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b a s i c s
n a m e . Anthony Isaac Goldstein
n i c k n a m e s . He’s never really gone by “Ant” or “Tony,” and is likely react with confusion if addressed as such.
b i r t h d a y . January 28th, 1980. Aquarius.
a g e . Seventeen.
b l o o d s t a t u s . Halfblood. Pureblooded wizard father and Muggle mother.
h o u s e . Ravenclaw, seventh year.
w a n d h a n d . left.



h o m e l i f e .
h o m e . Anthony has been living in the same house since he was born - a second floor, three bedroom flat on Hackney Road in Bethnal Green. By the standards of the Muggles living around him, it’s a very nice flat, but compared to the large and ostentatious manor homes so many of his classmates reside in, it seems very meager. After his older brother, Andrew, moved into his own flat (this was when Anthony was four, so he doesn’t remember it very well), the smallest bedroom was converted to his mother’s study, so it’s safe to say that space there is limited.




The Goldstein flat in Bethnal Green

m o t h e r . Lydia Goldstein (née Rose). Lydia Rose was born on May 15, 1939 in the East End into a family in much happier circumstances than the Goldsteins. Her family were Reform Jews, ethnically, she was German, but the Roses emigrated to England following anti-Semitic uprisings in the early eighteenth century, at which point they shortened their name from “Rosenberg.” She does not remember the destruction of the air raids that occurred in London when she was very small, consequently, she grew up in a happy, lower middle class home. After completing secondary school and college, she attended Christ Church College at Oxford to study history.
Lydia Goldstein is a dark-haired and rather regal woman who works as a historian at the Tower of London specializing in Mediaeval and Tudor English warfare, and was impressively educated at Christ Church College, Oxford and received her doctorate while raising her first son. Anthony and his mother bicker about most everything, partly because, when they are home, it is most often just the two of them, with Samuel frequently out of the country and Andrew lives in Brighton. Anthony complains about his mother a lot - that she bothers him, won't leave him alone, and sucks the fun out of his life. Likewise, Lydia easily grows short with her younger son and really just does not understand him. Despite this, Anthony is very close to his mother and oftentimes considers her his closest confidante. Though she isn’t necessarily the first person he would turn to with a problem, he knows that she’s the one person he can always count on to be there for him. The two have many “bonding habits,” which embarrassingly include watching the soap opera EastEnders. A complete and utter Muggle with no wizard ancestry whatsoever, Anthony still considers her to be one of the most intelligent people he knows and is very defensive of her to people who don’t understand Muggles.


Lydia Goldstein, Anthony’s mother.

f a t h e r . Samuel Goldstein. Anthony’s father, Samuel Goldstein, was born into the mess that was Eastern Europe in 1938. He was lucky enough to get out at the age of three, when he was sent to live with his maternal aunt and uncle in London along with his older sister, Grete. Though Samuel lived in London during the second World War, the war, the Holocaust, and the unrest in Europe due to Grindelwald shook the Goldstein family to its core. Samuel lived basically as a foster child until the age of eight, unable to understand why his parents weren’t in his life, like the parents of his friends were. After the Allied forces liberated Auschwitz, Samuel’s parents came to England, but the trauma of what they had experienced made caring for their children difficult. After all, Samuel hadn’t seen or heard from his parents since he was only a toddler - they were nearly strangers to him, strangers who had deep wounds that were still fresh. But Ernst and Anneliese Goldstein loved their family and were determined not to lose their children, and they slowly began to build a relationship.

Samuel’s childhood was far from easy, but the effects of what happened to the Goldstein family have made him determined to give the best to his children. Because his parents often were unable to be there for him as a child, he has made a point to be available in his sons’ lives. Unlike many fathers, he never shied away from expressing affection for Anthony, and this unabashedness at expressing his feelings is something that Anthony certainly learned from his dad.

