THE STUDENT APPLICATION
1) Your Character's Name: Sean-Patrick Roberts-Richardson
2) Your Character's Age: 17 (7th year) born 6/21/1988
3) Your Character's Sex: Male
4) Your Character's Place of Birth: Marshfield, Massachusetts USA; Now residing in London
5) Your Character's Blood: Half-Blood
6) Your Character's Preferred House: Ravenclaw
7) Your Character's Physical Appearance: Standing five feet, seven inches tall, and weighing approximately 155 pounds, Sean-Patrick, or Pat as friends and family call him, is a pretty average individual. His chocolate brown eyes, flecked with little bits of gold color are an oddity, considering that the rest of his family all have light light blue eyes. He does share their deep auburn hair color, which he keeps short and spiked all over. Pat has his share of teenage acne, but it is no more that the average adolescent male. His skin is perpetually tan, from spending all of his summer months outside playing Quidditch, and during the winter making use of his sister's tanning bed. His skin tone is his one concession to vanity, saying that he always looks healthier with a good deep tan. His face is average shaped, cheekbones are not that clearly defined and he has a rather large and wide nose.
Always walking around with a pair of Muggle sunglasses on, Pat has always felt more comfortable in trendy Muggle attire, something which is a reflection upon his personality that can be explained later. Jeans and T-shirt are his usual clothing of choice, usually from some trendy American clothing company. Pat enjoys being physically active and working out and therefore has a rather decent body, except for a little bit of a belly that he cannot manage to get rid of no matter how many crunches he does. His hands, wrists, and forearms bear the marks of his other favorite pastime, and most girls think the scars are sexy. He speaks with a New England Cape Cod accent, which is comparable to a Scot accent in its level of being hard to understand, and couple that with his American style of speech, it makes him rather hard to understand sometimes.
When Pat goes out in the Wizarding world, his choice of robes are a deep redish-brown that with his hair, eyes, and skin seem to be meant for him to wear. He prefers flowing robes over those that are tighter and more fitted, thinking that they make him seem more imposing and formidable, always attempting to make up for his average height. He never wears trainers unless he is working out, one will always find him in in casual dress shoes or boots.
8) Your Character's Personality: Sean-Patrick, being an American, comes across to most to most Brits as arrogant, blunt, and unsophisticated. This, however, is unfair to say. His parents have done this best they can to ensure that he is cultured and genial, but it is just in a different sense than his new classmates at Hogwarts are used to.
Pat is somewhat of a slacker in the classroom, he is a naturally gifted wizard, to the point where he sometimes feels that lessons and petty homework are beneath him, and as such, his grades sometimes suffer. However, he sees truly difficult magical tasks as a challenge and will work endlessly on a spell that he cant quite get perfect, or a potion that is especially tricky to brew. He especially loves charms work, and also enjoys transfiguration. It is this curiosity and determination that leads him to seek out things that maybe are out of the range for the wizard his age. Pat, looking for something to spend his summer attempting and learning, decided he wanted to become an animagus, something he accomplished by the Christmas holiday during his 5th term, something that game him notoriety with his classmates.
Pat is somewhat of a local celebrity, because of his father, and he knows it. He knows that he could use his name to get things the average young witch or wizard couldn't. His parents brought him up to b humble however, and so he doesn't let it go to his head. He doesn't mind the popularity that it brings him though. See, if there is one thing that he hates, it is being alone. He can remember when His sister Lydia was off at school, and Dad was off with the team, and Mom was busy working on some new recipe, and he was left to sit either at home or in the dining room of the restaurant for hours with nothing to do, no one to play with, he can remember the boredom; even as a little kid it drove him nuts. Even to this day the one thing he can not stand its being bored, it is his fear of having nothing to do that drives him to the states of learning that he tries to achieve. He however is a walking paradox because he is like it was said earlier a slacker and a wicked procrastinator, but that doesn't meant that he doesn't like learning, he just hates homework, it doesn't help him understand, it just wastes his time.
He is generally a happy guy, everyone has their demons, and like every other adolescent male, is after his share of the opposite sex. Girls like him and he likes girls. A lot.
9) Your Character's History:
Father: David Roberts
Mother: Margret Richardson
Sister: Lydia Roberts-Richardson
Paternal Grandparents: Sarah and Edward Roberts
Paternal Uncle: Jonathan Roberts (Squib)
Maternal Grandparents: Oliver and Abagail Richardson
Maternal Aunt: Miranda Richardson
Maternal Uncle: Connor Richardson
Born as the youngest child to David Roberts, an American wizard, Margret Richardson, an English Muggle. His Parents have tried to raise him and his sister Elaine with a thorough grounding in both the wizrding and muggle worlds, both of them teaching that each way of living is as equally important as the other, and both have their advantages and disadvantages. Thanks to this style of teaching, Pat was left free to make up his mind about how he wanted to live his life. He attended Muggle Public Schools in his hometown until the age of eleven, when his letter from the Cambrih
dge Institute of Magic in Boston arrived. His parents gave him a choice, and told him that they would support him either way: He could either accept the letter of admission from Cambridge and learn the ways of the wizard, or he could reject that path and continue to live learn and work forever as a muggle. This was an extremely diffucult decision for Pat to make, for as much as he wanted to go off and learn magic, he truly loved his Muggle friends and ways of life, and he wasnt sure if he wanted to give that up. All summer he fretted over his decision, locking himself in his room, and not even playing a scrap of Quidditch, one of his biggest pastimes in life. Finally, the day before The term at Cambridge was to start, he came to the decision that he must learn the ways of magic and attend school there. He however does still indulge in Muggle pleasures such as Television and video games.
Pat has two true loves in his life: Quidditch and Cooking, both he got from his parents. His Father, David was a chaser on the seven-time US League Champion Fitchburg Finches, and his mother Margret, a Muggle, was an English-born Chef who had trained under various master chefs from around the world. Both of Pat's Parents adored their occupations and pat found himself falling for them both as well. During his first year at Cambridge, Pat realized his calling in life. He wanted to become the greatest Wizard Chef ever.
His first six years of magical education went very smoothly. He found that he enjoyed and excelled at the schoolwork, especially Charms, which was a subject he knew would be essential in his dreams for his future. He also excelled on the Quidditch pitch, making the school team as a chaser his first year, and making Captain at the start of his 5th term. NOTE: Although students are sorted into houses in American Wizarding schools, it is a random procedure,there is no prefect or house points system, and all competitions and sporting events are interscholastic affairs.
Before one can truly learn Sean-Patrick's history, they must first understand how their parents came to be together... David Roberts was born on August 23rd, 1957 to Sarah and Edward Roberts as the younger brother to Jonathan Roberts, 2 years his senior. While technically a pure-blood
10) Special powers/items/pets:
Powers:Is an Animagus, takes the form of a Dalmatian except with red-brown spots that match his hair, and black markings on the top of his head that look like his omni-present sunglasses, much like the markings of one Minerva McGonagall. Has his Apparition license, can conjure a Patronus: Canadian Goose.
Pets:Not really a pet, but his parents gave him a house elf named Gimpy as a coming-of-age gift, its is a bit of a family tradition
Note: Currently no special powers, aside from what is listed in the books will be accepted, even then, they will be moderated.
11) Your Wand: 11 ½ inches, Brazilian Cherry, Rocky Mountain Razorclaw Heartstring, rather flexible, excellent for charms work, but also good for transfiguration