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[Havelock Gulch]

havelock ingemar gulch

pureblood, slytherin, seventh year

a recent durmstrang transfer student with an unyielding passion for politics, havelock is a bold purist and grindelwald supporter. disinterested in earning his acceptance at hogwarts, he probably be seen as impertinent to the majority of the populace outside the slytherin house and remains unconcerned with the loss of affection; he finds the school and a good chunk of its inhabitants strenuously tedious. he is capable of being civil to those he respects if it strikes him advantageous, although he is exceedingly particular with who he extends that privilege courtesy due to his intolerance, one of his worst pitfalls. more austere than cordial, havelock is consistently aloof and emotionally resigned in social company, favouring academia over most interaction (political discussion being his one and only exception) and, being both blatantly and patriotically foreign, doesn’t appeal to a large crowd because of his flagrant dislike of humour and painfully conservative demeanour. he has no noteworthy ambition while at hogwarts other than maintaining his scholastic excellence and keeping a close eye on zamira, his cousin and unfortunate fiancée. ‘fun’, whatever it is, is absent of his agenda. unless one is looking to be illuminated with his severe, political opinion or targeted for their self-thought, ‘nonsensical’ lack of purist ideology, havelock is generally focused on his textbooks and, when in that state, likely most appreciated by his peers.

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[Corrine Haven]

Okay okay okay!

FIRST OF HI! SECOND OFF WHEEE!!!!!!

Corrine: Is a muggleborn sixth year slytherin. And she loathes and fears Havelock. He is new his year and just the sort of creature she finds terrifying. A racist, purist, Grindewald supporting young man. The kind of monster that could hunt her parents down and murder them without an iota of regret. He is Corrine's worst nightmare, and he doubtless hates having her around. She would do everything in her power to avoid him, and since she doesn't hate Zamira she now officially pities her. She would probably also kill him if she could get away with it, but she can't, so just know it's a thought she harbors.

Helen: Is a halfblood sixth year Hufflepuff, and probably bears no interest or connection to Havelock at all. She's not the brightest bulb in the box, but she works exceptionally hard. She's quite shy and defensive initially but becomes very affectionate and a great friend after getting to trust someone. But anyway. Unless Havelock took an interest Helen would think he was terrifying and avoid him. And even if he did take an interest I think Helen would find him terrifying enough that her shy exterior wouldn't break down at all.

Ugh, I wish I had cooler things for you. If you ever want a muggleborn to ruin, I offer Corrine.

[Foras Rosier]

hello emille! i'm bez, you may remember me

zamira gulch

HELLO COUSIN. would you like some more poison with your tea? so obviously there isn't a whole lot of love between them - zamira thinks he should keep his nose out of her business, and he thinks she should be a proper lady. zamira spends a good lot of her time avoiding her fiance because the idea of marriage, children and the racist family opinions all make her deeply uncomfortable. by extension, so does havelock's presence, so it's unfortunate that he's such a sterling example of a meddling family member. i think i'd like to see how these guys unfold in threads, so if you want to start a note that'd be lovely, and you're more than welcome to join this thread here in the mean time!

foras rosier

is a sixth year slytherin like zamira, and is actually kind of similar to havelock in a couple of ways. he's extremely aristocratic, but in a very reserved, careful sort of fashion that believes that displays of emotion are undignified, that discussing politics in public is poor form, and that the lesser classes should be treated with a reasonable amount of patronising dignity - for otherwise what kind of example would the aristocracy be? ummm so. he's actually very very studious and a sixth year prefect but he's very outwardly boring and comes off as kind of unreal, mechanical, and having a stick stuck up his ass. but, he'd find havelock distasteful for his outspokenness on politics, and his unrepentant foreignness doesn't work in his favour, either. HOWEVER, he will be perfectly cordial to him in his own weird, mechanical way, and despite the difference in year they could study together maybe? idk. also, he runs chess club.

percival pratt

seventh year gryffindor blood traitor who.... isn't going to see eye to eye with havelock. in fact, they're not going to get along even slightly. percy is very proud of his status as a blood traitor and has a brother in combat against grindelwald right now. percy is also widely known for an extreme distrust of slytherins in general - and percy, unfortunately, is both almost entirely fearless, and an expert at mocking other people through poetry and song. he recently reduced walburga black to tears after she made some snide comment about bobbie weasley. obviously, he won't be reducing havelock to tears - but what i'm saying is that they are extremely likely to butt heads and that the encounter will only turn out badly. SO THAT COULD BE FUN.

