Hogwarts School: A Harry Potter RPG

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→ CHARACTER INFORMATION.
Name: William Petar Mihovil

Birthday: March 6

Hometown: Chesapeake, VA

Bloodline:
 Halfblood

Magical Strength (pick one):
Divination / Transfiguration / Charms / Conjuring & Summoning

Magical Weakness (pick one):
Divination / Transfiguration / Charms / Conjuring & Summoning

Year (pick two): 3rd or 2nd   

Biography:
”Daddy, do you HAVE to go again?  Why can’t you stay and play baseball with me and David! We miss you all the time, and we worry that you might not make it back! Why do you have to go so much!  And why did you choose a career that keeps you away from us and mommy all the time! I HATE it!”

So was the life of being the eldest son of a career naval officer.  It seemed to William the minute his dad actually was back from a six-month deployment, he was around for a couple days before he had to go on yet another deployment.  Between that and the moving all the time, William wished on more than one occasion that his dad had actually chosen a career that kept him at home longer and was far safer.  Say like a lawyer, accountant, or doctor, or engineer or something.  But no, of course not, William had been born into a military family, a family that never stayed long in one place. 

Actually the longest he had stayed anywhere was four years, so far, and that was in Virginia. And though the adventurous side of him loved seeing all those different places, he hated the fact he never felt like he belonged anywhere. His only constant friend was his younger brother David, who was four years William’s junior, his two dogs and one cat, and his stern mother Margaret.  And that was sad. 

It seemed the minute he actually managed to allow himself to open up enough to a person or two that made them his friends, he was uprooted and had to start all over, again. He hated this lifestyle and resented his dad for choosing it.  And he made sure that everyone knew it too at home with outbursts, acting out, and running away, only to come back a couple of hours later.  William wished on a daily basis he had been born to a family with more stable roots than this.  He often felt like a vagabond wanderer because he never ended up staying in one place for long.  His mother was incredibly stern and strict, as was his dad when he WAS around, and he hated that. They gave him little freedom it seemed at times, though he had no earthly clue why. They always had incredibly high expectations of him and his brother, and growing up nothing less than As and Bs in school would suffice. Too many Bs even were frowned upon tremendously by his parents. They made sure that him and his brother understood the importance of academics and schooling.

William’s father had come from a poor cool mining family in Pennsylvania that immigrated just before WWI from Yugoslavia and they did everything they could to better their lifestyle via schooling. William’s father Petar Nikola worked his tail off in school and as a baseball player that led him to becoming a graduate of the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, and now a commanding officer of a ship, and a Commander in the navy.  It was not an easy road to pursue or follow and for a long time his wife Margaret and him were quite poor. But all the hard work, sweat, hard work, and what not had paid off. 

William’s mother, Margaret is the youngest daughter of an American Ministry of Magic Auror.  They lived among muggles in the Baltimore area and found ways to get their daughters invited to the Naval Academy social gatherings so that they might wed their way into influence in the muggle world without giving away the fact that they were witches and wizards.  They believed firmly that witches and wizards should not only exert influence in the magical world but also the muggle one as well, because in their minds witches and wizards were born to be leaders of both worlds.  That was where Margaret met William’s father, Petar and fell in love. Even though Margaret was a woman, her family firmly believed that a well-rounded woman included not only expertise in homemaking, but also academia, and they pushed her hard as well.  They believed this because, though the men were seen as the breadwinners for the family, women in case of a horrible tragedy or something was left widowed, she needed to be able to take care of herself and their family, and that meant education was key. His mother, being an officer’s wife is an incredible socialize, and loves to throw parties for other officer’s wives, their families, and to show appreciation even to the enlisted men on her husband’s ships.

