-31st August 2026)

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September 2025:

Sorting Ceremony [2025-2026] - Despite his anxieties and remaining uncertainties over whether or not Hogwarts will really be a home for him without his twin by his side, Malcolm is at least somewhat relieved to learn he'll be joining Hufflepuff like most members of his family have over the centuries. (With all the other firsties) (Ongoing)

Accio Auditions?! - Still battling his anxiety over being here at all, and especially over these horrifying moving staircases, Malcolm decides to try and put himself out there and make some friends. Despite only ever played his flute for his family before, he decides to sign up for a group calling themselves the Obscuro Orchestra and attend their auditions in the Rehearsal Room. Hopefully it goes well. (With the rest of Obscuro Orchestra: Korinna Nightshade, Charlotte Evergreen, Ellie Randensmith, Avery Gray, Puck Maudley, & Eonaria Kabukimono) (Ongoing)

2nd Year (1st September 2026-31st August 2027)

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3rd Year (1st September 2027-31st August 2028)

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4th Year (1st September 2028-31st August 2029)

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5th Year (1st September 2029-31st August 2030)

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6th Year (1st September 2030-31st August 2031)

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7th Year (1st September 2031-30th June 2032)

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Adult (1st July 2032+)

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Relationships:

Family Members:

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Mam

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Name: Onóra Aoibhín McGregor (born: Onóra Aoibhín Ní Tormadha)
Also Known As: Evie, Honor
Age: 37
Birth Date: 23rd July, 1988
Blood Status: Pureblood
Wand: 12 1/4" Pliant Apple and Wampus Hair

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Apple

Applewood wands are not made in big numbers. These wands are powerful and best suited for those owners who have high aims and ideals, as apple mixes poorly with the Dark Arts. Owners of applewood wands are usually long-lived and well-loved, with those who possess great personal charm being the perfect match for applewood wands.

It is also notable that an unusual ability to converse with other magical beings in their native tongues is often found among apple wand owners. This is often associated with an ability to tame said beings, though if true it has more to do with the personality of the wand's owner than any innate talent.

Wand Choice: Powerful wood, though unsuitable for Dark Magic. This wand does not pair well with a wizard that is interested in the dark arts.

Flavor: When an unknown non-magical language is spoken around this wands user, they have a 25% chance of understanding (they cannot speak) it. This is a roleplay effect that can be rolled at user discretion.

Wampus Hair

Wampus hair is notorious for creating some of the best wands for mind-based magic. Thus it has an intimidating reputation which makes many witches and wizards wary both of possible ownership of such wands and of Wampus hair wand owners themselves. They are rumored to be mind-readers, skilled in reading both the intent and the emotions of those around them. These witches and wizards are intense people who capture a room's attention effortlessly. Often they exhibit great charisma and power and are perceived as natural leaders who have few fears by others.

Wampus hair wands prefer owners who don't perceive the world in good or bad, but instead in shades of gray – they won't conform with any side, even when under pressure, instead coming to their own conclusions and solutions. This means they might be willing to use darker magic to achieve their goals if need be, something that can make other witches and wizards uncomfortable. On the other side however, they are willing to sacrifice their own lives for the protection of a cause or person that is important to them.

Effect:
Flavor: a player can elect (if you are requesting or expecting them to, then pick another wand) to share a thought, phrase or memory. This is not a form of communication, just a random thought that slips through. Restriction: once per thread, brief, and is not a form of communication. These thoughts or memories are not necessarily 'true.' This is entirely for the sake of flavor.
• 5% auto-fail for opponents (defined at the start of the thread) as they "forget" (flavor) due to the degenerative memory effects of this wand's core the spell that they were casting. This does not break the 20% caps on auto-failure.

MBTI: ENFJ
Enneagram: 2w1
Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff (1999-2006)
Profession: Fire Chief with the Irish Fire Broomgade

Da

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Name: Rónán Aiteal McGregor
Also Known As: Roan, Archie
Age: 37
Birth Date: 14th November, 1987
Blood Status: Pureblood
Wand: 13" Flexible Willow & Thunderbird Feather (currently being borrowed by Malcolm)

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Willow

Willow is an uncommon wand wood with healing power. Its ideal owner often has some usually unwarranted insecurity, however well they may try to hide it.