Because Anthony was an “accident” who came later in his parents life, Samuel is a great deal older than the fathers of his friends, at fifty-eight. German-born, England-educated, and Israeli-raised, he is very much an open-minded, multi-cultural man. Since he speaks Yiddish, Hebrew, English, and some Arabic, he works as a translator and diplomat to the Israeli Ministry of Magic for the British Ministry. Anthony loves his father but often finds it hard to relate to him - as well as being a large generational gap, he often feels as though the weight of what his father has experienced in his life makes it difficult to speak to him on an ordinary level. It’s especially difficult because Anthony is so close to his mother and it never seems possible to be equally close to both parents. However, he does love his father and trusts him implicitly. Since his father left England for Israel in early August, Anthony has found himself missing him more than he ever thought that he would.



Samuel Goldstein, Anthony’s father

s i b l i n g s . Andrew Ernst Goldstein. Andrew is Anthony’s only sibling, and, fourteen years his senior, is about to turn thirty-one years old. Andrew was a Ravenclaw as well as Anthony, and left Hogwarts in 1984, as a part of what some might call the Lost Generation of wizards. He and Anthony have the strangest and most complex relationship ever known to siblinghood. Andrew somewhat resents Anthony for interrupting his only childhood and still has residual issues from when he was fourteen and realized that he wasn’t going to be the sole focus of his parents’ attention. Likewise, Anthony has always felt as though he could never measure up to his taller, stronger, more handsome, and more personable older brother. On top of being a prefect, he was also Head Boy while he was at Hogwarts and is now a very successful archivist for the Ministry of Magic. This has resulted in various conflicts throughout the years, including several fights that ended in Anthony hanging upside down by his ankles. They do have a lot in common, though, and can often be very similar in temperament. Andrew can be found attempting to dispense older-brotherly advice, which usually pertains to either sex or doing as little of your homework as absolutely possible and still making good marks. He has been married since October of 1996 to a Muggleborn witch named Rosalind, of whom Anthony is very fond.




Andrew Goldstein, Anthony’s brother, and his wife, Rosalind.

o t h e r f a m i l y . Maternal grandparents, Ernst and Anneliese Goldstein, both wizards, Holocaust survivors who reside in Jerusalem. First cousin once removed, Nitza Shapiro, but acts more like his rambunctious little sister, fifteen years old, lives in Jerusalem. Cousin Maureen Rose, a Muggle primary school teacher who lives in Dublin.

p e t s . Anthony was never particularly fond of animals, but keeps an owl for practical purposes named Magda, who he was given on his fifteenth birthday.

f i n a n c e s . The Goldsteins are reasonably cemented in the middle class. Though his parents, as professionals, both earn fairly high salaries, their family has never lived extravagantly or placed a high value on material possessions. The cost of living in the centre of London is relatively high, therefore, the money that his parents make doesn’t go as far as one would think. Since he worked three summers in a row at his neighborhood Tesco, Anthony has a small amount of money that he can call his own - not very much, but enough that he can afford to buy small things that he wants when he wants them.


i n s i g h t .
p e r s o n a l i t y . For most people, the image that automatically comes to mind when thinking of a Ravenclaw is that of a serious, studious individual, sitting in the common room with their nose in a book. This couldn’t be further from the reality of Anthony Goldstein. Since he was old enough to form sounds he’s been something of a chatterbox, often blabbering irreverently to whoever will listen. Friendly and outgoing, he is nothing if not a people person and willing to talk to almost everyone (the few he won’t bother with tend to be for very good reasons).

Upon first talking to Anthony, you are likely to notice two things - one, that he talks a lot and can carry on a conversation almost entirely by himself. Two, that he is a bit on the eccentric side and tends to obsess over whatever is his topic du jour. As a lover of Muggle music, Star Wars, and Arsenal football, he is capable of quickly reeling off trivia to whoever cares to listen. Yes, he’s a bit of a geek, but as long as you aren’t adverse to that sort of thing, you will get along brilliantly with Anthony. He’s easy-going and open-minded, not afraid to accept all sorts of people into his friends group, or to sit back and just “go with the flow.”

