Donald Fish | Fourth Year | Hufflepuff
Full Name: Donald Michael Fish
House: Hufflepuff
DoB: May 12th
Age: 15
Wand: 29,2 cm willow wood and thunderbird tail feather
School Year: 4th
Patronus: (Not applicable until 6th years)
Species: Human
History/Background Story:
Often a last name implies the job your ancestors had in the distant past. The Fish family had always joked about what this could mean for them. In fact, it had likely been what led many of the family to take up swimming and even win some Olympic medals. Others became fishermen in some odd twist of humor. Donald Fish's father had broken all tradition and become an accountant instead. It meant no weird trips for sports or long fishing trips where dad was gone. Early childhood was pretty normal.
Donnie grew up in a fully muggle family that knew and suspected nothing of magic. He learned to skateboard young and his dad taught him to play cards. His mother, also an accountant, taught him about hiking and nature. She was an avid climber and hiker, hoping to pass some of that on to her son. Donnie's mom's side of the family were the outdoors type and always wanted to do big trips with all the cousins. Camping and trekking into the wild were common place.
It was on one of these family camping trips that bore witness to Donald's first magical accident. Older cousins tend to pick on the younger ones from time to time, as is normal. This trip had a particularly nasty set of teasing that had a six year old Donald upset. They'd throw little rocks at his tent, try to scare him, and would jokingly push him towards cliffs. Revenge was imagined but not taken, because he was too small. Magic had another thing to say. The next time his cousins tried to throw rocks at his tent, the rocks turned out to be scorpions. This was of course written off as a complete accident that the cousins got spooked and stung. No one suspected magic, but Donnie knew something was odd.
Little things like that would occur here and there, but nothing concrete enough to make him believe. At eleven years old he got the letter and everything clicked for Donald. He was a wizard and all the unexplained in his life made sense. His parents were shocked, and hardly believed it at first even with explanations from the Ministry. From then on life would be different for all of them.
After a single year at Hogwarts, Donald had learned a lot about magic. His world was alive with new tools and friends. The muggle parents, however, were not impressed. Donald had not practiced any of the muggle school things they expected as normal knowledge, and were displeased at him forgetting much of his muggle life. They pulled him from school and he did a couple of years at a muggle boarding school before the begging and pleading finally worked. As a 14 year old, older than his peers, Donald finally returned to Hogwarts as a second year student.
During this late arrival second year, Donald changed from laid back skater who loved food into a bookworm. He dedicated his life to catching up on schoolwork and learning magic better. His hard work paid off and the next year he ascended to 4th year, almost caught up to his age. On top of this, he joined the duelling team to give himself more fun, practical spellcasting experience.
House: Hufflepuff
DoB: May 12th
Age: 15
Wand: 29,2 cm willow wood and thunderbird tail feather
School Year: 4th
Patronus: (Not applicable until 6th years)
Species: Human
History/Background Story:
Often a last name implies the job your ancestors had in the distant past. The Fish family had always joked about what this could mean for them. In fact, it had likely been what led many of the family to take up swimming and even win some Olympic medals. Others became fishermen in some odd twist of humor. Donald Fish's father had broken all tradition and become an accountant instead. It meant no weird trips for sports or long fishing trips where dad was gone. Early childhood was pretty normal.
Donnie grew up in a fully muggle family that knew and suspected nothing of magic. He learned to skateboard young and his dad taught him to play cards. His mother, also an accountant, taught him about hiking and nature. She was an avid climber and hiker, hoping to pass some of that on to her son. Donnie's mom's side of the family were the outdoors type and always wanted to do big trips with all the cousins. Camping and trekking into the wild were common place.
It was on one of these family camping trips that bore witness to Donald's first magical accident. Older cousins tend to pick on the younger ones from time to time, as is normal. This trip had a particularly nasty set of teasing that had a six year old Donald upset. They'd throw little rocks at his tent, try to scare him, and would jokingly push him towards cliffs. Revenge was imagined but not taken, because he was too small. Magic had another thing to say. The next time his cousins tried to throw rocks at his tent, the rocks turned out to be scorpions. This was of course written off as a complete accident that the cousins got spooked and stung. No one suspected magic, but Donnie knew something was odd.
Little things like that would occur here and there, but nothing concrete enough to make him believe. At eleven years old he got the letter and everything clicked for Donald. He was a wizard and all the unexplained in his life made sense. His parents were shocked, and hardly believed it at first even with explanations from the Ministry. From then on life would be different for all of them.
After a single year at Hogwarts, Donald had learned a lot about magic. His world was alive with new tools and friends. The muggle parents, however, were not impressed. Donald had not practiced any of the muggle school things they expected as normal knowledge, and were displeased at him forgetting much of his muggle life. They pulled him from school and he did a couple of years at a muggle boarding school before the begging and pleading finally worked. As a 14 year old, older than his peers, Donald finally returned to Hogwarts as a second year student.
During this late arrival second year, Donald changed from laid back skater who loved food into a bookworm. He dedicated his life to catching up on schoolwork and learning magic better. His hard work paid off and the next year he ascended to 4th year, almost caught up to his age. On top of this, he joined the duelling team to give himself more fun, practical spellcasting experience.
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