James Potter

Full Name: James Sirius Potter
Nicknames: Jamie (family & friends), Jimmy (parents)
Age: 15
Date of Birth: August 30, 2004
Birth Place: England
Current Home: Hogwarts
Blood Status: Halfblood
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Wand: 13 1/2", Dogwood, Phoenix Feather, Rigid


Hair Color: Black
Hair Style: Untidy, shaggy
Eye Color: Sparkling hazel
Height: 5'11"
Clothing Sense: Whatever's comfortable
Other Features: James has a couple of faded scars on his back, arms and legs due to Quidditch injuries. A couple were also from flying injuries when he was first learning how to fly.


Patronus & Good memory: As of now, he can't perform a patronus. His best memory was the first time he got on a broom.
Boggart: Himself, all alone, surrounded by the dead bodies of his loved ones.
Amortentia: Broomstick Polish, Rain, Chocolate
Likes:
Quidditch
Sweets
Doing tricks on his broom
Being around a lot people
Loud noises
Animals
His family
Pulling pranks
Making jokes
Chocolate
Dislikes
Books
Studying
Rules
Authority figures
Healthy food
Bullies
Hot weather
People who are judgmental
Potions
Being compared to his father
Aspirations: James wants to do something with Charms after he graduates, something that'll benefit the wizarding world.
Strengths:
Flying
Charms
Loyal
Adventurous
Energetic
Weaknesses:
Irresponsible
Potions
Impatient
Arrogant
Reckless

James can be really loud when need be. His tone of voice goes from loud to screaming without a quieter setting. This isn't because he wants to be the center of attention and wants people to know he's around. He hates when all the attention is on him. He just hates silence. It's boring and noisy, so James will make sure that it's never around when he is.

Even though he seems to always be around a lot of people, this isn't because he's popular. He tends to hang out where all the action is and will join in on people's conversations, so he's not alone, which he hates. He has a hard time making friends because he's not the friendliest of people, though he's not really mean either. Truthfully, James can be a little paranoid that people only like him because of who his parents are, so he builds up a wall and won't allow people close to him.

Adventurous with a knack of getting into trouble, this kid never passes up an opportunity to have some fun. Usually this involves pulling pranks on other people, mainly the Slytherins and random people in his family or sneaking around the castle after curfew. Because of this, he tends to be in detention quite a bit. In fact, James often jokes around that he lives there.

He's intelligent, but he tends to lack the motivation needed to study and pay attention in classes. His homework is usually done at the last minute and thrown together sloppily without much thought put into it. James really only shows effort in three classes. For the most part, the intelligence makes itself known when he's scheming his next prank or strategy when it comes to Quidditch and playing Wizard's chess.

James is a typical older brother. He loves his siblings very much and tends to border on being overprotective of them. He loves picking on them because it's fine, but if someone else were to do it, he would go after them and make them regret their words. He's especially protective of Albus because he doesn't seem to wanna stick up for himself. Most of the time James' taunts towards him is just to try to provoke him into sticking up for himself.

Father's Name: Harry Potter
Age: 39
Blood Status/Species: Halfblood
Occupation: Auror
Status: Alive

Mother's Name: Ginny Potter (Weasley)
Age: 38
Blood Status/Species: Pureblood
Occupation: Senior Quidditch Correspondent
Status: Alive

Sibling's Name: Albus Potter
Age: 13
Blood Status/Species: Halfblood
Occupation: Slytherin Student
Status: Alive

Sibling's Name: Lily Potter
Age: 11
Blood Status/Species: Halfblood
Occupation: Gryffindor Student
Status: Alive

Other Key Members: Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Bill Weasley, Charlie Weasley, Percy Weasley, George Weasley, Ron Weasley, Fleur Weasley (Delacour), Hermione Weasley (Granger), Angelina Weasley (Johnson), Audrey Weasley, Teddy Lupin (James considers him the older brother he never had), Victoire Weasley, Dominique Weasley, Louis Weasley, Molly Weasley, Lucy Weasley, Fred Weasley, Roxanne Weasley, Rose Weasley, Hugo Weasley


General History:
On August 30, 2004, Harry and Ginny welcomed their first child into the world. They decided to name him James Sirius in honor of two great men. He came out screaming his head off, giving the Potters a little taste of what was to come. Their quiet cottage in Godric's Hollow wouldn't be quiet anymore. He was born with his father's messy jet black hair, but he looks more like a Weasley than a Potter.