brede jorgensen

oh bro here we go. brede's a seventh year hufflepuff whose surname will be v recognisable to havelock, because the jorgensens are like the blacks of norway. so obviously they'll have had a huge presence at durmstrang themselves. they're extremely purist, extremely militant, and extremely in support of grindelwald - several of them fight for him. BREDE, however, is the product of an illicit relationship between his father and a muggle. having already been disowned for marrying a muggle, his father feared violent reprisals when his family found out about the pregnancy, and fled the country. it was probably a bit of a scandal. anyway, the upshot of this is that brede was raised in england but is firmly norwegian and will have a recognisable surname to havelock, but not a recognisable attitude. brede is a pacifist and finds the company of slytherins and purebloods in general to be slightly uncomfortable; his discomfort will only be intensified by havelock's foreignness and outspokenness. however, he's also not afraid to speak his mind, so if havelock mentioned his philosophies aloud, it's likely that brede would quietly contradict him. ummm idk i think we could work pretty nicely with this.

ruth harper

is probably the least likely to have anything to do with him. she's a fifth year ravenclaw pureblood girl (because i have a problem, apparently), who is part of an established but not particularly rich line. she's quiet, studious, and um she's quite good at being a lady. she does, however, associate with muggleborns and halfbloods because her family isn't very pious about the whole thing (though they aren't blood traitors). later she'll be getting engaged to sinclair avery, who is a fifth year slytherin, and she sort of falls in more with the slytherin lot then, so maybe we could work something out when she's hanging round there more.

[Ignatius Prewett]

hello hello emille, this is what i got

ignatius prewett - seventh year, pureblood, gryffindor, and head boy, ignatius is definitely not a fan of havelock. his family is on the fringes respectable, (respectable enough that when he marries lucretia black in the future, he makes it onto the family tree) tolerant but not considered to be blood traitors. ignatius doesn't care for labels, he's not bothered who's who, but he cannot stand people being malicious or intolerant. he's never come to blows over it because he's able to hand out detentions and dock points and also inform teachers, but i imagine having to deal with someone gulch might make him want to punch somebody...

morven flint - morven is a fourth year slytherin, who attempts to be a proper young lady/perfect daughter but struggles because most of the time she has no filter on what comes out of her mouth. most of the time if she has opinions she'll voice them, and is known to mouth off at teachers and students alike. she tries not to offend/insult families who are more important than hers (not many, in her opinion) or potential suitors. under that criteria, morven will have no reservations in insulting havelock from time to time, as she likes and rather admires zamira, so she'll be trollin'. as far as she's concerned, she's a fourteen year old girl and he can't retaliate

artemis davies - well first off, she's a halfblood. if that wasn't bad enough, she's also the sister of a werewolf. she's a ravenclaw sixth year and more or less a walking target for most of the school. she doesn't like most other students anyway, but she'll probably be quite scared of this new, foreign, open supporter of grindelwald. yep.

i've also got marilyn diggle and erasmus diggory, but there's not much for those two that i can think of.

[Helbert Spleen]

OKAY SO, I don't think any of my students would impress Gulch very much, LOL. I'll list them briefly anyways but probs won't work out anything.

None of them are 7th year, Pureblooded, or Slytherin sooo~~

There's VICTORIA SUMMERS who is a sixth year Hufflepuff and would probably make him break out in hives. She's Muggleborn, loudly proud about the fact. She's a beater on the Quidditch team and as the position might suggest, not the most ladylike girl about Hogwarts. Kind, but often perceived as lacking elegance and tact, she would likely openly laugh at Havelock. There's a SECRET connection in that they're both foreigners - Vicky's parents are illegal Ukranian immigrants - but that's not really going to come into play so idek why I mentioned it. It might be funny to have them thrown together somehow by accident but it would be a one-off thing.

There's JONATHON DAWLISH who is also a Muggleborn Hufflepuff and in fifth year. He's violence and crude and runs a gang of Huffleboys and will absolutely love to corner Havelock and wave his knife in front of the boy's face and make fun of his accent and say incredibly witty things like 'where's your lederhosen' disregarding the fact that he doesn't actually know where lederhosen are from.

