John Lightbringer
Blood Type: Half Blood
Character Age: 11
House: Hufflepuff
Character Description: Hair of a medium brown accents John’s faintly freckled face while a mildly angular nose adds to his alert appearance. His eyes are a deep forest green touched with just a hint of brown in the middle and his skin is of a darker shade, though not noticeably tan.
The boy is tall for an eleven-year-old, but not excessively and despite the fact that he sometimes looks weak, John possesses a strength even he’s not completely aware of when angered. His fingers are long and useful with detailed work, while his slight build aid him greatly in areas of speed. He speaks softly naturally, sometimes finding it difficult to make his voice carry as he would have it.
Personality: John is usually quiet and prefers listening and watching others rather than being noticed himself, yet at times he’ll begin speaking to someone out of nowhere, offering him or her his own advise or opinion. He is a lover of peace and often does not understand the excited actions of others, rarely becoming angered himself. Only what he would consider an extreme violation of his personal morals or principles would be cause for him to leave the state of quiet he holds dear.
Having a love for both solitude and beauty, John enjoys spending time outside. He is somewhat of an optimist, keeping hope close to him in a myriad of situations, but still has a grip on reality, or at least reality as he sees it.
Although normally content with the life he chooses for himself, John is sometimes overcome by waves of loneliness, resulting from a general lack of friends that comes from trying to remain unseen. At such times, he often takes recourse to words, reading the works of others or making up his own. Someday he intends to be a published writer.
History: Born the only son of an English witch and her Muggle husband, John grew up with the knowledge of the magical world and all it held, not fully realizing until several years into his childhood that it sadly did not belong to everyone. Up until that time, he would occasionally make remarks referring the wizarding world, ones that were passed off by the uninformed as the imagination of a small boy. After the comprehension was gained, however, the comments all but stopped, for John took great care in his choice of words and all that passed his lips. Even at his young age he understood he held a guardianship, and was determined not to fail what he protected.
Each passing year on his country home seemed to mean more quiet for John. From a toddler as rambunctious as any he grew into a watchful and contemplative boy, one whose stillness could never quite hide the story of life that his keen eyes told. He consequently found little friends among the local boys, being seen as somewhat as a bore and even once having had the nerve to cite the dangers of an escapade rather than its glories. In time, Kathleen, who lived in the neighboring home came to be his most trusted companion.
It was around his eleventh birthday, just before he received his invitation to Hogwarts, that John began to notice a slight change in his mother. Somehow she seemed different to his sight, slightly less active, less vivacious. He began to question the wisdom of his leaving for school, thinking perhaps she was not well, but was sent off with multiple assurances of her health. John trusted in the judgment of his mother, for she herself seemed to believe completely in what she said, but at the back his mind there was still a very small shadow of doubt.