John Smith

> *"I feel double-crossed. Hoodwinked. Decieved! Tis a transgression against my trust of a fellow human being! There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all are perjured all forsworn, all naught; dissemblers all!"* -a dramatic monolgue spoken in the company of Vincent Thompson, Oscar Karlsson, and Professor Sheng Feng
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## Appearance

John has light-brown skin, dark brown eyes, full lips, and curly black hair. He is 4'10 and is somewhat lanky. John has relatively poor eyesight and wears black, rectangular glasses.

He prefers to wear jeans and sweaters, not liking much skin exposed as he gets cold easily.

## Personality

John doesn't go out of his way to draw attention to himself, but being extroverted, he easily matches the energy of a room. If he is not 100% sure about something, John questions himself, just to make sure he isn't confidently wrong. John also has a tendency to be extraordinarily honest at times. He knows to set boundaries early on, mostly from his mum following his wishes not to include him in their sets *("I have four kids, except I didn't have any of them because I didn't want to ruin this temple. But it's a lot, especially with my youngest son because he is extremely honest. More than once he has yelled stuff like "YOUR DRESS IS UGLY!" at us which honestly hurts more than insults from strangers.")*

John not only has a drive to personally succeed, but he also wants to help others to make sure that they also succeed. If he knows something or an action will cause harm in some way, John will do anything in his given authority to prevent said harm to other people.

## Background

John was born to Nia ("Mum") and Dalia ("Mom") Smith in London, and was raised in Hertfordshire. Both oh his mums work as comedians (though Nia has a day job as a public librarian), and have raised each of their four children as carefully as possible. They have tried to avoid passing on personal and generation trauma to their children, and would consider them ending up "too" funny or comedians to be a failure on their parts. *("I am funny because I am damaged. If he ends up funny, we did something wrong.")*

The first act of magic from John was when he was taken to one of his mum's late night comedy shows along with the rest of his siblings. He was tired, both physically and of hearing dad jokes, and as such magically turned off the microphone that was being used. Other acts of magic would occasionally pop up, with the most disasterous being him floating the plate of brisket to himself while at dinner with the Rabbi. Luckily, none of these were witnessed by anyone other than Nia, Dalia, and the three siblings.

A large chunk of the parents' questions were answered when a Ministry worker appeared to their home along with an acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After an explaination and answers, Nia and Dalia were happy to send John off to the school, it was after all, a free boarding school education. The two still do have some concerns that they were obviously unable to Google, such as courses offered, teacher backgrounds, and general school safety.

### Summer Camp & First Year

At Diagon Alley, John met Vincent at Madam Malakin's. He also met Raine, while at summer camp, and the three grew into friends over the course of the week. John was one of the handfuls of students who succeeded on the first try of spellcasting, and he made the point to host a study session for the charms summer class, helping others specifically with Colovaria.

John had his first anxiety induced stomachache curtesy of the Seawrights shoving someone off the first year boats before sorting. During sorting, as a result of yelling and a fight that started among a handful of the first years, John had a panic attack and hid under the High Table. Poppy, the librarian, and Octavia, one of the Defense professors, helped to calm the boy down until his own sorting. John, along with his friends Vincent and Raine, were sorted into Hufflepuff.

## Trivia

* John can recite the entirity of Yakko's World from memory.
* He carries a pocket dictionary, Hershey's miniature chocolates, and Jolly Ranchers with him at all times.