LINELY, gregory stephen

[GREGORY STEPHEN LINELY]

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I NEED ANOTHER STORY,

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something to get off my chest
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GREGORY STEPHEN LINELY[/center]

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MY LIFE GETS KINDA BORING,

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need something that i can confess
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[/B] gregory stephen linely

NICKNAMES: greg

AGE: sixteen

D.O.B.: may thirtieth

WAND TYPE: mahogany wood with a unicorn hair core. ten and a quarter inches long. mostly flexible, but has a touch of spring.

HOUSE: hufflepuff

SPECIAL ABILITIES: as far as he knows, he doesn't have any.

CANNON OR ORIGINAL: canon

PLAY-BY: billy unger

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’TIL ALL MY SLEEVES ARE STAINED RED,

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from all the truth that i've said
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[/B] dark brown

EYE COLOUR: brown

HEIGHT: five feet, nine inches

WEIGHT: one hundred fifty-three pounds

PERSONAL STYLE:

greg likes to wear his house robes around the school. a lot. he loves to make sure they're properly ironed out, so there are no visible wrinkles. his dress shoes are always polished when he gets up in the morning, so you can see your reflection in them. outside, he likes to undo his tie just enough so he doesn't have to play with it too much to do it up again. he prefers to roll his sleeves to his white dress shirt up while he's outside as well, usually during the warmer fall and spring days, usually to feel more comfortable. outside of classes, usually on the weekends, greg wears blue jeans that are a little bit wider at the bottom of the leg, either a tee-shirt or a long sleeve shirt (sometimes it's both, depending on if he can't choose), and a pair of sneakers. on the occasions that he has to dress up, he goes black tie. he chooses one of his white dress shirts, pairs it up with a black suit and black dress shoes, and partners it with a black bow tie.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

physically, greg is a somewhat-muscular person. he has some muscle to him, but he's not 'i went to the gym' muscular. he's toned, but he doesn't have a six-pack stomach. and while he can eat and eat, he doesn't seem to gain any weight. he's tall for his age, but his weight makes up for it. facially, he has dark brown hair that doesn't force him to spend a lot of time in front of the mirror in the morning - he can just run a comb through it, and that's about it. he has eyes that may look sad at first glance, but are really not once you actually look at them. his smile looks to resemble his somewhat shy personality, but that's just because he doesn't like to smile.

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THOUGHT YOU SAW WINK, NO,

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i've been on the brink, so
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• singing in the shower
  
• cool autumn days
  
• helping out others when they need help
  
• herbology
  
• potions
  
• the color orange
  
• his awkward dancing
  
• trees when covered with snow
  
• marshmallows by the fire
  
• muggle commercials

CHARACTER DISLIKES:

• people who try to get their way, no matter what the cost
  
• people who critique things without doing/trying it
  
• playing quidditch
  
• the letters q and z
  
• any odd numbers
  
• history of magic
  
• divination
  
• people who treat him like a child
  
• when he loses things and can't find them when he needs them
  
• loud noises

GOALS:

• to make sure he passes all of his newts
  
• to make sure that he doesn't lose his family ties when he starts adult life as a wizard
  
• to find solstice, because he'll be critiqued more as a wizard adult than a muggle

BOGGART: heights. he really hates them, almost like a phobia. he won't even fly in an airplane; that's how scared he is.

PATRONUS:

his favorite memory, in his mind, is probably the time when his parents took him to the zoo for the first time. it was special for him, because he got to see new things that he was interested in. he was brought into the petting zoo and enjoyed having the animals lick his hand while getting the food. the animal that his patronus takes relates to the zoo trip - a llama. it was the first animal that greg had take food out of his hand.

DEMENTOR:

the moment that triggered his boggart: when he was in a hot air balloon and spent the whole time sitting in the basket, waiting for the thing to settle down on the ground. the whole time, he was screaming at the top of his lungs like he had been kidnapped. his father was in the basket with him, trying to calm him down. attempts to calm greg down failed. as soon as the balloon settled down on the ground, greg scrambled out and was relieved to feel ground.

