Laurent Ezekiel Griffith

[Laurent Griffith]

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Name: Laurent Ezekiel Griffith

Age and Year: Fifteen, Fifth Year

Birthday: January 18th

Gender: Male

House and/or Occupation: Gryffindor

Residence: Yorkshire, England

Pet: Luana, a half-tabby cat, half Kneazle feline, three years old.

Appearance: Five feet, eight inches. Thin build and two "Muggle" piercings - one in his left brow, the other in his right ear. Medium white-blonde hair, pale green eyes - lashes and brows are also light-colored. Shabbier wardrobe, but always neatly put together.

Personality: Laurent, or Lark, was always a quiet, imaginative child and that has carried on through the years. While conversation tends to flow without much participation on his part, his reservation is a result of living with four older sisters. Gryffindors are atypically loud-mouthed, but the only time Lark raises his voice is to defend others. His friends can rely on him to support them, to keep their secrets and lend them a shoulder in their time of need. His sense of pride is often lost beneath a mellow composure. Daydreaming is one of his favorite activities to lessen the weight of responsibility and expectations he is constantly aware of. Walking the straight and narrow is the only path Lark knows; his sense of wrong from right is as sharp as his mind. If he was asked, Laurent would say that the Sorting Hat had considered placing him in Ravenclaw. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why that was - his grades speak volumes when he fails to.

History: His father, Morgan, an ex-Quidditch player for "The Prides", is nowadays an Auror with a proficiency in Occulemency. Speaking of which, his family also consists of his mother, Gretchen, a Metamorphmagus whom works for the Ministry, his four older sisters [ 18, 21, 24 and 25] and his Aunt Bridget Waffling. Needless to say, his father was overjoyed when he was born. As Morgan's first and only son, Lark knew he had to live up to the male family legacy. He was destined to become a Quidditch player. Or work witty wonders as a writer. Or align his aspirations as an astounding Auror. Then again, there was always the fallback legacy of becoming a marvelously multifaceted Ministry member. Laurent has no idea what he will actually become in the end, but he likes how varied his family is.

Laurent grew up in Yorkshire in a well-to-do neighborhood of respectable witches and wizards. The pureblood population was high, but his family does not reside in a gated manor. His father receives a reasonable income as an Auror and each of his sisters have obtained reputable jobs after graduating. Lark received his first broom at the age of three, and crashed it into a giant tree in the front yard two weeks later. Of course it was an accident, of many to come, so he was given a new one after some lessons from his father. For whatever reason, his initial childhood clumsiness brought him to the most precarious of places, such as the occasion he was found chasing a pixie on the second story roof. One time he walked across a bridge, but on the wrong side of the handrails - his mother, Ruth, swears she got her first gray hair that day. By the age of eleven, Lark had already broken an arm and a wrist, gone through six different brooms and figured out that he'd inherited his mother's talent: Metamorphamagus.

As for school, Laurent had always wanted to be in Gryffindor. During the Sorting Hat ceremony, he experienced one of the hat's strange whims. Everyone says, to this day, that Lark had fallen asleep up on the stool, when, in fact, the Hat was simply talking to him without end. In his second year, Lark tried out for the Quidditch team - his size alone made him suitable for the role of Seeker [if available]. If that weren't enough, he received an owl just before the beginning of his fifth year: he'd made prefect, like his second oldest sister [Jolene] before him.

Inventory: His wand: flexible, if resilient. Cherry wood, 10 and 1/4 inches long. Its core consists of a dragon's heartstring.

Family:

Parents:
Father - Morgan [62], Auror/ ex-Quidditch Player
Mother - Ruth [58], Ministry Witch
Sisters:

• Kherrington [25], Ministry Witch
  
• Jolene [24], Auror
  
• Isabelle [21], ??
  
• Florence [18], studying abroad

Other:
Uncle Othello [67], ??, and Aunt Bridget Waffling [??], writer.