Age: 11
Student Grade: 1st Year
House: Ravenclaw
Height: 4'9"
Appearance: In many ways, young Jor'havoc resembles no one so much as Severus Snape, albeit obviously far younger. It would be resemblance enough to be easily noticed, though there doesn't seem to be any other connection between the two.
Jor'havoc's hair is chin-length, matte black and limp. While not especially greasy, it has the look of being due to it's off-black hue. Likewise, it is rarely well-kept, and must be described as perpetually existing in a disarrayed state.
The young wizard is possessed of exceedingly sharp deep blue eyes that twinkle and dance when he's cheerful. When he's angry, he ceases blinking and tends to stare (as if looks could kill) at the object of his ire.
Behavior: It is fairly uncommon for the young wizard to be caught breaking any rules, and when he is caught doing so, it's generally due to his being new at Hogwarts and not knowing all of their intricacies quite yet.
Never-the-less, he's never caught twice, and would very much give the impression that he's one who'll try to stick to the rules...though not for love of or even respect for the rules themselves, they being a subject he couldn't really care less about. To the contrary, he tries to stick to the rules only because it's likely to net him less hassle and unwanted attention.
In day to day affairs, he is very noticeably a recalcitrant boy that keeps almost entirely to himself. He clearly tries to be polite when speaking with others, but he's seldom seen lurking around with friends, and it might be assumed by many that he simply doesn't have any to lurk around with.
Just the same, he's industrious, and any other first-year students attending classes with him would come to find that he's the spitting icon of "Class Jerk" insofar as that he's just excessively educated for a mere child and routinely blows the 'class curve', where and as such exists.
It can't be said that he tries to be any teachers' pet, however. In some classes, he's usually too busy reading to seem like he's paying attention to what a professor is talking about (the exceptions are Potions, Defense against the Dark Arts and Charms class, all three of which seem to be his favorites). A number of professors would have, by now, called him on this only to find that he was paying attention enough to recite back to them the past few minutes worth of their lecturing, complete with a rather well thought-out answer if they were asking a question of him.
He doesn't eat much, and only comes down to the great hall for meals every other day or so. It's plainly observable that he usually winds up packing food away in his satchel of more portable varieties (breadsticks in particular seem to be his main staple). Moreover, he seems to revile the eating of meat for whatever reason; a subject he's actually rather vociferous on from time to time, when he bothers to attend meals.
All in all, he's plainly identifiable as a physically deficient child who harbors no love or illusion thereof for physical sports, activities or exertion in general. While it might be somewhat uncommon, he's quite dispassionate about the idea of quidditch (and certainly doesn't play it) and has little use for alternative wizard sports.
He's also been heard, on a number of occasions, to describe his initial days at Hogwarts to feeling like "Having been kicked out of my home and tossed not merely into the wilderness, but a wilderness that's been occupied by escapees from Saint Mungo's mentally disturbed and psychotically violent wards."
Vaguely polite, generally distant and thoroughly geeky distinguish him as catch-phrases quite nicely, though what coming years will have in store for him, and what affects they may have on his personality, remains to be seen.
Relationships with Professors
Professor Binns; Nothing remarkable to note here- if Binns values diligence and studious scholarship, he'd find Jor'havoc to be extremely favorable in history classes, as well as well-read and quite apt at learning.
Professor Flitwick: The diminutive Charms professor would find that Jor'havoc is a ravenous student who, if anything, is -too- eager to learn more about everything Flitwick could teach him. Jor has absolutely no compunction against asking questions about things that aren't covered in first year material, for example, as well as prodding for demonstrations, lessons, etcetera.
Whether Flitwick finds this sort of hyper-eager scholarship remarkable, annoying, distressing or otherwise, Jor doesn't yet know.
Professor Hagrid: Jor, while an extremely apt student in regards to being well-read on the subjects of magical creatures, clearly doesn't care much for Hagrid's "hands-on" approach to caring for them. Similarly, it is quite likely that Hagrid would find Jor to be a very cautious student in the hands-on department and clearly much favoring book-learning to playing with blast-ended skrewts.
It would be Jor's belief that Hagrid is annoying and simplistic, though effective enough, even if hands-on isn't Jor's favored method of learning about such critters.
Professor Hooch: Jor hates flying. He's not afraid of heights; he doesn't care about heights one way or any other. Rather, he just despises having to do it, and this might be the only class he gets barely passing marks in, as he not merely doesn't like it, he's not altogether good at it either.
He thinks Hooch is bossy and the whole class is as close to useless as useless gets. Likely, Hooch doesn't think altogether fondly of Jor either, hers being a class he demonstrates no liking for, even if he submits to doing his assignments (albeit sullenly) therein.
Gilderoy Lockhart? : If this is the DADA professor, Jor despises him and would routinely make it clear (not in words, but in cold, detached actions...or lack thereof) in that he thinks Lockhart is a tomfooled jester.
