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aurelius emeric avery

PERSONALITY

Boggart: His dead son. Finley would be killed before he had had a chance to produce an heir, and the Avery name would be no more.
Mirror of Erised: Just himself as he is. He has everything he wants in his own life, a successful job, a beautiful wife, he's on the right side of the war. He would simply see himself with nothing changing. Possibly shadows of his children would be behind him, living their own lives and doing him proud.
Patronus: Bull Shark - As a Death Eater, Aurelius cannot produce a Patronus, but if he did it would be the most vicious of all sharks, his happy memory being the day his son was born (even if he did grow up to be a thorn in Aurelius' side). The pride he felt at finally getting that heir goes unmatched to this day.

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Aurelius Avery is a dick. Can I just leave it at that? No? Damn. Okay, well, he's arrogant, egotistical, proud, selfish, temperamental, perfectionist, aggressive, did I say temperamental? He always had a strong personality even as a young boy. He would not be pushed around, and he would not settle for being second best in any situation. He liked to be the top dog with his friends, and had an innate ability to arse kiss adults so perfectly that they thought him a respectable young lad who would go far in life. They weren't wrong, he possessed the drive to work his arse off and be seen as a leader amongst his peers, and managed to be popular, if not a bit scary, through his school years and into his adult life.

Very proud, he likes to have the best things life has to offer, but the only problem with that is, Aurelius is a tight arse, he hates to part with his hard earned (and hugely inherited) fortune, and is really bloody scroogey when it comes to forking out cash for things. That being said, what he does have is all impressive, and impeccable quality, and if anyone dares lay a finger on any of his prized belongings, they will lose said digit. His vanity and love of things that look good extends to women, too, and he counts himself lucky to have a wife that is elbow deep in beauty products on a daily basis. She doesn't look her age, and Aurelius even copies her skincare routines to try and slow his own ageing process, which is actually working a bit. He looks bloody amazing, and that body! Wow! And forget about having a hot airhead for a wife, there's room for more in that area, too. He loves a beautiful woman, and is not averse to the odd affair or casual fun in a cupboard at work.

Despite his cheating ways he is loyal to his family, and he considers them to be his everything, and wants them to be the best that they can be, just like he tries to do himself. He is hard on his children, and particularly Fin, believing tough love is the answer. His temper controls him when it comes to Fin. Annabelle was always compliant and well behaved, following the rules her father set, but Fin would wander and stray, and have to be brought back in line with a firm hand. Aurelius has no patience when it comes to being disobeyed, and during Anna and Fin's childhood, he found it hard to parent without the use of his fists. He angers easily, though in public it simmers beneath the surface, and the need to relieve that fury doesn't go away quickly. He can hold onto volatile feelings for weeks, months, years. His family know not to cross him, well, except for Finley, who frustrates his father on a daily basis. It is taking every ounce of self control Aurelius has to deal with his sons choices in life. Controlling should be his middle name.

HISTORY

Mother: Primrose Avery, pureblood, Slytherin Alumni, deceased aged 80.
Father: Cornelius Avery, pureblood, Slytherin Alumni, deceased aged 80.
Siblings: Corona Vaile, 45, pureblood, Ravenclaw Alumni, Charms teacher, blood traitor, disowned.
Partners: Meredith Avery nee Gray, 43, housewife, Slytherin Alumni.
Others: Annabelle Avery, daughter, pureblood, 23, Slytherin Alumni.
Finley Avery, son, pureblood, 22, nightclub owner, Slytherin Alumni.
Charles Gray Snr, father in law, pureblood, 71, Slytherin Alumni.
Annabelle Gray, mother in law, pureblood, 69, Ravenclaw Alumni.
Charles Gray Jr, brother in law, pureblood, 45, Ravenclaw Alumni.
Abraxas Vaile, brother in law, 47, pureblood, Slytherin Alumni, Auror, disowned.
Killian Vaile, nephew, 18, pureblood, Ravenclaw Alumni, Professional Quidditch player, disowned.

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Born in the third week of 1927, Aurelius was the eldest child of a wonderful pureblood couple. Respectable and ranking high on the social ladder, Cornelius and Prim Avery had everything they could ever want, riches, status, friends in all the right places, a wonderful son, and a promising life ahead of them. They raised Aurelius to know that he was special, that he was great and something to be celebrated, and it stuck with the boy. Pureblood supremacy, though not something to cause a war at the time, was important to the Sacred 28 families, and Aurelius was taught this and every other rule of being a truly pure child, though his temper often got the better of him, and his parents often worried that it would affect how he was seen in social circles. Fortunately for them, he kept the majority of it for behind closed doors, and would lose his temper with his family, somehow able to play the charming, confident young man around others. His temper was flared that bit more when at the age of eight, he became a brother. Corona was a beautiful little baby, raven hair and bright blue eyes, but Aurelius was instantly jealous of her, preferring his old life of being the only child, of being special and spoiled. He didn't like sharing his parents with someone else.

He only had to put up with his baby sister for three years before he got to go off to Hogwarts and leave Corona behind. He took to the journey with great ego and self-assuredness, and was sorted into Slytherin like both of his parents. He did well in his studies, having a keen mind, and he made friends who practically worshipped him. He was popular, and anyone who didn't like him felt his wrath and at least learned to pretend to like him. For someone who thought so highly of themselves, Aurelius had no real ambition in life when it came to a career, and his father worked at the Ministry at the time of Aurelius' graduation and told him that he could get him a job in a comfortable department. Aurelius was particularly good at Transfiguration, and so the Portkey office seemed right up his alley when his dad told him that he'd gotten his name down for a position there. It wasn't grand, like Aurelius, but it was work, and he could always change his job, or climb the ladder as time went on, it wasn't permanent.

