(OOC: Montague's Biography)
Name: Solan Montague
Gender: Male
Date of birth: 9/10/77
Year: 7th
House: Slytherin
Blood status: Pureblood
Physical characteristics:
Montague is tall and broad-shouldered, with an athletic Chaser's build. His face is rather solemn more often than not, and he's not typically seen smiling. This gives him a slightly intimidating air on the pitch, but for all that, he is somewhat handsome in a reserved, saturnine manner. He typically does not fuss about hair or robes, though due to a tidy nature, he is typically reasonably well-presented, and not the sort to go about unwashed and rumpled. He has straight black hair and dark blue eyes, and a faint burn scar from some Potions spill on the back of one hand.
Background information:
[From Harry Potter Astrology] "While these Slytherins might not be the most outgoing of their class, they are often among the most wise, and their canny observation and lightning-fast analysis of any given situation will take them far. Often behind that quiet mien hides the mind of a big dreamer, who had both the imagination to come up with a concept and the power to follow it through. These Slytherins are an interesting mix of politeness and politics, pragmatism and intuition. They make good alchemists, Ministry bureaucrats (well, somebody's got to do it), and academic advisors. They are often underestimated. This is most unwise."
Solan Montague is the only son of Julian Montague and Isabella Weston. Born and raised in Eastbourne, he grew up in an affluent household. His father holds an executive post in a large Arithmancy firm and is a fairly busy man, and his mother kept the house. Isabella was the epitome of a gentlewoman-- well-bred, quiet, docile, elegant.
When he was three, his mother took ill in the course of the winter, and instead of getting better when the weather warmed, continued to get worse and worse, exhibiting tuberculosis-like symptoms and coughing up blood. She died the following April, and shortly before her death, summoned her son into her room, asking him to promise not to hold anything against his father. The young boy did not understand, and she didn't elaborate.
His father remarried Mary Halloran, a widowed colleague, about six years after his mother's death, and while he gets along with his stepmother, they are not particularly close. But he wasn't always as reserved and quiet as the present day, and it was when he was about thirteen years of age that everything changed.
In Hogwarts, he showed a marked aptitude for Potions, and made excellent marks in the class, often doing extra reading and research. It was when he was thirteen and brewing a poison diagnostic potion to earn some extra points (after a certain bratty first-year managed to lose fifty for Slytherin) that he read up for the first time on the symptoms of arsenic poisoning.
It only took a few hours with the books, a vial of the potion he'd brewed, and the lock of his mother's hair that had been woven into a brooch for him to figure out just how much of a natural illness it wasn't that Isabella died from. He recalled a servant girl who used to work for the household before quitting her post after his mother's death, the promise that his mother had extracted from him, and quickly added up the disparate parts.
Afterwards, he stopped going home for Christmas hols and became increasingly withdrawn and reserved. He realises, after some observation, that his father knew nothing about the true cause of his first wife's death, and while he doesn't resent his father for what happened, he hates knowing the truth and not being able to do anything about it.
Aside from that, his Hogwarts years were fairly uneventful. He made the Quidditch team in his second year as a Chaser and continued to play (when Quidditch was part of the year's events) through the rest of his school years. He was technically appointed captain in sixth year, though he didn't actually take up duties until his final year of Hogwarts.
He is on civil terms with his dormmates, though not particularly close. They do, however, make a good team together for the purposes of Quidditch, with the various personalities balancing out each other on the pitch. With a head for strategy and the ability to remain perfectly calm under pressure, he keeps his team under control without having to resort to threats or yelling, and while he has little use for his Seeker or Beaters as people, they play adequately enough (not to mention Malfoy funds the team equipment) that he lets their personality flaws slide: he's not there to make friends, anyway.
As for people from other houses, he doesn't particularly go out of his way to be nice to anyone as a rule, but typically won't go out of his way to be mean, either. As long as people don't ask him prying questions about his personal life or make accusations about his house, etc... he is aloofly polite to most of the other students in the school, aside from the random wry remark.
