Forum:Donald Finch-Hatton

all we did was survive.  that's enough.  22:41, May 29, 2018 (UTC)

The Open-Ended Questions

A. Please answer the following questions as elaborately as possible. (Remember, this part is only a requirement for your third to fifteenth character! However, if you want to have more input on where you character is sorted, then please answer #6!)

1) What would you consider to be your character's strengths, and your character's weaknesses? Elaborate on your answer. Strength: his charm, as it helps him talk his way out of sticky situations he always gets himself in. Weaknesses: his lack of thought for the consequences of his actions.

2) What goals and objectives has your character set out in their life? Is it to be successful and rich? Is it to find happiness? Why? He wants to be the first wizard to walk on the moon, as he really loves astrophysics and wants to be famous in that field.

3) What's their ideal way of spending a free day? Why so? Hanging out with his friends in the forest, around a campfire, telling stories.

4) If your character could only keep 5 possessions, what would they be? Why? His physics textbooks; his broomstick; his piano; his status; his Witchagram account.

5) What one thing would your character change about the wizarding society? Why? He would make it blind to blood status, because it's caused so many problems in his family.

6) What house does your character want to be in? What house does your character not want to be in? Why? Either Slytherin or Ravenclaw. Not Hufflepuff.

The Sorting Quiz

B. Select the option that best fits your character. (Remember, this part is a requirement for every character you make! Please bold the answers from an IC Point of View, and mark in italics the answers from the OOC Point of View.)

1) Which type of spell is most useful?


 * A. A Complex Spell


 * B. A Spell Of Control


 * C. A Combat Spell


 * D. A Healing Spell

2) What is most important to you?


 * A. Grades.


 * B. Getting your way.


 * C. Life.


 * D. Friends and family.

3) What would you do if a teacher caught you cheating?


 * A. I'm the person people cheat off of.


 * B. I wouldn't get caught; I'm too slick.


 * C. I would deny the accusation until the teacher gives up.


 * D. I would 'fess up, apologize, and accept the consequences.

4) What matters most to your character?


 * A. Wisdom


 * B'. 'Reputation


 * C. Success


 * D. Friendship

5) What's the best way to get things done?


 * A. Putting together a qualified team and completing the task efficiently.


 * B. Trick someone else into doing the work for you.


 * C. Get some friends together and lead them in the task.


 * D. The right way, no matter how long it takes.

The Character's Background

1) Give a description of your character's personality. Are you noble or sneaky? Arrogant or Humble? Anything about your character that might help the Sorting Hat decide. (Don't worry, you can copy this onto your character page later!) (Remember, personality must be at least one paragraph long for the first two characters, two paragraphs long for the third to eighth characters, and three paragraphs long for the ninth to fifteenth!) '''To say Donnie lives a double life would be a bit of an understatement. The boy his parents know and show off proudly at family gatherings the way one does a trophy or rare painting, is the antithesis of the mischievous, cheeky guy his friends have grown to love. As nauseating as it can be to hear, growing up privileged really does have its downsides, as minute as they are: being constantly shaped and moulded and shoved into a personality that doesn't really fit you will never end well. Consequently, Donnie has ironically become numb to consequences. He doesn't think ahead, lives in the present and doesn't really care what the effects of his actions are. This blindness often leads to dumb actions (setting things on fire, day drinking, hexing students, etc.) but it has also been the driving force behind some of the most enjoyable times of his life (the time he and Val set off fireworks in the Great Hall springs to mind), so is it really a character flaw?

Beneath all the bravado and bad ideas, Donnie is a very intelligent young soul, destined for a future in astrophysics - or three terms at Oxbridge, at least. Since being a kid, he's always been fascinated with the solar system: stars, galaxies, black holes. How an entire universe came from an explosion, and what could have been there before it. The fact that wizardkind has never been to the moon is downright offensive to Donnie, and it's definitely on his bucket list as something to achieve. How the hell the Muggles managed it first, he'll never know.

His charm is probably what will keep Donnie alive, given the fact he has absolutely zero filter and tends to say whatever pops into his head. It's quite a natural gift that he can put on a dazzling smile and turn any insult into some sort of compliment. It's gotten him out of detention more than once.

The only real issue with Donnie isn't a personality thing, as such: he's very, very breakable. Seriously. He's in hospital at least twice a month. The doctors can't seem to pinpoint the cause, and his parents think it's a side effect of some "Muggle blood" entering the family a few generations back, but the reality is that Donnie is just very unlucky. It's something that's plagued him since birth. You bump into him, he'll break a hip. You breathe on him hard, his lung will collapse. God forbid he ever gets into gambling.'''