In his 13 years, William has moved 7 times already.  They have lived in many places.  These include: Charleston, South Carolina; San Diego, California; Jacksonville, Florida; Newport, Rhode Island; and most recently Chesapeake, Virginia.  William, outside of school enjoys baseball, soccer, comic books, reading, sailing, fishing, and learning more about the magical world in general. He knows far more about the muggle world than the magical one, as that is the world his family functions predominantly in, but he is fascinated with the magical one that has managed to keep itself hidden from the nonmagical world one.  He pretty much has learned what he has about the magical one from his maternal grandparents who completely envelop him in it when he visits them.  He has no earthly clue what he wants to do when he graduates from school, except that he doesn’t want to be in the navy like his dad. Whenever he moves, he often attends the local public muggle schools at first, but ends up in a private school rather quickly, often within the first couple of months because of his attitude regarding other kids, his aloofness and distance, and that his parents simply don’t think the local school is challenging their son enough.  Consequently, he needs a far more rigorous curriculum.

→ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
Note: This section is optional, and is up to you to complete.

Society Request: Surprise me

Personality: William is incredibly curious about the worlds (magical and nonmagical) around him, and loves adventures.  However, he is incredibly quiet, withdrawn, and shy for the most part.  He has very few friends because in his mind why even bother when he knows that he’ll be forced to move again soon and start all over again. He is protective over his younger brother,David, his pets, and loves to play baseball, soccer, and is slowly beginning to gain a fondness for wizarding sports too.  He is a hard worker because he doesn’t want a lot of grief from his parents regarding academics.  However, he is very rebellious when it comes to anything else regarding his parents.  His dad wants William to follow in his footsteps, but William has no desire to do so.  Rather than be in charge of a ship, William is more interested in the hows of developing such majestic machines than wanting to run them himself.

William loves his comic books, reading, and most sports.  He’s fiercely competitive when involved in any of the sports, and he is one that is not very open to most people.  His greatest flaw is that he is rather aloof and cold to most people simply because he doesn’t see the point of making friends when he is forced to move all the time.  He does love to travel, fish, swim, sail, and hunt, but he often lacks the patience to be successful in hunting and fishing, though he does try.  He loves the outdoors, and reading, but when pushed too much by someone, he will act out as is seen regarding his parents at home beyond academics.  He is studious, but overly curious at times and not one that necessarily thinks before he acts.

Appearance:

William has messy, dark brown hair, and blue eyes.  His hair is a bit longer than most boys in that it goes just below his ears and curves outwardly at the ends.  He is about medium in height, and average in build.  He prefers to wear darker colors than lighter ones and because he is rather easily distracted at things in the world around him, he is often caught oblivious to things like rocks and uneven steps and often ends up falling down and ends up with a nice hole in his pants, shorts, or jeans.  He is most often seen wearing dark collared shirts with jeans and dark tennis shoes and always carries a baseball mitt and baseball with him as baseball is his most favorite sport to date, followed closely by soccer.  There is never any shortage of comic books with him either.
 
→ SAMPLE ROLEPLAY.

Please reply to the Sample Roleplay below.

Partner projects and William went together as well as oil and water.  He hated having to rely on anyone but himself or his brother because you were far more likely to get a dismal grade when forced to rely on anyone but yourself or someone you could really trust (his brother)and his parents gave him hell about any less than perfect grades.  Or so at least it seemed that way. 

It also didn’t help that William was a horrid introvert and never understood why he couldn’t just do a stupid project all by himself.  Who needed others, really?  It wasn’t like he was going to be able to foster any meaningful relationships after all with as much as he was uprooted, so why even bother?  He grumbled at the very thought of being forced to rely on someone else to do his or her part on a project.

“And why would I agree to that?  How do I know you will even put a decent amount of effort in the silly thing, and the last thing I need is to receive more hell from my parents.”

He eyed at his partner coldly.

“No way.  I am NOT about to sacrifice my grade so that someone I don’t even know can get all the glory or on the opposite end of things, cause me to fail miserably.”

And that was that.  There was no way William was going to leave his damn fate up to a complete stranger!

And with that he perused the books as well.

“Let’s just get this stupid thing done as quickly as possible because there is no telling how long it will be before I am uprooted yet again.”

→ ABOUT YOU.