Gender: Male
Date of birth: 9/10/77
Year: 7th
House: Slytherin
Blood status: Pureblood
Physical characteristics:
Montague is tall and broad-shouldered, with an athletic Chaser's build. His face is rather solemn more often than not, and he's not typically seen smiling. This gives him a slightly intimidating air on the pitch, but for all that, he is somewhat handsome in a reserved, saturnine manner. He typically does not fuss about hair or robes, though due to a tidy nature, he is typically reasonably well-presented, and not the sort to go about unwashed and rumpled. He has straight black hair and dark blue eyes, and a faint burn scar from some Potions spill on the back of one hand.
Background information:
[From Harry Potter Astrology] "While these Slytherins might not be the most outgoing of their class, they are often among the most wise, and their canny observation and lightning-fast analysis of any given situation will take them far. Often behind that quiet mien hides the mind of a big dreamer, who had both the imagination to come up with a concept and the power to follow it through. These Slytherins are an interesting mix of politeness and politics, pragmatism and intuition. They make good alchemists, Ministry bureaucrats (well, somebody's got to do it), and academic advisors. They are often underestimated. This is most unwise."
Solan Montague is the only son of Julian Montague and Isabella Weston. Born and raised in Eastbourne, he grew up in an affluent household. His father holds an executive post in a large Arithmancy firm and is a fairly busy man, and his mother kept the house. Isabella was the epitome of a gentlewoman-- well-bred, quiet, docile, elegant.
When he was three, his mother took ill in the course of the winter, and instead of getting better when the weather warmed, continued to get worse and worse, exhibiting tuberculosis-like symptoms and coughing up blood. She died the following April, and shortly before her death, summoned her son into her room, asking him to promise not to hold anything against his father. The young boy did not understand, and she didn't elaborate.
His father remarried Mary Halloran, a widowed colleague, about six years after his mother's death, and while he gets along with his stepmother, they are not particularly close. But he wasn't always as reserved and quiet as the present day, and it was when he was about thirteen years of age that everything changed.
In Hogwarts, he showed a marked aptitude for Potions, and made excellent marks in the class, often doing extra reading and research. It was when he was thirteen and brewing a poison diagnostic potion to earn some extra points (after a certain bratty first-year managed to lose fifty for Slytherin) that he read up for the first time on the symptoms of arsenic poisoning.
It only took a few hours with the books, a vial of the potion he'd brewed, and the lock of his mother's hair that had been woven into a brooch for him to figure out just how much of a natural illness it wasn't that Isabella died from. He recalled a servant girl who used to work for the household before quitting her post after his mother's death, the promise that his mother had extracted from him, and quickly added up the disparate parts.
Afterwards, he stopped going home for Christmas hols and became increasingly withdrawn and reserved. He realises, after some observation, that his father knew nothing about the true cause of his first wife's death, and while he doesn't resent his father for what happened, he hates knowing the truth and not being able to do anything about it.
Aside from that, his Hogwarts years were fairly uneventful. He made the Quidditch team in his second year as a Chaser and continued to play (when Quidditch was part of the year's events) through the rest of his school years. He was technically appointed captain in sixth year, though he didn't actually take up duties until his final year of Hogwarts.
He is on civil terms with his dormmates, though not particularly close. They do, however, make a good team together for the purposes of Quidditch, with the various personalities balancing out each other on the pitch. With a head for strategy and the ability to remain perfectly calm under pressure, he keeps his team under control without having to resort to threats or yelling, and while he has little use for his Seeker or Beaters as people, they play adequately enough (not to mention Malfoy funds the team equipment) that he lets their personality flaws slide: he's not there to make friends, anyway.
As for people from other houses, he doesn't particularly go out of his way to be nice to anyone as a rule, but typically won't go out of his way to be mean, either. As long as people don't ask him prying questions about his personal life or make accusations about his house, etc... he is aloofly polite to most of the other students in the school, aside from the random wry remark.