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Abraham Botros Jr.

BASICS

Name: Abraham Altaïr Botros
Also Known As: Abraham Jr., Abey, Abra
Date of Birth: Friday 12th April, 2080
Place of Birth: Alexandria, Egypt
Currently Lives: Alexandria, Egypt
Laterality: Tends to switch between the two, but is naturally left-handed

APPEARANCE

Hair: Brown, long-ish, intentionally (and stylishly???) messy/windswept
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5'7"
Build: Slim
Distinguishing Features: Faint scratch-mark scars across his back from an Inferius

MAGICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Blood Status: Pureblood
Wand: 12 ½", phoenix feather, laurel. Springy. 12 ½", phoenix feather, juniper. Springy.
Boggart: The Monster™
Amortentia: TBD
Patronus: Cheetah

FAMILY

Mother: Nora Botros
Father: Owen Botros
Brother: Hassan Botros (played by PatInTheHat)
__Sister-in-Law: Katherine Botros (played by SweetPeea)
__Nephew: Jasper Botros (04/08/2093)
Sister: Lilian Botros (played by hermionesclone)
Cousin: Eureka Russ (played by Magical Soul)
Cousin: Rula Van Hutton (played by AlwaysSnapesGirl)
__Cousin-in-Law: Maxwell Van Hutton (played by Tegz)
Cousin: Junia Botros (played by TakemetotheBurrow)
Cousin: Alanna Botros (played by DaniDiNardo)
Cousin: Aaron Botros (played by Govoni)
Crup: Feo
Cat: Mr. Squiggles (Squigs)
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Grandfather: Abraham Botros (d. 24th August 2090) (played by Magical Soul)
Grandmother: Deborah Botros (d. )

SCHOOL

Primary Education: Homeschooled
Secondary Education: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
House: Gryffindor
Class of: 2098
Strongest Subjects:
_____Transfiguration
_____Defence Against the Dark Arts
_____Charms
Weakest Subjects:
_____History of Magic
_____Potions
_____Astronomy
Previous Electives:
_____Care of Magical Creatures
_____Divination
NEWT Classes:
_____Care of Magical Creatures
_____Charms
_____Defence Against the Dark Arts
_____Transfiguration
Extra Curriculars:
_____Duelling Club, Art Club, Flying, Frog Choir, Orchestra, Quidditch, Creature Companions, Drama Club, Wizard Card Collectors’ Club, Yearbook
Accolades:
_____Gryffindor Quidditch Captain (Term 49)
_____Gryffindor Prefect (Term 50-51)
Superlatives:
_____Most Promising Firstie (Term 45)
_____Most Likely to Build a Pillow Fort (Term 45)
_____Most Likely to Invent or Discover Something (Term 46)
_____Most Dramatic (Term 47)
_____Most Likely to Breach the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy (Term 47)
_____Most Likely to Play Professional Quidditch (Term 48)
_____Most Likely to Become Minister for Magic (Term 51)
Ordinary Wizarding Levels:

SPOILER!!: Results

(After Second Attempt)

Astronomy: P
Care of Magical Creatures: A
Charms: A
Defence Against the Dark Arts: E
Divination: P
Herbology: A
History of Magic: D
Potions: D
Transfiguration: E

Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests:

SPOILER!!: Results

Care of Magical Creatures: A
Charms: D
Defence Against the Dark Arts: P
Transfiguration: A

Before Hogwarts, Abra did not attend school, though his parents - more specifically his mother - ensured that he would be appropriately educated in preparation for Hogwarts. He was raised bilingual, speaking both English and Arabic. Abra can speak and understand both fluently, but has much more trouble with reading and writing in either language. He is dyslexic, but neither he nor his family were aware of this until after he had started at Hogwarts.

Abra likes to focus his time at school instead on practical activities, particularly art. He loves to paint, and is particularly taken with depicting how he sees the sky. He has started producing artwork of a slightly more abstract nature which are hugely colourful and kaleidoscopic, and in his fourth year he started focusing on developing his portrait-painting skills. When he does focus on his schoolwork, Abra tends to excel more in his practical subjects, especially Transfiguration, and falls short whenever the requirements of the class involve a lot of theory, reading, or high levels of concentration and preciseness.

Abra attended a local muggle drama club over the last year before he started at Hogwarts, because of his interest in dramatics and his creative energy, and to boost his confidence. As well as acting, he also developed a huge interest in singing and music. Having received a guitar for his eleventh birthday, he managed to secure himself some guitar lessons - and, since then, singing lessons too - from friend of the family, West Odessa. As he has grown older, Abra has become fixated not on academic prowess, but on the possibility of perhaps someday making it as a music artist.