Previous Characters (if applicable):Alcina Lazos, Johnathan O’Conner, Irene Cecily O’Conner, Elizabeth Vaelbe, Amity Addison, Samantha Carlisle, etc.

How did you find us?:Been part of the site forever and simply wanted to branch out and make a Salemite 

Just curious as to what levels Irene O'Conner should get since I am in the process of getting an application for her.  She was a professor for a couple of terms and was wondering if I can keep those levels or if I have to follow the guidelines for shopkeepers/members at the Elsewhere Board. Please let me know so I can apply and get rping with her some again

Thanks!

Trish

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Johnathan Caleb O’Conner
Gender: Male
Age: 10 years old

Education: 
Johnathan alongside his sister Nadine are home schooled by their relatives depending on where they are.  If they are at home with their parents in the fall and winter, Johnathan and his sister Nadine have private tutors teaching them Writing, Public Speaking/Debate, Math, Reading, Etiquette, Science, and History.  They are taught English, Gaelic, Russian, French, and German by their parents and relatives as well as basic magic.

Residence:
Currently, Johnathan and his younger sister Nadine’s years are split among three different places.

In the summer, they reside in Connacht with their grandparents(paternal) at their large manor there.  During the fall and winter, Johnathan and his sister remain with their parents outside of Hogsmeade in their country manor, and finally during the Spring they visit Aunt Irene and Great Aunt Charlene and Uncle Gavrie Yakov outside of Moscow, Russia.  They do visit relatives in Germany and France, but stay a week at most in those places. Due to the fact that their Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Wilhelm in Bulgaria have more progressive views regarding muggles and muggleborns, their father keeps them from visiting her, her husband, and their children at all costs, afraid their lunacy might rub off on his own children.

Occupation:
Child

Do you plan to have a connection to a particular existing place (example St Mungo's, the Ministry, Shrieking Shack) or to take over an existing shop in need of new management?
Rose Cottage

Requested Magic Levels:

   Child, so none at the moment

Do you wish to be approved as a group with any other characters? If so who and for what IC reason?
Not right now

Please list any other characters you already have at the site:
Amity Addison

Special Phrase:Tibbles Beard of Power

Biography: (300 words minimum.)
Johnathan Caleb O’Conner is the first child of Johnathan Vladmir O’Conner and Arienna Meccoyannis.

Johnathan, Jr’s father is the owner and head partner of a well-known and yes, expensive law firm that tailors to the needs of pureblood, wealthy, wizarding families.  That means he provides defense to those that need it and are willing to pay for the best defense out there.  This means members of this law firm deal with any and everything from--dark magic accusation defense to wills to family law, to criminal charges, and even some juvenile law (though that is another partner’s specialty, not Johnathan’s father’s). Johnathan Jr’s mother has Healer training and even was the Head Nurse at Hogwarts while his Aunt Irene was teaching at Hogwarts.  This all was before Johnathan himself was born.  Now his mother stays at home mostly.  His mother went to Hogwarts and was a Hufflepuff but his dad went to Durmstrang. 

His father is a very proud man and most definitely a pureblood elitist.  Then again, the whole O’Conner (Don) family is except for crazy, old Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Wilhelm. Johnathan’s mother is a nurturing woman in general who likes to help people.

Johnathan Jr’s father says his Aunt Liz must have been dropped on the head one too many times as a baby to even consider that muggleborns and half-bloods should be treated the same as purebloods.  That’s why Johnathan and his sister Nadine never see her and her family way off in Bulgaria. However, their father doesn’t forbid them to write to her or receive letters from her—that is as long as he can read them first and take out any foolishness in them before influencing young, malleable minds.

For the O’Conner(Don)clan, remaining in touch with the family’s long history and its members is a must.  The only exception to that rule is of course crazy Aunt Liz who was almost disowned completely for her views.  However, her parents never completely disowned Aunt Liz because even though to them Liz is nuts, she is still their daughter and at least married into a well-respected old Bulgarian pureblooded wizarding family, so because of that choice she, consequently is still part of the tree.  Just very few members actually communicate with her.

