gavin galahad harper.

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basics
NAME Gavin Galahad Harper.
AGE/BIRTHDATE 16 / 15 July 1981.
HOUSE/YEAR Slytherin / Sixth.

BLOOD STATUS Pureblood.
LOCATION Falmouth, Cornwall, South West England.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION Heterosexual, THANKS.

political affiliation
There will be none of this pussy 'NEUTRAL' business for the Harpers. They are staunchly and unapologetically on the side of the Dark Lord, and it's safe to say that when the trumpet sounds for all who hate Muggles, Gavin will be right there in the front ranks (proven that he isn't too busy whinging to actively participate). The plain and simple truth, according the Gavin, is that Muggles are evil and dangerous and must be done away with immediately.

appearance
Gavin is lucky in that his looks are his saving grace in most situations. He's not altogether unfortunate to look at, really. While he is rather angular, he acts with a certain confidence that keeps him from looking like a walking mass of limbs. He has a face that can go from cute to creepy in .02 seconds - when he smiles, it's all sunshine and butterflies, but when he's not smiling, he looks distinctly like he would greatly enjoy eating roasted newborn babes for breakfast. His hair is a very dark brown, and ranges from being short and neat to being long and shaggy, depending on whether or not he feels like chopping it off. Despite a lot of time spent outdoors, he still remains rather pale. He claims to eat like a horse, but secretly keeps a strict diet of only healthy foods in order to maintain his physique, which he swears is six feet of solid muscle. (In fact, it's only five feet and nine inches of mostly solid muscle, but who's counting?)

PB Gaspard Ulliel.

personality
There are, in essence, two Gavin Harpers: the public Gavin, who is polite (if a tad verbose), responsible, sociable, and very good at complimenting a lady on her choice of hair accessory. And then there's the private Gavin, who is nothing more than a creepy pervert with a fondness for violent sports, dirty jokes, and his particularly vivid imagination. He's also something of a ticking time bomb, with a lot of pent-up rage and aggression simmering just below the surface. Not very many people see this side of Gavin, though, because he takes special care to keep it hidden lest someone find out.

Gavin is nothing if not responsible. In fact, 'responsible' should be his middle name. He is always on time and always on top of his schoolwork; he could very well watch your children, balance your checkbook, and dodge several Bludgers all at the same time and without sustaining too much injury. People put him in charge because they know that he'll be able to get things done - he likes to go around claiming that he has a Very Clear Vision (capitals entirely necessary) for the future, and that this Vision can only be accomplished if things are done just so. He is a bit controlling, yes, and he has a tendency to forget that other people have feelings, too, but

Just because Gavin is responsible does not mean that he is a shining pillar of morality. Well known for bribing anyone and everyone into doing things for him, he isn't about to lift a finger if he can help it. While he isn't exactly sitting on a golden throne of money, he has enough to be able to offer someone a decent sum if they're willing to a week's worth of his homework for him. And this masterful bribery doesn't apply to just homework. He catches you doing something you're not supposed to be doing? Just cough up the cash and Gavin will be happy to act like the incident never occurred. But when you get right down to it, Gavin is just plain lazy. This contradicts rather nicely with the more respectable aspects of his personality, though, so Gavin tries very hard to pretend that he isn't lazy.

Gavin is very social, and very in-your-face about it as well. However, he's not pushy - he's just incredibly verbose. Gavin likes to talk, and if he isn't shut up soon he'd probably talk most people into punching him in the face. What can be said in two words Gavin must say in twenty, and he's just as prone to waxing poetic about someone's flaxen locks as he is to waxing poetic about last night's homework assignments. He also likes to think that his verbosity gives him an edge when it comes to the ladies, though he has yet to talk anyone into bed ('yet' being the operative word there, he says). It's also very hard to ignore Gavin - if he thinks someone isn't listening to him, he'll tap them on the shoulder repeatedly.

