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Vital Information
Zayd Shafiq is a Pure-Blood wizard of Algerian and English descent. He is the eldest child of his mother Hawa "Eve" Morgan and the only child of his late father Kahlid Shafiq.

Life Before Hogwarts
"We can't go down there alone."

- Rasheed Shafiq

"My sister is hurt, and she needs our help!"

- Hawa Morgan

No more words were spoken by Hawa or Rasheed as they descended with anxious fury deeper, and further into the cave. Diya's patronus was short but the message was clear. She was hurt, and she needed help. Hawa, and Diya's little brother, who had run to get help (Rasheed's father and half brother), was too young to set foot near the mouth of the cave. Hawa did not even think to let him come with her, and if she had let Basil go Diya would never let either Basil, or Hawa forget it. Rasheed, despite his selfishness, was going with Hawa whether he wanted to or not. Basil returned with Rasheed's half-brother (Kahlid) and their father Rahim in time for the boys (Rasheed and Kahlid) to meet in the cave before Hawa reunited with her injured sister.

Zayd was born into a Pure-Blood wizarding family thought to be extant in at least the 1930s.

Rahim Shafiq met and married a beautiful Algerian witch by the name of Caliana Albaz after his final year (as a Slytherin) at Hogwarts. After thirty long years of marriage Caliana bore Rahim one son, and she named him Rasheed. Rahim was unfaithful to his wife, and in three years prior he fathered another son with another woman. He one day claimed the bastard son Kahlid, and raised him along side his younger half brother. Hawa "Eve" Morgan was grew up in a close proximity to the Shafiq brothers. Her younger brother Basil frequently tagged along with the dangerous, and fearsome young boys while she and her sister Diya admired the militant demeanor they gained from their father. Hawa fell in love with Kahlid when she was sixteen, she conceived his child, a boy called Zayd, in secret. After Kahlid's brutal death she married his younger brother Rasheed, and bore him two daughters, Nadira and Sultana.

As a small child, a toddler, Zayd did not recognize Rasheed as his father. Whenever Rasheed was near the child he raised as a son until Zayd was three years old he cried. Zayd finally stopped crying in the presence of Rasheed as long as his mother was in his sight if she stepped away he would burst into tears. Rasheed began referring to Zayd as "the boy" around this time. Zayd has a minor interest in gaining the respect of his father figure, he thinks it would take the entirety of his life to earn even a small compliment. Hawa and Zayd get on well largely because Hawa spent his first six years of life talking to him. Hawa raised her children alone as a housewife, Rasheed travels constantly, and spends very little time home with his family when he is not "away". Zayd is the eldest child, as a new mother Hawa coddled him. She was very protective, and hovered around Zayd tending to his every want, or need. Rasheed and his brother's son do not get on well. They are two different people with two different sets of morals.

Rasheed is a wizard from an exceedingly long line of Dark Wizards, and Zayd is not like him. Rasheed is callous, and arrogant while Zayd is sympathetic, and trusting. Zayd has been verbally abused by Rasheed on a regular basis. Rasheed does not use Zayd's given or middle name when speaking to him, or referring to him to other people. Rasheed always calls Zayd "the boy". The bad traits Zayd inherited from his paternal family only come out around his Rasheed and Nadira, Zayd sometimes feels like he is two people. The mean Zayd, and the nice Zayd. He gets no support from his sister Nadira who does everything she can to bring out "mean Zayd". He has wanted to get along with his little sister since she was born. The first thing Nadira did when their mother introduced her as a newborn was poke Zayd in the eye, then she giggled. He did not want to like her, but she was so tiny, and her baby giggle made him smile. Sultana, Zayd's second more lovable sister was born a year after Nadira. The opposite of her sister in almost every way. Sultana brings out the "nice Zayd" like their mother does. Zayd smiles, and laughs more when he is around them, he is happier.



Ravenclaw
On the train in the first year carriage Zayd was too nervous to introduce himself. His classmates are outspoken and lively enough that when they needed a game to keep them occupied on the ride he suggested one for them. The fact that they played it made him feel a lot better about his future as a student of Hogwarts.

"*Well, well, riddles, enigma - the 'calzone' approach to character development, only in that it lacks the ut extremis of yin yang. Yearnings, yearnings everywhere - cravings indeed, in their unslaked disruption. And yet, and yet ... much of note, and more to come - inevitable, that. The road diverges, cleanly, still the choice is not clear. A seeming slight might tip this balance, and loath am I to shoulder such a burden. Hmmm. Don't want to be among the successors of Salazar, eh? Iftah ya simsim!* RAVENCLAW!"

- Sorting Hat

Zayd was a near Hatstall between Ravenclaw and Slytherin (similar to Gilderoy Lockhart). He was very close to being put into Slytherin the only thing he knew he did not want. He begged the hat to send him anywhere else, to Hufflepuff with all the rest or to Ravenclaw instead if it had to. He would not have minded being with Melinda and Heather they remind him of his sisters, but being stuck in the boys dorm with John until seventh year is a reality Zayd did not want to experience.

He loves being in Ravenclaw, he enjoys waking up in the tower every morning, and he likes be able to hangout with Seline in the common room. He has drawn a different tower at everyday for two weeks. He wants to try to do sketches of all of the Towers at Hogwarts, he has rough sketches of eleven and hopes to find a way to get those last five.

It took him two weeks, but he has interior and exterior sketches of Astronomy Tower, DAtDA Tower, Hospital Wing, gargoyle outside of the Headmaster's Tower, North Tower, West Tower, Clock Tower, Bell Towers, Stone Bridge Tower, and the Grand Staircase Tower.

He began to notice that he easily knows his way around the school grounds because of his hard work.

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Personality
Caring - Patient, Brooding, Impudent, Derisive

Zayd wants to be loved, and everything he does is only to be admired, praised, or shown some level of respect. He is charming and well spoken because his mother encouraged it, he is proud and snide because his "father" warned him no one likes insecurity. Zayd thinks he is soft-hearted because of his mother, and his sisters, when he thinks of his "father" that gentle person goes away. His similarities to the man that made him are obvious. Zayd does whatever is necessary to keep the traits he inherited from his paternal family well hidden. Zayd despises his "father" Rasheed, but he does realize at his core he is exactly like him; sarcastic, and disrespectful.

Appearance
Noah Gray-Cabey

Zayd has an oval shaped face, and cool yellow, pale brown skin tone. His smile is wide, and shows almost every single one of his front teeth. He has his father's beautiful curly black hair. It has always been wild, and thick. Rasheed does not like "his son" having long hair, and he often implies it makes Zayd seem effeminate. Zayd also shares his father's stony, deep russet brown eyes, but he has his mother's pointed nose.

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