Terry Boot

OOC

Game	Journal	Portrayed By
Remodel	notfootwear	Christopher Gorham

Basic Stats

Full Name: Terry Irving Boot
Nickname(s): Ter
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Date of Birth: November 23, 1979
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Bloodline: Halfblood
Hometown: Nottingham, East Midlands, England
Current Residence: 320 Kneazle Ave, Flat 2B, Diagon Alley, London, England
House & Year: Ravenclaw 1998
Occupation: Unemployed writer
Wand: 9.5 in, ash, phoenix tail feather
Pet: None

Family

Father: Edward Boot (wizard; Hufflepuff 1968; herbologist)
Mother: Deborah Boot (witch; Ravenclaw 1973; potionere)
Sister: Thalia Boot (witch; Hufflepuff 1996)
Brother: Tristan Boot (wizard; Hufflepuff 2001)
Brother: Tyler Boot (wizard; Hufflepuff 6th)

History

Terry is the second of four children, and eldest son, born to Edward and Deborah Boot, following Thalia and followed by Tristan and Tyler. It was Deborah's idea to give the kids all names that started with the same letter, and Edward's idea to go with T. Although Thalia called him weird for it, Terry enjoyed having that little bit of extra commonality with his siblings. But Terry always was a little bit weirder than his brothers and sister, just a little bit different from the rest of them. He loved to read, he just couldn't get enough of books. In fact, he learned to read right alongside Thalia, because he was jealous that she would get to do this and he couldn't. He would stay up for hours after bedtime, hiding under the covers with a torch and a book, just absorbing all the knowledge he could get. He was more interested in histories and biographies than fiction, but there are a few exceptions to that. He was particularly interested in far away places, so any fiction that involved somewhere far away or travel (something he desperately dreamed of one day doing) was of great interest to him.

His childhood wasn't all books and geekiness. He was teased and bullied, and even beaten up, quite frequently as a young child, all because of being a bookish geek. He got into sports as a way of trying to shed the reputation of being Wussy Girl Terry. And, well, sports also helped him bulk up a bit (he was a bit on the small and skinny side as a kid) so that he could fight back from the beatings from his bullies. At the muggle primary school his parents sent him and his siblings to, he played football, but he also got into quidditch, as any sports-interested young wizard would. Once he got to Hogwarts (where he was sorted into Ravenclaw), he was quick to make friends within his new house (particularly Michael Corner, Anthony Goldstein, and Su Li), and he was immediately fascinated by his History of Magic class — taught by an actual ghost! And, of course, there was quidditch. He was a reserve chaser for most of his time at Hogwarts, but he played starter on the team for his sixth and seventh years.

In his fifth year, he joined Dumbledore's Army, and was one of the DA members to come to Harry's aid on the train at the end of the school year, when Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle tried to attack him. He used a spell on them that left them looking like giant slugs. In his seventh year, Terry rejoined the DA as it was re-formed in Harry, Ron, and Hermione's absence, to fight back against the Carrows and Snape. He fought in the Battle of Hogwarts at the start of May, and nearly died on the battlefield. He was in the midst of a duel with a Death Eater (more of a fistfight, really, as the Death Eater attacked with his fists after Terry disarmed him) when another Death Eater caught him from behind with some kind of dark magic curse that sliced up his upper back (sectumsempra, though he didn't know that). They left him there to die, and he almost bled out before he was found and tended to. As the healers were working to stop the bleeding from the cuts on his back and get more blood into him (as the wounds were caused by dark magic, they couldn't be healed with magic), they overlooked damage done to his right ear during his fistfight. It wasn't until much later, when he was conscious and on the mend, that he realised he couldn't hear out of his right ear. The healers did what they could to repair the damage to his eardrum, but he never regained full hearing in that ear.

After he had fully recovered, Terry still yearned to travel. For years, he and Su had planned to go on a great trip all over the world after finishing school. Once he was up and mobile again after his stint in St Mungo's, they did just that: they took their NEWTs with the rest of their classmates that summer, then took off to travel the world. Terry was practically obsessed with the notion of going somewhere and just living and working there among the natives for a while while he soaked up their history and culture, so they did do that for quite a bit. They finally returned to England in mid-2001, when Su was ready to return to the "real world," though Terry still had the travel bug. He had been taking notes all throughout their travels, and after using his scant savings to move into a small, cramped flat, he decided to (temporarily) put off finding a real job to put his note-taking to good use by writing books: he has plans to write insider travel guides to some of the places they visited, as well as histories from the stories he was told by the natives. Eventually his savings will run out and he'll need to get an actual job, but until then, he's going to write and try to get published. (Of course, if Professor Binns was to decide to retire from his position at Hogwarts, Terry would gladly offer to take the position in a heartbeat …)

Personality

To call Terry a geek is to pretty much hit the nail right on the head. He is a geek, and it's something he's come to terms with over the years, and he completely accepts it and owns up to it. He is absolutely obsessed with both history and travel, they are his two biggest obsessions. If he could just travel forever and dig around in the history of places far away, he would be happy. History is something that has always fascinated him, and his dream is to one day take over as History of Magic professor at Hogwarts: he hopes to bring that class out of the "boring, everyone drops it after OWLs" territory and actually make it fun and interesting. Unlike Binns, who simply droned on through his lectures, Terry would love to open up the floor for discussion with his students, maybe even stage reenactments!

He's also very interested in sports, an interest he cultivated as a child to try to break out of the mold of being the geek who always gets bullied. He played Chaser for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team in school, but he doesn't play sports so much anymore since the Battle of Hogwarts (though he wouldn't say no to kicking a football around a bit!). He loves watching quidditch matches, and he hopes that now that he's back in England, he'll be able to get tickets to see a match live now and then. His team has always been the Appleby Arrows, and he'll cheer for them loudly.

Terry suffers greatly from Foot In Mouth Syndrome. He has a tendency to say or do things without fully thinking them through first, often resulting in, well … sticking his foot in his mouth. Generally, his friends who have known him for years understand and don't get too upset with his stupid comments, but there's always people who get offended and mad at him. Usually as soon as he does or says something stupid, he realises it and apologises profusely, at least.