The Dark Arts are identifiably one of Jor's most beloved subjects, and as Jor has read all of Lockhart's books (and heard his parents' opinions on them), he mostly echoes his parents' sentiments; Lockhart is a fool.
If any -actual- assignments ever occurred in a class run by Lockhart, Jor would tirelessly and obsessively meet and seek to exceed by as wide of margins as he could manage all expectations.
Professor Lupin: If Lupin is the DADA professor, Jor is still extremely captivated by the subject, perhaps to degrees that would distress the professor, as it would be plain that Jor is not only interested in defense against the dark arts, but the dark arts themselves.
In Lupin's class, Jor would unhesitatingly and (perhaps to the point of having to be told to belay his questions until after class) routinely ask questions about everything from specific curses (even the Unforgivables) as well as all manner of hexes, many of which he identifies by name and has apparently, by the vividness of his descriptions and the details of his questions, seen some of before.
Despite his eagerness, Jor's obsessive hunger for knowledge in DADA class would rather equally plainly identify itself as quite academic, rare and, ergo, suspicious as that might seem.
Unless Lupin is (for some reason) very willing to meet Jor's constant demands for more knowledge, it is likely that Jor will not think about him much at all, and will thus remain polite, mostly distant and excessively apt in his every assignment's completion.
Professor McGonogall: Jor does well in transfigurations, and as with most all of his classes, settles for absolutely nothing less than excellence and perfection from himself therein, though transfigurations really aren't his favorite sorts of magics.
The only complaint McGonogall could likely have about him is that he's routinely late, though no more or less so than any other first years who're still finding their way around. As this has already begun to be less of a problem than before, there would be no cause to suspect that it won't vanish entirely by second year.
Jor, in return, doesn't think much either way about McGonogall, though he privately respects her a good deal, if only because she's strict but fair, stern but ever-honest and rigorously demanding of students, all of which he appreciates as traits to be admired.
Mad-Eye Moody? If Moody is teaching anything, or even just lurking around (as he can clearly be found in the Staff Office), Jor would both have heard of him and consider him to be as much of a hero as a boy can have.
Professor Pince: It is likely that Madam Pince would have, of Jor, only one complaint; he keeps wanting to get into and read the Restricted Section's books. While this may be quite a common complaint, his behavior in the library is otherwise exemplary, and Jor is clearly a student that reads everything he can get his hands on.
Moreover, his meticulous care of books may be something only a librarian could admire, and the library is where Jor can most often be found as a direct result of his love for both books and their contents.
Despite likely having to be reprimanded daily on not being allowed into the restricted section, it is this player's imagining that if Pince likes any students at all, Jor might be one to find his way onto that short list...at least eventually.
Professor Snape: Jor excels in potions class, is respectful of the professor, only needs to be given directions once and, further, demonstrates a marked affinity for understanding the 'unspoken principles' that only practice at potionmaking can grant. In short, Jor is a natural who knows his place in the class.
If Jor were ever presented with Snape's famous opening-line -
"I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death -- if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach." - he would thereafter say nothing, but simply go on to prove that he could learn how to bottle fame, brew glory and even stopper death if merely taught how.
Jor would have an eminent respect for Snape's expertise, knowledge and apparent skill, and wouldn't care a bit that Snape often targets and humiliates the foolish, the ignorant or the disinterested. Potions being one of Jor's favorite classes, he gets to pour all of his scholarship and loving diligence into bottles for an hour or so every day, and whatever anyone else thinks about it (or gets as their come-uppance from the stand-offish professor), he just flat isn't concerned with.
As a result, it's quite possible that Snape finds him to be an adequate student, though it's not this player's imagining that Snape has any genuinely favorable opinions that're ever expressed of any student. If anything, I imagine that Snape only pushes Jor all the harder to test his limits and knowledge...or just ignores him, as he does his classwork well and needs no attention.
Professor Sprout: Again, not one of Jor's favorite classes, but certainly one he does quite well in, as his book-knowledge of magical plants and their peculiarities was already pretty firmly solid as soon as he walked through the door. He's seemed to have acquired a certain fondness for and appreciation for the nuances of herbology since starting at Hogwarts, however, and is, as such, becoming an increasingly vocal, questioning, prodding voice in Sprout's class; all things the herbology professor is surely glad for.
Whether it will become one of Jor's favorite classes in time or not remains to be seen, but his interest has certainly been piqued, and unlike his opinion of Hagrid's class, his opinion of Sprout's is that the hands-on work is actually supplementary and, ergo, quite justified in regard to the subject material.
Professor Vector: While first-years do not actually have Arithmancy as a class, Jor has (in his most demonstrable rule-breaking to date) actually snuck into her class and would quite probably have been identified found (eventually) to be hiding in the closet, taking lecture notes.
