#jared upton

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Made a time table for Third Year Jared today.

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Hmmm, how about Etia for the meme? And Jared!

01. Name: Jared Aaron Upton02. Nickname(s): Raven Boy. His parents also called him Jerry as a child.03. Gender: Male04. Sexuality: Straight 05. Best Friend: Ragnarok, his oldest and largest raven. Also Ethan Morrison, who’s in the bed next to his in the dorm and who invites him to concerts over the summer.06. Relationship Status: Single but distressingly popular with the local ravens 07: Crush/Significant Other: self-prescribed to be the kind of guy with a crush that manifests somewhere between casual apathy and pig-tail pulling, but some people would argue that that’s how he is about a lot of people.08. Least Favourite Person: His Great-aunt Charlotte. She’s there every Easter when they go celebrate with his father’s family.09. Favourite Food: Quite fond of welsh cakes 10. Favourite Place: At school, it’s the outpost in the Astronomy Tower. At home, he’s got a favorite hiking route that will usually present a few surprises every time he goes on it. That’s the beauty of living in a national park.11. Valued Attributes: Bright eyes. Curious nature. Healthy appetite. Glossy feathers. Great perching posture.  12. Dreams: One day he’ll be able to get from Point A to Point B on a broom.13. Nightmares: Being devoured by sentient plants, in particular the Venomous Tentacula-Devil’s Snare hybrid that his mother keeps as a gate-guard (never mind that it’s actually a very mild-mannered plant under most circumstances).14. A Secret: Despite his father’s horror stories of calculus that kind of put him off of numbers, Jared put Arthimancy on his schedule and is actually enjoying how well it fits with Ancient Runes. The divining part he’s not so thrilled about though. Clicks his fabulous charmed Muggle pen when working through his number charts and annoys everyone in the common room. Also his dad wanted another kid named Benjamin so that his kids could be Ben and Jerry (unfortunately that never happened).15. Best Day: The first time Aunt Prissy let him help out in her owlery. 16. Worst Day: As a child, he helped his father care for some rescued yellowhammer chicks. Everything was going fine until the neighbor’s cat broke in and ate them.17. Favourite Outfit: Slightly baggy sweaters, usually in brighter shades and/or cheery patterns.18. Weapon of Choice: His wand. In the absence of that, probably his birds.19. Role in RPG: Wizard20. First Thought in the Morning: It’s too cold to get out of bed…

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I'm bewitched, bothered, and bewildered.

Jared being grumpy, probably. Most likely when asked about how he feels about his flying abilities.

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Jared things

Snippets for Jared in school and when he’s out in society.

Hogwarts!Jared (up to Third Year)

Headcanon that Professor Binns always starts the first week of his class for First Years by having them write an essay on their first / most memorable case of accidental magic. In doing this assignment, Jared learned two things:

Quills and ink wells and sheets of parchment that keep trying to curl up on itself are easier to control in theory than in practice

Professor Binns is the only professor who won’t dock off points when you get inky fingerprints on your parchments when attempting to roll them up

Jared's most memorable bit of childhood accidental magic was when he was six. A college friend of his father’s had recently moved to Wales, so the Uptons drove down to spend the weekend with them. Jared saw his first remote-controlled plane and was fascinated. When they got home he folded a small box of ugly misshapen paper planes and tried to throw them. Three planes from the end, he managed to make it loop endlessly above his head until it nosedived into a puddle.

Jared likes going to flea markets and buying antique glass bottles. With a good clean-up they’re great and perfect for holding magical concoctions and tiny sweet treats.

He’s top of the class in Charms, but his overall grades are somewhere snug in the middle. It’s mostly Herbology and those trying units in Potions.

He’s inordinately fascinated with Astronomy. It’s very relaxing to stargaze except then he forgets to go to bed. Oops. He’s got a whole shelf in his room devoted to Muggle astronomy books.

He’s also really fond of spacial decorating spells. His favorite is the one that turns the walls and floor into a room that mimics being suspended in space. It’s very peaceful. His roommates disagree, as they’re the ones who walk into the room without being warned of Jared’s redecorating and get a terrifying 3-seconds of feeling like they’re going to fall through the floor.

