Prefect Kennedy Escalante
"Ambition is the path to success;
persistence is the
vehicle you arrive in." Basics: Name: Kennedy Escalante
Age: 16 years old
Year: 6th
DOB: February 14,
(Valentines Baby) POB: San Diego, California (USA)
Heritage: Half-Blood
House: Slytherin
Wand: 10" Vine with a Manticore Hair core. Springy quality.
Patronous: Jackal
Boggart: ?
Appearance Hair: Brown, Curly
Eyes: Green
Height: 6'
Build: Slim, althletic
Family: Mother: Lucia Escalante (Muggle)
Father: What father! Phabian Wayne Personality:
Kennedy's personality has morphed through his years at Hogwarts. He is still shy, but has grown a boldness to his attitude. He is gaining the confidence to be more open and less afraid of talking to others. He still gets easily frustrated when he doesn't know how to do something, but instead of running away from the problem he tackles them head on, although he steers clear from threats that may pose a possible threat to his life. Kennedy can be friendly when he is treated right, or cold when handled wrong. He is of an unforgiving nature and holding grudges is something that comes to him with facility. What defines his moods the most is when he pushes his glasses up (even if they are perfectly resting on the bridge of his nose), or when he um's a lot.
History:
Kennedy was born to a Muggle named Lucia Escalante. He never knew much of his father through out his childhood, just that he left when he was an infant. Even though he was raised by a single mother, Kennedy didn't feel the necessity of a father. Maybe it had to do with the fierce independence his mom demonstrated or that he liked to think he didn't
need a dad.
Life wasn't always simple for Escalante. Him and his mom lived near a wealthy community. Lucia worked as a maid and this made things worse. Kennedy was taunted a lot by his classmates because of his mom's job and nationality. She immigrated from Mexico to the US and although he was proud of his roots, he hated the jokes his classmates made. He was always treated differently than others. He was always the weird or poor kid. It all turned from bad to worse when he turned nine years old. That's when everything changed for Escalante. One of his classmates was making fun of his mother and how she was his family's maid. Having a short span of tolerance, Kennedy hit the kid. A small brawl broke out and (he doesn't know how) he shocked the kid when he punched him. Since that day he's been known as The Freak.
After that incident, Lucia told him bits of his who his father was. A no-good-pure-blood wizard that abandoned them because his parents didn't agree with their son marrying a mere Muggle. She also told him about magic. Kennedy had a completely different reaction to this than other kids would have. He refused the magical blood that coursed through his veins, but there was nothing he could do. He was a wizard. And, Lucia took it to do her best to teach him about it by using books his father left behind.
He eventually grew to agree with his classmates that he was a freak. Kennedy also grew slightly bitter about the magical world. His mother despised seen her young son feeling like that and even though he didn't tell her, she knew that it had to do with his father. Kennedy didn't want to be like him and being magical made him his father's son.
As time passed, Kennedy lived through days of being beaten up and bullied. The only time he was free from all that was during holidays because that meant he wouldn't have to go to school and he wouldn't get a beating from his classmates. His mother was ignorant to all this due to working twelve hours, and when she noticed bruises on Kennedy he would come up with an excuse. He learned to lock up his emotions as well as his whole self that sometimes his own mother was fooled by his lies.
His life changed once again when one of his classmates was picking on him in the boys bathroom at school. He was furious and all he wanted was for the bullying to stop and in a sudden blink of an eye one of the stalls caught on fire. Half the school was burned to ashes, but luckily no one was hurt. Kennedy confessed to his mom that it was him who did that. He didn't know how, it just happened.
After that, his mom was at lost on what to do. She only had one option and although she didn't want to, Kennedy needed to go to a school where he belonged. Knowing she couldn't do this alone, she contacted Kennedy's Godfather, who was the boy's father's step-brother. In a matter of few days, Kennedy got his Hogwarts letter. He cursed that day because it was his birthday.
Hogwarts Life SPOILER!!: First Year at Hogwarts; Fourth Year
First year at Hogwarts; Fourth Year
Kennedy Escalante entered the halls of Hogwarts with a negative aspect toward all things magic. Due to family matters he feared being sorted into Slytherin, he also doubted that there would be a house that would accept him as he was. In the end, he was sorted into the great house of snakes. Since his father was a Slytherin he feared becoming like him just because they shared the same house.
He made very few friends, but to him it was the most he's ever had. First, he met Johnathan Walker, a Gryffindor a year older than him, at Diagon Alley when he accidentally mistook him as a bully. Now, they consider each other brothers from different mothers. He then met Aurora, the pretty girl that had fainted on the train. From then on they hit off as very good friends until they eventually became a couple. At the beginning of his fourth year he also ended up saving Daichi and Eris (two young Slytherins) from drowning at the lake. Then, during a Charms lesson he was almost struck by a spell casted by none other than Harlow, whom he's grown to care for as if she was his little sister. Through out the term he met new people and made several friends.
Kennedy was the fifth top point earner during his fourth year at Hogwarts. He would never admit it out loud, but he worked extremely hard to catch up to where the students his year were. From spending long hours at the library (his second home) to reading until late hours of the night. It was all worth it in the end.
At the end of his fourth year, Kennedy ended up grounded for more than half the summer because he didn't write to his mother while at Hogwarts.