And then there's the Gavin that no one else really sees. This Gavin would ideally like to live a life of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll, with a good old-fashioned brawl or two thrown in there. His curiousity leans toward the morbid, and over the years he has built up an extensive knowledge base on all things crude and obscene. In all honesty he's very repressed, because all he does is cover up his perversions and pretend that he is just your average Future World Leader. Keeping these things hidden has turned Gavin into a downright creep, and it would be best to lock up your women and children when he's entering your village. Gavin doesn't tell anyone about these things because he wants people to like him - people aren't exactly friendly towards raging perverts, are they? No, they are not. He's also a very angry little boy on the inside, but he has long since resigned himself to gritting his teeth and seething silently when someone makes him mad rather than hauling off and punching them in the face.

THREE THINGS ACQUAINTANCES WOULD KNOW
1) Gavin hates animals. Especially cats. He is well-known for writing threatening, 'anonymous' letters to people whose cats have menaced him in one way or another.
2) He tried to organise a House-wide spooning fest towards the end of his fourth year. It was forcefully rejected, and since then people have taken to calling him Little Spoon.
3) Gavin wears really, really, really, really tight trousers. No one is quite sure why.

TWO THINGS CLOSE FRIENDS WOULD KNOW
1) He spent the better part of fifth year with mirrors taped to his shoes in hopes of being able to see up girls' skirts. It not only worked fabulously, it also inspired Gavin to start a hidden girls' underwear collection of his own.
2) He is almost one hundred percent positive that he has seen a Muggle with horns. His friends may scoff and claim that can't be true, but he swears he's seen it.

ONE DEEP, DARK SECRET

history
MOTHER Alaina Harper,
FATHER Martin Harper.
SIBLINGS Lancelot Harper, Guinevere Harper.

One very important thing to note about the Harpers is that they are truly in love with themselves. Notorious for fudging their family tree so much that it looks almost prestigious as The House of Black, the only real claims they have to Pureblood legitimacy are through Martin Harper's mother, who just so happened to be a Wilkes. Of course, there were other various Famous Relations scattered throughout the line, but honestly - who cares? Only the Harpers.

If his parents were being honest, they would tell you that Gavin was an accidental child. However, Gavin has been brought up his whole life to think that he was the miracle baby, the blessing from the skies that came when everyone thought there would be no more children for the Harpers. Martin and Alaina Harper already had two children - Lancelot, 10, and Guinevere, 8. When Gavin was born eight years after Guinever, his father tried his best to put a stop to the naming of their children after Arthurian legends. 'Gavin' was their compromise of sorts. Either way, no one really expected Gavin - the foursome was quite comfortable in their estate ('estate' being a very loose term since, after being passed down from generation to generation, the home was beginning to fall into disrepair) and they weren't sure if there was much room for another child. This is probably why Gavin isn't the most balanced of people - his parents and siblings alternated between ignoring him completely or spoiling him rotten once they realised that they'd been ignoring him completely, so he got a very strange idea of himself. He was the Shining Star of the Universe, but he was also left alone enough to be able to sneak around and get up to all sorts of things.

Gavin and Guinevere's relationship was doomed from the start. She had enjoyed being the youngest child, and now that she had a baby to contend with she was none too pleased. They have been fighting since day one, and their fights range from the playful to the especially violent. Lancelot - or Lance, as he prefers to be called - and Gavin have a much better relationship, one that involves Lance teaching his younger brother all of his ladykilling ways whenever they see each other.

No one was surprised when Gavin got his Hogwarts letter, because everyone in the family had gone to Hogwarts and it would be a crime above all crimes if their youngest didn't have any magical powers. It was also no surprise when he was sorted into Slytherin, either - both Lance and Guinevere had been Slytherins, and so had Martin and Alaina had also been Slytherins as well. Gavin's years at school have been relatively uneventful. He discovered the joys of playing Quidditch (whereas before school, he'd only been to various matches). He's definitely more of a Seeker than anything else, and he will be very upset to find out that Draco has returned to reclaim his position. He is an irrational hate of the boy. Now that he is in his sixth year, he plans on continuing the Great Harper Legacy, and continuing to keep his creepy secrets hidden from everyone.

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