Still accepting?

Yes, although I am pretty slow at getting sheets cleared right now. >.<

•Name: Jacob "Jake" Pinkman

•Age: 11

•Gender: Male

•House: Ravenclaw

•Magical Heritage: Muggle Born

•Appearance:


•Backstory: Jake was born the youngest son to an upper middle-class family when their parents were already quite old and with a 12 year old difference with his older brother.

When Jesse was thirteen and Jake still a baby the second war against Voldemort was ravaging the wizarding world and the muggleborns were being hunted. The fear their parents had for Jesse's well-being at this time became deep rooted in them, even after the war ended and even after their son became stranged to them because of drug abuse.

As it is Jake grew up with his parents' smothering attention focused on him, never out of their sight, but always with the shadow of Jesse hanging over his head in the whispered conversations his parents had when they thought he couldn't hear them. Jesse, his supposed older brother that he rarely met and never knew, but more than anything the bane of his existence.

Of course these circumstances made it specially hard to convince his parents to let him attend Hogwarts but he was determined to grasp this chance to get away from his suffocating life.

•Personality: Jake has always believed that if he ever stepped one foot out of the path his parents set for him he would lose his parents' love. Unlike Jesse he doesn't have their unconditional love. First come first serve or whatever.

That belief is the basis for his great thirst to prove himself, he needs to be the best and for others to see it. Even he doesn't know how far he's willing to go for acceptance, but you might be surprised by his determination. It is a big contrast from his polite and even mellow exterior.

As I said, Jake masks his feelings and opinions therefore he tends to appear distant to his peers. He also learned to be cunning enough to get some leeway from his parents.

In the end he wishes he could relax and be accepted for himself, but fears abandonement if he does loosen up.

•Personal Items:
••Wand: Eleven inches, Acacia, Phoenix feather core, reasonably supple.
••Owl: Grey owl which was bought with his supplies.
••Piccolo: a flute he enjoys to play.

•Special gifts and abilities: An excellent student that has shown high aptitude in music (Piccolo and Oboe), Maths and research among others.

mmmmm... this got bigger than I thought, sorry about that.

...Muggle-born Slytherins tend to be uncommon, given Salazar Slytherin's whole thing about "blood purity". Hell, we only have two real recorded cases of a half-blooded Slytherin, and in one of those that's because they happened to be the big man's bloodline.

But Tom Riddle himself didn't know he was a half blood when he was sorted.

Edit: And I would think that after the war they would take steps to be more accepting as it is a delicate subject.

SkyWithFluffyclouds said
But Tom Riddle himself didn't know he was a half blood when he was sorted.

He was still a parselmouth. This, plus his ambition, pretty much guaranteed the hat would place him in the right spot. Descended from Slytherin plus that sort of ambition?

Edit: And I would think that after the war they would take steps to be more accepting as it is a delicate subject.

The Hat decides. They can't exactly change the hat's opinion. Therefore, no changes.

The hats opinion's is about personality traits, and as he is one of the biggest pushers for house unity I doubt he would support Salazar's opinions. Also I looked it up to se if it really is unreasonable:

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During a webchat in 2007, J.K. Rowling mentioned, in a response to a question about Slytherin house, "Slytherin has become diluted. It is no longer the pureblood bastion it once was."

The comment was made re: a post-Deathly Hallows Hogwarts and Slytherin, which is to say that by the time Harry Potter's son, Albus, was heading off to Hogwarts, blood purity wasn't a significant defining factor of Slytherin.

Seeing as we're halfway there I would say that muggleborns must have been trickling in, maybe not fully accepted but it would be a thing in progress.

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"The proportion of the wizarding population that is Muggle-born is on the rise as the pure-blood families shrink in size and number."

if they kept up with only purebloods and halfs then Slytherin would cease to exist as a house.

Edit: reading on found thi

Personality traits of students seems to be the main factors the Sorting Hat would use in deciding which house students were placed in to; ambition, cunning, cleverness all seemed to be among the most important qualities in determining which students ended up in Slytherin, more than blood-purity.

edit2: and this

Finally, in Chapter 23 of Deathly Hallows, Scabior (the Snatcher) suggests there have indeed been muggle-born members of Slytherin, though not many.

I should look that up.

Anyway, personality wise I just think that's were he would go.