AMORTENTIA: spaghetti sauce, fresh cut flowers, burned rubber, leather

BASIC PERSONALITY:

• somewhat shy
  
• friendly
  
• determined
  
• courteous
  
• compassionate
  
• egotistical
  
• somewhat rebellious
  
• jealous
  
• sometimes mean-spirited
  
• a little pessimistic

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AMAZING HOW WE GOT THIS FAR ,

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it's like we're chasing all those stars
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[/B] muggleborn

FATHER: henry james linely, forty-three, self-employed, muggle

MOTHER: lucille ann (baker) linely, forty-two, sales associate, muggle

BROTHER(S): none

SISTER(S): none

OTHER:

• franklin andrew linely, forty-seven, carpenter, muggle (henry's brother)
  
• martha patricia (johnson) linely, forty-six, pediatrician, muggle (henry's sister-in-law; franklin's wife)
  
• katherine lynn (linely) benjamin, forty-four, day care provider, muggle (lucille's sister)
  
• mark john benjamin, forty-three, primary school teacher, muggle (lucille's brother-in-law; katherine's husband)
  
• kevin james linely, thirty-nine, stenographer, muggle (lucille's brother)
  
• robert peter linely, seventy-two, retired, muggle (henry's father)
  
• lydia grace (wilson) linely, seventy-three, retired, muggle (henry's mother; robert's wife)
  
• suzanne elaine (peterson) baker, seventy-six, retired, muggle (lucille's mother; widowed)

not named: about five cousins between franklin and martha, mark and katherine, and kevin.

HOMETOWN: ashbourne, derbyshire, united kingdom

CURRENT RESIDENCE: hogwarts / his hometown when not in school

BIOGRAPHY:

a spring day in may is supposed to be warm. maybe it wasn't warm outside, but things were heating up in the hospital room where lucille and henry linely were. lucille had gone into labor with the couple's first (and only) child, and they knew it was going to be a boy. gregory stephen linely was born in the early afternoon hours of may thirtieth, to the delight of the family members in attendance. greg was about nineteen inches long and twelve pounds heavy, which wasn't normal for babies, but there were no health concerns relating to the pregnancy. greg was a (supposedly) normal, healthy baby boy. the new parents took him home immediately, not knowing that somewhere far away from their hometown of ashbourne, derbyshire, united kingdom, their son's name was going onto the list for hogwarts in eleven years.

through his early childhood, gregory was a curious toddler. he would ask his parents what everything was, and what everything did. he was always asking questions, and most of the time, his parents would respond with a truthful answer. with the answers that they didn't know, they'd make something up - which didn't disappoint the young boy in the slightest. he was interested in knowing everything. or, at least that's what happened in his toddler years. as he started to grow up, that wasn't necessarily the case.

gregory was sent to primary school when he was old enough to start. his teachers saw the generous side of him that the sorting hat would see later on in his life. he would share things with the other students - crayons, pens, pencils, snacks - you name it, he would share it. this kind of thing ultimately led to his parents buying a jar of graham crackers or animal crackers, which the boy took to school for students who didn't have a snack with them on any particular day. 'oh, what a nice boy,' his teacher would say. 'you get a gold star for your kindness.' and with that, he learned that being a nice boy would get him far. the more things he did to help out other students, his parents and teachers would be more proud of him. as he grew older, he earned respect from not only his elders, but also his peers.

his life changed at the age of eleven, when he recieved his letter from hogwarts from one of the professors. he explained to his family that he was a wizard, and there was a list that he was registered onto when he was born. his parents were taken back by this, but the professor assured them that there was nothing to worry about. they had a dedicated young man on their hands, and they knew that he would do just fine at the school. he was sent off on the day that the hogwarts express took off, to the displeasure and sadness of his parents. they were saddened that they would be apart from their son for a few months, but gregory assured them that it would be fine. he'd be fine. they'd see each other again in the summer. with that, he took his cat onto the express, and that's when the real journey began.

at the sorting ceremony and feast, gregory had watched on, seeing some of his fellow first years get sorted before him. there was a mixture of different houses - he didn't know which one he'd be in, but all four of them were interested to be in. as his name was called, he started to get a little nervous. what happened if he didn't like the house he was sorted in? would he think differently of the school if he was a slytherin and he didn't fit in with the others? he didn't want to know what house he was going to be in, but he didn't have a choice. as soon as the hat went on, it started talking. 'can't be with the slytherins; i can't see you fitting in with them. you're great with schoolwork, but that's not your first priority. ravenclaw is out. i think i know which house you should be in... hufflepuff!" the rest of the hufflepuffs cheered in delight as he walked over to the table. it would be his new home for the next seven years of his life.

