Ezra Ashworth

Ezra Ashworth
Gender: Male
Height: Average

Blood status: Halfblood
Raised in: Wizarding
Home: Puddles Way -- LilyGrove

Boggart: ?

Patronus: Unknown
Ezra is an excitable being, eager to learn about the world around him. He has a natural curiosity about everything and often can't resist the urge to explore. Whether that means climbing a tree or tossing a different ingredient into a potion 'just to see what would happen', does not matter to him. More often than not he is too curious for his own good and once he has an idea in his head, good luck stopping him (the trick is to offer him a distraction).

He enjoys school and getting to learn new things, but he does have an easier time of it if it's something that has attracted his attention first. He really likes potions, which is unfortunate for the professor seeing as he prefers the more creative side and likes to learn by doing. He likes to try to figure out for himself why doing so-and-so made it turn green but doing this-thing in the middle made it go boom. He is a hazard but he still loves the class.

Sometimes he starts and then forgets about projects midway, often because he has been distracted by something better, be it people or another fun idea to explore. He may have left a project rotting in his sock draw when he left for Hogwarts for exactly that reason.

Ezra is very friendly and normally enjoys meeting new people, who he will then go on to count as his friends if they talk to him just once. He'll be very sad if that then turns out to be a lie. Stranger-danger is not something that he believes can apply if no one is a stranger, so he thinks that's a good thing to aim for.

He loves his family with all of his heart and he is not afraid to tell people that, they are some of his favourite people in the world! But he finds it much easier to love the ones that he knows - he has never quite grasped the need for his parents the same way others might have and his love for the uncle that he does not remember is more because people he loves love him. When he was younger his older siblings were very much the heroes in his mind, something that if he's truthful is still a fact after he's hit Hogwarts age.
Ezra was the last Ashworth child born, still only a tiny baby when his mother left. He knows vaguely that the first two years of his life he was raised alongside just his older sister by his dad, Conrad, but he has no memories of that time and the thought that he was not always a part of the blended Ashworth house is an abstract one to him. To him, it's like he's always shared a room with his oldest cousin and that the only adult in the house was his Aunt Aubrey.

His childhood could be called odd, but to him it's normal for the adult to be unreliable in her behaviour or shut herself away for hours at a time. It's normal for him to think of his oldest cousin-siblings as the point of stability and comfort, to run to them when he hurt himself because he knew that they would be there. It's only really after he started Hogwarts and constantly spent time with others that he figured out that their home life was not the average.

But that was after he reached Hogwarts, first he had to live through his childhood and the changes that came as one after the other his older siblings left him behind.

The changes were not too noticeable at first, him being too young to take notice of any tension that rose over the first year. All he knew was that he missed Jax but that he could sleep in his older cousins empty bed sometimes and that would help him to still feel close.

It was the next year, when Ezra was eight, and both of the oldest had gone off to school that things changed enough for him to take note. Suddenly they had odd people entering the house seemingly randomly and he didn't know how to treat them. He would be his usual friendly self but then he would never see them again, or they would get a look on their face that he couldn't decipher and tell him off for reasons that he didn't understand. It was not so bad when he had his middle siblings to take cues from but then just a year later and they had left him too.

Two long years he was stuck at home with only Aubrey and the string of random nannies that he still had not managed to figure out. He thought that he was never going to get his turn to go to Hogwarts, and that his siblings were going to forget all about him.

But then each time they would come back, either for Christmas or summer, and it was like nothing had changed! They could go on adventures and play games. There was more noise in the house and he could talk to people whenever he wanted! And if someone got scared at night (not him, honest, he was too old for nightmares by that point) then there would definitely be someone around to offer comfort, not just an Auntie that probably wouldn't answer a knock or a nanny that might be cross or just not be there that day.

Finally, the time came though that Ezra did not get left behind when the Hogwarts Express arrived. All the way to the station he had that scary feeling that he was still not going to be allowed to go, even though he had his wand and everything, but no! He was off! He got to join his siblings at school and he was going to have the best time ever there, learning everything that he could get his hands on!