Casey O'Doherty
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| Casey O'Doherty | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 12 January 1995, 23 |
| Blood status | Half-blood |
| Physical Information | |
| Gender | Intersex (identifies as male) |
| Height | Shrimpy |
| Hair Colour | Strawberry blond |
| Eye Colour | Hazel |
| Skin Colour | Pale |
| Relationships | |
| Father | Martin O'Doherty |
| Mother | Darla O'Doherty |
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| Magical Characteristics | |
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| Special Abilities | Occlumens |
| Education | |
| School | Hogwarts |
| House | Slytherin |
| Class of | 2013 |
| Character Information | |
| Playby | Will Poulter (youth; circa 'School of Comedy') |
| Will | |
Casey is a Slytherin Graduate (Class of 2013), scion of the Irish O'Doherty loan shark family. His boundless determination to acquire magical might is restrained only by his weak, sickly body that at times cannot undergo the stresses of powerful spells he attempts. His closest confidant is his personal House Elf assistant Dingy whom he uses to spy and put his plans into motion. Although privileged, Casey has not has an easy childhood and strives to keep many things secret...
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Origin
Martin O'Doherty went through his Hogwarts years under immense pressure from his family to continue O'Doherty name. If so, he would be permitted the ancestral family wand of hornbeam and leprechaun hair. He found an opportunity to abscond with a portion of the wealth he would inherit and lived a life of fancy among muggles, before charming Darla Higgins, something of a debutante. As a wizard, he said he could provide for anything. However, he squandered his money which didn't help matters when Casey was born, as both mother an child were frequently sick.
Casey was born intersex, although from Darla's intuition and Martin's concern about line of inheritance through first born sons, they agreed to raise Casey as a girl. Finding work as a Wizengamot clerk, Martin requested a house elf from the Relocation Office, not realizing that the assigned elf was himself the offspring of the O'Doherty family elves. Eventually, his parents were able to use their influences to seize Martin's assets and force his family back into the fold. Although now Martin would never inherit.
Casey was deemed the suitable heir when his grandparents realized the condition of Martin's progeny. Casey was 7 when this conditioning from daughter to son occurred. [https://absitomen.com/index.php?topic=8435.msg63397#msg63397 The Changeover) After being silent for days, Casey's first surge of magic caused 'him' to burn all of the dresses being packed away in favor of a masculine wardrobe.
Casey was made to wear an Animus Amulet to appear male. With the displays of his magical potential, he was permitted to learn magic in ways to avoid detection by the Trace. Already born with a weak constitution, such early practice of spells would leave him exhausted, and Casey sported numerous allergies.
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1st to 3rd Year
Casey's best and worst early school memories happened on the day he boarded the Hogwarts express for the first time.
The best was when his father gave him the ancestral wand for use at school, a privilege Casey had received that Martin did not. The worst was later on the train, when Zoe Torret met him in a compartment. The daughter of a healer, any sympathies between them were shattered by the appearance of their respective house elves, Dingy and Lily. Their arguments over elf welfare left them rivals for most of their schooling.
Casey squashed the Sorting Hat back on the stool when it initially suggested he be sorted to Gryffindor. Although appearing as small, easy pickings, Casey could immediately impress many professors in wand based subjects for quickly 'learning' the 1st year spells and even those a grade or two ahead. Yet his allergies held him back in Potions and Herbology. Flying was also a sore spot for Casey, and the teasing from one boy in class made him see red. And it was red hair that Casey wore, in a borrowed girl's uniform, to lure the tormentor unawares to the Trophy Room and hex him into a pulp (on account of the vegetable based transfigurations). Thus 'Hexy' made her first appearance at Hogwarts.
Casey's showboating got the better of him. Over his 1st and 2nd year, while he was impressive with spells he didn't make friends, snidly calling out classmates and challenging older students that he already new spells from their subjects. He kept trying to improve his flying to join the Quidditch team yet he was unlikely to ever be fielded. Towards the end of his 3rd year, he made an appeal to Prof Ignan Storm to lean Occlumency. Storm brushed off most of Casey's reasoning but said he would consider it for the next year.
Third year saw Casey as his worst as the little prick getting up in people's business, earning the ire of most of the year and above. Occasionally, words from other Slytherins would crack through his defenses, like Vulpes Connor or Veronica Ward. Casey also came across Alvis Norling interrupting Dingy's assigned task in the Trophy Room, as both students had an interest in the runic defenses on the armor. It was from this meeting that Casey recognized Alvis had a talent for Legilimency yet was unaware of it. Casey and Vulpes were also on site to protect Noriko Wakahisa and Pax Wintergreen from Morvin Sharp when Slytherin's pending house cup victory brought about a duel.
Partway through his 3rd year finals, Casey is forced to give up the family want and use his father's, which irritates him for using a 'withered' wand. Once the ancestral wand is back, Casey Trolls himself out of herbology by using magic around a highly aggressive plant, earning him expulsion from the course by Prof Ishane Blair and the loss of 50 house points, costing Slytherin the cup. Licking his wounds on the train, Vulpes eventually gets Casey to open up how he's never had anyone actually care for him, as he hates any perceived pity and routine care from healers. Except for his mother, bedsick at home. Once Casey realizes his mother has it worse off than him, he vows to do better as a son.