Another edit: if things were still touchy maybe the hat would recommend him another house, probably Ravenclaw, so if it's really bothersome I guess he could go there.

OK, if I'm reading this right you're trying to push the "even though it's so rare as to be almost impossible, it's not actually impossible ergo you can't stop me doing it" line. And while I am hesitant in this case to invoke Rule Zero, this isn't doing many favours.

I'm actually saying that Jake can go in Ravenclaw , I'm just someone that when raised a question wants to look for the answer so I looked it up and now I'm completely lost and looking other theories about the HP saga.

If he's in Ravenclaw that would be ok no? Part of my reasoning for putting him in Slytherin was his personality and also student balance between house and gender.

In the beginning I was actually thinking of making a Hufflepuff, but there're enough there.

Hint, even Selini who could careless which house she's in much less what your blood line is still wouldn't associate with a Muggle Slytherin, too many head aches for her and his disruptive presence would annoy her because of those of her houses reactions towards him

Not trying to be mean but that's just the way it is, heck he'd be better of but barely if both his parents were squibs and even then he'd catch hell 24/7 and be relegated to the role of house servant at best

Dam missed the last because of balky conection, forget the above I was never here

Steps in and looks around an says nothing to disturb the chirping crickets

Um... If you had nothing to say, then why did you post? I'm just a bit confused is all.

Rumiko, I am aware that I have been slow to approve and moderate sheets in this thread. I have real life to deal with on top of running this RP. What I do not need on top of both of those things is someone I have already rejected and who has no apparent intention of submitting a new sheet coming in here just to throw peanuts around.

If you are not going to be constructive then you can leave. It's that simple.

I was being light hearted I thought, sorry

Just a moment I thought I'd been approved?

I don't think your profile has gotten re-evaluated yet... for what it's worth, hopefully an arrangement will be decided on.

... moar gurls for Alex >D

You're right, I'm sorry. >.<

I'm just incredibly stressed out because of stuff going on off-site, so I'm bound to make the odd mistake.

I would LOVE to be a part of this if it is still open. If so I'll set to work on my character sheet right away!

I understand completely, I read the trouble with the complainers and as a GM with 10+ yrs exp I can sympathize

I felt like making a character sheet anyway. If its not open then no worries.

•Name: Charles Armitage
•Age: 11
•Gender: Male
•House: Hufflepuff
•Magical Heritage: Pureblood, Muggle Born, or somewhere in between?
•Appearance: A little shorter than average. Blonde hair. Blue eyes. Wears scruffy clothing as his family isn't that well off.
•Backstory: A muggle born from a stable home. A boring and mundane homelife with nothing special behind it.
•Personality: Those unfamiliar with Charles may seem him as a simpleton. Easily distracted and always ready to dive head first into a debate. As a muggle-born he finds the wizarding world fascinating but at the same time a little backwards. He is determined in all things wizardry with a thirst for adventure. He is led by emotions first and logic second. Most of the time he'll keep his thoughts to himself but if riled up he can snap and unleash hellfire on those that angered him. (INFJ/INTJ personality type)
•Personal Items: Wand (Cheery with dragon heartstring), Black cat named Tara.
•Special gifts and abilities: Potion Making/Herbology (will also be a beater when old enough)

I felt like making a character sheet anyway. If its not open then no worries.

•Name: Charles Armitage
•Age: 11
•Gender: Male
•House: Hufflepuff
•Magical Heritage: Pureblood, Muggle Born, or somewhere in between?
•Appearance: A little shorter than average. Blonde hair. Blue eyes. Wears scruffy clothing as his family isn't that well off.
•Backstory: A muggle born from a stable home. A boring and mundane homelife with nothing special behind it.
•Personality: Those unfamiliar with Charles may seem him as a simpleton. Easily distracted and always ready to dive head first into a debate. As a muggle-born he finds the wizarding world fascinating but at the same time a little backwards. He is determined in all things wizardry with a thirst for adventure. He is led by emotions first and logic second. Most of the time he'll keep his thoughts to himself but if riled up he can snap and unleash hellfire on those that angered him. (INFJ/INTJ personality type)
•Personal Items: Wand (Cheery with dragon heartstring), Black cat named Tara.
•Special gifts and abilities: Potion Making/Herbology (will also be a beater when old enough)