Hiccup Haddock: Hogwarts AU
Hiccup Haddock is a Pureblood wizard that was born on the 1st of March 1975 and started attending Hogwarts on the 1st of September 1986, being sorted into Ravenclaw house.
He has a Willow wand with a Dragon Heartstring core.
His Patronus is a Norwegian Ridgeback.
His favorite subject is Care of Magical Creatures and his least favorite is Defense Against the Dark Arts.
He was one of the Ravenclaw Prefects of his year, Ravenclaw's Seeker and eventually the Head-Boy of his year.
Despite his physical shortcomings, Hiccup does his best to succeed as a wizard. He is intelligent and is constantly creating inventions for various uses throughout his Hogwarts years, including a bola launcher, a dragon's prosthetic tail and saddle, and a riding vest. However, he is much stronger than he appears.
At first, Hiccup is obsessed with proving himself to the rest of his family by learning as much magic as possible. He often doesn't think things through and is more determined to gain the recognition of his peers than he is heedful of others' orders, often causing problems for everyone in Ravenclaw, including himself. Despite this, Hiccup shows great aptitude at being a strategist: he leads his classmates into battle, knowing how to use his friends' strengths in the battle against the Red Death. Hiccup also has very good observational skills that come in handy during his time with Toothless and during Care of Magical Creatures classes. For example, he's able to hypothesize that dragons have a natural disdain for eels when his own dragon companion is repulsed by the sight of one and uses this to successfully drive back another Norwegian Ridgeback later.
He is very protective of Astrid and during his first year, he has a crush on her. Their feelings mature as they grew up and as his story progressed. Among the other teenage witches and wizards, Hiccup first comes off as awkward, mainly because he's a poor dueller, and rather scrawny for someone in his family, prompting mockery from his peers. As he becomes more adept at duelling, however, they start paying more attention to him, and friendships start developing. Despite this, Hiccup remains shy and secretive, preferring to be alone with Toothless. He also tends to be sarcastic with a dry sense of humor that can sometimes put him at odds with the other members of Ravenclaw house. It also seems that Hiccup likes to hide his fear with said sarcasm and dry humor. Due to his shyness, he had a habit of stuttering and stammering when talking to some of the other Hogwarts students, especially Astrid, or when his father is angry at him.
Despite his many virtues and his clear capabilities as a leader, Hiccup is not without his flaws. He is rather prone to letting his insecurities cloud his judgment and affect his actions; during his first years at Hogwarts, his desperation for the acceptance of his family, and his father in particular, cause him to regularly attempt to challenge his cousin to duels, only to end up doing more harm than good due to his clumsiness. In his fifth year, his mistaken belief that Stoick still does not accept him causes him to lead his friends on a potentially dangerous treasure hunt to prove himself. His innate friendliness and tendency to give others the benefit of the doubt cause him to be a little too trusting of strangers, leaving him vulnerable to manipulation and deceit by more dishonest characters, such as Heather and Mildew, on more than one occasion.
At one point, Hiccup shows a more unlikable, hypercompetitive side to his personality as he begins to score victories over Snotlout. Since Hiccup is unaccustomed to winning anything, he handles it poorly, letting the glory go to his head to the point where he briefly becomes as arrogant and unpleasant as Snotlout. Hiccup is also prone to overconfidence in his ability as a Prefect and Headboy, which becomes a major catalyst in his final year; his total belief that he would be able to reason with Drago causes him to run away from Hogwarts to confront the dark wizard, causing Stoick and Valka, who both witnessed firsthand the true extent of Drago's psychopathy and knew he could not be reasoned with, to chase after him. This indirectly but ultimately leads to Stoick's death at the hands of Drago when he puts Toothless under the Imperius Curse to demonstrate the superiority of his philosophy over Hiccup's. In spite of all his flaws, Hiccup is never above admitting when he is wrong and will do his best to make amends with others, showing he has a great deal of humility, and learning from his mistakes.
One extremely notable character trait Hiccup possesses is a deep sense of compassion. As a child, he is seen empathizing with his father over the loss of his mother, and even crying at the thought of an injured bird being killed in order to put it out of its misery. He later spares Toothless, and in doing so, changes his families' views on dragons forever. He was extremely uncomfortable with the thought of having to kill a dragon after graduating. Hiccup carries this quality throughout his Hogwarts years. He shows great sympathy to Snotlout at the end of a Quidditch match, giving up his own glory and fame for the sake of his cousin, though Snotlout showed no gratitude at all. He will almost never allow Toothless to use his full power against foes to prevent killing them. At one point, he begs Toothless to spare a Swedish Short-Snout that had nearly killed both of them just moments earlier. The peak of Hiccup's sympathy is displayed in his releasing Mildew from Azkaban. Upon seeing the horrible condition of Azkaban, Hiccup clearly displays pity for the old man. Unfortunately, Hiccup is occasionally naive in his sympathy, as Mildew betrayed him yet again right afterward. Still, his kind heartedness has resulted in many victories and accomplished the training of the deadliest dragons in the world.
The first person Hiccup would have been willing to kill was Alvin, his father's former friend. Originally, Hiccup was more interested in avoiding him, but as Alvin's plots hit closer and closer to everything and everyone Hiccup cares about, Hiccup seems to harden in a difficult resolution. He ordered Toothless to kill Alvin when he was threatening to toss Astrid off of a cliff. In the end of his sixth year, Hiccup and Toothless even charged Alvin in an attempt to kill him after he had captured, threatened, and deeply insulted both of them.
Overall, Hiccup is an intelligent, kind, and likable person who is naturally big-hearted and innocent. After starting to work at the Dragon Reserve where his mother worked, he and Toothless have become "adrenaline junkies", performing tricks like free-falling. He has also gone from being a shy boy to a confident young man, and "the greatest Dragon Master this world has ever seen" (as Astrid describes him to Drago Bludvist). He has a charitable and kind nature which allows him to see the good in everyone. He has especially been shown to care deeply for Toothless, his parents, Stoick and Valka, Astrid, and later their children Zephyr and Nuffink.














