Name: Johann Wolf
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 31st December 1993
Blood Status: Pure Blood
School: Durmstrang
Johann is basically a tank made of flesh. He clocks in at six foot four and sixteen stone, being both taller and bigger than your average man, exacerbated by his perfect posture. His blonde hair is generally left alone, and then shaved when it gets too long; the same too goes for his facial hair. He dresses more like a wizard than many younger people tend to nowadays, rarely seen outside a robe or cape and tending to wear vaguely formal clothes, though he is nowhere near as dressy as wizard attire has a reputation for being.
Personality: if Johann's body is tank-like, his personality is not too far different. He is a forceful young man who operates basically like a bulldozer and it seems almost impossible to tire him; he can and will work without rest until whatever task is completed, and it's almost medically impossible to change his mind once he has decided upon something. While his general brutish demeanour and appearance would suggest an alpha male personality, this is not strictly true; he will happily defer responsibility for the pack to a more suitable candidate for leader and will remain loyal to them for as long as he has faith in them. Respect is very important to Johann. It is hard-won but also hard-lost, and he will fight to defend his reputation and the good reputations of others. However, those unfortunate souls that have not earned his respect should not expect anything more than curt responses and grunts.
He is in many ways the product of his traditionalist pure-blood family, a family for whom convention and conservatism are of the utmost importance. While their take on wizarding culture did not rub off on Johann, he very much shares their political ideology; one that has much in common with the beliefs of the former death eaters. The only difference is perhaps in Johann's absence of actual venom; while he ultimately considers muggles as lesser beings than non-muggles, he does not resent them for it nor feel they should simply be slaughtered. Breeding with them is definitely a no-no, though, and he half-subscribes to the notion that magical blood can be 'diluted' by non-magical blood. Ultimately, it comes down to social order. That said, he is not entirely close-minded. He does not rule out the possibility that a muggle might not be a moron or that a muggle-born might be a competent wizard – he simply assumes that such examples are the exception and not the rule. Wizards and witches, according to Johann, have equal status in the social order, but he generally believes that men are better at 'manlier' arts such as duelling, flying, and the intricate sciences of magic, while women might find themselves more at home with the creative subjects of charms, potions, and those requiring 'alternative' skills such as divination. This makes it very easy for a competent witch to earn Johann's respect, but she should be very well-prepared to be (unwittingly) patronised. Johann, as with his family, generally approved of the Fudge regime and were particularly fond of Thicknesse's government, but they do not even remotely appreciate the hippy happy-clappy nothingy school of thought that seems to have overtaken the UK at the moment.
Strengths:
Weaknesses
Goals
Hobbies
Johann is the third child (only son) of the Wolf family, a conservative but very well-regarded family from the South-East of Germany, Bavaria, which has been historically (and accurately) associated with Grindelwald's school of thought and with the murder of Ludwig II, though, naturally, the modern Wolfs are keen to disassociate themselves from either of those unfortunate realities. Johann's sisters attended Beauxbatons Academie in France, while he attended the Durmstrang Insitute, since Germany lacked its own (decent) education system. Needless to say, their educations differed, and the Wolf siblings took three divergent paths; the eldest, Gertrud, became a highly-regarded academic Numerologist who stayed on in a teaching capacity following her graduation; the middle-child, Beatrice, rebelled against the conservative family ways and was been all but cast out entirely; Johann, in Durmstrang, became an incredibly practical and powerful young man, with an eye for battle.
Very quickly it became apparent that his interests lay in competition and combat. He excelled in the Dark Arts taught at Durmstrang, but equally in defending himself from them and repairing the damage they could do with healing. In addition, he enjoyed the rearing and taming of magical creatures and plants. Outside the classroom, he also proved himself to be a great flyer, and put his emerging physical force to good use as Durmstrang's best beater of his generation. However, the academic side of things eluded him somewhat. When Transfiguration, Charms and Potions failed to come naturally to him, he didn't stop trying, but undermined his own efforts through a general lack of respect for the disciplines.
Upon graduation, it has been Johann's aim to join the German Ministry of Magic in the International Defence departments, but he has received the advice from the Ministry that he would do well to show 'continued interest and development in those fields in which his academic record was slightly sub-par' and to 'experience the world in a more pro-active environment'. With that in mind, he has been looking for possibilities to travel the world and to meet foreign students. His research made him aware of the group from Hogwarts on their Sabbatical, and he has arranged to join them when they reach the continent.
Patronus: A silvery eagle
Worst fear/Memory: Death of his sisters
Boggart: His sisters corpses, oddly melded into one horrible monstrosity
Amortentia: Charcoal, moss, polish
Natural Ability: Being, uh, massive?
Learned Ability: Ambidextrousnous (being able to use both hands equally) – it's surprising how much of an advantage it gives to beating/duelling
Pets: Nope. He had a stallion called Wulfric, but it died while he was at Durmstrang and he simply flies everywhere now.
House-elf: The Wolfs have a family of House-elves, but Johann has little more than outright contempt for them and avoids them wherever possible. The feeling is, presumably, mutual.
Credentials:
Wand:
Inventory:
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 31st December 1993
Blood Status: Pure Blood
School: Durmstrang
Johann is basically a tank made of flesh. He clocks in at six foot four and sixteen stone, being both taller and bigger than your average man, exacerbated by his perfect posture. His blonde hair is generally left alone, and then shaved when it gets too long; the same too goes for his facial hair. He dresses more like a wizard than many younger people tend to nowadays, rarely seen outside a robe or cape and tending to wear vaguely formal clothes, though he is nowhere near as dressy as wizard attire has a reputation for being.
