TSM: Amycus Boot
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| Name: Amycus Boot | |
| House: Ravenclaw | |
| Year: 5th | |
| Wand: Eleven and one seventh inches. Beech. Griffin Feather core, quite pliant. | |
| Player: Arandil | |
| Pets: Blether the Long Eared Owl |
Amycus Boot
Name: Amycus Boot
Refresh: 2
Aspects:
High Concept: Ravenclaw 5th Year - The Weird One
Trouble: Then It All Went A Bit Strange
Aspect 3: That Unflappable Local Lad
Aspect 4: Ravenclaw's Reckless Seeker
Aspect 5: Savant Bizarre
Approaches
Good (+3) Quick
Fair (+2) Clever, Flashy
Average (+1) Forceful, Sneaky
Mediocre (+0) Cautious
Wand
Eleven and one seventh inches. Beech. Griffin Feather core, quite pliant.
Stunt:
Beech wands perform very weakly for the narrow-minded and intolerant. When properly matched, the beech wand is capable of a subtlety and artistry rarely seen in any other wood.
Familiar
A Long Eared Owl named Blether, who's a bit chattier than other birds.
Stunt:
Stunts:
Trick Flying Because I'm Ravenclaw's Reckless Seeker, I get a +2 to Flashily Create an Advantage while flying in a risky way.
Background
Amycus Boot is the eldest child of Dominic Lyall Boot, a former Seeker himself, and Mairead Morganach, a local Scottish Witch. His parents met at school and settled down near Mairead's family, not far from Hogsmead village and Hogwarts school itself. Amycus is descended from Webster Boot, as his first cousin Terry. He has only taken the Hogwarts Express once, in the summer before his first year after after he and his parents spent their summer holiday with Terry's family in London. Amycus has walked with his family to the train station in Hogsmead since then.
Having grown up near Hogsmead, Amycus knows the village and locals very well, and they know him. His family is pure blood, descended from old families, but neither poor nor wealthy. His parents are both well known academics on ancient magical anthropology and paleology, with Amycus' mother having a reputation of being something of a quack in certain circles. She also has many cats. Their house had a tendency to sprout chicken legs and move about occasionally after getting tired of the view.
The Morganach family has a reputation for eccentricity, which many say has clearly manifested in Amycus. Most of the locals are accostomed to that sort of thing as the family has lived near these parts for quite a few generations, so some chuckle, some scour, and many pay not much mind at all, depending upon their personal disposition or view of the Morganach family. A few of Amycus' ancestors (and Terry's) were Hogwarts staff and their portraits yet hang on the walls of Hogwarts. The most recent being a Ravenclaw Charms professor in the 1940s (a great uncle, once removed).
Amycus joined Dumbledore's army in 1995, during his second year at Hogwarts, at the urging of his cousin Terry. He was caught and reprimanded along with the rest of the DA members, and remained out of trouble until the ousting of Umbridge and restoration of Dumbledore.
His third year was more or less an 'ordinary' school year up until Dumbledor's death. He didn't have the coin with him when the Death Eaters came, so he wasn't in the battle in the tower, but he kept the coin upon him from then on.
In his fourth year, last year, he rejoined DA when the call went out again. He participated in escalating rebellions with other DA students, conspiring with Luna, Terry, and Michael Corner most frequently due to opportunity, and ended up hiding in the Room of Requirement for the last few weeks proceeding the battle with Voldemort. During the battle, he spent a lot of time fighting alongside Terry Boot at the beginning, but was separated and at one point trapped in Ravenclaw tower.