While many confident customers insist on trying a Willow wand because they are attracted by their handsome appearance and well-founded reputation for enabling advanced, non-verbal magic, Willow wands consistently select those of the greatest potential, rather than those who feel they have little to learn. The Ollivander family has a proverb about owners of Willow wands: "He who has furthest to travel will go fastest with Willow."

Wand Choice:

Said to carry the power of healing; often chooses owners who are unsure of themselves in some way.

Flavor:

Healing spells often have a mild analgesic effect.

Thunderbird Tail Feather

Wands from Thunderbird feather have the ability to sense danger and are even capable of casting curses on their own if their owner is in dire need, but they are hard to master because of their sheer power. Thunderbird wand cores are contrary and hard to tame; wielding and controlling them requires considerably skilled witches and wizards, as these wands are volatile in the wrong hands and must be carefully matched. Taking from the nature of the Thunderbird they are talented in producing weather-related magic, especially those spells that cast storms.

These wands are however also highly prized by Transfigurers as they excel at performing both extremely complicated and large-scale Transfigurations for reasons yet unknown. Some Magizoologists speculate that the Thunderbird's control over the weather might be an ability rooted in Transfiguration, but this has not yet been proven.

The ideal owner for a Thunderbird wand is brave and persistent. These wands favor those people who have a fighting spirit, who simply don't know when to quit. Masters of a Thunderbird feather wand are frequently competitive, enjoying all forms of competition, be it in sports, card games or academic studies.

MBTI: ISFP
Enneagram: 6w7
Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff (1999-2006)
Profession: Family Healer

Brother

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Name: Conall Beith McGregor
Age: 11
Birth Date: 1st August, 2014
Blood Status: Pureblood (Squib)
MBTI: ENFP
Enneagram: 7w6

Aunt Nóirín

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Name: Nóirín Bláthnaid McGregor
Also Known As: Noir
Age: 39
Birth Date: 8th March, 1986
Blood Status: Pureblood
Wand: 10" Hard Fir & Dragon Heartstring (Romanian Longhorn)

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Fir

Well-known wandmakers of the Ollivander family call wands of Fir ‘the survivor’s wand,’ because they were at times sold to wizards and witches who subsequently passed through mortal peril unscathed.

Fir wood comes from the most resilient of trees and produces wands that demand staying power and strength of purpose in their true owners. They are poor tools in the hands of the changeable and indecisive. What they are especially suited for is transfiguration, and they favour owners of focused, strong-minded and, occasionally, intimidating demeanour.

Wand Choice: Excellent for use in Transfiguration; prefers a decisive and confident owner.

Flavor: Users of this wand often tend to be luckier (not in a statistically relevant way) than other wizards.

Romanian Longhorn Heartstring

Made by Garrick Ollivander and Gregorovitch, Dragon Heartstrings produce wands with the most magic power that are capable of casting quite flamboyant spells. Wands made from Dragon Heartstring also tend to learn more quickly than other types of cores. While they can change allegiance if won in a duel from their original master, they always bond strongly with their current owner. Dragon Heartstring wands tend to be easiest to turn to the Dark Arts, but will not be inclined that way of their own accord. They are however the most prone of Ollivanders three most-used cores to accidents, being a bit temperamental in nature.

These wands are often attracted to flexible or adaptable casters.

Wands with Romanian Longhorn cores are bold, just as the dragons they come from, and often more bullheaded than noble. They are distinctly stubborn and temperamental wands, though they will be loyal to their master and all those they hold dear.

Flavor: When their owner is passionate about something, the spells that successfully go off tend to be more dramatic. There is often audible explosions, brighter lights, whooshing sound effects. This is an example of this core's characteristic flamboyance.

Effects:
• Dragon Like Power: +3 to arcane power when casting spells with this wand.
• Accident Prone: 5% chance that the intended spell will rebound on the caster. Non-targeted spells such as counters, healing, and some utility spells that have no target or are self-targeting cannot rebound. This is not prevented by the Perfectionist ability.