in his early years as hogwarts, he was portrayed as the 'somewhat shy but able to talk without sounding like a moron' student. he'd be slightly nervous when it came to making friends, but when push came to shove, he found that making friends was easy and not as nervewracking as he thought it was going to be. he was drawn to making friends with some of the other male first years, and when he found out that he had a little bit in common with these boys, he thought that being at hogwarts wasn't going to be as hard as he thought it was going to be. classes were fairly okay; he did great with herbology and potions, but was horrible in transfiguration. the first time he tried to turn a key into a lock, the key was actually in the lock. almost there, but not quite.

it wasn't until his fourth and fifth years that he started showing why he was sorted into the hufflepuff house. the other huffies saw that his maturity was truly starting to blossom. he would save seats for his fellow female housemates, help other students - especially the younger ones - with their homework, and was compassionate if someone needed to vent their anger about different things. they appreciated his company in the different variations, and knew that he was such an influence towards the younger students. it was a job well done, in gregory's opinion. do all of the right things, and your peers will respect you in return.

greg's sixth year at hogwarts was probably one of his weakest years at the school since he became a student. he was still as courteous and pleasurable to be around, but he had started to struggle with his schoolwork. the boy was constantly late with homework, and his schoolwork wasn't that great, either. he wasn't sure why he was having trouble with his work, and needed to be with a study group for most of the night and most of his study halls in order to get the work completed. maybe it was because some of the stuff was new; he wasn't sure exactly why he was having so much trouble with what was in front of him. he did manage to get the problem fixed, thankfully, and he managed to pull out some decent grades at the end of the year.

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AND EVERY DAY I SEE THE NEWS,

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all the problems that we could solve
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[/B] mandy

CHATBOX NAME: mandy

RP EXPERIENCE: seven years

HOW YOU FOUND US: proboards support

OTHER CHARACTERS: none

RP SAMPLE:

it had been a simple conversation at the hufflepuff table that afternoon; lunch time was upon the students at hogwarts, and gregory linely had taken his seat amongst the sixth years, waiting for the food to show up on the table. while he had been waiting for his food, a few female hufflepuffs had strolled into the great hall. he invited them over, only because he had known them since they were young students, and offered them seats in the sixth year area of the table. 'please, come join me," he said with as best of a smile as he could. "i don't know what lunch is, but i think it's going to be pretty decent. as always."

the girls smiled back at him and nodded in agreement. they offered their opinions on the food, from how it was better than recent years to anything that had to do with the house elves and their fantastic job. it could have been one in the same there, but nobody actually knew if that was the case. greg knew that lunch meals hadn't been exciting in years himself, but he wasn't going to say it outright. "i have to admit - whomever hired the house elves this year did one hell of a job. some fine choices this year, i think." wasn't that what one of the girls said, just not too long ago? whatever. you said it again. you basically confirmed it, he thought to himself. it doesn't matter if you repeated someone's thoughts or not. at least you're saying more than 'it's decent'. nice job.

"but in all fairness..." before he could finish his thought, the food magically appeared on the plates on the tables. hamburgers, hot dogs, butterbeer and pumpkin juice. three different types of salads. and all of the condiments that one could think of. the house elves must have decided on grilling the food, but what they were grilling the burgers and dogs on was a mystery. did the wizarding world even have grills? that might have been a question that gregory would never know the answer to. either way, it was a nice change of pace from all of the turkey and other assorted poultry that they had been serving at dinner time.

"oh, look. food's here. i don't mean to cut this discussion short," greg said, grabbing some of the hot dogs and buns. "i'm going to take my food to the halls. i know, i know; i can't eat and carry books at the same time. but i'm doing a project in herbology, and i'm really busy. sorry i couldn't stay and talk some more. let's talk tonight, okay? i have lots to talk about." it didn't make sense for him to cut any conversation short, but he was really interested in food and that project. for once, getting involved in conversation could wait. schoolwork was much more important than anything he could imagine. with that being said, he took his two hot dogs, covered in ketchup and sauerkraut, and paraded out of the great hall and on his way to the greenhouses.

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SICK OF ALL THE INSINCERE,

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so i'm gonna give all my secrets away
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