Due to the fact that the O’Conner clan is a very proud bunch who firmly believes blood is thicker than water, Johnathan Jr. and his sister Nadine are bounced all around to various family members. Each of their years are divided into three distinct parts-Summer, they are in Connacht with their paternal grandparents and a slew of other relatives that range in age from not even one to 101, Fall & Winter is spent outside of Hogsmeade with just their parents, though grandparents on both side do come to visit during that time too as well as a ton of other aunts, uncles, great uncles, great aunts, cousins galore, but in general it is just him, Nadine, their parents, the nanny Fraulein Werner and their tutors Herr Eberhard and mean, old Frau Zeitzev who all have distant ties to the O’Conner family tree and are of course pureblooded themselves. And then, finally, during the springtime Johnathan Jr. and his sister Nadine go off to visit Aunt Irene and Great Aunt Charlene and Uncle Gavrie outside of Moscow.  Regardless of where they are at any given moment, each and every day Johnathan and his sister receive schooling of some sort for five hours a day, be it with relatives or their private tutors.

Because the O’Conner clan is so rooted in tradition, its members are some of the most rigid and prideful folk out there.  They relish in letting other families know of their superiority and how they have royal blood in them (never mind that the royalty they are talking about dates all the way back to Conchobhar, King of Connacht who died in 970 and to the last two kings of Ireland who both died in the 1100s. The O’Conner(Don)clan is heavily involved in politics and influential, but to say that its members have open minds would be a serious lie. In general, the O’Conner (Don) clan members tolerate the existence of muggles and muggleborns only because they have to, to remain influential.  No one would ever dare date or befriend one and most members are activists for those groups that call for a distinct class system where purebloods are the superior ones and leaders, half bloods can work in white collar jobs and may hold a few lower level leadership roles, but aren’t treated as well as purebloods, muggleborns are relegated to blue collar, working class and some trade jobs, and muggles aren’t even worth an aounc eof their concern and should just be ignored completely.  Many of its members also are advocates of the end to the censorship of magic.

Johnathan, Jr. and his sister Nadine are no exception to the belief that anyone not pureblooded are inferior.  They have been brought up to think they are far better than almost anyone.  Of the two, Johnathan is probably less vocal about that, but that mentality is most definitely still there.  He is very protective of his little sister Nadine and will do whatever is necessary to teach someone a serious lesson that ever does anything to hurt her emotionally or physically.  He wants to make his family proud and will do whatever is necessary to achieve that.

In general, Johnathan Caleb O’Conner is extremely prideful, but at the same time is polite.  That is unless someone tries to hurt his sister, his kitten Tabitha or anyone in his family. Then all bets are off.  Johnathan is pretty quiet most of the time. That is unless someone brings up the idea that all people, regardless of lineage are equal and should be judged on their accomplishments and not bloodlines.  Johnathan likes to read, wizarding chess, animals, magical history, summoning/conjuring, charms, and Quidditch.  Johnathan is loyal to his family and would do anything they asked him to do, regardless of the repercussions that may come with it and wants to do nothing more than make them proud.

His greatest weakness is perhaps that he would do whatever someone in his family asked him to do, even if it was perhaps illegal, just to please them and make them proud.  Johnathan is sarcastic a lot of the time, just like his Aunt Irene was growing up, but at the same time, incredibly dedicated to protecting his family, especially his sister.  Johnathan doesn’t make friends easily and even those that he eventually does consider friends, he sees them as discardable if by being friendly with them would bring dishonor to his family or if he ever questions their own motives.  Most people he meets never get beyond the acquaintance stage and he is fine with that. 

