York Romero

**York Romero** is a character from HPRP. He's an Italian-American fourth-year student in Gryffindor who's always trying to get involved with the next big plotline due to his incessant want for attention. In spite of this, however, most of his classmates don't take him seriously and he's often put at the butt of everyone's jokes.

## Description

York is a fairly outgoing sort of guy who has a knack for getting into trouble (as most folks in Gryffindor do) and tries to act cool whenever he can. He has a massive fascination with Italian gangsters and has a reputation around school as sort of a pervert, but when questioned he'll claim that he *wasn't* trying to sneak into the girl's dormitory in order to perv on them, he snuck up there because they stole his socks! It is unknown whether this is true or not.

## Relationships

#### Fiammetta Romero

York is both intimidated and inspired by his older sister both because she's physically strong and because she likes to pretend that she's a big-time criminal (despite the fact that her criminal misdeeds in the mafia probably only extended to, like, selling oranges). He constantly asks her if he can join the mafia too, but Fiammetta shrugs him off because he's "just a stupid kid".

#### Seamus Finnegan

York and Seamus used to be best friends some time ago, but when York's attention-seeking finally wore down on Seamus's last nerve, Seamus started hanging out with his long-time friend Dean Thomas again. York remains heartbroken by their "break-up" to this day and constantly begs Seamus to start spending time with him again.

#### Hermione Granger

No matter what, Hermione is always trying to get York into trouble for his apparent misogyny and lecherous ways. Even though most of the other Gryffindor boys like to tease York most of the time, they never fail to defend York from Hermione's (usually hyperbolic) claims. York personally thinks that Hermione is fine despite this and would have a decent time hanging out with her if she wasn't so hell-bent on getting him expelled.

#### Katina Eklof

Weirdly enough, even though the two don't interact all that much, York always seems to treat Katina as if they're great friends (even going as far as to call her "Kats") and will often try to accompany her on her "investigations". He claims in the 2013 Christmas Special that he treats her this way both because he thinks that the two of them could be really good friends and because he thinks that Katina would make a good "third party member" to join his duo with Seamus. Katina is interchangeably flattered and annoyed by his behavior (depending on the story).

## History

York was born as the second child of Celestino and Carlotta Romero, being about four years younger than his sister Fiammetta. While the family lived in Italy for a while during his childhood, they eventually had to go on the run because Fiammetta joined the mafia and pissed off the wrong person. They went to live with Carlotta's extended family in America for a while, but when their cover was blown there, they moved to the U.K. and changed their names (though some of them still used their original names--guess which ones are which). Carlotta (a witch) started working as the doorwoman for the Ministry of Magic at this point, and when it turned out that the Romero children both had magical capabilities, they were enrolled into Hogwarts.

## Appearance

York has repeatedly been stated to look like Romano from *Hetalia*.

## Trivia

* The only anime that York has ever watched was *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind*. He claims that it's the best anime ever made and he refuses to watch or read any anime/manga (*JoJo* included) that doesn't include references to Part 5.
* Back when HPRP used to center around tournaments in *Super Smash Bros. Brawl*, York's main was Samus (specifically Samus wearing her purple alternate costume). The reasons for this alternated between York wanting to play as Zero Suit Samus because he was a pervert and York picking Samus because she looked cool without knowing that she was a girl.