He moved into his own home, a mansion gifted to him by his own grandparents, and had worked in the Portkey office for a whole year before his father sent an owl one day inviting his son for lunch. As Aurelius, the womanising young stud had thought, it was time for him to be assigned a wife. Sally Crouch. She was blonde and pretty enough, and two years older than Aurelius. He got along fine with her for a time, and they married after a year long engagement, but she didn't capture his attention and he found himself straying whenever another girl caught his eye. He was twenty five when Sally first fell pregnant, a whole five years into their boring marriage. She lost the child early on in the pregnancy, and promised a furious Aurelius that they would try again immediately. He wanted an heir, he needed an heir, someone to carry on the great Avery name. As if the fact that it had taken them five years to conceive wasn't stressful enough, now she couldn't carry? What had his father married him off to? Two years later, Sally fell pregnant a second time, and once again, lost the child before it likely even had a heartbeat. She contracted an infection from the loss, and despite getting the best treatment at St. Mungo's, Sally was not strong enough to fight it, and she died a few weeks later.

Aurelius was wifeless and childless at the young age of twenty seven. This was not what he had envisioned for himself, and his disappointment in his father's ability to choose a wife for him was immense. He declared that he would find his own wife, and forbade his parents from having any involvement in it, dedicating himself to his work for now, where he was slowly clawing his way up the ladder in the Magical Transportation office. A new secretary was hired the following summer, Meredith Gray, a young pureblood only eighteen years of age. She was absolutely beautiful, dark hair, big blue eyes, and sexy as hell, and Aurelius fell hard for her. He pursued her relentlessly, and Meredith put up hardly any fight. She knew he was a catch, and probably above her station in life, despite her blood status, and so she latched on to his hot body and his sexy money and never let go. They married within a year, and Meredith bore him a child not long after Aurelius' twenty ninth birthday. He was a father before he was thirty after all, though the only problem was, it was a girl. Annabelle was perfect, just like her mother, but she was not good enough. A female heir was no heir at all, and though Meredith was absolutely terrible with babies and children, and the couple were not in the least bit cut out for enjoying parenting, Meredith did what any good wife should, and she gave him a second child.

Finley was Aurelius' only dream. The only thing he had ever wanted in life. A son. And he was the image of his father, strong, handsome, a head full of luscious hair and sapphire eyes to captivate the heart of anyone who peered into them. He was a wonderful baby, quick to learn, and full of self confidence, though Aurelius found it stressful having two toddlers running around his perfect home, and it seemed only Annabelle was willing to follow the strict set of rules Aurelius set upon his children. Finley would not listen no matter how many times it was drilled into him, and so Aurelius' temper began to be directed at the tot more and more. First he would shout, then roar, then eventually he began adding smacks into the mix, and when none of it worked, and a seven year old Finley was caught snooping around in his father's office, fists became the go to punishment, along with the thing Aurelius knew his son feared. The basement. For some reason, Finley had a fierce dislike for the basement, refusing to go in there if he was ever asked to, even when accompanied by an adult. Maybe it was the dark, or the old portraits that had been dumped in there. Either way, it seemed to do the trick in quelling the boy's naughtiness, and so Aurelius did it often, not missing the hateful, fearful looks his son gave him. How disappointing that his biggest dream, his heir, had turned out to be disobedient and arrogant.

He did his best to raise his children with the same morals and beliefs that he had been raised with himself, and he fell in with a crowd who were dedicating themselves to a man of rising power, a man who swore to free the wizarding world of its binds, and to help them rise above muggles and allow magic to rule the world. These people called themselves Death Eaters, and Aurelius fell into their ranks easily. It just so happened that this man had been Aurelius' very own dorm mate through school, and a man he had called friend, Tom Riddle. He knew Tom well enough to know that he would see his vision come to life, and he understood that every promise made by Lord Voldemort would come to fruition. Such power emanated from the man, that Aurelius couldn't help but want to latch on to it, to be a part of it, to shine alongside this army. His job was a bonus for the Dark Lord, and he was encouraged to keep climbing the ladder until he had complete control over the Magical Transportation office, which is exactly what he did. His children where away at Hogwarts, and Aurelius put all of his focus into clawing his way into being the Head of the Department, finally achieving his goal not long after turning fifty. He has been in the position for two and a half years now, and considers himself pretty indispensable to the Dark Lord because of it. His daughter is as wonderful as ever, his wife as beautiful as ever, and his son a huge disappointment, refusing to follow in Aurelius' footsteps, and instead purchasing himself a nightclub to run. A nightclub! Despite the club being a success, Aurelius feels shame when he thinks about the path his son is walking down. Yes, Finley is proving to be a great Death Eater, but he is failing in every other area of his life. He doesn't even have a wife yet, which is unacceptable to Aurelius, and he intends to beat some sense into Finley told him that if he hadn't found a girl to marry by his twenty second birthday. Aurelius would choose a wife for the boy and he will be grateful, and he will continue the Avery line, Aurelius has nothing left to work towards, having achieved all of his own goals in life, so controlling the life of his son is his main focus.

OOC

Play By: Harry Connick Jr
Your Alias: Izzy
Pronouns: Her/she
Age: Ageless. *hair flip*
Other Characters: Just everyone. Honestly.
Where did you find us: In Fin's nightmares. Muahahaaaa!!