Alexander Pippin

"*Alex, Alex, you're...Alex...*"
—Masie Skyler

A reckless Ravenclaw who is really curious about everything. He often goes by his nickname: Alex. He has a petite body, curious eyes, and friendly face. He is witty, clever, honest, adventurous, reckless, and insecure at times. He likes Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, sausages, Yorkshire pudding, the smell of old books, and the color blue. He often has a Word of the Day that he is learning and practices using in conversation. He likes flashy, cool magic.

His wand is 9 inches of quite flexible hazel wood with a dragonheart string core. An actual wand was crafted by RandomRaye for Zcotticus, but it sadly got lost in the post.

## Background

He is a half blood. His dad is Clove Pinescrew, who teaches Muggle Studies and Xylomancy. He was raised as a muggle until he was 8 years old, when his mum started to think that it was time to expose him to magic. This led to a a big argument, which resulted in his parents' divorce. Prior to the divorce, his grandmother had taken care of him while his parents worked and had shown him magic and books about magic. He has an owl named Benny, who also likes sausages.

He now lives with his maternal grandmother. His grandmother's house is cozy and a bit small. His grandmother believes that you should never have to leave a room to get a book, so there's books everywhere, even in his room. In his room, which is fairly untidy, there are letters, some of which have "Pinescrew" and others, "Pippin." The letters with "Pinescrew" on them are crossed out and "Pippin" is written instead.

He has a complicated relationship with his father.

On a typical summer day, he wakes up and tries to go back to sleep again. When that doesn't work, he has chores he has to do, so he reluctantly hops out of bed and heads off to start his chores, which is whatever his grandmother doesn't feel like doing that day. Usually, he has to hang out the washing to dry, if there's any, and if there isn't, then he has to put the washing on. If there's not any washing to do, then he checks to see if there's any dishes to wash.

On one such day, he was hanging up the washing when an owl arrived to deliver his acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Alex contemplated for a moment whether or not to enroll at Hogwarts. He wondered if he might get a letter from another school. Ultimately, he decided to attend Hogwarts. He tried to just write "OK" in his reply letter, but his grandmother made him write a formal response.

Before school starts, his grandmother took him to Diagon Alley to buy supplies. His family is doesn't have that much money, so he had to buy used/secondhand items. At Ollivander's, he met Ophelia Ollivander (and her peacock), who helped him find his wand. After walking out of Ollivander's, he accidentally cast another stink spell.

He did manage to get into Weasley's Wizard Wheezes to buy some Peace Disturbers, which he accidentally dropped and set off in the hallway of the Hogwarts Express. While running away from the scene, he burst into the train cabin where Rosalina, Clementine, Olive, and Masie were and that's how they met. He got 2 packs of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans from the Honeydukes Express Trolley. He ate one of the Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. It tasted like neopolitan ice cream.

## Hogwarts

He began his education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the fall of 2019.

At Hogwarts, he is a Ravenclaw and a member of S.W.O.F.F., a group of friends that includes Masie Skyler, Clementine Goosanders, Olive Everglade, Rosalina Earthcloud, Barney Dogwood, Lily Luna Potter, Albus Severus Potter, Scorpius Malfoy, and Blaine Buttersworth.

His dormmates are Barney Dogwood, Alfalfa Silverling, and Peter Appletree.

While under the Sorting Hat, he was offered Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Gryffindor. Alex told the Sorting Hat that he would prefer to be in his mum's house: Ravenclaw.

He met Barney Dogwood at the start-of-term feast. He and Barney started a chocolate frog card collection. Barney already had a Gilderoy Lockhart card. Through trading, they got a Severus Snape card from Alfalfa Silverling. He met Barney's toad, Bill, on the first night of Hogwarts.

In Year 3, he started dating Masie. They continued to date even after she transferred to Valencia College.

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