Edward McMillan
7TH YEAR. SLYTHERIN. HALFBLOOD.
Appearance
Ed is built kind of like a large tree. He stand 6'4 and weights around 190 lbs. Yes, he's pretty much large enough to block out the sun and he's well-toned from years of playing quidditch. He has medium brown hair that he usually wears kind of shaggy and wears the scruffy look well when he hasn't bothered to shave. His eyes are actually hazel, but they can appear to change color and usually have more of a greenish tint to them. He has a charming grin that is almost always present, and his expression almost never gives away what he is really thinking if his mood doesn't match his smile. He's more graceful than you would expect someone of his size to be, though he sits kind of awkwardly when the chair is too small for his build. HIs style of dress is pretty formal - robes are always neatly pressed and tie done up perfectly. EVen his idea of casual is usually a nice pair of jeans and a button-up shirt or skipping the tie on his shirt and wearing is more casually with a jacket thrown over it. T-shirts, when he wears them, are always completely free of wrinkles. Appearances are very obviously important to him.
Personality
Edward is outwardly friendly to everyone he encounters. If he doesn't like you, you will probably never know. He nevers gives away much of his true feelings away unless you are one of the few he truly cares about. Most people he sees in terms of value -- how he can use them to his advantage -- to his career, his image, etc. There are a very few who he feels a true attachment for and those are the ones who do see the rare bits of emotion from him. (His wife, his cousin , his little brother, his few true friends...) To everyone else, he's just that friendly, easy-going, boy-next-door kind of guy.
Ed doesn't appear to care for bloodlines, at least not outwardly and not in the way that pureblood elitists do. On the inside he believes his own bloodline makes him a bit inferior and he works very hard to overcome that. However, he is nice to people regardless of bloodline or anything else. After all, treating the mudbloods differently would make him a hypocrite and even if he does feel there is something to the point of purebloods being better than the rest of them, he's not going to treat his own kind badly over it.
Edward is stoic and taciturn. He doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve and it's very difficult to tell what he is really thinking. There are a few exceptions to this - people who know him well enough to read his moods - but for the most part Ed's true feelings are often hidden beneath the surface and it might be easy for someone to think he doesn't care about anything just by the way he acts.
This does not, of course, apply to quidditch, which he was always freely obsessive about. But even when it comes to that or the people he loves, it's his actions rather than his words or expression that show how he really feels.
History
Ed was born in East Kilbride, Scotland, to Pureblood Auror Douglas McMillan and his Muggleborn wife, Catriona. Though catriona made sure Ed was educated about Muggle culture and society, he and his younger brother Trick (NPC, 6th or 7th year at Hogwarts) grew up in a primarily wizarding household. Ed never really embraced many traditions or values from Muggle culture, save a natural love of sports.
While he was raised to appreciate Muggle culture, he still feels that being a halfblood puts him at a disadvantage and feels the need to push himself twice as hard to "succeed" in the wizarding world. Ed's childhood was relatively uneventful. He began showing signs of magic as a small child when he used to make sweets on high shelves float down to him. He "accidentally" turned a large twig into a snake, which seriously frightened some nearby muggle children. Though they lectured him about doing magic in front of muggles, this was a source of great amusement for his parents.
Ed was sorted into Slytherin almost as soon as the hat touched his head as a first year. He had so much drive and ambition, a thirst to prove he could overcome the shortcomings of his blood and be just as good a wizard if he only put his mind to it. He settled early on a goal to become an Auror. He knew it was supposed to be a difficult career path, one only the best managed to attain, and he decided achieving that goal would be proof that he was a good wizard. Besides, he's always looked up to his father and following in his footsteps seemed a grand idea.
Despite lofty career goals, Ed found time to pursue his other obsession in life - quidditch. He begged and begged until he got a broom for his 12th birthday, a Nimbus that he still has to this day. He tried out for and made his house team in his second year and by his fifth year he was made captain of the team.
His ability to balance quidditch and school and his reputation around the school for being a responsible and friendly boy are probably what earned him a Prefect's badge in his fifth year as well. Just at the beginning of his 7th Year, he's recently received his Head Boy badge by owl post and he couldn't be happier. The only thing that could make this year better would be leading Slytherin to win the Cup this year!
Hogwarts Stats
House: Slytherin
Year: 7th
Best subjects: Transfiguration, DADA, Potions
Worst subjects: History of Magic, Care of Magical Creatures, Arithmancy
Classes: Arithmancy, Charms, COMC, DADA, Herbology, Potions, Transfig
Connections
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