Levi Luddington

##### Positives

> Intelligent // He's intelligent enough that people always thought he would have been better suited as a Ravenclaw. He enjoys knowledge and if wizards measured such a thing, there's a good chance he would measure high up as a genius.
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> Humble // People would learn more about him by asking someone else rather than asking him because he will generally brush things off or not really list his accomplishments. His achievements tend to speak for themselves, but you won't really hear it from him...at least, not in a manner to brag about it.
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> Chivalrous // He is a generally kind, generous, and courteous human being, both to men and women. He grew up with all sisters, so he likes to joke that they raised him right.
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> Generous // Time, money, opinions, help. He is generous in every way of the word that it could possibly mean. He likes to teach and help people to go from knowing little to knowing a lot more. He feels like people ought to be helping each other out.
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> Optimistic // He recognizes and understands that bad things happen and that bad people exist, but he thinks people tend to miss the good things in life too much by focusing on the negative.
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> Athletic // He takes pride in keeping fit and part of that comes through athleticism. It's something he makes time for, but he also does really like sports, both muggle and magical.
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##### Negatives

> Stubborn // Once he makes a decision, it's almost always final. He doesn't make a decision in haste. If he sees the best way to something, he has a hard time letting someone else try a different way.
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> Disorganized // He tries to maintain some semblance of organization, but he seems to fail at this frequently. He'll clean one minute, and then the next, it looks like he hasn't.
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> Workaholic // He is very passionate about charms and the work he accomplishes because he feels it is very important. He's been told he works way too much.
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> Obsessive // If he's working on something particularly difficult, he *cannot* quit until he sees it through. It's constantly on his mind as he's trying to work it through.
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> Strict // In the classroom, he has certain expectations because magic can be very dangerous when not done properly, so he expects full attention. Class isn't meant to be easy. He's harder on older students, though.
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#### History

##### Family History

> The Luddingtons, although not sacred 28 pureblood, are still generally widely perceived as a pureblooded family by those that care less about blood purity. The family line includes muggleborns and halfbloods, and even a halfbreed or two in the mix, but at its core, magic has always been there with various notable witches and wizards throughout the line. The family name tends to be fairly known in most circles, whether it is due to Lawrence Luddington’s many household device creations, or Leonard Luddington’s creature discoveries on his adventure through the forbidden Amazonian forests. Bancroft Luddington, though notable for his eccentric personality, and infamous for his lengthy run of bad luck and the black sheep of his family (as well as the black sheep that he raised), even found his name being known in circles simply for having the worst luck in an entire century.
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##### Early Years

> Levi always felt like he had a lot to live up to when he had been born as a Luddington. He would be told story after story about everything that his family had stood for and the various achievements that were had. As a young boy, he admired all of the stories of people from his family, especially the ones of knights and battles and wars that were fought that his family participated in. There was a sense of pride that built up as he felt special being a Luddington, though that pride would start to diminish when he realized exactly what it entailed. His father was constantly away on some business trip of sorts, set on expanding the company more and more to be a powerhouse of publishing companies in multiple countries, while his mother was making a name for herself among curse breakers, the career that she had chosen and excelled at. He knew his family loved him, but being left with a nanny of sorts for most of his young life was difficult on the relationship he would build with his parents.
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##### School Years

> He was the oldest of his siblings, and did his best to look after them when he could because he felt like that was his responsibility, but soon enough, he was going away to Hogwarts, and for once, he didn’t have to look after anyone else except for himself. It was an area that he thrived in, because for him, Hogwarts was his true home. It brought him lifelong friends and professors to learn from that he seemed to see way more than he had ever seen either of his parents even before he was admitted to Hogwarts in the first place. In some ways, he felt as if he had developed closer relationships to various professors and staff at school than anywhere else.
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> At Hogwarts, Levi discovered more about himself than anywhere else because for once, he wasn’t hearing all about the various accolades that previous family members had achieved, and here, no one cared where he came from. He studied hard, trying to find his place and what interested him, and found that he was actually a deal more intelligent than his parents ever really gave him credit for. He hoped for their approval, but it didn’t always come in the ways that he had hoped, until one day, he just stopped expecting it. He didn't hate his parents, but his relationship with them felt distant. He found his home in Gryffindor, and soon enough, on the quidditch team as a beater. He was made prefect and Headboy during his time there, which helped him to realize that he really liked having the responsibility of caring for others and guiding them along whenever he could.
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> At Hogwarts, he had developed a love for Charms above all else, and he was deeply interested in teaching one day, even though his friends joked about it because no one in their right mind wanted to be a teacher. He graduated with high grades in most of his subjects after years of working hard and studying, because although he hadn’t been placed in Ravenclaw like he had been told many times he ought to have been, he did place a high value on intelligence. He wanted to find his own path in life and in a way, he felt like this was the way to do it.
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##### Post-School Years