MBTI: ENTJ
Enneagram: 8w7
Hogwarts House: Gryffindor (1997-2004)
Profession: Farm Proprietor

Auntie Hippolyta

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Name: Hippolyta Evadne McGregor (née Hippolyta Evadne Chrysostomides)
Age: 39
Birth Date: 14th October, 1985
Blood Status: Muggleborn
Wand: 11" Solid Elm & Unicorn Hair

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Elm

Elm wands prefer owners who have a presence to them, magical dexterity and a certain native dignity. Wands made from Elm wood from the experience of wandmakers are the least likely to cause accidents or foolish errors and produce elegant charms and spellwork. They are sophisticated wands that are capable of casting highly advanced magic in the right hands, which brings them in high demand from witches and wizards who adhere to the pure-blood philosophy.

There is a belief that only pure-bloods can produce magic from elm wands, but it is unfounded and was most likely started by the owner of an Elm wand who wanted to prove heir own blood credentials. These wands can and do find perfect matches with those who are Muggle-borns.

Wand Choice: Prefers dignified owners and is known for producing refined charms and spells with few accidents or errors.

Flavor: The preference for purebloods is merely a lie but a commonly believed one. Non-purebloods relish this.

Unicorn

Unicorn Tail Hair is renown as a wand core that produces the most consistent magic and is the least subject to fluctuations and blockages when casting spells. Considered to be extremely loyal and moralistic. Wands from Unicorn Hair are the most faithful of wands and renown for being the most difficult to be turned to the Dark Arts.

As a core Unicorn Hair, while it makes for steady, reliable wands, does not produce the most powerful magic unless the wood compensates for this weak point. They are prone to being melancholic if mishandled and wands produced from Unicorn Hair can even go so far as to stop working entirely if their owner dies, provided they have been paired with a wand wood of that inclination.

It's one of the most common wand cores and used by Wandmaker Garrick Ollivander.

Effect:
• Casting spells with this wand reduces the critical failure range of the user by 2.
• Dark spells have a 30% chance to rebound on the caster.

MBTI: ISTJ
Enneagram: 5w6
School: Beauxbâtons (1997-2004)
Profession: Tutor

Granda

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Name: Torin Casarnach McGregor
Age: 116
Birth Date: 29th January, 1909
Blood Status: Pureblood
Wand: 12" Supple Walnut & Horned Serpent Horn

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Walnut

Witches and wizards known to be highly intelligent should be offered a walnut wand for trial first, because in nine cases out of ten, the two will find in each other their ideal mate. Consequently, walnut wands are often found among magical innovators and inventors. They are unusually versatile and adaptable as well and the wood is renowned for its handsome looks.

Unlike some other wands the walnut wand will, once subjugated, perform any task its owner desires, provided that they possess sufficient brilliance. This way a walnut wand can become a truly lethal weapon in the hands of a witch or wizards without conscience, as wand and owner may feed on each other in a particularly unhealthy manner.

Wand Choice: Commonly pairs well with owners of superior intelligence; makes for a dangerous weapon if the owner lacks morals.

Flavor: a weapon of precision, this wand often leaves minimal marks in its wake (such as scars) and is not known to be overly flashy so spells that normally draw attention are not nearly as noticeable.

Horned Serpent Horn

This core is a relative to Basilisk Horn, though they contradict each other in many aspects. Where Basilisk Horn prefers Parselmouths for owners, Horned Serpent Horn resonates best with them but is just as likely to pick an owner who can’t communicate with snakes. Basilisk cores lean towards greatness and often choose masters with hot tempers, while Horned Serpent cores tend to select owners who have a cool head on their shoulders and are willing to fight for themselves and theirs. They are generally peaceable cores and are said to provide a constant, comforting magic that puts both their owner as well as those around them at ease.

Horned Serpent Horn is an exceptionally powerful wand core and very sensitive to Parseltongue. It vibrates when Parseltongue is being spoken, and can warn their owners of incoming danger by emitting a low musical tone.

Wands with this core seek owners with great intellect and who are sensitive to the emotions of others. These people will nearly always be honest about their feelings and like to use their creativity and inventing skills to help others.

Effect:
• Flavor: Known to vibrate when Parseltongue is being spoken within hearing distance.
• 50% chance that this wand will vibrate if there is an unknown (stealth) individual in a thread. They are not revealed but the wand would serve as a warning that they are not alone.
• 5% chance to auto-dodge attacks (the wand makes a musical tone in instances of impending danger that serve as a warning). This does not break the 20% caps on auto-dodge.

MBTI: INFP
Enneagram: 4w5
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw (1920-1927)
Profession: Family Wandmaker

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