There's EUPHEMIA ATLAS who loool is a halfblood sixth year Gryffindor and a horrible, horrible witch who will in her seventh year drop out and try her hand at being a horrible, horrible actress. She's kind but flakey and showy and self-involved and well known to be the community bicyle ~if you catch my drift~~. LOL so I think she'd avoid Havelock because she hates being judged and I imagine Havelock would avoid her as well.

So not muuuch, but I also have FACULTY~!

There's HELBERT SPLEEN the school healer. He's a Pureblood, but a blood traitor and relatively recently he severely upset Walburga Black, so he's probably not the most popular in the Slytherin house. Besides that, he's hosting a weekly bandage rolling event for the soldiers of the resistance - so Havelock might have major issues with a faculty openly against Grindelwald? IDK, we could do something. On top of that, he's the kind-of supervisor of the student paper, of which Zamira is a part of. SO IDK, I think here there are things to be done.

Alsooo PROFESSOR FRANK ELLISTON who is a closet homosexual Halfblood Ancient Runes prof. He's a man of logic, and would not abide Havelock's views to be voiced anywhere near him. It's not that he's particularly against Purebloods, but that their viewpoints have no basis in science and therefore do not sit well with Frank. He's quiet, but firm, so~~

SORRY these aren't great but I really hope we'll be able to figure out something, because I'd love to thread with Havelock~~

[Caractacus Phelps]

Heya~

So I only have on character and he would definitely fall into the enemies category:

Cactus Phelps: 6th year gryffindor, a tempermental, arrogant prankster who doesn't care much for snooty Slytherins. He might have pestered/tormented Havelock in some way or maybe in some bizarre case they worked together if Havelock needed access to Gryffindor rooms for . . . something. Lol! They're a bit opposite, but there if you want him!

[Zamira Gulch]

got you this thread

[Walburga Black]

hi i'm pip and i have a small army of characters for your enjoyment and amusement. havelock simultaneously warms my heart and makes me want to hide all the small children in my vicinity, so... well-played.

most of my characters will probably have little to do with him, but i'll toss them out anyway in case someone sparks your interest?

maitaine whisp
halfblood fifth year hufflepuff.
may here is very girly and artistic and envies lots of pureblooded girls for their effortless sophistication and loveliness, although she definitely doesn't subscribe to any idea of elitism. she is a prefect, so if havelock does anything nasty she wouldn't hesitate for a moment to give him detention, especially since he so clearly looks down on her. but otherwise i think that would be the extent of their interaction.

abner yaxley
pureblood sixth year slytherin.
abner is one of the boys in the inner circle of tom riddle's little gang. he believes in purism, although not in the complete and utter destruction of the non-pure, since then who would be cashiers and waiters and things like that? sure, there are some merchant-class purebloods, but they can own the stores, not actually work at them. anyway. he has a reputation as one of the 'friendlier' slytherins down in the dungeon, by which i mean he'll hold pleasant conversations with just about anyone and won't curse a mudblood in the middle of a hallway for no reason in particular; he's friendly with everyone and friends with very few people and would probably be kind of exasperated with havelock's open dismissal of people. however, he'd probably try to be friendly with havelock anyway just so he can have a ~foreign connection, since he likes having those a lot since they're full of such interesting news. um, he would probably try to keep it on the dl that he has shamelessly tried to win over havelock's fiancé, since he's sort of a ~ladies' man; i doubt zamira would mention it anyway.

arnold peasegood
muggleborn ffith year gryffindor.
um, the only point of connection that i would really see between them is that arnold's very best friend in the whole entire world like ohmigosh! is a fifth year slytherin called alastor gumboil, so arnold sometimes walks him down to the dungeons at night before curfew. arnold is possessed of the idea that everyone is nice if you get to know them, so he has probably done his best to get to know havelock, assuming that someone ~new and ~foreign and ~interesting would want to make as many friends as possible!

nathaniel ulby
muggleborn fourth year hufflepuff.
ahahaha. nate used to be part of a gang of nasty hufflepuff boys and still runs with one of two of the sometimes. he wants to be a healer and is already quick with healing spells, but idk why that would matter to havelock, since i doubt he'd ever seek out a muggleborn fourth year for healing spells. um. random interaction, i guess, is the most i could see for them, but it would end poorly for everyone involved, i imagine.

