Phillip Kinsey
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| Phillip Caleb Kinsey | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 22 January 1992, 26 |
| City of Birth | Manchester, UK |
| Current City | London, UK |
| Blood status | Muggle-born |
| Physical Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | 6'2" |
| Hair Colour | Bleach Blond |
| Eye Colour | Blue |
| Skin Colour | Fair |
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| Mother | Margaret Kinsey |
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| Education | |
| School | Hogwarts |
| House | Gryffindor |
| Class of | 2010 |
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| Character Information | |
| Playby | Max Krieger |
| Amara | |
By most, Phillip could be labeled as a punk, or a hooligan... and a womanizer. He's violent and has a disruptive behavior, seeking for trouble and adrenaline rush. But all that is just a mask that he has carefully built over the years due to his traumatic childhood, growing up in a very poor neighborhood of Manchester with an alcoholic mother that has mostly left him to fend for himself his entire life. He has raised himself, and for that matter, at times he may appear a little savage. However, he still has a big heart and he shows it by being a very loyal friend to those few that dare to tread in his life. He's a smart man, but he finds no purpose for academic accomplishments, and it shows in his results. Being a muggle-born, he still struggles with his place in the wizarding world, knowing, however that he will never be able to return to a life without magic. He's not exactly all bark and no bite... No, Phillip's more like a cat: he's selfish, lazy and dangerous with sharp claws and absolutely no reluctance to use them, if you gain his trust, he might even learn to like you and allow you a scratch behind the ear or maybe, even a belly rub.
History
Growing up in the slums of Manchester with an alcoholic mother and no idea as to who his father might be, have made Phillip's childhood to be a rather grim and unfortunate one. His mother, Margaret gave birth to him at only 16 and only in hopes of tying her boyfriend Caleb at the time to herself. Caleb however left her the moment the baby was born and Margaret spiraled down into alcoholism and recreation drug use. During the first three years of his life, Phillip was mostly left with Margaret's friends or acquaintances while she worked and spent her money for various debaucheries. As early as kindergarten Phillip had shown signs of being a very smart kid but with a disruptive behavior. He often picked on other kids and refused to listen to any sort of authority figure. His behavior got worse as he started school. Strange things occasionally started to happen around him: when he'd get angry things would break, sometimes things he'd wish would come true and other such strange occurrences. He became even more introverted, fearing someone might find out and started causing more trouble in school. He often ditched classes to work various jobs in the shady neighborhood, like making deliveries or cleaning cars, despite the fact that some of his professors tried to cultivate his intelligence. Margaret was getting worse and worse and he was often left to fend for himself for days at a time, with his mother coming home only to leave him some money.
Sometime during his second year he managed to make friends and he proved to be a very loyal friend, it was then he met Michael, his future best friend, also hailing from the shady part of Manchester. He often used his... brawling abilities to fend for the weaker and held those without scruples in high contempt. He kept on ditching school and maintained his grades at a very low average, despite the fact that he really enjoyed some of the subjects and reading about them he was never present enough to be able to do better. At nine years old he discovered his passion for underground music, and he spent most of the money he made on mixtapes of the latest punk, rock and indie hits. By the time he was ten Margaret only came home to check on him once a month. Michael's family took to watching over Phillip as their own son, they understood his situation, and despite wanting to alert the authorities they knew with his behavior he'd be much worse if he were to be taken from Margaret. So they ended up covering for him when he'd need an adult, legally as his mother was nowhere in sight over 80% of the time and neither did she want to hear about him, and his school problems.
In Year 6, the strange accidents started to get worse and he started panicking, thinking they might start happening around other people, or that he would hurt his friends. However, on the night of January 21 2003, at the exact time he had been born he heard a knock at the front-door. When he opened the door he saw a rather intimidating-looking man. Large with a beard and completely out out of the picture of the dirty neighborhood. As it turned out Knox Greyfriar, the man who had opened Phillip's eyes as to his own true nature, was a professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a boarding school where he'd be learning magic. He couldn't care less about wizardry at first, he was free of the slums of Manchester, free of the horrendous woman that was his mother and had a future... definitely not the future he expected, but a future nonetheless. Approaching the starting of the school year, Phillip was finding more and more about the wizarding world and all it was, he was still confused and felt completely out of place, and found them all weird or creepy. He was just glad he was out of the slums.
By 15 Phillip had grown into his looks, and he was rather handsome. But, being the rebel he was, he decided to bleach his hair, get some piercings and tattoos which earned him some more point deductions. But the girls were noticing his bodily changes, and he was rather enjoying their furtive glances. Given his trust issues and growing up with Margaret, he never quite attached himself to either of the girls, but he was definitely turning into a womanizer. His success with the girls also brought some attention from some of the guys, and his friends circle grew. He wasn't one to judge, so he easily made friends with those that were different from the others, more like him, without ever taking age, race or house in consideration. For the others, however, he was still the rude, muggle-born bad boy.
He was growing more accustomed to magic, but he was still reluctant to use it. He found most of the classes that involved actual wand use to be too foreign, he was more attracted to Potions and Herbology, they were more familiar, more grounded to his muggle roots. And by his sixth year, he was actually very fond of Potions and found it was also a good source of income. The girls in the castle were always on the look for good quality beautifying potions and other such cosmetics. And now that he had cut all relations to his mother, he had absolutely no income, so he was once again pushed to work for his money. Either by making potions, or smuggling various illegal things into the castle, such as alcohol and cigarettes, and other stuff that could only be bought in the muffle world. By word of his smuggling connections he managed to get a summer sort of job, working during breaks at Donovan's doing whatever might be required of him: cleaning, heavy lifting, errands and occasionally on weekends, working the counter. Now in his last year, he has no idea what he wants to do with his life... He can never see himself going back to the muggle world, but he still feels like an alien in the wizarding society.
In the 2009-2010 year, he was chosen as a Hogwarts Champion in the TetraWizard Tournament.
