Thorne Perry

Thorne Perry
Gender: Male
Height: Below Average

Blood status: Pureblood
Raised in: Magical
Home: Unlisted in Residential Areas

Boggart: A large, silent floating sphere of flame that shifts from natural fire shades to white, green and an eerie blue, complete with ashes and sparks spat from the core.

Patronus: Unknown
Closest to: MJ Birdwhistle, Orla Fallwater
Enemies: None
Favourite Class: Charms
Career Goal: Magical Toymaker

Thorne is a very determined lad, if somewhat stubborn and stick-in-the-mud. It has been commented that he can suck the fun right out of the room just by arriving -- and that's a bit unfair. It's not that he doesn't like fun -- more that, due to parental expectations, he really needs to learn how to HAVE fun! He's slowly learning. It's just not something he can pick up overnight, though the last year at Hogwarts helped quite a bit in that regard.

Beneath the somewhat dour expression is a dry sense of humor and a loyal soul -- one that would never turn his back on a friend or even a rival who truly needed help. His friends have also started to figure out that his calm, boring demeanor is often a mask for being socially uncertain, and that he's generally down for a good time!

Thorne's parents are wandmakers -- they're not the best, but they are far from the worst. They pride themselves on making reasonably priced wands that rarely let their owners down, but nothing flashy. Thorne is very aware that his absentminded father named him after a tree and that, due to the family name, he's technically named after two trees. Honestly, that's a heavy burden for any child to bear. 

He's known how to use a knife since long before he knew how to use a quill or wand. His grandfather - perhaps one of the few cheerful people in young Thorn's life - showed him how to turn blocks of wood into creatures that look fit to come to life at any moment. It usually comes as a pleasant shock to show people his carvings -- to see something so artistic from such a... stiff-seeming boy.

Maybe someday, it will stop being a surprise. Maybe someday he won't have to worry about the art he creates and his dreams of being fun - and the family business and orchards - going up in smoke, catching fire and burning away like he sometimes fears. 

He sure hopes so. 

He's started to make some good inroads in that department, making small carvings for his friends at school. His first year at Hogwarts was exciting - he liked learning things in a formal setting, and he liked being independent, a fact he occasionally feels bad about, but in the end not so much that he doesn't look forward to going back to school when he's at home. He likes his new friends, and he loves learning new things, and is excited to start his second year - especially since flying isn't mandatory and he gets to have some new classes!

However, that excitement is tempered with a reasonable amount of caution, given how the last school term ended.