Anthony cares deeply about not only his friends and his family and is generally very caring and empathizes with others easily. A good listener, his friends find it easy to confide in him and tell him about their problems. He’s quick to lend a helping hand and to try to fix his friends’ problems - he likes to make things better for people. Part of his involvement in Dumbledore’s Army stemmed from a deep desire to try to fix the world. Of course, fixing the world is something of an impossible goal, and Anthony can, at times, become depressed about his relative inability to make a positive impact on his surroundings. In his morose moments, Anthony tends to be annoyingly self-depreciating and pathetic. He has a habit of comparing himself to other people and always finding himself coming up short. Though he isn’t going to tell you so outright, he doesn’t have a very large sense of self-worth and tends to think of himself as inferior in some way or another to everyone he knows. He’s not ambitious at all, but finds himself constantly seeking the approval of others and to be told that he’s the best at something. He needs constant reassurance, outright or not, that he’s a person who’s worthy of love.

Anthony wasn’t made prefect from his dormitory for nothing, after all, and despite a relatively easy-going attitude, he does have a strong sense of responsibility and civic duty. He tends to walk a fine line between being a completely laid-back fellow and working hard. All-in-all, Anthony values balance and tends to live by the words “everything in moderation,” - at least, when it comes to lifestyle choices. When it comes to whatever his current obsession is, forget moderation, he goes all out. Due to his Ravenclaw tendencies, his obsessions are almost never addictions, however, in the form of food or substances. Rather, he addictively pursues knowledge and trivia.

Though he wasn’t Sorted into Gryffindor, times such as these tend to bring out the more courageous and noble parts of people, and Anthony is no exception. The Hat considered Gryffindor, and ultimately, Anthony’s made of much nerdier stuff, but he still is strongly compelled to do what he believes is the “right thing.” Amongst his friends, Anthony is perhaps best known for having an infallible moral compass. He holds the people he cares about to strict standards of right and wrong, and if you do something he believes is inherently wrong, he’ll tell you. He finds it difficult to be friends with people he believes are immoral. However, he tends to be socially liberal and his moral qualms aren’t so much a strict set of rules as the way he believes that all people should be treated - with kindness, fairness, and compassion. Very little makes him angrier than prejudice, and a comment about someone being a “mudblood” will guarantee rare hatred from him. He also detests people who sit back and let prejudice happen in the name of self-preservation - this, he says, is how six million people died in Eastern Europe in a matter of five years. The experiences of his family in the Holocaust have deeply impacted the way he views the world, especially with the rise of Voldemort. He feels as though he is obligated to prevent anything like that from ever happening again, not only for the sake of his father, grandparents, and relatives who died, but for all of humanity.

This all sounds like very lofty idealism, but when talking about it, Anthony isn’t likely to present his views as such. In fact, unless they’re directly addressed, he tends to shy away from talking about these things at all. Another subject which he will rarely bring up is his faith. Most people, of course, are at least aware that he’s Jewish, but only close friends would know how much religion means to him. He’s not preachy and likes to keep his beliefs private, and also tends to sit on the more liberal end of religious issues. But he does believe in god and the tenants of Judaism, and this belief is very important to him. Bring it up, though, and he’s likely to become uncomfortable and clam up. He doesn’t see religion as something that should be discussed. There are many reasons for this - he doesn’t want people to know exactly what he thinks for fear they will judge him, he doesn’t want to come off as if he’s trying to persuade anyone of anything, and he finds that many wizards have difficulty understanding that religion might be anything more than Muggle superstition.
g o a l s & d r e a m s . Anthony isn’t sure what he wants to do with himself after Hogwarts. He finds the prospect of choosing a career somewhat terrifying and is planning on putting that off for as long as practical. Somewhere in the distant future, he hopes to set foot on all seven continents, eat nothing but chocolate, write a book, have two children, and be ridiculously happy.
q u i r k s & h a b i t s . He has a tendency to drum his fingers on whatever surface is readily available - tables, walls, and even his own body. Also irritating is his tendency to ramble uselessly whenever he feels that conversation has come to a pause.


