Nico Spellman

Backstory

I was sorted into Gryffindor and I believe the Sorting hat choose that because of my rebellious yet passionate nature. The hat asked me which house I'd prefer to be in, on account of my mother being a Ravenclaw, however ultimately I chose Gryffindor. Mostly to defy her wishes, her judgemental wishes.

In my first year so far, my favourite class is Charms, I do excellently in the class and Professor Flitwick makes me demonstrate and tutor the other students on account of my great form as he puts it. Potions is by far my most hated subject, Snape hates me and the secrets he knows about my family just make me feel uncomfortable, does he know anything about the Cursed Vaults and my brother I wonder. I do particularly well in Potions, despite all of Snape's rudeness.

I'm a pure-blood, my father is an Auror, but my mother works in the Ministry of Magic, she's the head of the Department of Mysteries. My blood status, just makes me feel connected to these horrendous folk, the other pure-blood families on my street are all snobby, arrogant and rude people just like my mother who claims she is the sole provider of our family, disregarding my father's income as cheap change.

I wasn't born when Harry, the minister and their friends defeated Voldemort, but I do believe that I might have been able to help. Possibly. I hope, I'm not sure, my grandma (on my dad's side ofc) always says that I'm destined for greatness, but she said the same about my brother, and now he's missing.

My greatest strength is most definitely my compassion and my drive, I'm willing to go the extra mile for those I believe in, growing up with a harsh mother and a meek father and an older brother who always used to outshine me, made me resilient and even more determined to be the best and seeing all the horrors that my mom did to people (she used the cruciatus curse on uncooperative employees right in front of me, because they wouldn't hand over their research to the Ministry) this has made me keen on righting her wrongs and helping everyone I can.

My greatest weakness, is my own insecurities, my mother never cared to congratulate me on my skills, ever, always compared me to my ever-better brother. Sometimes, I do tend to doubt myself, but I'm working on it.

After I finish school I'd like to maybe become an Auror, or do something adventurous. The most magical aspect of magic is seeing good things happen with the wave of a wand, protecting your friends with a protego or silencing a bully with a flipendo. Magic must be used to help people, Forever and always.

If I'm being honest, I would really like to have a normal family, a grandmother who didn't believe in daily divinations, a mother who wasn't self-entitled, snobby and dark.

I have three pets: a snowy owl called Moone, a black spotted cat named Nala, my grandma gave her to me for my eighth birthday, and my pet mouse named Moby. I will say that Moone, is often quiet and calm, whilst Nala is always getting herself into trouble and stumbling and finding ways to get lost, Moby disappears for days, but my father put a summoning spell on him, so if he ever goes missing for too long, he can bring him back. I feel like he did that just cause he's worried about my brother Charli, who's missing.

I think the most interesting thing in my family is that well my mother works for the most secretive ministry department, as its head, and she rarely ever comes by for dinner, especially now that my brother is missing. He was the only person she treated like a normal human. The only one she ever told the Ministry's research to, she said "he's special in ways you would never understand Nico". She and Grandma hate each other, another reason she's never at the dinner table. Grandma believes she might be possesed. I don't think she's wrong sometimes.

As a field agent Auror, Dad has a lot of free time on his hands and only goes into work when necessary. All the excess time, isn't good for him I think, I see him staring off into space, sometimes muttering to himself and whenever I go to check on him he pulls out his wand on me like I'm a villain. He's getting worse with each day that Charli is missing. Grandma says that he needs to relax more. We may go on vacation to France this summer. I hope one day, life just starts making sense again.