Chester Hart

Easily recognisable by his mop of bright orange hair, **Chester Hart** is a half-blood wizard who attended Makutu Kura Institution of Magic in the 2010s.

## About

**Miller McArthur**: "*Chester, your hair is soaking.*"
**Chester**: "*Yeah, and I haven't even been into the ocean yet!*"
— 11/12/2020 - "Beach Day" - *Practice Fic*
Chester is boisterous, naive, and often prone to speaking out of turn; he gives his peers nicknames, and comes up with nonsensical insults in place of regular ones.[?] He has a competitive streak, but also suffers heavily from executive dysfunction, finding himself physically unable to concentrate on writing assignments without external help and motivation — this is often seen as laziness.[?]

As a result of giving up on ever obtaining success, Chester became something of a grandstander, playing into his comedic side to compensate for his academic shortcomings.[?] He would pester his school dorm-mate Miller for help with assignments, once doing so under threat of being transfigured into an eel by his mother if he failed again.

Chester's hair grew longer and longer over time, though in 2014 he unwillingly came to school with a haircut, shocking his classmates. He loves to wear what he calls "juicy colours", and owned a green-and-yellow baggy top that he wore whenever he could while at school, also using a colouring spell on his school shirt to turn it yellow.[?]

He's a morning person, though often stays up extremely late, either from boredom or desperation at having assignments due. This initially caused annoyance to his room-mates. Sometimes during interval periods, he can be found napping on a bench in one of the school's bush alcoves in an attempt to catch up on sleep. As a result, he's sometimes late to classes.

Chester is poor at Charms, Transfiguration, and general magical theory. He enjoys working with magical creatures, even when they don't like him much.[?] In cases where Chester is able to grasp the theory of his aforementioned poor subjects, he is an excellent and responsive spell-caster.[?]

## History

### Early Years

Throughout Chester's childhood, he was surrounded by unexplained but dismiss-able occurrences. These increased in frequency and severity once he began attending a primary school that was unkind to him, to the point where he was undeniably performing accidental magic. His mother, a witch, could no longer deny it after the second time an ice cream cone leapt out of someone's hand into their face.[?]

As a result of his magical displays, his father (a previously-unwitting muggle) left him and his mother, feeling betrayed by the lengths she went to hide the existence of the wizarding world and unwilling to listen to her reasoning about the International Statute of Secrecy. Chester was taken out of school, and he and his mother moved around the North Island for some time before confunding a muggle property agent and settling in Eskdale.[?] With his mother now freely allowing herself to use magic, Chester lived the rest of his childhood as a fairly standard small wizard, including being home-schooled, receiving a toy broomstick as a gift, and owning a pet puffskein.[?]

### Attendance at Makutu Kura

See Also: 2010 School Year

In 2010, Chester began his education at Makutu Kura, and was placed in a dormitory alongside Miller McArthur. Chester had the tendency to wander around the dormitory at night, prompting his cabin-mates Kris and Landon to bar him from entering their side of the dormitory. This left him pacing his own dormitory, and Miller went as far as to angrily confine him to the bathroom one night. Chester sneaked out through the window, which would prove to be a mistake as he couldn't climb back in.

The next morning, when he was discovered outside and Miller demanded to know why he didn't just go to sleep, Chester replied that he just couldn't. Both Miller and Chester independently complained to another student, who fortunately heard Chester's complaints first and told Miller off for locking his dorm-mate in a bathroom. Miller apologised to Chester, and in later years would occasionally bring him coffee at night.

See Also: 2011 School Year

While choosing elective classes for the 2012 School Year, Chester pondered whether he should choose the same classes as Miller, as to have an easier time in classes. However, he said this out loud, and Miller attempted to discourage him. He compromised in choosing Runology as a backup elective, should any of his preferred options not go through.

## Other

### Trivia

* Chester suffers from ADHD.
* He is also left-handed.

### References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 itsMiatch's User Blog
2. ↑ 20/08/2019 - "Joel Sand" - *Practice Fic*