For the first year of his life, he had his parents all to himself. Soon after he was born, his mother quit her job as a professional Quidditch player, taking up a job with the Daily Prophet, in order to spend more time at home with him. James was curious about the world around him, which made itself apparent after he learned to crawl. He'd always end up in areas he wasn't allowed to be in and getting his hands on stuff he wasn't allowed to have. A few months before Albus was born, his father rushed him to St. Mungo's after he ingested something he shouldn't have.

When he was two, he became a big brother for the first time. While he understood some things, he was still too young to know everything. For instance, he didn't realize (or maybe he just didn't care) that babies needed peace and quiet in order to sleep, so when it got too quiet, James would scream and start throwing his toys around, laughing about it afterwards, and Albus would wake up. It didn't take long for his mother to arrange for him to spend time with a family member. He spent a lot of time at the burrow, just him and his grandparents, unless if one of his uncle's brought their kids over. Whenever they couldn't watch him, his Uncle George allowed him to spend time at the store. The store became his favorite place and, as he got older, his uncle started showing him how the pranks were made and allowing James to give him suggestions for new pranks.

Lily followed Albus and as much as James loved spending time with them whenever they weren't napping, he enjoyed being around his Uncle George a lot more. Maybe this was where his fondness for pranking actually came from. A few months after Lily was born, his father came home with a couple of tickets to a Puddlemere United game and took James to his first Quidditch match. He loved every second of it, especially watching them fly. He wanted his own broom after that and begged his parents to buy him one.

On his sixth birthday, he finally got his wish. His father started giving him lessons with help from his mother and several of his uncles. Unfortunately, it was easy to see that James wasn't like his father. He wasn't a natural at it. For the first couple of lessons, he ended up falling off the broom because he couldn't control it. During his fourth lesson, he was finally able to fly straight and it no longer attempted to buck him off.

After that, he wanted to spend most of his time flying. During family events, he would attempt to get a game of Quidditch going with some of his cousins or just some broom races. At the age of eight, his father caught him attempting some dangerous stunts on his broom and yelled at him for it because he wasn't an experienced flyer and shouldn't be attempting things that some Quidditch players wouldn't even do. James didn't listen, though, and as soon as he was alone in the yard again, he was back to doing those stunts. The injuries he received attempting such dangerous moves didn't stop him, either.

At the age of eleven, James received his Hogwarts acceptance letter and went off to Hogwarts, despite not wanting to. The sorting happened way too quickly. As soon as his name was called, the professor placed the hat on his head, but before they could take their hand off it, it screamed Gryffindor.

Going to Hogwarts was the first time he felt the pressure of being Harry Potter's son. People had certain expectations of him and needless to say, he disappointed them. He refused to talk about his dad and avoided anyone who tried to ask him questions about him. If he couldn't get away and they kept persisting he talk about him, he attacked them. James made a few friends and they started a pranking war with a couple of Slytherins, which resulted in them getting detentions. He didn't care and just started planning their next prank while he was there.

During his second year, he tried out for the Quidditch team, but didn't make it and rumors started spreading about how Potter's son was horrible at flying. He responded with anger and mean pranks, resulting in him getting into even more trouble. He finally made the team in his third year as a beater and loved playing. When he wasn't on the pitch, he was looking out for his little brother or plotting his next big prank.

Fourth year was pretty much the same as the other years. Practicing, constant detentions, matches... it was actually a pretty boring year. The most notable thing that happened was at the end. James had the brilliant idea to pull a harmless prank on the Slytherin team before the match. It wouldn't hurt them or affect the Quidditch game at all, but they caught him in their locker room and claimed he was trying to sabotage them. Because the evidence suggested sabotage instead of a harmless prank, James was kicked off the Quidditch team.

Now he's heading into his fifth year at the school and has plans to get back at the Slytherin team.

Family History:
The Potter family is an old pureblood family. Although they didn't contribute much to history, the family did cause some controversy among purebloods. Namely, Henry Potter spoke out on behalf of the muggle community, causing even more purebloods to look down upon them and helped exclude the family from being considered apart of the Sacred Twenty-Eight. It wasn't until Harry defeated Lord Voldemort during the Battle of Hogwarts that they did something the Wizarding World benefited from.


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