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[hider=Michael Adams][B]Name:[/B] Michael Adams
[B]Gender:[/B] Male
[B]Date of Birth:[/B] 6/7/96
[B]Blood Status:[/B] Half-blood
[B]House or School:[/B] Hufflepuff

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Michael is quite average-looking. He is average-size, being both just a little bit stockier than normal and entirely unremarkable in height. His slightly untameable hair is a nothing-y sort of brown colour, and his watery eyes a bluey grey. He tends to just wear muggle clothes in neutral colours.

[b]Personality:[/b] Michael is a bit of a weird one. He is, in many ways, a typical Hufflepuff. He works hard and generally tries to be a decent person. He is gutsy without being aggressive and offers a shoulder to cry on where it is necessary – essentially great support to have on your side. However, he is not the strongest person ever; while he may, if pushed to it, try to challenge somebody's behaviour, he doesn't really have the confidence to [i]force[/i] them to do anything, and certainly not the physical or magical ability. He is often a bluffer, and calling him on it will generally expose him as one. As a prefect, he always had a higher authority to go to and isn't used to having to sort out issues by himself.

He is frequently seen to be displaying what appears to be great displays of intelligence, and was frequently asked at school why he had not been sorted to Ravenclaw. The answer is that he is no more intelligent than the standard person and learns at quite a slow rate; however, he puts time and effort into what interests him, and he naturally works incredibly methodically and efficiently, ensuring he always understands the basics, then working through the complexities. Since he generally comes across as a genius, it can sometimes be frustrating to see how tediously and slowly he will pick a subject apart before proceeding. 

Essentially, he is a cautious being, and academia is no different; he will not commit to any one school of thinking, and is in fact working on his own personal 'project' as an understanding of magic. This he calls Holistic Magical Theory, and it essentially boils down to the notion that magic is a universal force, and there is no distinct difference between schools of magic, beyond the pigeon-holes by which they have been labelled. Perceiving magic this way, he believes, enables it to be understood at a higher level, and so analysed more effectively. In particular he believes that the theory will enable the reverse-engineering of most spells, and so to find ways of breaking current boundaries of magic (resurrection, undoing the dark arts, conjuring food, etc). This research does require and involve the understanding of the dark arts, which he has been studying secretly since his sixth year.

While he spends most of his time being serious and dedicated to his studies, even outside the classroom and the context of exams, he is ironically quite strict about making sure he has some goalless downtime, which he will intentionally spend smoking like a chimney and doing absolutely nothing else.

[B]Strengths[/B]
[indent]Hard-working
Creative
Principled
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[B]Weaknesses[/B]
[indent]Dishonest
Weak-willed
Naïve
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[B]Goals[/B]
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Become an unspeakable
Develop 'holistic magical theory'[/indent]
[B]Hobbies[/B]
[indent]Experimenting with magic
Sport, including Quidditch
Relaxing[/indent]

[b]History:[/b] Michael was born to a muggle-born witch and a muggle father, making him as slimly a half-blood as is possible to be. His mother, however, never passed any OWLs: she had the misfortune of being to sit them during Snape's tenure as Headmaster of Hogwarts. Instead of going into magical hiding, she, quite creatively, had a memory charm used on [i]herself[/i] to simply reintegrate into the muggle community as the ultimate deep cover. As a muggle again, she met Samuel Adams, a muggle surgeon, with whom she would later get married and give birth to Michael. The notion that she was herself a witch only came when Michael's Hogwarts letter began to reemerge her deleted memories.
Michael attended Hogwarts and quickly learned about the magical world from his mother (while his father continued hyperventilating) but, of course, the information he received both overwhelmed him, and was several years out-of-date. To all intents and purposes, Michael considers himself basically another muggle-born. While at school, he worked hard as any good Hufflepuff does and got himself reasonably noticed as a all-round decent student among the teachers, and, when he hit the 5th year, he was appointed prefect. Around this time, he became more and more interested in the exact nature of magic and began his personal studies into magic itself. When, following his NEWTs (in Transfiguration, Arithmancy, Charms, Potions and Ancient Runes), he had the opportunity to experience the wide and varied types of magic from all over the world, he leapt at the chance.

[B]Patronus:[/B] Can't quite muster one. A whispy bit of something is the best he can do.
[B]Worst fear:[/b] Ignorance
[B]Boggart:[/B] Himself, glassy-eyed and useless
[B]Amortentia:[/B] Honey, that smell when you blow out a candle, and disinfectant

[b]Credentials:[/b]
[list][*]Prefect/Head Boy/Girl (1)[/*][*]Astronomy (1)[/*][*]Charms (2)[/*][*]Defence Against the Dark Arts (1)[/*][*]Herbology (1)[/*][*]Ancient Runes (2)[/*][*]History of Magic (1)[/*][*]Potions (2)[/*][*]Transfiguration (2)[/*][*]Arithmancy (2)[/*][*]Apparition (1)[/*][*]Quidditch (1)[/*][*]Healing (2)[/*][*]Dark Arts (1)[/*][/list]

[indent]Michael's slow precision really comes out in his magic. His wandwork is flawless and almost always achieves the required result. The thing is that he [i]will[/i] be tediously slow in order to achieve his high level of precision, and will rarely attempt spells he does not know well in any practical scenario. It's with that in mind that he is excellent at theoretical magic, particularly Transfiguration, Potions and Arithmancy, but, while he is, in theory, a strong duellist, any competent duellist will simply be faster than him. He also has a highly-advanced knowledge of healing, especially for his age, due to some guidance from the resident healer at Hogwarts and lots of self-study. Self-study has also given him the basics of theoretical and practical dark arts, something he doesn't exactly shout about.
He is a very average but competent Chaser, but only really tried out to give the captain more people to choose amongst, never realising he might get chosen. He considers himself the weak link though, and assumes his positive attitude and general supportiveness to be what he really brings to the table.[/indent]

[b]Wand:[/b]
[indent][B]Length:[/B] 12”
[B]Wood:[/B] Willow
[B]Core:[/B] Unicorn Tail Hair
[B]Flexibility:[/b] Flexible[/indent]

[b]Inventory:[/b]
[list][*]Muggle stationary[/*][*]Muggle first-aid kit[/*][*]Undetectably-extended tent[/*][*]Textbooks (lots of)[/*][/list][/hider]