a p p e a r a n c e .
h e i g h t . 5’7”, slightly below average, though he tends to seem smaller because he’s also thin.
w e i g h t . Anthony tends to stand on the smaller side of everything, and weight is no exception. His mother has been trying to get him to gain weight for years to no avail. He’s not deathly thin so much as slender.
d e t a i l e d a p p e a r a n c e . Anthony is most easily recognizable by his hair - dark, curly, and often a bit on the mad side. His mother has been trying for years to tame his hair to no avail, and he’s long since come to accept that he is stuck with a mop full of corkscrews. He’s also small in stature - shorter than average and slender without being ‘skinny’ or ‘boney.’

Other than this, he’s fairly unremarkable. Most if his face seems to be wide - a wide face, a wide nose, and wide blue eyes. When he smiles, his smile is wide, and he has relatively large lips. His teeth are the one major complaint he has about his nose - he finds himself slightly buck-toothed and tries to avoid smiling too widely so as not to reveal this flaw. However, a grin comes easily to his face and it’s easy for him to forget this reservation when in good company.




Anthony Isaac Goldstein
Whenever possible, Anthony dresses in Muggle clothing - he rather hates wizards’ robes, never having worn them growing up. Most often he can be found in jeans, t-shirts, and trainers. He doesn’t take very good care towards his fashion choices, but tends to keep his belongings in good order and therefore doesn’t appear to be too much of a slob.


r o m a n c e .
s t a t u s. single.
p a r t n e r . none.
s e x u a l p r e f e r e n c e . heterosexual. Anthony is and has always considered himself heterosexual. He has never been attracted to another boy and though he is not narrowminded about homosexuality, probably never will be attracted to another boy. He very much enjoys the ladies.
t u r n o n s . good naturedness, intelligence, a pretty smile, slenderness, long hair, a bit of geekiness, a generally well-kept appearance.
t u r n o f f s . cruelty, prejudice, vanity, arrogance, being very tall, large breasts, blonde hair, standoffishness.
h i s t o r y . Jessica Daniels. Jessica Daniels is a Muggle girl who lives fairly close to Anthony and goes to his temple. When he was seven and she was six, he fancied her because she told a very funny joke and was quite pretty. He presented her with a single flower he picked out of the rabbi’s window boxes and asked her to marry him. She said no, and he was devastated romantically for the first time in his life. He still knows Jessica Daniels, and she is still a pretty Muggle girl who goes to his temple. Now, however, she has gone less from telling jokes to thinking he’s something of a joke.

Rosemary Fenway. A Muggle girl who moved into the flat across the hall from Anthony’s when he was thirteen, Rosemary Fenway had strawberry blond hair and a large gap between her teeth, and Anthony thought that she was cute. She liked to read on the roof (her favourite series was The Legend of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin, and he would sit next to her and read Muggle books. She was his first kiss, the day before he left for his third year at Hogwarts. It was quite a pleasant experience, though his going off to boarding school prevented them forming any sort of lasting middle school-esque relationship. By the time he’d returned for Christmas holidays, she had moved out of the flat across the hall.

Susan Bones. Susan and Anthony have been going to school together since they were first years, but only really came to know each other through Dumbledore’s Army in their fifth year. The two of them dated for three months during their sixth year, and it could best be described as a comfortable and sweet relationship. He probably liked her quite a bit more than she liked him, being the sort of bloke who typically falls hard, and her being a bit emotionally reserved. They broke up because she (understandably) couldn’t handle a relationship in top of the loss of her aunt and the war. There were some hurt feelings on Anthony’s side, but he doesn’t dwell on it and he and Susan are still very much friends.





