Post by William Quinn on Dec 8, 2015 5:21:26 GMT
William Quinn
Basics
Character Name: William Quinn
Age: 36
House: Ravenclaw
Date of Birth: 18/12/1979
Blood Status: Pure
Wand: Yew, Thirteen Inches with Unicorn Tail Hair Rigid
Personality
Likes: Chocolate, Berty Botts every flavoured beans, Challenges, ancient magic.
Dislikes: Rum, Spotted Dick, people who don’t at least try.
Personality: You could describe William as a borderline Sociopath, or at the very least has sociopathic tendencies. Outwardly he is probably one of the nicest guys you could hope to meet, always willing to do something to help out and going an extra mile to give a hand. This is all learnt behaviour however, William doesn’t see the need to help others despite happily doing what he can, and he can’t emphasise well with other people, which he gets around by asking what he can do to help. In more recent years he learnt when not to ask this question to avoid social complications. Other than this William is a very practical individual, he loves making things with his hands and being active, making any learning experience something tangible.
History
Parents: Hannah Quinn (Deceased) and Reginald Arthur Quinn (89)
Siblings: Faye Alicia Quinn (Deceased)
Character History:
William had a very standard life before receiving his letter to Hogwarts, part of the Quinn family his part of it was pretty much estranged from the “main branch” and unusually for many Pure Blood families the sorting process favoured no particular house for the Quinns, having almost equal numbers in all houses. William spent plenty of time in his childhood stealing his Mother or Fathers wand and setting fire to things by accident (mostly.) When he was about nine years of age his Mother began to notice his lack of regard for other people or living things in general, never so bad as she would find dead animals in the woods, but simpler things such as not feeling any remorse if someone other than he was hurt as a direct result of something he did. Hannah Quinn was very strict with William from that point on instilling in him the importance that other people had, he didn’t really care all that much, but he understood it’s importance. That same year Faye got her letter to Hogwarts, but at her insistence she attended the Durmstrang Institute, which would eventually be the place of her death.
Two years later William got his own letter to Hogwarts, unlike his sister he very much wanted to go to the amazing place he heard so much about and his friends would not stop talking about, it interested him.
So finally the day came that he stepped into the Great hall for the first time along with a gaggle of other nervous eleven year olds wondering what kind of torture awaited them for the sorting. William amused himself by telling a particularly nervous girl (later sorted into Hufflepuff) that he was sure the task was to prove yourself by outwitting a Sphinx. Needless to say, she didn't speak to him for the vast majority of the first year. The Sorting Hat recognized William for a Quinn as the Sorting hat will recognise family lines but found it difficult to place him, for quite some time the Sorting hat wanted to put William in Slytherin but decided in the end that his thirst for knowledge and learning suited Ravenclaw better.
Through his time at Hogwarts William found himself in more than one social dilemma, despite his mothers strict teachings he put his foot in it more than once and on no less than three occasions convinced people to do things for him that got them hurt. William excelled at almost every subject he attended though Defense Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration Fascinated him. In his second year he got news that his Sister Faye had died in an accident during a rather heated duel at Durmstrang and for the first time he truly felt sorrow for the loss of his family. It was at this point in time that William was caught in the forbidden section of the Library looking up Dark Magics, though it was put down as a result of Grieving and seeing as he never did it again, was soon forgotten.
William graduated from Hogwarts with top grades in both his OWLS and NEWTS but didn't really have any plan of what to do with his life, he did know that he wanted to learn more about magic. Quinn spent the next eighteen years travelling the world learning what he could of old magics, getting into more than one precarious situation especially when a trap in one of the pyramids of Egypt went off without William realizing it was there! William came back to Hogwarts with his new knowledge, wanting to apply it somewhere, but as of yet he hasn't figured out how he can do that, so he now teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts, his lessons being mainly practical and his detentions often terrifying!
OOC
Your Name/Nick: Gawain
Where did you find us: I have my ways
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