Austin Callahan

[Austin Callahan]

AUSTIN HENRI CALLAHAN*
sixth year, sixteen years old
representing slytherin, bearing a -------- wand

Born to two high-flying academics, Austin Callahan lived a life of luxury that others could only dream of. But, extreme comfort and wealth meant that while Grégoire and Marisa Callahan were physically equipped to provide for a child; emotionally, they were not.

Neither were particularly prepared to sacrifice their career for the sake of a small child and consequently preferred long working days to providing for their young son. While largely uninvolved in his early life, it became clear to Austin, at a very young age, that both parents maintained high expectations of both his behaviour and his future achievements. During the limited time in which he was granted access to his parents, he gained insight into the adults' occupations, but, primarily, that of his mother's heightened prejudice towards those of "inferior blood", having established during the same moment that they were from a wealthy, pureblood family. It wouldn't be until much later, however, that Austin would discover that his mother's views were simply that of thinly-veiled blood supremacism.

A child that receives so little attention from its parents, of course, is likely to attempt to compensate for this by maximizing the amount of concentration upon him, by any means necessary. Although, while in essence, this was true, his motives differed from the traditional child. In acting to receive his parents' attention, Austin had found an excellent strategy, although one that was completely accidental, at first. He had discovered that he enjoyed creating tensions between the two, while entertaining himself through the methods he chose. Hardly the correct conduct for the offspring of a top-ranked medical professional and hardly the desired behaviour of a future Beauxbatons student.

The latter did not happen. Despite Marisa's strong preference for the French education institute, Grégoire, for reasons which he did not wish to digress, demanded that his son be educated at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry instead. Hence, a series of long, strung-out arguments began between the pair, lasting for several months at a time.

Grégoire won.

The eleven-year-old Austin turned up at Kings Cross Station the following year, after receiving the much-anticipated confirmation letter. While most first year students seemed anxious, or even upset, to be separated from their parents, Austin, given his past, was barely concerned by the scenes. Instead, he found anticipation and excitement in the prospects of creating opportunities for himself in the future. In this, the young boy's talent for creating drama between people seemed to continue, with very little effort from himself on some occasions. Although a strange source of satisfaction, Austin never sought to cause any pain in his social experiments, merely taking the chances to entertain himself, with the prospect of his parents preventing any of these things being forgotten. The freedom that an eleven-year-old Austin found within the walls of Hogwarts was a welcome change to his former life.

The personality of Austin is potentially a result of the circumstances of his upbringing, but one might be inclined to believe, from the presentation of himself, that he was always likely to develop as such. With a certain love of adventure and the active lifestyle, Austin has never been one to hide away from the limelight, in fact, one might say, he revels in it. The teenager now also enjoys the attention from the opposite sex just as much, although this entertainment found in creating tensions has never ceased.

Hence, relationships for this boy often form differently, when most find him difficult to figure out - fun-loving, reasonably easy-going as an individual, and yet deliberately oppositional in nature. As is the typical characteristics of Austin Callahan, the fact that some people may find him strange, for this mixed personality, has never bothered him; simply responding with a charming grin and an attitude to match.

alias: cait, or caytlin.
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