Jessica Daniels, Rosemary Fenway, and Susan Bones, former love interests.


e d u c a t i o n & o c c u p a t i o n .
a t t i t u d e . Anthony likes to think that he balances his schoolwork and everything else in his life fairly well. He likes to pretend that he doesn’t care very much about his marks, but the truth is that he feels pushed to be the best (or as close as he can get) in all of his classes because of a precedent set by his older brother and his parents’ expectations. He works hard on his coursework, but pretends to be quite lackadaisical.
o w l s . (10) Ancient Runes - Outstanding. Arithmancy - Outstanding, Astronomy - Exceeds Expectations, Charms - Outstanding, Defense Against the Dark Arts - Outstanding, Herbology - Exceeds Expectations, History of Magic - Acceptable, Muggle Studies - Outstanding, Potions - Outstanding, Transfiguration - Outstanding
n e w t s . Arithmancy, Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Herbology,Potions, Transfiguration, Muggle Studies (mandatory). He took Arithmancy as a sixth year but was forced to drop it in seventh to handle the mandatory Muggle Studies NEWT.
w a n d . Ten inches, cypress, and unicorn hair. Quite swishy. A good wand for Defense and Arithmancy work.
h o u s e . Ravenclaw.


h i s t o r y .
It would almost seem as though the meeting of Anthony Goldstein’s parents was exceedingly random, but Samuel and Lydia Goldstein would claim that it was fate. A wizard working for the Ministry of Magic’s embassy to Israel and a Muggle history student never would have met, were they not both walking down the same street outside of Lydia’s flat in London. They literally bumped into each other, sending all of the groceries she was carrying flying. Flustered, she asked him up to her flat and the two hit it off. Three hours later, he asked her on a date. It wasn’t long before they were engaged, and then married in 1961. Because Lydia was still studying history, the two of them moved to Oxford together so that she could be near the university. The two of them lived a quiet and relatively happy for the first five years of their marriage. Things weren’t perfect, but marriages never are, and the two were very much in love with each other. For Samuel, whose life had always been defined by disruption and tragedy, the normalcy of being married to a marriage with someone who cared about him was a refreshing step in the direction towards healing.

Their quiet life in Oxfordwas disrupted when Lydia found out that she was pregnant. The two of them hadn’t been trying for a baby per se, especially since she was still working on her doctorate degree, but they hadn’t been actively avoiding it, either. They welcomed the news with open arms, and on August 9, 1966, Andrew Ernst Goldstein was born, named “Ernst” for his paternal grandfather and “Andrew” simply because his parents liked it.

Quite content with their son, Lydia and Samuel decided that they only wanted one child, because they both wanted to focus on their careers. Lydia especially desired to become an expert in the field of medieval and Tudor warfare. They moved back to London, where both of them had grown up when in 1970, she was offered a job as a historical consultant at the British Museum. Then, there came the problem of who would look after Andrew while his parents were at work. Day care was still not a popular option, Samuel’s sister Grete was still living in Israel with their parents, and Lydia’s parents had retired to Penzance. So, Andrew was looked after by his great aunt and uncle Gunther and Luise, who were still living in London, the same people who raised his father until he was eight.

The Goldstein family lived a peaceful existence in Whitechapel, Lydia and Samuel enjoying their careers, Andrew attending primary school and spending his afternoons with Gunther and Luise, and visiting Samuel’s parents, sister, and growing extended family in Jerusalem. Because she was a Muggle, Lydia had insisted that her son have some semblance of a normal Muggle education, but it was clear that Andrew had magical powers from the time that he was very young. On his eleventh birthday, he received a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts.

Andrew left for Hogwarts on September 1, 1977, and was Sorted into Ravenclaw. He enjoyed his time there immensely, and Lydia and Samuel enjoyed having the house to themselves even though they missed their son dearly. Their peaceful life was interrupted, however, when Lydia discovered that she had accidentally become pregnant again in 1979. Shocked but happy, the couple decided it was time to move into a larger, more stable residence, and they bought the flat in Bethnal Green where Anthony grew up. He was born on a cold winter morning, January 28, 1980.