> After graduating from Hogwarts, a professor had set him up to study as an apprentice to a Charms Master, who he would later grow a close bond with, much like a son to his mother. He studied under the witch and wrote many, many notes to ensure that he was the best student. Through all of his notetaking, he started to craft together what would soon be his first published book, *A How-to Guide on Inventing Charms*, soon followed by *Wandless Charms*. He had discovered a new passion in writing books that he had never thought he would, though he blamed his apprenticeship and how he was constantly having to compete with others in getting papers published. All of his notes from his studies over the years had helped him to craft together different pieces of work that he felt would be truly helpful to witches and wizards alike. He went through a publishing company other than his family’s (Obscurus Books) and his reason was twofold. Luddington Publishers didn’t think that his book would have been a success, so they wouldn’t take it, and Levi decided people would take him more seriously if another publishing company was responsible. He proved his family wrong as his book was more of a success than they had thought it would have been. For his second book, although the Luddington Publishers wanted him because of the popularity of his first book, he refused on principle and instead continued on with the other publisher that had taken a chance on him in the first place.
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> Wanting to do more, Levi really felt like he could impart some of his wisdom and teach students how to love charms like he had, and to teach them so that one day, they could be skilled witches and wizards, too. He had been passed over for a job at one school, but when he, to his surprise, was given the position at WANDA, he took it. After years of looking after his sisters and really growing up with mostly females, he felt like he could truly encourage them to be life changers in this world, to empower them in what still felt like a male-dominated world.
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> Throughout his work at WANDA, he had written additional books from his various notes and studies over the years, taking his free time to do so. He easily developed solid relationships with the staff and students there, guiding the students to a love with charms like he had built for himself. Teaching was something he found that he was close to a natural for as he continued to look for ways to help teach what could be a complicated magic to the young minds. With a passion for charms, he wants to impart that passion onto others.
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> He was a few years into working at WANDA within a country that he was growing to love, when he met someone that he had thought was the love of his life. Matilda had been sweet, caring, and so full of life, and he had known that she was someone that he wanted to marry someday. He had wanted marriage and wanted to start a family with her, and he had thought that she wanted the same. However, with each passing year, and with the love between them growing, so did their dreams grow distant. They talked of marriage and kids one day, but he had never guessed that she never saw either of those things. After 8 years of dating, he proposed...and she said no. He had never thought that she would have, but before he knew, they were separating. Devastated as he was, he didn't want to stay stuck on a relationship that was very much over. That same year, the Charms Master he had studied on, passed away. More than before, he threw himself into his work in a way to let his heart heal from the heartaches he felt.
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> A couple years later, when he heard of a position opening up at the school that had been his family while he was a student, Levi felt drawn back to the place that helped him to really discover himself, his passions, and his values. Being in Australia had taught him many things, and it broke his heart in many ways, and he had developed many solid relationships all over, but he knew that it was time to move on and give himself a new challenge. Packing up, he took his leave from WANDA to go back home, to Hogwarts, set on helping to guide the students into a love for magic that could change the world one day.
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### Connections

#### **Family**

> None on site as of yet.
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#### **Friends**

###### Zachariah Davies

> He's getting to know him now that they're co-workers and seems to get along rather well with him.
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###### Solomon Docherty

> He's known Solomon for a bit so it's been nice reconnecting.
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###### Declan Connors

> Another old friend of his, and possibly old competitor in school, he catches up with him from time to time.
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#### **Romance**

###### Prudence Northam

> He doesn't know it yet.
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#### **Enemies**

> None as of yet
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