Character Applied for: Marcus Flint 

Description of Character's Personality: 

In a word, unpleasant. Marcus has the classic pureblood Slytherin mindset - 
Muggles aren't really human, Muggleborn wizards are possibly even worse, and 
pureblood wizards who don't agree are traitors.  He's not a Death Eater at this 
point, but he's very sympathetic to their cause.

Marcus played Quidditch at school, and enjoyed it, but the sport isn't that 
important to him. His real interest in the Slytherin Quidditch team was in 
*winning*, not the sport itself. If the popular sport/activity at Hogwarts had 
been wizard chess, he'd have joined the chess team.

He isn't actually *stupid*, but he was a poor student. The cancellation of exams 
(and presumable rescheduling of the NEWTs) his seventh year tripped him up, and 
he didn't actually manage to get any NEWTs; thus he returned for an eighth year. 
His intelligence is more common-sense/street-smarts and Slytherin cunning. 

It may seem a bit ironic that Marcus excelled in Defense Against the Dark Arts 
at school, but he's always been very good at the Dark Arts, and being able to 
counter the curses he learns, whenever possible, is second nature to him. He is 
very talented with curses, but in all other areas of magic is merely average, at 
best, and is utterly incompetent at Transfiguration.

Marcus has an extremely juvenile sense of humor, as seen by his enjoyment of the 
fake Dementor stunt in PoA, and he hasn't grown out of that. No one, not even 
those closest to him, are exempt from his insults - though if you're genuinely 
close to him, they're less vicious.

He despises Muggles, Muggle-born wizards, Muggle-friendly wizards, 
Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, Ravenclaws, and more than a few Slytherins. In fact, 
if you aren't on his very short list of people he genuinely cares about (which 
you aren't, unless you're Adrian Pucey), it's really best to just avoid him.

Important Backstory, if any:

Marcus's father was a Death Eater who claimed to have been under the Imperius 
Curse to avoid Azkaban. His father died shortly after the events at the end of 
Goblet of Fire, of natural causes; his mother runs a mail-order curse business 
which she advertises in Witch Weekly and the Quibbler. Marcus is the first 
member of his family to stay at Hogwarts past the OWLs; he's absolutely 
determined to rise above what's expected of his family, which is an old, but not 
at all prominent, pureblood family. He gets along with his mother well enough, 
but isn't extremely close to her.

Shortly after leaving school, he was hired as an assistant to a wizard who had 
been one of Grindelwald's inner circle in the forties, and has been in Yorkshire 
much of the time since then. It was his Defense Against the Dark Arts NEWT score 
that got him this position; while he's supposedly learning advanced Defense, 
he's really honing his Dark Arts skills. His apprenticeship/training is almost 
at an end, however, and he's starting to look around at his options. 


Sample Journal Entry:

Yorkshire is the fucking armpit of Britain, and if I couldn't Apparate down to 
London to actually visit civilization from time to time, I'd have gone mad by 
now. Old Bletchley (Miles's great-uncle, or great-great-uncle, or something - 
hell, he could be his grandmother for all I know. Bugger it, I don't even keep 
up with my own family that closely) is all right, for a senile old git, but 
there's only so much I can hear about how much better off we'd be now if 
Grindelwald had won. My *parents* weren't even born when Grindelwald was killed 
- who cares now?

Still, I should count myself lucky that I did well enough on my Defense Against 
the Dark Arts NEWT that he took me on - he only occasionally does advanced 
training. It's just hard to remember when I think I could be somewhere 
*interesting*.