When it comes to animals, Johnathan Jr. has a major soft spot for them. He is more comfortable around them than most people (except his family of course!) and would go out of his way to help an injured, homeless, hungry, etc. one no matter what.  It is funny how incredibly caring, nurturing, and protective he is of animals and his family, but when it comes to people that are not kin, he could care less. He appears rather cold and emotionless around non kin people, but when it comes to kin and animals, it is a completely different story and one sees a completely different side of him.  Johnathan doesn’t know why that is the case, but it is. Contrary to what people might think, he really does have a decent soul.  Just with all the programming and the way he has been raised by family members, it is buried deep below hundreds, maybe even thousands of layers.

ROLEPLAY
Reply as your character to the following:

It was impossible for Dianne to stay out of trouble. It wasn't that she was looking for trouble, it's just that trouble always managed to find her. Today she wished she could find something equally familiar but more comforting.

The five-year old girl hugged her puffskein closer to her and brushed her face in its soft fur for comfort. She had named him herself and he was always her special pet. No she was certain she had never gone down this side street before. Her anxiety increased every second as darkness fell as she walked down the road. A loud noise came to her left and she buried her face in her pet's fur completely. The scared girl bolted the opposite way slamming the both of them into the wall of the nearest building. Tottering back a few steps she found a door a few feet to her right and ran to open it. What light there was inside spilled out into the darkness and she spilled into the room.

Once in, she was caught between the impulse to curl her cloak up more tightly around her and loosen her grip on it. She wasn't alone anymore but she was now among strangers instead, which was nearly as terrifying. Her puffskein had recovered from the shock of the wall and now was purring contentedly as the girl hugged it, causing a mildly calming effect on the girl. Gathering her courage, she marched up to the nearest person, pulled on the nearest clothing hem and blurted out in a loud voice:

"I'm lost and it's dark and I wanted to know where I am but I'm not scared but I am worried that Sambundeakin is scared because he's little and needs something to eat and wants to go home."

She paused to draw a breath in her nearly never-ending sentence, "He misses my and his mommy."

To explain the scared girl held up the custard-colored puffskein. Sambundeakin the puffskein, however simply purred as if nothing on earth was wrong in the world.

Roleplay Response:
Johnathan and his sister Nadine had been dragged here by their parents.  There was a huge wedding about to take place regarding some distant kin, and as always, Johnathan’s parents wanted to make sure that every one of them was dressed to impress.  Hence, the thousandth trip at least to Madam Malkin’s Robes for All Occasions in Diagon Alley for new dress robes this warm spring day. Johnathan hated getting measured and being dragged to yet another robes fitting.  He much rather have stayed home on his parent’s manor outside of Hogsmeade, played with his tabby kitty Tabitha, go swimming in their lake, and do what boys do—explore outside, play Quidditch, etc.  But nope, here he was at the robes shop yet again waiting. It was even nearly dark by now after all the stops they had made getting this or that for the weeding in Connacht next week.

“Dad, do I really have to get fitted for yet another set of dress robes?  I’ve got at least a dozen at home already!”

 “Now, now Johnathan, you know the answer to that question already. Stop fidgeting so much and this will be over soon, I promise.  If you behave the rest of the trip, we will stop at the Quidditch shop so you can get something there.  That or get some ice cream, okay?”

Johnathan sighed.  It was no use fighting his father about this.  Fighting him would only get him into trouble.  He glanced over at his little sister Nadine with Mother.  She didn’t look like she was enjoying this either. Johnathan wished he could get her and himself out of this annoyance, but he couldn’t.

Just then his already sour mood soured even further when he felt the him of his pants being pulled by what appeared to be a street urchin grasping to a puffskein followed by an ear-piercing, booming voice proclaiming she was lost and how her puffskein was hungry, blah, blah, blah.

More rudely than he should have, Johnathan ordered just about at the time the measurements for his right arm began:

“Ewww, get it off, get it off! Get the street urchin off of me, now. She doesn’t even have a real pet!”

Yep this was turning into a wonderful day, just peachy. With his luck that street urchin girl was probably a muggleborn and carrying a multitude of diseases.  Well, if he got sick from the street urchin, then he wouldn’t have to deal with mean, old, crusty Frau Zeitzev for a while. Maybe getting sick would be a blessing in disguise!