Character Bios: James
This week's bio:
Title: James
Rating: G
Genre: General
A/N: Many thanks to my beta
shina_laris .
People stare at me when I go out in public. Not just me though, they stare at my whole family. Mum and Dad sat me down and explained it once. They told me that Dad did a lot of good things for a lot of people, especially after he became an Auror and started hunting down Death Eaters. Mum said she had been a professional Quidditch player. Both of them were very well known, they said, and that was why people stared at us.
That just blew my mind. I was about six at the time and I had just started to realize that people seemed to think I was different from all of the other kids for some reason. Now my parents were telling me they were famous and basically just cool. The next time I went out in public I noticed something else about the people's stares. They seemed to judge me, deciding with a mere gaze whether I was as interesting or as cool as my parents were. In their eyes I was nothing unless I could do more than what my parents had done. I knew I could.
Since then I have been working on doing just that. I practice flying on the broom I got for my eighth birthday last year every day. Dad says that he has to work with Muggles a lot, so when I go to school with the Muggles, I study hard so that I can learn as much as I can about their world. I read all of the books on spells and potions and things that get left around the house, sometimes even sneaking the books I'm not supposed to touch off of the top shelf in the library. I know I'm not as smart as Teddy is, but I try my hardest to learn as much as I can so that I can become an Auror one day.
As cool as my mum is, my dad is the coolest person I know. He and Uncle Ron, who is his trainee, go to work every other week. They spend a week on duty and then they come home for a break and tell us the coolest stories. They caught a Death Eater named Avery once. He had holed himself up into a cave with probably fifty trapping hexes around it. That was one of the times Dad had to work with Muggles. He had them blow up half of the cliff the cave was in with dynamite! Avery was so frightened he lost control of his traps and some of them turned on him.
Dad came home from that catch a little injured from where a big rock had smashed into his leg during the explosion, but he was fine. Mum didn't let us go see him in St. Mungo's for a week after he got back. I don't know why he was even still in there. He said it was an easy way to get a vacation, and then Dad winked at us. Mum frowned at him and left, with Al and Lily trailing behind her, but I climbed up in bed with him and stayed till the nurse kicked me out. Dad still has a limp sometimes that everyone asks about. That is when he gets to tell that story. Everyone says Dad's job is dangerous, but he never gets badly injured, just a bit beaten up. I think being an Auror sounds cool.
Dad always meets people he knows when we go out. I think he knows just about every wizard in the world. People are forever coming up to him and shaking his hand or greeting him. I don't know very many people myself, just my Muggle friends and my cousins. I can't wait until I grow up and become an Auror like Dad. Then I'll be the guy that everyone talks to on the street and who gets all kinds of presents in the mail at Christmas time.
I wish I didn't have to share my dad with Lily and Al so much though. When he comes home from the Ministry, those two jump on him and demand stories and hugs and kisses. Dad has to give them what they want or they scream. I try to give him a chance to breathe. My favourite times are when he has tucked Al and Lily into bed and I'm still awake, as the oldest. Dad will help me get ready for bed and then he will lay down in my room with me and tell me a story, sometimes about a recent mission and sometimes about missions he went on before I was even born. I'm the only one who hears these special bedtime stories, because Lily would rather hear about princesses and scary stories upset Al's stomach. So, for a little while at least, I get my dad all to myself.
If I do nothing else in my life, I want to be as good a bloke as my dad. He is an awesome father and he has such a neat job. I want to be an Auror like him and get married and have kids, though I might only have one so that my kid won’t have to share me or his mom with any other kids. That would be the best life. So, when people ask me what I wanna be when I grow up, I say my dad, even though this usually makes them giggle.
Other Bios: Teddy - Victoire - Fred - Dominique - Molly - Lucy - Roxanne
Title: James
Rating: G
Genre: General
A/N: Many thanks to my beta
shina_laris .
People stare at me when I go out in public. Not just me though, they stare at my whole family. Mum and Dad sat me down and explained it once. They told me that Dad did a lot of good things for a lot of people, especially after he became an Auror and started hunting down Death Eaters. Mum said she had been a professional Quidditch player. Both of them were very well known, they said, and that was why people stared at us.
That just blew my mind. I was about six at the time and I had just started to realize that people seemed to think I was different from all of the other kids for some reason. Now my parents were telling me they were famous and basically just cool. The next time I went out in public I noticed something else about the people's stares. They seemed to judge me, deciding with a mere gaze whether I was as interesting or as cool as my parents were. In their eyes I was nothing unless I could do more than what my parents had done. I knew I could.
Since then I have been working on doing just that. I practice flying on the broom I got for my eighth birthday last year every day. Dad says that he has to work with Muggles a lot, so when I go to school with the Muggles, I study hard so that I can learn as much as I can about their world. I read all of the books on spells and potions and things that get left around the house, sometimes even sneaking the books I'm not supposed to touch off of the top shelf in the library. I know I'm not as smart as Teddy is, but I try my hardest to learn as much as I can so that I can become an Auror one day.
As cool as my mum is, my dad is the coolest person I know. He and Uncle Ron, who is his trainee, go to work every other week. They spend a week on duty and then they come home for a break and tell us the coolest stories. They caught a Death Eater named Avery once. He had holed himself up into a cave with probably fifty trapping hexes around it. That was one of the times Dad had to work with Muggles. He had them blow up half of the cliff the cave was in with dynamite! Avery was so frightened he lost control of his traps and some of them turned on him.
Dad came home from that catch a little injured from where a big rock had smashed into his leg during the explosion, but he was fine. Mum didn't let us go see him in St. Mungo's for a week after he got back. I don't know why he was even still in there. He said it was an easy way to get a vacation, and then Dad winked at us. Mum frowned at him and left, with Al and Lily trailing behind her, but I climbed up in bed with him and stayed till the nurse kicked me out. Dad still has a limp sometimes that everyone asks about. That is when he gets to tell that story. Everyone says Dad's job is dangerous, but he never gets badly injured, just a bit beaten up. I think being an Auror sounds cool.
Dad always meets people he knows when we go out. I think he knows just about every wizard in the world. People are forever coming up to him and shaking his hand or greeting him. I don't know very many people myself, just my Muggle friends and my cousins. I can't wait until I grow up and become an Auror like Dad. Then I'll be the guy that everyone talks to on the street and who gets all kinds of presents in the mail at Christmas time.
I wish I didn't have to share my dad with Lily and Al so much though. When he comes home from the Ministry, those two jump on him and demand stories and hugs and kisses. Dad has to give them what they want or they scream. I try to give him a chance to breathe. My favourite times are when he has tucked Al and Lily into bed and I'm still awake, as the oldest. Dad will help me get ready for bed and then he will lay down in my room with me and tell me a story, sometimes about a recent mission and sometimes about missions he went on before I was even born. I'm the only one who hears these special bedtime stories, because Lily would rather hear about princesses and scary stories upset Al's stomach. So, for a little while at least, I get my dad all to myself.
If I do nothing else in my life, I want to be as good a bloke as my dad. He is an awesome father and he has such a neat job. I want to be an Auror like him and get married and have kids, though I might only have one so that my kid won’t have to share me or his mom with any other kids. That would be the best life. So, when people ask me what I wanna be when I grow up, I say my dad, even though this usually makes them giggle.
Other Bios: Teddy - Victoire - Fred - Dominique - Molly - Lucy - Roxanne