Because Andrew was away at Hogwarts for most of the year, Anthony was practically an only child growing up. He would describe his childhood as being an extremely happy one. Like his older brother, he attended Muggle primary school during the days. Also like his brother, Anthony proved to be an exceptionally bright student. He loved all of his classes, and his teachers remarked in his reports that he was unusually eager to learn, no matter what the subject matter. He had an adept mind for maths, and learned his multiplication tables more quickly than the other students, he gobbled up books quicker than teachers could produce them, and - his instructors remarked most often - he got along well with his fellow students and had a strong sense of social justice, and was always quick to point out unfairness on the part of teachers, or to stand up to bullies.

His mother had taken five years off of working after Anthony was born, but when he began primary school, she took a new job as a researcher at the Tower of London. She got off of work at five, and his father either earlier or later, depending on what he was working on and whether or not he was in the country (he unfortunately has always made frequent trips to and from Israel over the years). Regardless, once school was over, Anthony went to his Aunt Luise’s home. Gunther and Luise had taken care of Anthony as a toddler when Lydia decided to return to work. Unfortunately, when Anthony was five, Gunther died peacefully in his sleep after having lived a long and full life. Though Luise was related to the Goldsteins only by marriage, she had come to regard Samuel as a son and Andrew and Anthony as grandchildren, so she agreed to continue taking care of the small Goldstein children. The boy loved spending his afternoons with Aunt Luise. She was a mild-mannered and eccentric old woman, now past seventy years old, and though she was much more protective of her charges than the average parent in the 1980s, going over to stay with her was always fun. She gave Anthony books that his parents wouldn’t let him read and took him on rides on the underground to different sites and museums throughout London (his favourite was the British Museum, the place never ceases to amaze him).

During his childhood and through many efforts of Luise and his mother, Anthony grew to adore the city that he grew up in. He still insists that Hogwarts and London are the only places on the earth worth living - he wouldn’t rather be anywhere else. He has a strong sense of Cockney pride, having been born within earshot of the bells of St. Mary-le-Bow, even though he does not speak with a Cockney accent (unless prompted to). At the age of seven, his brother took him to see Arsenal F.C. play at Highbury stadium. Ever since, he’s been a die-hard Arsenal fan, and keeps an Arsenal flag in his room at home and at Hogwarts. Samuel had never really developed a strong interest in Quidditch, so his knowledge of the sport as a young child was relatively limited. Because he lived in the city, he was more likely to fly on holiday in the summer with his older cousins in Israel.

Just as Lydia had insisted that her children receive at least formal Muggle primary schooling, Samuel placed a large focus on Anthony’s Jewish education. Both of his parents were liberal, free-thinking types, however, religion and Jewish culture were very important to Samuel. He and Luise made a joint effort in teaching him to speak Hebrew, and he attended lessons in Hebrew and in scripture at his synagogue on Friday afternoons. The family always observed kashrut and the Sabbath. Anthony often has difficulty explaining his religious beliefs to his wizarding friends - many of them were raised without much knowledge of religion and the concept of believing in these abstract things seems rather nonsensical. Despite firmly believing in what most of Reform Judaism teaches and his faith being very important to him, he tries not to be very vocal or pushy about his religious beliefs. He thinks that this puts people off.

Anthony never displayed overt signs of accidental magic as a child. He was generally too even-tempered to show his magic in fits of anger and all spills resulted in appropriate bumps, bruises, and broken bones. Neither of his parents worried too much about whether or not he was a Squib. His father seemed to sense that he was, indeed, a wizard, and his mother didn’t think the idea of him staying at home with her instead of going off to Hogwarts. His mother had a much more difficult time coming to terms with Anthony’s leaving for boarding school than she did with Andrew’s. To her, though the energetic and independent boy was sometimes a handful, much more so than Andrew had ever been, his leaving seemed to represent the end of an era. She was finally growing old.

