Arthur Hocking

Arthur Hocking
Goes by: Art
Gender: Male
Height: ?

Blood status: Muggleborn
Raised in: Muggle
Home: Unlisted in Residential Areas

Boggart: ?

Patronus: Unknown
Arthur is calm and rational. He's known to think things through before he jumps into them. He's more connected with the Muggle part of his life, and is firmly for a combination of the two worlds, even if he was raised in the Muggle world. He does his best to keep focused on the positive, and is a hopeful optimist even when it comes to the darkest of situations.

He's not very good at being defensive, or hiding things from anybody, as he feels an obligation to tell the truth even when it would be damaging. He wants to help everyone, and feels guilty if someone decides he is their enemy. He's not too good at studying, but finds himself particularly gifted in Potions and Herbology, the latter of the two subjects, he one day hopes to go into.

Arthur isn't very good at keeping his emotions in check. The one he is good at holding in is anger, but he means well by doing so, not wanting to offend anybody if he says something too rash, which he'll end up doing anyways if he's sad as well. Hurting others is one of his greatest fears, and if anybody said that he'd managed to hurt their feelings, he'd be tossing and turning all night for a few days afterwards until he figured out the best way to make it up to them. Arthur wouldn't really understand it if someone honestly didn't like him for reasons he couldn't fix.

Arthur tries to find new ways to bring Muggle thinking into the wizarding world, and usually refuses to write with a quill, considering he learned to write with a pen or a pencil, and thinks they're much better. He also wants to find a way to make a potion that will instantly allow you to become a better person, even if he knows such a thing is a little silly.
Arthur was adopted by Shawn and Bruce Barnes-Bennett when he was nine years old. Shawn and Bruce were good friends of Arthur's birth parents, Kelly and Henry, who died just before Arthur had turned nine in a mountain driving incident. Before he was adopted, Arthur was an only child, but Shawn and Bruce had two children already, a boy two years older than Arthur, and a girl four years younger. They were an ordinary Muggle family, excepting the fact that there were two dads. Arthur was thrilled to be around his Uncle Shawn and Uncle Bruce, instead of people who barely knew him.

Strange things had been happening to Arthur before he moved in with the Barnes-Bennett family, enough to be noticed by his parents. Arthur had made something float into the air, one of his mother's many salt-shakers. He used to end up high in the trees if he saw his bullies coming towards him. All of this was finally explained when a wizard came to explain to Arthur exactly what it was that was happening to him, a few days before he received his Hogwarts letter.

It was nice to know that you weren't a freak, that there were others like Arthur. It was less of a comfort to hear that some of them may be against him simply because he came from a Muggle background, but Arthur made a promise to himself to never be anything less than proud of his history. Well, he was still frustrated about his parents' deaths, but he was going to learn all he could. He went to Diagon Alley to get his supplies, and was off to Hogwarts.

Arthur found himself out of sorts in classes like Defense Against the Dark Arts and Transfiguration, and even tried out for the Quidditch team, never quite making it. There were always better players and he accepted that. Arthur later found that he was quite good at Herbology, and eventually spent most of his time outside while at Hogwarts.