He scribbles all over the margins of his textbooks. It’s a mix of lecture notes, cautionary notes, things he’s discovered while preparing the lesson / practicing the spells, or just general musings and doodles. His Herbology textbooks have a lot of phrases lamenting his dealing with semi-sentient plants.

Older!Jared (Fourth Year and older)

Jared splinches himself no less than 5 times when taking the optional Apparition class. How he passed the licensing exam is anyone’s guess, really.

Eventually he’ll manage to learn to apparate so seamlessly that there’s barely a muted pop.

Headcanon that Hogwarts holds a ‘job fair’ in the Great Hall for Sixth Year students to help students narrow down their career choices. St. Mungo’s Spell Damage had 3 separate wards represented. Jared liked the magizoologist booth best, mostly because they had brought small specimens to display.

Next to the Auror’s General Booth was a very nondescript table covered with a black tablecloth. If you stepped close to it you could see little tiny stars wink on the fabric. Pitch-black pamphlets were neatly stacked on top. That was the Department of Mystery booth, staffed by a very sleepy-looking man that made Jared feel like a very tiny child.

Nobody told Jared that training to become an Unspeakable was on par to Auror training. He feels scammed.

Jared’s sub-department is formally affiliated with the Room of Death. They’re doing research in equivalent exchange magic, particularly those deeply rooted in Dark Arts application and reversal. They do a lot of field work with Aurors, which is interesting, but definitely not what Jared was expecting. It feels like another scam, honestly.

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Pretty sure Jared’s Boggart would be an enormous Venomous Tentacula and a Riddikulus turns into a venus fly trap with a tiny red felt Christmas hat that’s bitten down on a small cotton beard.

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Sun and Sun reversed for anybody?

The Sun: When does your character sit back andenjoy themselves?

Jared likes taking his telescope and his winter cloak up to the Astronomy Tower, where he can do some casual stargazing but more importantly he can sit in a comfy cocoon and think. Few students go up to the Astronomy Tower outside of class to begin with, and the numbers are even fewer in the winter, so it’s perfect.

It doesn’t help his poor sleeping habits but what can you do? Oh well.

The Sun in Reverse: When does your character’sgoal seem just out of reach?

Getting Dong Gua to sit on still on the examination table with minimal fuss is always a near-impossible goal of Lester’s. The cat is amusing, yes, but he really, really needs to examine it and it really, really needs to stop attempting to dig a hole through his tiled floor to escape. Because the cat will be unsuccessful.

Oh look, now Dong Gua is trying to turn the trash bin into a tunnel to a vet-free land.

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The plant was useful and non-sentient, thereby automatically making it a plant that Jared liked immensely.

Sometimes I remember Jared’s fear and hatred of magical killer plants and wonder how he makes it through Herbology.

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Some Christmas gifts I imagine Jared got this year:

An exquisite winter cloak that’s lined with super-soft fluff and woven with insulation charms

A new lighter in the form of a tiny dragon. It puffs out flame when you stroke down its neck

A book on celestial charms for home improvement

The cloak he uses to break curfew by claiming he needs to do make-up Astronomy work. He’s had the pass since the beginning of the school year, but now the snow’s really coming down and sure the Astronomy Tower is warded so that snow and wind and rain doesn’t go in (to protect the fancy school telescope and all), but it’s still abysmally chilly up there. Now he can bask in the glory of the empty Astronomy Tower snug in the warm cocoon of his new cloak. Sometimes he lugs his telescope up with him. Mostly he goes up there to sit and think and engage in casual stargazing. Astrid wonders how he managed to get that pass from Professor Sinistra.

The lighter he took to Potions the first week classes resumed. It’s actually really tricky to get the strength of the flame correct. He ended up setting the Shrivelfig juice he was trying to simmer gently into a rapid boil (“too hot, hot damn,” he was heard muttering, followed shortly by: “make a dragon wanna retire even though it just started today.”). Astrid was not impressed, even though they ended up with a successful if not weaker-than-average Shrinking Solution.

Armed with his new book on home improvement, Jared turned the floor of his dorm room to reflect the “vastness of space upon which the grand ball of the planets plays out” (the book’s quote, not his). At first it just looked like the room got a new carpet modeled after a sad excuse for a ball pit. He will probably get it down correctly by the time February rolls over. The book is really interesting if he disregards its really cheesy lines.