Mathias Milne

Backstory

In West Philadelphia born and raised on the playgr-

Okay, maybe not.

My name is Mathias Milne, but you can call me Mat, I guess. Mat kind of like my boy MattyBRaps, an absolute legend. Okay, again, maybe not but whatever. I was born in South Carolina but was raised in Cardiff, Wales after my parents got a divorce and my mum got a job opportunity there. She didn't think twice about moving, my mum, she just wanted to get as far away from my dad as possible. We did get rather far away, but not as far away as I think she wanted to. My dad lives in Maine now from what I've heard which isn't as far away from Wales as South Carolina was.

Oh well.

I was born to a wizard and a muggle, making me a half-blood. My mum had been the wizard in the family and once we had moved to Wales she had begun using magic more often around me. I cannot remember a life without my mother making tea instantly with a tap of the wand or my mum bringing over her friends for a cheeky chat as she did the laundry in .8 seconds. She didn't think I had inherited her magic because I only began showing signs of it on my tenth birthday, rather late for us Milne's, as she would say.

When the letter arrived from Hogwarts, mum was so pleased. You should have seen it! It arrived in the post the week before my eleventh birthday and immediately she began making plans. She had taken me and all my eleven year old glory to Diagon Alley the muggle way (a rather long and boring trip, really) and had bought me everything her eye landed on. This left my mum broke, naturally. So when I arrived at Hogwarts I rarely got any letters from her due to her working all the time. I wasn't against it, though. I supported my mum.

Speaking of Hogwarts, I was one of those children that took long to decide where to place. The Sorting Hat had been somewhere between Gryffindor and Slytherin when it came across the memory of me snapping my leg in half when I was eight and hobbling on about with my chubby frame to beat up some kid who had insulted some muggle girl. I was placed into Gryffindor, much to my Gryffindor mother's pleasure.

And now I'm here, a sixth year who is always tired and always staying up way too late listening to music and being emo. My oh my how the time has gone.


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HOUSE: GRYFFINDOR
ILVERMORNY HOUSE: THUNDERBIRD
PATRONUS: DAPPLE GREY MARE
WAND: LAUREL WOOD WITH A DRAGON HEARTSTRING CORE, 11 ¾" AND PLIANT FLEXIBILITY
FACECLAIM: AWSTEN KNIGHT