Summer brings plenty of complications, such as Casey realizing that without the Amulet, his body has grown more feminine. He has to pull off a desperate maneuver to get his mother admitted to St. Mungo's without attracting the family's attention. Let alone, as a muggle, she needs a magical injury to be admitted. He's in correspondence with Alivs off in Egypt and also learns memory extraction for use with a pensieve. And there was the time he tried to stretch himself taller with magic. The family is also commissioned by necromancer Ventus Shang for several Hands of Glory, and Casey fudges the order to get one for himself.
Returning to St. Mungo's to check on his mother's recovery (the Welcome Witch has come to dread his arrivals), Casey is present during the WBA attack on the hospital, putting his Hand of Glory and crude shield made by Alvis's research to use in the fray. His last little summer acquirement is finding an Invisible Book of Invisibilty at Flourish and Blotts, while also seeing Wren Spicer try to reinvent herself.
4th to 7th Year
Casey must serve out remedial Herbology in order to keep his Occlumency lessons. He and Alvis catch up as Casey comes upon a Runes demonstration by Prof Aileen Reid and visiting Durmstrang Prof Ylva Maras. Things take a turn for the awkward with Alvis' lack of personal space and Casey not liking intimacy. New professors certainly make a splash with Leopold Sandusky's wand confiscations in Transfiguration, and the bizarre lessons and detentions from Charms Prof Nightingale Kesali. And then there was the time Rubeus Hagrid hung in him a tree when Casey didn't concede to the point of a Creatures lesson. Casey, Alvis, Zoe and Ambrose Pepper keep finding themselves at odds, to say nothing of other students. By October Casey gets his long awaited Invisiblity cloak and pranks Zoe on her way to the Halloween ball by pretending to be Peeves the Poltergeist. Only to be intimated by the effects she had planned for her dragon costume.
Casey arranged for his mother to recover in a cottage in Hogsmeade, yet tries to avoid notice when his Head of House, Landis Morgan suggests Casey is too reliant on Dingy (it didn't help Casey's takeway from the meeting that Landis was temporarily a woman due to some sort of jynx). During Occlumency, Casey finds his "double thoughts" between his male and female psyche provides an edge to the lessons. A panic of Dragon Pox also proves to be too much for Casey, nearly holding up the proceedings being uncomfortable with removing his shirt, and it takes Xiomara Hooch to talk him through it. To say nothing of the strangeness of the Body Swap of Nov 6th, as the Casey/Hexy sides are aplit among two different students (Alvis Norling and Heliotrope LeJean) and unable to recall each other during the enchantment.
Casey's tumultuous partnership with Alvis up until that point reaches a head when Casey finds himself privy to Norling's Legilimens talent and that Norling's ancestors made his Animus Amulet. Casey also forces the issue of trying to avoid another loss of the ancestral wand which gets both Morgan and Sandusky involved, although this time his father arrives to say Casey will need to be paired with a new wand. Escorted to Ollivanders by Morgan, it takes dozens of wands until an unexpectly eager Pear and Phoenix feather leaps out of its box and demands spells from Casey, seemingly attuned to his Hexy persona. Wand may be gained but Casey loses his Amulet in the lake after the brilliant idea of trying to fly in stormy weather. He's saved by Alvis but both are quite injured. The ordeal does led to Casey casting a Patronus for the first time to attempt to communicate with it, only he has to settle for red sparks so Alvis can be rescued while Casey slips away under his Invisibility Cloak.
He now has to pass for male with some body altering undergarments, making him feel like he's losing parts of his core identity. A truce is signed with Zoe to keep them from further arguing with each other. Recurring nightmares and disassociation of self aren't helping him avoid attention in classes nor keeping Alvis from finding out too much. His first few games making the Slytherin team aren't liked as he's substituting for stronger players, although there was the memorable incident where Demitria Strelnikov lost control of her Veela charm during a match. Although Casey's female psyche could resist it with Occlumency, he's compelled to 'get the quaffle through the hoops' and his impulsive pear wand shows up and adds to the Veela charm chaos by use of Gemino curse into a storm of quaffles, rendering the match inconclusive. Casey also has a very climatic DADA winter final against Peeves the Poltergeist, who doesn't take kindly to his deception back on Halloween.
During the easter holiday, Casey visits the Norling family but has ulterior motives in trying to find out more about the Amulet. He's caught by Alvis using the Hand of Glory, and Casey ultimately has to reveal his intersex when Alvis finds the original records. Alvis shows quite the compassion and the two learn that the alchemical creation of the amulets always creates an Animus/Anima pair. Indeed, Casey's health is worsened from having worn an unpaired Animus amulet for so long.
Later, another DADA lesson sees the 4th years pitched from a boat into the lake. Casey has perfected bubble head charms thanks to his allergies and even retrieves Juni Zamperia's wand but he can't actually swim. Once Alvis and others rescue him he's catatonic from the cold and Alvis, in a fury, launches a full Legilimens attack against Prof Storm.
Come 5th year, Casey is seemingly more comfortable in his skin and appearances from 'Hexy' have been infrequent. He still causes a Herbology disruption but thankfully no destruction or expulsion this time. Resuming Occluemency lessons, Prof Storm tempts Casey with the offer of learning Legilimency but only if Storm would be invited into Casey's mind without his usual barriers. And it appears Casey made a very poor decision...
Throughout the fifth year, Casey's magic and Occlumency have seemingly halted as his mind is at war with itself. A series of wand thefts occur, missing for a day or two, or half the stock of lost wands from the Caretaker's office at any given time. Relatedly, Casey exhibits borrowed personality traits from the wands he's co-opting.
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