arcus orion lysander

Backstory

i was born on the 3rd of december, 1980, in london, england. i’m a halfblood: my father was a pureblood wizard from a very powerful family, and was distantly related to the malfoy and black family. he was part of the original order of the phoenix and a very powerful auror. my mother, on the other hand, was a muggle woman who ran a bookshop slash cafe in the south of london. my parents got married in secret, because my father’s family didn’t approve of my mother, and after a year and a half my older brother, perseus, was born. and then, two years after, i followed.
when i was three and my brother five, our mother got sick and died of some mysterious disease. our father was absolutely devastated, but tried hard not to show it. about a year later, however, two death eaters murdered him and hurt perseus badly, and within a month we moved to france to live with our grandmother.
we lived with her for a couple of years, and were relatively okay. perseus didn’t talk much at all and took months to recover both physically and mentally, but eventually got better. then he enrolled in beauxbatons, and i expected to do the same. except i didn’t, because i was unexpectedly sent to live with my aunt, beatrice, in england, so i could attend hogwarts.
my aunt lived with her girlfriend in a cottage near the small muggle town of ottery, and there i found myself quite happy. i adored how peaceful it was. we had neighbors i liked, for once: the weasleys,a family of nine with seven children, six boys and a girl, and the lovegoods, a rather eccentric man who lived in a sort of tower with his daughter. even though i talked to both families a few times i never really befriended the kids until hogwarts.
when i arrived at the school, i was sorted into hufflepuff, much to beatrice’s delight. she had also been a hufflepuff, when in school. i didn’t make that many friends in my own house, but instead made quite a few in gryffindor, including the three youngest weasley boys and neville longbottom, who eventually became my best friend at hogwarts. in my second year i also became very close friends with luna lovegood, who just seemed to get me.
my scholastic career was nothing short of unremarkable, at least for the wizarding world. i was an average student who had nothing too special except for a love for magizoology and magical creatures.
in my fourth year, i finally realized i liked neville as more than a friend and worked up the courage to ask him to the yule ball, and he somehow agreed. apparently he’d liked me since we first met in not ideal circumstances in our first year.