Personality: if Johann's body is tank-like, his personality is not too far different. He is a forceful young man who operates basically like a bulldozer and it seems almost impossible to tire him; he can and will work without rest until whatever task is completed, and it's almost medically impossible to change his mind once he has decided upon something. While his general brutish demeanour and appearance would suggest an alpha male personality, this is not strictly true; he will happily defer responsibility for the pack to a more suitable candidate for leader and will remain loyal to them for as long as he has faith in them. Respect is very important to Johann. It is hard-won but also hard-lost, and he will fight to defend his reputation and the good reputations of others. However, those unfortunate souls that have not earned his respect should not expect anything more than curt responses and grunts.
He is in many ways the product of his traditionalist pure-blood family, a family for whom convention and conservatism are of the utmost importance. While their take on wizarding culture did not rub off on Johann, he very much shares their political ideology; one that has much in common with the beliefs of the former death eaters. The only difference is perhaps in Johann's absence of actual venom; while he ultimately considers muggles as lesser beings than non-muggles, he does not resent them for it nor feel they should simply be slaughtered. Breeding with them is definitely a no-no, though, and he half-subscribes to the notion that magical blood can be 'diluted' by non-magical blood. Ultimately, it comes down to social order. That said, he is not entirely close-minded. He does not rule out the possibility that a muggle might not be a moron or that a muggle-born might be a competent wizard – he simply assumes that such examples are the exception and not the rule. Wizards and witches, according to Johann, have equal status in the social order, but he generally believes that men are better at 'manlier' arts such as duelling, flying, and the intricate sciences of magic, while women might find themselves more at home with the creative subjects of charms, potions, and those requiring 'alternative' skills such as divination. This makes it very easy for a competent witch to earn Johann's respect, but she should be very well-prepared to be (unwittingly) patronised. Johann, as with his family, generally approved of the Fudge regime and were particularly fond of Thicknesse's government, but they do not even remotely appreciate the hippy happy-clappy nothingy school of thought that seems to have overtaken the UK at the moment.
Strengths:
- Courageous
- Honest
- Confident
- Determined
- Loyal
- Protective
Weaknesses
- Brash
- Bullish
- Unsubtle
- Closed-minded
Goals
- Become an Auror
- Become a champion duellist
- Find a nice pretty wife-shaped object
Hobbies
- Quidditch (beater primarily, but a decent keeper)
- Duelling
- Hunting
Johann is the third child (only son) of the Wolf family, a conservative but very well-regarded family from the South-East of Germany, Bavaria, which has been historically (and accurately) associated with Grindelwald's school of thought and with the murder of Ludwig II, though, naturally, the modern Wolfs are keen to disassociate themselves from either of those unfortunate realities. Johann's sisters attended Beauxbatons Academie in France, while he attended the Durmstrang Insitute, since Germany lacked its own (decent) education system. Needless to say, their educations differed, and the Wolf siblings took three divergent paths; the eldest, Gertrud, became a highly-regarded academic Numerologist who stayed on in a teaching capacity following her graduation; the middle-child, Beatrice, rebelled against the conservative family ways and was been all but cast out entirely; Johann, in Durmstrang, became an incredibly practical and powerful young man, with an eye for battle.
Very quickly it became apparent that his interests lay in competition and combat. He excelled in the Dark Arts taught at Durmstrang, but equally in defending himself from them and repairing the damage they could do with healing. In addition, he enjoyed the rearing and taming of magical creatures and plants. Outside the classroom, he also proved himself to be a great flyer, and put his emerging physical force to good use as Durmstrang's best beater of his generation. However, the academic side of things eluded him somewhat. When Transfiguration, Charms and Potions failed to come naturally to him, he didn't stop trying, but undermined his own efforts through a general lack of respect for the disciplines.
Upon graduation, it has been Johann's aim to join the German Ministry of Magic in the International Defence departments, but he has received the advice from the Ministry that he would do well to show 'continued interest and development in those fields in which his academic record was slightly sub-par' and to 'experience the world in a more pro-active environment'. With that in mind, he has been looking for possibilities to travel the world and to meet foreign students. His research made him aware of the group from Hogwarts on their Sabbatical, and he has arranged to join them when they reach the continent.
Patronus: A silvery eagle
Worst fear/Memory: Death of his sisters
Boggart: His sisters corpses, oddly melded into one horrible monstrosity
Amortentia: Charcoal, moss, polish
Natural Ability: Being, uh, massive?
Learned Ability: Ambidextrousnous (being able to use both hands equally) – it's surprising how much of an advantage it gives to beating/duelling
Pets: Nope. He had a stallion called Wulfric, but it died while he was at Durmstrang and he simply flies everywhere now.
House-elf: The Wolfs have a family of House-elves, but Johann has little more than outright contempt for them and avoids them wherever possible. The feeling is, presumably, mutual.
Credentials:
- Quidditch Team (2)
- Charms (2)
- Defence Against the Dark Arts (2)
- Herbology (2)
- Potions (1)
- Transfiguration (1)
- Muggle Studies (-100)
- Care of Magical Creatures (2)
- Dueling (3)
- Dark Arts (2)
- Staff combat(1)
- Non-verbal magic (2)
Wand:
Length: Seven-yesit'senormous-teen inches
Wood: Ebony
Core: Dragon Heartstring
Flexibility: Sturdy
Wood: Ebony
Core: Dragon Heartstring
Flexibility: Sturdy
Inventory:
- Big fat knife for hunting / just-in-case-ing
- Basic first-aid kit
- Beaters' club and broom
- Quill and ink and general stationary
- Map
- Camping equipment
- Combat staff