2) Write about the history of your character. How did they grow up? Is there an incident that made them the way they are? etc. (Again, you can copy this onto your character page later!) (Remember, history must at least be two paragraphs long for the first two characters, three paragraphs long for the third to eighth character, and four paragraphs long for the ninth to fifteenth character!) 'Nobody really knows how or from where the Finch-Hatton family acquired their wealth and nobility, but they sure do have a lot of it. Their bloodline has been clean as a whistle since the 1300s, if you ignore a few slips with some stray cousins or rebellious sons here and there, and it's been something that the family had prided themselves upon for generations: the sheer lack of normality'' in their blood, nothing here but pure, unadulterated magic. So imagine their delight when it came to the 1980s and they were still knocking out pureblooded, magical children like there was no tomorrow. One of those children was Charles Finch-Hatton III, named after his father and his grandfather alike, the fifth of a litter, blue-eyed and blonde-haired and the epitome of all things noble.

Charles had a comfortable, privileged life, and even managed to find himself a wife in the shape of Elizabeth Fawn, a young and gentle nurse at St Mungo's who he quickly fell head over heels for. They married within eighteen months of their first date and by their second anniversary, they had two children: Nathaniel and Charles. (The actual father of Nathaniel is something which is still widely debated amongst the Finch-Hattons; nothing like a scandal to keep things fresh).

Donnie came along third. His parents, having done a pretty unstable job at parenting their first children, hoped that the newest would be the ideal noble son to whom they could pass on the family name with pride. Every penny they had was ploughed into Donnie's upbringing: he was sent to the finest private primary school, taught every language under the sun and pushed beyond his limits intellectually. Luckily, all of this work paid off - his natural intelligence became apparent at a very young age, when Donnie was sitting exams meant for children four or five years older than him. It was around this time he looked at the moon and realised, I want to go there. It would be a few years before he found out how bloody difficult that would be.

As soon as the teenage years hit, however, the true pressure of his lifestyle began to squeeze Donnie into a suit and a tie and a personality that didn't really fit him whatsoever. The demand for good grades, a clean attitude and an upturned nose became constant from his parents, which of course resulted in the beginning of the age of teenage rebellion. However, Donnie was clever enough to hide the new, devious side of himself. At home, he was the perfect angel. At school, he was beginning to discover his newfound magical powers - it's a wonder the Ministry never came after him with the number of times he broke windows or burned other children's books.

The decision to send him to Hogwarts was a reluctant one, given that homeschooling was a tradition in the Finch-Hattons. It was Donnie's relentless begging to stay amongst peers despite their "impure blood mixtures" that ensured his place there, which is honestly something he'll forever be grateful to his parents for. He'd probably go mad if he were homeschooled.'''

3) Write about your character's appearance. What do they look like? Are you planning on using a certain model for your character? If you already have a picture in mind, you can put it here! Like all teenage boys who run on sugar and hormones do, Donnie veers more on the tall, pale and gangly side than anything remotely human-looking. The poshness probably factors into that, too. Standing at 6'2" and barely weighing more than a sack of flour, the only thing Donnie really has going for him is his face - brown eyes, mousy-brown hair and a charming smile, probably the only thing he didn't inherit from his parents. His fashion choices are a bit more relaxed than his family would like: they made a compromise that he could wear hoodies and beanies, as long as they were from upper-class stores. His model is Matthew Hitt.

4) Is your character a Pure-Blood, Half-Blood or Muggle-Born? Do you have any notable magical relations? (Remember, you cannot be related to important Harry Potter characters!) Pure-blood

5) Does your character have any special magical abilities? Or special abilities in general (photographic memory, etc.)? Is he or she of a different magical race, such as Veela, Vampire, Werewolf or the like? Part or half of that magical race counts! (Remember, you cannot have a character with special abilities/of a different magical race as one of your first two characters!) None

6) What year is your character in? Fifth

OOC Questions

C. These do not affect what house you're sorted to, but everybody must answer them!

1) Is this your first character?


 * A. This is my first character.


 * B. No, this is not my first character.

2) If your answer to the previous question is B, how many characters do you have? How many of them are "exotic" (of a different magical race/have a special ability)? None atm, but I've had like 9 million characters before <3