An active, character-driven Hogwarts experience set in the early 2000s. Unique items, plots, and features. Non-canon; this isn't Harry Potter's story, it's ours.
Blood status: Halfblood Raised in: Wizarding Home: Unlisted in Residential Areas
Boggart: ?
Patronus: Unknown
Personality
It takes only one glance to tell that Luckett Langford is an extrovert, but not the happy social butterfly kind. His athletic swagger is all arrogance, and the way his eyes take in a crowd is equal parts interested and confrontational. Sure, he cheerfully and freely chats up strangers, but there's always the sense that, underneath his affable surface, Lucky is expecting a fight. Even when he's smiling and joking around, he never seems to fully relax.
There's a competitive edge in nearly all his interactions with others. In Lucky's world, he's on top of the pecking order: agree with him and you'll be fine, but challenge him and get on his bad side. He can be a bully - force is the first thing he resorts to when he feels confronted or insecure, and he often throws his weight around by needlessly picking on people.
He's a tyrannical person to deal with, but he does respect people more when they stand up to him. Just don't expect Lucky to act pleasant about it. He always seems sure that his way is the best way, and he isn't above breaking rules or screwing someone over to get ahead.
Luckett is a blunt hammer. Crass, unsubtle, and brutish; he seems to relish having people view him as nothing more than an asshole and a bully.
For someone so arrogant about his accomplishments, Lucky isn't bothered when people have low expectations of him. His parents forced him to spend his whole life fighting to prove that he was better than everyone else, in everything else, and he wants so badly to reject them... but he doesn't know how. Lucky's done his damnedest to spoil being the perfect student and the perfect trophy son, but God, he still needs so badly to be the best. He doesn't know how the hell to act when he's not fighting.
So Quidditch is his outlet; the one thing he loves in this world more than his own family. Quidditch is where Lucky's hyper-competitive, make-everyone-bleed personality is on full display. Of course he still wants to win above all else, but he's learned to care about his teammates' successes just as much as his own. He's starting to recognize that some things might be just as important as the trophy at the end: teamwork, knowing you played your best, having someone to share the highs and lows with.
It's a tough lesson to internalize. Lucky's always been taught that nothing matters if you have nothing concrete to show for it.
Talents
Athletics | Duelling | Flying
Backstory
The only time in his life Lucky let someone else overtake him was when he was born a full thirteen minutes after his twin sister. Lorelei and Luckett were the only children of Mariela and Aslan. Mariela was well-liked and influential in the upper echelons of the wizarding community, and Aslan was an ambitious halfblood who worked his way up the ranks and married into pureblood society. As a self-proclaimed "self-made man," Aslan was adamant that his kids wouldn't grow up spoiled by being surrounded by so much wealth and privilege.
And so the second they developed distinctive personalities, Lucky and Lolo were always compared: who could recite their ABC's first, who could run faster, who could stay quieter when Mommy had a migraine, with the "winner" rewarded with treats or privileges.
By the time the children entered school (only the best, most prestigious wizard day school, of course), Lucky and Lolo were fighting to outdo each other in order to win their parents' attention. Whoever received a higher score on a quiz received money. Whoever got less points during a scrimmage had to do more chores. Whoever was the favorite that year got more Christmas presents.
At prepatory school, Lucky had quickly learned that the way to be number one was to intimidate anyone who might try to knock him from the top. It didn't hurt either that his father was known as one of the most powerful wizards, and every Langford dinner was a forced recitation of the twins' achievements and failures that day, with Mariela and Aslan always ready to send a strongly-worded owl to Lucky and Lolo's teachers to "straighten things out."
Lucky resented his parents' control over his life, and became increasingly likely to act out against them. His rebellions were always rewarded with swift and harsh punishment, but nothing made an impact on him until his parents threatened to disallow him from attending a boarding school.
A high-caliber magical education had always been Lucky and Lolo's goal: a prestigious, exclusive academy up to their parents' stringent standards, but also a boarding school that would take them away from home almost ten months out of the year. Lucky had received his letter to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, while Lolo received hers to attend Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. There were some reservations about leaving one another behind, but both children craved freedom, and inevitably went their separate ways.