Biographical Context
We're the new face of failure
Prettier & Younger but not any better off
name: Zacharias Blake Smith
nicknames: Riah, Zach (only to the special few)
age: 16
birthday: June 30th
sexual orientation: Heterosexual
hair: Brown
eyes: Brown
heritage: Pureblood
parents: Stratford Smith (47) and Marilyn Bonneville-Smith (46); divorced
siblings Elijah Smith (22) married to Hayley (Prior) Smith (21)
hometown: Winchester (when staying with his father), London (Chelsea, when staying with his mother)
house: Hufflepuff
year: 6th
quidditch: Hufflepuff Chaser
personality:
Zacharias is, to put it mildly, a conceited slacker. He tends to do enough to get by and very little beyond that. He has an entitled personality and feels like he shouldn't have to work for things. Zacharias simply never sees the point in attempting things at which he's unlikely to excel. That's his thing: failure is not an option. Therefore, if you may fail, don't waste your time.
Slacker tendencies aside, Zacharias does work for things he really wants. This mostly means he's fairly decent at Quidditch and knows his way around a piano. Those were things that interested him and held his attention. He looks at his interests as projects that he wants to get something out of. He tends to look at girls the same way, and it gets him into trouble on occasion; he's typically too cocky to care.
He is easy going because life is too short not to be. He's snarky because it's fun and likes poking at people who take themselves too seriously. He doesn't see a reason to get bent out of shape about things he deems "ridiculous." Zacharias would much rather find a way to have a good time than wallow in angst over exams, essays, girls, or other mundane drama.
background and such:
Zacharias is the second child of Stratford Smith and Marilyn Bonneville-Smith (now divorced). They were upper-middle class and fairly well-known in their section of Winchester. Elijah is six years Zacharias' senior and is basically the golden child who hasn't done anything wrong in his life.
Zacharias ended up with a bit of a complex. He dabbled in a little bit of everything, liked about half of it enough to actually learn something, but didn't care enough about anything in particular. He ran around as a child and did everything he wasn't supposed to. He broke things, talked babysitters into giving him cookies and other non-healthy treats between meals. The kid learned how to get what he wanted in ways that didn't involve being well-behaved. His parents gave him little frustrated sighs but indulged him.
No one was shocked when the Sorting Hat placed him in Hufflepuff. He was never studious enough to be a Ravenclaw, not devious enough for Slytherin, and not nearly adventurous enough for Gryffindor.
His first two years went by easily enough, even with the events happening around him at Hogwarts. Zacharias wasn't involved in any of it, though, and didn't see a reason to insert himself where he didn't belong. While Hannah and Susan gossiped, Zacharias rolled his eyes and dared Justin to eat the worst Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans he could find.
Third year, however, brought a slew of detentions and howlers from home. Zacharias laughed it off. He idolized Cedric Diggory and begged for advice about everything from Quidditch to girls (something that was starting to confuse Zacharias more and more as third year went on). Zacharias actually made the Quidditch team going into Fourth Year, but didn't get to play on account of the Triwizard Tournament.
Zacharias rooted for Cedric the entire way and had a great deal of fun listening to and participating in the general Hufflepuff gossip about just how Harry Potter managed to get his name in the cup and how badly he was going to lose to Cedric. Zacharias went to the Yule Ball with Hannah Abbott on Cedric's advice, and it was a right disaster that he has banned everyone from discussing on pain of every hex he knows. When Harry brought Cedric back during the final task, Zacharias didn't know how to cope and blamed the whole thing on Harry. He spent the summer hiding out with his brother and paying entirely too much attention to every news story he could get his hands on.
Fifth year should have been better. The D.A. was...informative but not something he would have done if he hadn't felt like he owed Cedric something, and Umbridge made him want to drop out of Hogwarts before he bothered with his O.W.L.s. Zacharias doesn't actually know how to describe the year and has vowed never to get so involved in the politics in or out of Hogwarts again. It was too stressful, dangerous, and cut into his schedule of napping and flirting with Megan Jones.
Sixth year is going to be better. After all, there is no way Zacharias can envision it as being worse than fifth. What could be, other than He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named turning up in the Great Hall himself?
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