walburga black
pureblood sixth year slytherin.
OKAY. so either walburga would think that havelock was FANTASTIC and AWESOME and a LOVELY HUMAN BEING and someone she could spend HOURS talking to etc etc or she would think he was barely above the filth that fills the rest of the school. i guess it depends on how much he respects the black family? if he recognises walburga as (clearly) his SOCIAL SUPERIOR she would be nothing but smiles and offers of tea and long discussion about how much mudbloods suck and how she wishes that hogwarts would be as strict in its entrance requirements as durmstrang was and blah blah blah. if he thinks that he's better (pft), then he'll be treated to cold silences and/or temper tantrums, depending on what he says/does, and bitter comments about dirty foreigners and how they're hardly better than mudbloods and filth.

janus thickey
halfblood seventh year ravenclaw.
um they're in the same year, but janus is pretty much suffering from a terrible, terrible case of senioritis and is looking forward to nothing more than getting out of hogwarts, scotland, the uk, europe, etc. he's a first-generation halfblood but besides what little harassment he gets from purebloods, he's completely checked out of the purism debate and would just do his best to ignore and/or avoid havelock to his heart's content. hey, only eight months left!

ivor dillonsby
pureblood sixth year ravenclaw.
again, i doubt that ivor and havelock would have much to do with each other. ivor's pureblooded but doesn't really give a crap about blood status: he bases his opinion of people on how smart they are, which is a similarly dick move but whatever! anyway, he tends to hang around with his gang of equally nerdy buddies, and i think some of them will be openly hostile to havelock, which i guess doesn't exactly spell super good things for ivor? um later in the year he'll get tangled up in the riddle gang, so depending on havelock's relation to them... things can happen for reasons? idk i'm awful at plotting sorry. ):

[William Wagstaff]

not to overwhelm you, but i was too excited about havelock to hold back for long!


ANTARES LESTRANGE

fifth year slytherin. antares is part of the inner circle of walpurgis/the riddle gang, and decidedly the most zealous. he is the one most conspicuously loyal to tom riddle, and the one most passionate about pureblood ideology and traditional values.

so i think antares could be one of the few people that would think havelock had the right ideas. he's rather outspoken about beliefs, like gulch, and they tend to err on the same side. he doesn't know as much about grindelwald, but i imagine he'd be curious in a positive way. they could get along and trade discussions?

BETTY BRAITHWAITE

fifth year gryffindor, reporter for the school newspaper. betty is a shameless gossip, with a need to delve into people's secrets the moment she gets a whiff of them; this bleeds a little (by which i mean A LOT) into her articles.

i bring her up primarily because she's good friends with zamira, and they're newspaper buddies (trade ideas on stories, gossip/criticize random people). she'd be very curious about havelock, i imagine, in her snooty reporter way - and also just because he's the intended for her friend. i can't see havelock approving too much of her, LOL. she's a half-blood, and she also pens really flamboyant and scandalous articles in the newspaper. so they could have an awkward interaction or something.

RUDOLF BRAND

seventh year, gryffindor golden boy, quidditch team captain. he has an ego the size of a small moon; he is vain, arrogant, and self-absorbed. he's also a ridiculously proud muggle-born, to the point that he actually harbors a prejudice against slytherins and purebloods. so yeah! i'm sure rudolf and havelock would absolutely hate each other, and could work very well as enemies. if they ever dueled, havelock would almost definitely win, as rudolf isn't terribly skilled with magic, LOL. he is, on the other hand, decent at muggle brawling, and would lob a few good ones.

[Gwendolyn Morgan]

hi emille! welcome again. i'm cora and here to over-whelm you a little more....


roberta weasley
7th year gryffindor
roberta is a fairly friendly and easy-going girl, without a huge tendency towards conflict. she doesn't like pureblood prejudice and her family is known for being progressive, but she doesn't go out of her way to cause arguments. she hangs around with various gryffindors, mostly from blood traitor families, and her older brother teaches charms. she would definitely not be rude to havelock and would even be quite friendly if they interacted, but i'm not sure to what extent they'd have much in common -though they have classes and things together, of course, and likely know who each other are.

eileen prince
5th year slytherin
eileen's family fell from the aristocracy some generations back after losing their fortune and then going into business to try to get it back. their reputation is generally for being greedy and a little social-climber-y. eileen, however, has never demonstrated any of the charm that her parents would have liked from her. she has a very sullen, withdrawn manner and a tendency to assume she will be judeged and disliked, which tends to make it easier for her to be. she is on the outer edges of the better pureblood circles, and doesn't really have the charm to change that, or the opinion of herself that might cause her to learn. she's fairly jealous of people in better situations than her, but for the most part is pretty withdrawn and inward. generally, i think, she comes off as odd and a little dull - her single passion is for gobstones club which she presidents. she would not be intentionally rude to havelock, but her manner is pretty sharp and she's definitely not openly friendly, and can be defensive if approached/if she perceives a threat.