The humor and irony of having to deal with a student that's snuck -into- a class nonwithstanding, it may indicate that Jor is fascinated by arithmancy and it may become one of his favorite subjects...when he's allowed to take the classes for it, anyway.
Professor Trelawney: Jor has a certain fondness for divinations, but Trelawney, in his opinion, makes a wretched mockery out of the very art of it. He's quite sulky in her classes, and though he reads everything he can on the subject, the assignments are always things he finds to be, in a word, 'Rubbish'. The only times he enjoys himself in Trelawney's divinations classes are when he gets to make predictions about things and people.
In such assignments, he waxes ridiculously flowery and absurd, sometimes going so far as to predict (in one example that he probably had to read aloud, to his chagrin) that Professor Dumbledore would grow flowers out of his ears, the school would fly to the moon and all of his classmates would die horrible deaths in screaming, writhing agony...twice daily.
In short, he's a white-collar smart-ass in her joke of a Divinations class, and to his further chagrin, this might just endear Trelawney to him, as he's gone the route of using British wit against her by humoring her assignments to eye-rolling degrees.
Firenze? If the centaur is also teaching divinations, Jor would actually take a liking to it, and would apply himself with studious, academic diligence to learning both about the subject matter and the underlying, necessary principle to account for in Firenze's rendering of it; the centaur perspective of it. In Firenze's classes (if he has them, as such) he would seek to understand the latter bit as much as the actual class material.
Professor Sinistra: Yet another class that isn't one of Jor's favorites, but he dedicates himself to excellence in never-the-less. There's not much to say about him in this one; he does his classwork with all the diligence-towards-perfection as that he can muster and leaves it at that.
Whatever Sinistra thinks of him as a result is beyond him, nor is he overly concerned with worrying it.
Albus Dumbledore: Being as famous as Albus is would guarantee that Jor would know all about him (in-so-far as written documents can educate one on the man). Jor would consider Albus' achievements and accomplishments to be his own benchmark in life; a benchmark he not only aspires to meet, but to exceed.
Ambitions: While Jor may have the same ambition as a good many wizards; to be the greatest wizard to have ever walked the face of the world; his idea of greatness lies in academic acumen as well as demonstrated ability.
He seeks, thereby, to know everything, to understand as much about everything he knows as possible and to deny himself no opportunity to learn yet more. Even though he's as-yet only a child, he already demonstrates a frightfuly bottomless, insatiable mind that neither relents nor gives ground in it's demanding answers of all that which garner his interest.
It is, perhaps, a marvel that he didn't wind up in Slytherin...at least, until one grasps that Jor well and truly values the knowledge (and understanding thereof) than what it can grant in terms of power.
In that regard, he is well and truly one of the few wizards with no ulterior motive to his learning; his every ambition is precisely that- to learn and learn and learn until all life leaves him in (hopefully) wizened old dotage.
Family:
Jor is the only child of Anastacia Belletreux and Marcus Kellestrien, both alumni of Hogwarts and pureblood wizards themselves.
His mother wound up attending Hogwarts when her mother (Jor's grandmother) left her father in France and moved to England. Her two sisters, Angelique and Staccara, are both dark wizards of not-quite-famous ability, though Anastacia both found herself (upon arrival at Hogwarts) sorted into Slytherin and quite suited to it.
Furthermore, Anastacia wound up being a prefect of Slytherin for a time, and she's raised Jor with the same strict, obsessively diligent standard she herself has always kept.
His father, on the other hand, is a Ravenclaw alumni, and was also a prefect in his time. He has two sisters back in France, though one of them teaches at Beauxbatons (his elder sister), while his younger sister is a doldrum author with no real ambitions except to be pretty at wizarding balls (which, at least, she manages well enough).
The Kellestrien and Belletreux bloodlines would both be traceable to French pureblood lines, with Belletreux being far the older and one of the more unbroken lines in French history, rivaling some of the most ancient lines anywhere.
The Kellestrien line would be relatively newer, though more the known in public circles that keep a weather eye on such things as pureblood lineage, if only due to the Kellestriens being avid, tireless and somewhat well-published researchers into often dubious fields.
Marcus himself is a researcher who avidly and quite unapologetically digs deep into the mytsteries of life, life creation and ancient alchemy.
Anastacia, on the other hand, doesn't do anything by way of worldly 'work', and she doesn't really have to. She researches with her husband when it suits her (as it rather often enough does), but she prefers to stay well out of the articles that occasionally pop up about her husband's research in the Daily Prophet.
It would be plainly known that a dark wizard death eater named Anton Belletreux was killed some years back, when the Dark Lord first arose...but what connection there may be to Jor's family and Anton Belletreux is neither something that's public knowledge nor what Jor is prone to speaking of, whenever he speaks of such things.
**More to come as the years at Hogwarts progress! Expect editing as necessity, events and occasions warrant.**
