Diggory Application
The Player
Name: Anna ZomgProngs
Gender: Female
The Character
Character's Name: Amos Diggory
Character's Gender: Male
Character's Appearance:
Amos Diggory is a man of about 5’9” with tan skin and sandy blonde hair. His build is more thick in its musculature than lean, making him look a little bigger than he really is. He is usually seen wearing a smile composed of straight, bright white teeth. He has brown eyes, as his mother and father both did, and is sort of envious of his brother's blue eyes - the luck of the draw with recessive genes. He has a strong chin, though not obnoxiously so, and has a slightly larger than average nose. (PB'd by Benjamin McKenzie.)
Character's History:
Amos Diggory was born on April 4, 1960 to parents Joanne and Thomas Diggory. He is the oldest of two sons in a mostly pureblood family with some muggleborns and halfbloods mixed in on both sides, though none of his immediate relatives were non-wizards. His younger brother’s name is Seth, and he is a 3rd year this year. He and Amos get along…okay, but Amos finds Seth’s distractibility very bothersome. Since Amos is the hardworking older son, Seth can get away with being the younger, trouble-making spoiled brat. His relationship with his parents is excellent, though this is probably because he’s doing exactly what they would have wanted him to do with his life - working hard and getting a good, possibly soul sucking job that he’ll like anyway because he likes to be good at things. His family is a wealthy, upper middle class family who worked for their money rather than inherited it as many wizarding families did. They live in a nice home in Leeds near where his father, a general contractor for Wizarding Residential and Commercial developments, works.
Amos is a very hard worker and a talented seeker for the Hufflepuff quidditch team. He was a logical choice for a Hufflepuff prefect, of course, and was made one in his fifth year. He takes his job very seriously - some would argue that he takes it too seriously, though he does allow himself to have fun with his friends and slack off from time to time as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.
His favorite quidditch team is the Chudley Canons, and he avidly supports them, sometimes going to games during the summers with his friends or his brother. He’s currently in his 6th year at Hogwarts.
Character's Personality:
He’s very popular in his own house, Hufflepuff, for being one of the few Hufflepuffs who brings them glory against such houses as Slytherin, a problematic house for hard-working Hufflepuffs who generally wouldn’t dream of using unfair means to meet their ends. He generally has a smile on his face, though often self-satisfied, and considers himself to be above most people, though not because of any such thing as blood status. He works hard, does well in school, and is very proud of it.
He doesn’t date much in spite of his popularity because girls distract from quidditch and school work, and his current frustration is the Hufflepuff quidditch team, which has been slacking off more than usual this year, and he full intends on whipping the lot of them into shape. He plays seeker on the team, and has very keen eyesight, so when the Hufflepuffs lose, it’s generally not his fault. The keeper’s a new recruit, and needs some serious work on his goal blocking, which Amos will tell anyone who insults his team around him. Despite his uptightness about school, he’s very jovial and friendly most of the time, having some friends in most houses. He’s not really big on the Slytherins because they cheat, and he has some resentment towards people who don’t work hard, because he thinks people without a work ethic are a drain on society. He generally keeps it to himself, however, to maintain the appearance of mellowness. He gets very harried around test times, mostly because he gets very down on himself when he misses a question he thinks he could have found in the book if he’d only studied a little bit harder.
Amos loves his family, and fully intends on having one of his own someday, though not until he’s got a successful career in the making. He tends to brag about grades, though he usually does it in a relatively unobvious way so as not to attract attention to it. He makes O’s and E’s, and his current aspiration is to either become a professional quidditch player or some sort of successful Bureaucrat.