Post by Jack Hewer on Jan 22, 2014 22:40:39 GMT -5
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THIRTY THREE
MALE
PROFESSOR
HALFBLOOD
HETEROSEXUAL
LEE PACE
JACK AENEAS HEWER
 THE BASICS Jack Hewer. Thirty three years old and six foot four. Teaches Transfiguration at Hogwarts and has been Head of Gryffindor for the past five years. Brown eyes, brown hair, a smile he cracks out as often as he possibly can, and enough optimism to keep a small ship afloat. Good with kids and cats and shelving. If given the choice would rather slide down the bannister than take the stairs. Has a rather beleaguered and shabby black and white cat called Penelope. FAMILY HISTORY Born the eldest of what would later become five siblings, Jack was always a natural leader. Collected, charming, confident, he had a way of putting a roomful of people at ease from a young age. Following closely by his brother Charles, he got on well with all his siblings but would always be closest to Charles and his youngest sibling and only sister, Annabel. His parents naturally turned to Jack to help them out as more and more children kept arriving, and this leant him an early maturity and high level of self-possession. Neither of these things dampened his spirits, however, and he has remained easy-going and humorous up to the present day. He got on well with his siblings growing up, and very happily filled the role of oldest brother to them - he'd keep an eye on them if their parents were busy, happily dole out advice even if he had no clue what he was talking about, stick up for them if they got in a fight, and tease them utterly mercilessly. He slipped into a similar role at Hogwarts with other kids, and has always had a reputation for being willing to give advice and a comforting listening ear to anybody with a problem. As mentioned, Jack always got on best with his nearest sibling and many-time partner-in-crime Charles, but has always had a soft spot for his baby sister who arrived during his NEWT year. Their large age gap left them more distant than Jack planned originally, since he was out of school and into the wide world when Lissie was still a toddler, and once he got his job at Hogwarts had even less time to see her. SCHOOL HISTORY Sorted into Gryffindor upon his arrival, Jack made friends with admirable ease. Confident and a genuinely kind and friendly person, his warmth made him one of the centres of his friendship group and he was always someone to whom people were naturally attracted. He exuded good humour and would always be genuinely happy to strike up a conversation with you. He had - and still has - that rare gift of being able to make you feel like you are utterly understood. At school he wasn't quite as responsible as at home - quite the opposite, in fact. With no younger siblings around to set an example for and no parents around he ran rather wild and played pranks. He got a fair few detentions despite his charm, mostly for things like being out of bed after curfew and sneaking into the kitchens. Charles arrived at Hogwarts soon, however, and Jack calmed down since he didn't want his brother reporting home. By fourth year he had pretty much relaxed into the personality that would chase him throughout his life - easy-going, determined, and open. He wore his heart on his sleeve with complete abandon, and his friends used to joke they could literally gauge the level of whatever emotion he was feeling because his face showed it so openly. Despite - or perhaps because of - this, he managed to get a girlfriend in fifth year, and following an amicable break-up with her got another one the following year. In between this he got decent OWL results (including one incredibly high O in Defence Against the Dark Arts) and saw another brother, George, arrive at the school too. Their family grew again the year that Jack tackled his NEWTs with the arrival of baby Lissie, who Jack wrote home eagerly about but didn't get the chance to see very much. He somehow managed to graduate despite these distractions with very decent results - again an amazing DADA grade - thanks to him and most of his friends foregoing fun to spend weeks in the library, which most of them in the end conceded was worth it. POST HOGWARTS HISTORY Jack took a year abroad following his graduation from school, and spent the vast majority of it in South America on a Dragon reserve where he gained quite a lot of burns, a much healthier appreciation for the destructive power of flying reptiles, and the realisation that he was not nearly hardcore enough to train dragons for a living. Talking up his experience despite this latter, Jack returned to England after twelve months in the jungle and looked for something a bit tamer to get paid for. Bouncing between jobs for a while, Jack settled longest at a very junior position in the Ministry of Magic but constantly chafed at its dullness. A natural extrovert, being in an isolated part of the department with little contact left him miserable and dissatisfied. Craving much more human interaction, he kept an active social life going and made as many new friends as possible. As ever, this wasn't hard, since he was a friendly, funny guy willing to laugh as hard at himself as a joke. The more his job weighed down on him, though, the more withdrawn he became, and he suffered a fairly miserable few months before his mother made one of her greatest suggestions yet - why didn't he teach? It seemed the most natural thing in the world. He was amazing with his younger sister, had always been good with the younger students during his time at Hogwarts, and had the confidence and surety to handle himself around teenagers - after dragons, what could an eighteen-year-old possibly offer him to fear? Not to mention he was smart, thought well on his feet, and was willing to work incredibly hard if a situation demanded it. Like a sign from the heavens, the Defence Against the Dark Arts position opened up at Hogwarts two months later, and Jack applied feverishly. Through a combination of reputation, the memory of the staff who'd taught him during his time at the school, his charm and openness when called to interview, Jack was finally awarded the job and has been there ever since. He couldn't be happier. He feels like he was born to teach, and within months of starting he was proving as much of an asset outside the classroom as in it, always able to pick out the unhappy child in a crowd and draw them off to one side to talk things through. He'd happily spend hours giving extra coaching to a child who needed it, and by some other kind of magic could handle a group of surly, snarky teenage boys as well as he could handle a crying first year. With the respect of the kids and such brilliant demonstration of his aptitude for the job, it didn't come as much of a surprise to most people when he was offered the post of Head of Gryffindor (despite his relative youth) and took to it with alacrity. He defended the students in his house with every fibre of his being and would do everything he could to mitigate punishments for them, making every effort to deal with trouble-makers himself. The first true catastrophe of Jack's life occurred when he was thirty and a couple of years into the Head of House gig - both of his parents were killed in a car crash. Devastated, Jack very suddenly found himself not only without parents but now the legal guardian of his sister Lissie, only fourteen at the time. Since he'd been absent most of Lissie's youth, the siblings were fairly awkward around each other at first - especially since Lissie was now a teenage girl growing through puberty, something that Jack was perfectly capable of dealing with in other girls but which became a hell of a lot harder when it was his own little sister in question. Somehow, however, they muddled through, and as both of them continue to grow and mature they find they are very fond of each other and get along well. Jack has always loved his sister, but there now exists a very separate protective dynamic that he's not sure he'd feel if he weren't solely responsible for her - in truth, having lost his parents he has a horror of losing any of the rest of his family. They feel like they've almost lost George since he married a woman none of the other Hewers approve of, so Jack is clinging tighter to Rupert and Charles and Lissie than he cares to admit. And tightest of all to Lissie, of course, since Charles and Rupert are grown young men now who have no need or desire for his protectiveness. TEN THINGS JACK LOVES
NINE THINGS JACK PRETENDS HE LOVES
EIGHT THINGS JACK HATES
SEVEN THINGS JACK WANTS
SIX THINGS JACK WILL ALWAYS LAUGH AT
FIVE FOODS JACK WOULD KILL FOR
FOUR WEIRD TALENTS JACK HAS
THREE THINGS JACK NEVER WANTS TO TALK ABOUT
TWO THINGS JACK COULD USE RIGHT NOW
ONE THING JACK WOULD DIE FOR
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