Nationality: French/Romanian Name: Valiant Mordeux Gender: Male Birthday: June 23rd House: Slytherin Blood Status: Half Blood Wand: Juniper, dragon heart string core, 13 inches Wand Hand: Right hand
PERSONALITY General: Valiant is rather reserved and tends to keep to himself. He was on the verge of becoming an extreme introvert until Maergrethe and her family moved next door to his Aunt..and she helped bring him out of it. He still is rather quiet and reserved around new people..but once he gets to know them he opens to them.
Valiant isn't overtly friendly..but he's not a troll either. While he keeps to himself, it makes sure to keep an eye on the people who hang out with Maer and him at their table. He sees to it that they aren't bullied or tormented too much, and will fight those who mess around with them.
While he tends to come across as very serious and disciplined in the classroom, Val will sometimes let loose and have fun. This usually isn't when teachers or prefects are around though. He would rather not let them see him acting his age, as he doesn't want it to be reported back to his Aunt.
His Aunt has instilled it into him at a pretty young age that kids were to be seen and not heard. As well as teaching him that a kid's job was to learn and to not have fun. These are the reasons why Val doesn't act out that much. Plus..he'd get into some major trouble from his strict Aunt if he did get in trouble.
Habits: Valiant tends to hunch over to make himself smaller, he hates when people notice him so it's his way of trying to make himself unnoticeable. Hobbies: Likes: Nature, Animals, Books/Encyclopedias, The cherry wood cane that his grandfather left him, A well worn leather trench coat, A silver pocket watch, A magic scribe's pen Dislikes: His Uncle Henrik, Heights, Lightning, Fire
Extended Family: Grandfather, Aunt, Renee Mordeux, 28, Auror/Guardian, Slytherin Uncle, Henrik Remus Mordeux, 26, Wizard, Slytherin, In Azkaban
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HISTORY General History: He and his twin were born to frenchman Julius Renaud Mordeux and a Romanian gypsy by the name of Oana Mihnea. For the first five years of his life, the small family traveled through the Europe country side with a gypsy caravan, living off whatever they could find or others of the band shared with them. It was a hard life, but Val and his brother didn't have need for anything and they were happy and free to roam and have lots of fun. When Oana got pregnant for the second time, and very sickly Julius took his family off the road and settled with his father in Oxford England. She gave birth to a little girl, Roslynn, and the brothers doted on their little sister.
For awhile, the young family got along with Julius' father and they were happy. Until Julius' brother, Henrik and sister Renee showed up and moved in with them. Renee was barely around, but when she was there was a lot of contention and fighting among the adult siblings and their father. The brother, Henrik was much worse. He would more than often threaten the young boys and tell them that since they were half bloods they didn't deserve to live.
Finally..Julius had enough and moved his family out and into a smaller home. They only lived there for a short time before tragedy struck, and Valiant lost his entire family in horrible House fire. Val was lucky to get away with a few burns to his arms and feet. He still doesn't think that the fire was an accident and that someone did it on purpose.
After the death of his siblings and parents, Val went through a rather tough time. His father hadn't thought of rewriting his will, so all his father's money was split between his brother and sister, leaving Val with nothing. Val would have gone into an orphanage if his grandfather hadn't forced his daughter Renee to take him in. He stipulated in his will, that whoever became Val's guardian would become the holder of his estates and assets until Val came of age. While Valiant wasn't too happy about being forced to live with his aunt he was glad that he wasn't living with his Uncle, knowing how the man felt about him.
Renee didn't really know much about mothering or really how to take care of an eight year old boy, but she managed to do her best. Though he was left alone with a servant or his grandfather when she had a pressing case to take care of for the Ministry of Magic. He learned quickly that it was wise to remain quiet and out of the way when she was around, as she found fault with everything he did. It didn't take long for him to realize the only way he could make her happy was if he inherited magic like she had.
It was a relief for him when he started being able to do small magical spells under the watchful eye of his grandfather. His Aunt was also happy to hear that Val would follow in her footsteps. It had been something of a disappointment when Julius hadn't used his magic for more than entertainment purposes, so they all hope that Val will go far with his magic.
Val was relieved to get a letter to Hogwarts on the day of his 11th birthday. His aunt was rather pleased as was his grandfather. His aunt was nice enough to take him to get all his school supplies and then even splurged on a familiar for him. He's enjoying taking care of Renwar, who is a Eurasian Eagle Owl.
He hopes to get into Slytherin like the others in his family, though he has the fear that it will just anger his uncle if he does.
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Favorite Class: Potions, he's fascinated with how they're concocted and liked being in control of what happens. Since he's so particular about things, he doesn't have a hard time with creating good potions.
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