Anthony went to Hogwarts anyway. He arrived there on September 1, 1991 in a state of semi-awe, semi-nervousness. His older brother had set high standards for him to live up to. He had been prefect, Head Boy, and ranked second in his class. But the castle was wonderful, and Anthony fell in love the moment he set foot there. He was Sorted into Ravenclaw upon arrival. There was no contest, really. He has the outgoing and loyal nature of Gryffindors and the sense of social justice characteristic of Hufflepuffs, but these qualities are completely overrided by the unusual eagerness to learn described by his teachers at Muggle primary school.

He made friends quickly and easily, being both a relatively outgoing and kind individual. His best friends became Terry Boot and Michael Corner - the three of them were always attached at the hip as younger years. He also got along well with his other housemates, and is particularly fond of Padma Patil, whom he has been doing prefect rounds for two years now. His marks continued to be good, though he wasn’t quite as high in his classes as he was at primary school. Nevertheless, he was quick to adapt and a fast learner, his favourite subjects are Defense Against the Dark Arts, Arithmancy, and Transfiguration. As he’s grown older, he has become more specialized in his interests, and prefers a very scientific, analytical approach to academia, despite the fact that, in his personal life, he’s mostly driven by his emotions. The only subject he has ever struggled in is History of Magic. This has caused much dismay for his mother, who had expected a repeat of Andrew’s interest in history, and maybe even another family historical researcher or archivist. After all, the two boys did seem remarkably similar. They had had more or less the same upbringing, and were both Ravenclaws. However, History just never took to Anthony, and so the only reason he really tries at it is to appease his mother.

The summer before his fifth year, Anthony was appointed prefect by Professors Flitwick and Dumbledore. His parents were delighted - despite the fact that Ernie Macmillan and Harry Potter seem much more suitable candidates, they’re convinced that Anthony will keep up the Goldstein family tradition of being named Head Boy. Anthony himself isn’t sure why he deserved the position anymore than Terry or Michael did, but relishes in his accomplishment. In a house and academic class of overachievers, he enjoys having something besides having very curly hair that distinguishes him from others. Since arriving at school for his fifth year, Anthony has found that he enjoys the support aspect of prefecture: he helps younger students with homework, problems, and is overall just a shoulder to lean on, where Padma is definitely the rule-enforcer of the Ravenclaw pair.

Sixth year was relatively quiet, considering the circumstances in the castle. He kept up with articles about the war in the Prophet, wrote to his parents, and worried constantly for their safety, but otherwise lived a relatively normal teenaged life that year. The first Battle of Hogwarts and murder of Albus Dumbledore, of whom Anthony had been quite fond, came as a large shock to him, and he’s been trying to come to terms with this over the summer.


r a n d o m.
What does your character think of the current situation at Hogwarts, especially the Carrows? If he didn’t dislike them enough for their clear allegiance with the Death Eaters to begin with, the Carrows got on Anthony’s bad side right off the bat by requiring him to take a NEWT in Muggle Studies. Knowing that there was no way he could handle seven NEWT courses, he had to drop one of the classes he had been taking as a sixth year. Getting in the way of Anthony’s academic interests is never a good start. As their methods and beliefs become more and more clear, Anthony’s dislike is likely to turn towards rare hatred. Frankly, torture, prejudice, and intimidation are disgusting to him.
What's your character's deepest, darkest secret? Who might know this? Anthony’s not terribly good at keeping his own secrets and really hasn’t done a whole lot to warrant keeping from people. One thing which he is ashamed of, though, is an incident when he was nine and told his younger cousin, Nitza, that her mother’s birth control pills were candy and she ate them. It wasn’t so much that he meant to cause her harm as that he wanted to see if she would believe him. She did, and ended up having to have her stomach pumped. He still feels extremely guilty about this and doesn’t tell anyone about it.
font face="georgia" color="0A198B" size ="2"> Describe your character's Sorting. What about them caused them to go in their house?
d i s c l a i m e r .
I am not Anthony Goldstein, JK Rowling, or anyone associated with her. I own no claim to Harry Potter - this is just my interpretation of a minor character. I’m in no way connected to Adam Lamberg, either.
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