PERSONAL

Personality Type: INFP
Key Traits: Emotional. Neurotic. Fearful. High-strung. Outgoing (among friends). Shy (around everyone else). Dramatic. Theatrical. Soft-hearted. Quiet. Solitary. Introverted. Changeable. Hot-headed. Bad at communicating. Affectionate. Temperamental. Fiercely loyal to family and close friends. Perfectionist. Determined, but easily discouraged. Unlikely do something if he can't do it brilliantly. Not academically inclined. Creative. Strong, though he doesn't believe it.
Strengths:
_____Determination
_____Easily encouraged
_____Perfectionism
Weaknesses:
_____Fearfulness
_____Easily discouraged
_____Perfectionism
Likes:
_____Cats
_____Coffee
_____Egypt (home! the beach! hot weather!)
_____Dante Olivier Giordano
Dislikes:
_____Being cold
_____Schoolwork and homework and everything that requires reading
_____Unnecessary exercise
Hobbies and Interests:
_____Art - painting, drawing, photography
_____Music - singing, playing guitar, listening to
_____Flying/Quidditch and swimming - the only exercises he doesn’t think are 'unnecessary'
Motivators:
_____Pride
_____Success
_____Inner stability
Fears:
_____Memory charms and potions
_____Death and any kind of danger
_____Failure
Ambitions:
_____To overcome his anxiety
_____To be a professional musician
_____To be proud of himself
Distinguishing Features:
_____Male Tetrachromat (due to a magical gene mutation)
_____Synaesthesia
_____Says 'actually' and 'literally' way more than necessary

HISTORY

Pre-Hogwarts (April 2080 - August 2091)

Born on 12th April 2080, in Alexandria, Egypt, Abra was the unexpected third and youngest child of Owen and Nora Botros. He has a brother, Hassan, and sister, Lilian, who are both over ten years older than him. The pureblood Botros line goes back for generations, known for producing Hufflepuff wizards and Slytherin witches - two exceptions being Abra's sister Lilian, who was a Ravenclaw, and his cousin Eureka, who was a Hufflepuff. Abra's great-grandfather, another Abraham, fought and played a significant role in the 1997 wizarding war when he helped to hide muggle-born witches and wizards.

Abra lives with his parents and some of his extended family in the Botros Manor, and has lived a very privileged life. Every summer, at his grandfather's insistence, the family would gather in the Alexandria mansion and spend the entire summer together. Some of Abra's earliest memories are of running or flying around the grounds and the house in Egypt, playing games with his cousins and siblings. He showed his first signs of magical ability as a toddler, when he would change his toys into different colours.

Though he is close to his siblings, Abra also grew up spending a lot of time with his cousins, due partly to being closer to them in age, and partly because of a tendency towards loyalty and togetherness within the extended, as well as immediate, family. Due to family connections, Abra also personally knows a number of famous wizards and witches, including British ex-Minister Sherman Clark, Quidditch player and wrockstar West Odessa (who gives him guitar and singing lessons), and Quidditch player Alice Odessa, all of whom have known him since birth. Abra's own brother is a professional Quidditch player for the Montrose Magpies, and also plays for the Egyptian national Quidditch team. Because these people have always been a part of his life, Abra has never considered these connections to be all that out of the ordinary.

Abra's paternal grandfather was Abraham Botros Sr., previous Ancient Runes Professor, Hufflepuff Head of House, and Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Like the other Botros (and Russ) grandchildren, Abra looked up to his grandfather as a hero, and he always wanted nothing more than to prove himself to him. Unfortunately, in 2088, when Abra was eight years old, a curse-breaking accident put Abraham Sr. in the hospital, triggering memory loss and episodes of confusion. Abra and the younger members of the family were permitted to visit their grandfather in the hospital from time to time, though not often, as Abraham Sr. would often have trouble remembering them, which was upsetting for everyone.

In the summer of 2090, when Abra was ten years old, his grandfather revealed to him and his siblings during a visit to his St. Mungo's room that he would be returning home to the Alexandria mansion that day. Abra was elated, confident in the belief that his grandfather must be well enough to come home again. Hassan and Lilian - and the Clarks, who had also come to visit - had some reservations, but Abraham Sr., stubborn and determined, did indeed return home that day. Later that night, back in Alexandria, Abraham Botros Sr. passed away surrounded by family and friends. His death had a huge impact on the surviving members of the family. After Abraham's passing, Abra's aunt and uncle and cousins all moved into the Botros Manor as their primary residence, joining Abra and his parents.

Less than a year later, the night before his eleventh birthday, Abra was visited in his dream by a Dream Messenger who left him a dream token, telling him he had gained entrance to the African magical school, Uagadou School of Magic. Upon waking, and discovering it had not just been a dream, Abra was utterly distraught. He begged his mother to get him into Hogwarts instead, fearful that he would end up different from his family, or separated from them. His mother promised that she and his father would do their best to transfer him, but the tears were for nothing, as later that day an exhausted barn owl arrived bearing Abra's Hogwarts letter, having simply taken slightly longer to reach the Egyptian home. Despair quickly turned to elation, and Abra was soon celebrating that he would soon be joining his cousins, Rula and Junia, at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Hogwarts Years (September 2091 - June 2098)

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EXTRAS

• Bilingual; fluent in English and Arabic
• Has an Egyptian accent
• Excels at practical tasks in school, not so much with theory
• Played as Seeker for the Alexandria Under-14s, and Under-17s
• Hatstall - at the time of his Sorting, he fit equally into all four houses, though the Hat ultimately had to decide between Slytherin and Gryffindor

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Previous Hogwarts RP Characters
Jake Upstead [Term 21-27]
Tobias Fuller-Thompson [Term 34-40]
Daxton Prince [Term 41-44]