she IS newly friends with zamira (and probably closer to her than anyone else at the school) so there is that connection, though idk if that really helps her with havelock.

lisette scamander
7th year ravenclaw
she's a halfblood and not terribly interested in hierarchies or politics of blood. lisette's interests and friends are primarily artistic: she herself is somewhat of a patron of the arts, and has a very developed and informed sense of aesthetics. she is generally thought to be one of the prettier girls in their year, but she's actually also not attracted to boys (very secretly) and has a reputation for turning them down. she encourages rumours that she may be seeing her best friend, their classmate john homme, and tends to stick very close to her small group of friends (which includes percival pratt). she's pretty reserved with people she doesn't know/who don't interest her, so she wouldn't approach havelock, but she wouldn't be necessarily unfriendly if they happened to interact - which is possible as they have classes and things together.

druella rosier
4th year slytherin
druella is foras' younger sister, and her manner is in a lot of ways similar to his, or the female mode of it. she is unfailingly polite and well-mannered, ladylike and mostly rather reserved. she has been strongly encouraged to refrain from speaking to unless spoken to and overall taught to be unimposing and unassuming while biding the time until her future marriage to cygnus black, to whom she is currently betrothed. druella has a fairly listless, detached manner, and some slightly childish personal interests, but she is very appeasing and ladylike company when called upon. she'll be very polite to havelock and he falls within the realm of people she is aware of, though she wouldn't expect him to be routinely concerned with her.

gwendolyn morgan
6th year hufflepuff
prefect and chaser, gwendolyn is a very ambitious and dedicated person and student, with a strong sense of fairness and honesty, that she expects from other people she interacts with. because of a sheltered up-brining, she has yet to see her race, gender or blood status as an obstacle to her ambition, and tends to be a little naive for it, though not in a very weak way. her father is rather important in the ministry and her mother is well-known in the academic community and though her passion is really for quidditch, at the moment, she intends (and is expected) to follow in her father's footsteps. i actually don't have ideas for this, but she's about and fairly easy to interact with/encounter, i think.

mildred carpenter
nurse
newly arrived school nurse, who served in the resistance against grindewald as a medi witch, and lost her left arm to it. mildred is a pretty steady person, who gets on well particularly with her patients. she is strongly opposed to purists and finds children that are taught their ideas pretty disturbing. they're really only likely to meet if havelock ends up in the hospital wing though - but that's maybe possible!

[Lucy Agrippa]

HIIIII *waves*

well well well isn't he just charming...*wink*


Lucy Agrippa
Sixth year Ravenclaw, pureblood, shy and intelligent. She likes to keep to herself most times and doesn't like confrontation. Usually she's stuck in the library (and by stuck I mean she just likes it there for studying) so I don't know where or when they would meet besides by accident?? She's only a year younger but it isn't as if they run in the same crowds or anything. XP She probably wouldn't hate or love him either way??

Dominic Maeastro
6th year Hufflepuff, halfblood, musically talented and slightly rude but by accident. Dominic is the type who says things first and thinks it out afterwards. He can't really communicate well. He doesn't MEAN to be rude...it just sort of happens. So...eneimes for sure. Dominic is like that I guess. It doesn't help that Havelock is sort of well...HIM. so yeah. If they meet WHOA and if not just...whoa.

Professor Galatea Merrythought
Old (75), DADA professor, jolly and upbeat, former Slytherin, blood traitor, Galatea loves everyone usually. She likes to see and think everyone had a chance to be good and great. I guess it depends what he thinks of her...and what he shows her??

Thoughts!!!??

[Carling Whisp]

havelock gulch and carling
carling's only half-blood and raised entirely magical, but she still doesn't fit into havelock's ideas for the magical world and i'm sure he wouldn't like her if he had any idea who she is at all. as it stands, she probably doesn't care for him much either. he's rude, after all, and doesn't exactly pretend to be subtle about his views, and carling just doesn't understand why he can't be nice, etc. but he's three years ahead of her and in slytherin, so there's not too much chance for interaction there.