20 Random Facts About Montague
Title: 20 Random Facts about Montague
Author: maniacalmuse
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): Implied foul play concerning a character's death, very vague. Some slight Angelina Johnson/Montague shippy hints.
Word Count: 1280-ish
Disclaimer: Insert witty disclaimer here. Basically, it's mostly JKR's. Montague's characterisation is mine. Various other characters mentioned inspired by those credited below in the notes. No money is being made. No Slytherin Quidditch players are being auctioned off for sexual favours.
Author's Note(s): Thank you to zeft for suggesting that I do this in the first place, and for being awesome at 20randomfact-ing. Also, a huge thank you must be given to lucy_lupin, niyki and wickedpixy05 for some borrowing of random characters. Slight, tiny Angelina/Montague ship hints, if you squint.
Dedication: Whoever wants it?
1) It rained on the day that Solan Montague was born, even though his birthplace, Eastbourne is hailed as one of the sunniest places in Britain. He has a vague memory of his mother saying to him once that the skies were weeping when he was born, but he was quiet and stoic.
2) Montague's full name is Solan Everett Weston Montague, which he finds extensively pretentious. Typically, he goes by his surname.
3) Montague's father, Julian, is an executive for a large Arithmancy firm. He met twenty-year-old Isabella Weston at a company Christmas party. She was the daughter of his personal assistant and ten years his junior, and he fell in love with her and married her not four months into their acquaintance. For the first year of their marriage, the servants only exhibited the most perfunctory work, considering the young woman to be a social-climber and interloper.
4) Montague's home is in a seaside resort, and he grew up close to the water and beaches. He doesn't enjoy going to the beach when it's crawling with tourists and noise, but there's a small section of it which belongs to his family, protected by Muggle repellent charms, and he occasionally goes there to think.
5) He received a toy broom for his sixth birthday and flew higher on it than the spells said that it was supposed to go. The wind buffeted him and he very nearly fell out of the air at twenty feet, but some sort of instinct told him that if he were to come closer to the ground, the wind wouldn't be as strong, and he dove downward. His hypothesis proved correct and he escaped with a few scrapes, though the broom, carried by momentum even after he'd jumped off, slammed into a tree.
6) Montague's last memory of his mother was her lying on her bed, her black hair streaming like ink around her colourless face, telling him to promise not to give his father any grief. He was three years old and promised, not understanding. She died of a long "illness" that night. It would be ten years later that he'd understand how much of an illness it wasn't.
7) Montague thinks he's probably the only person alive who doesn't like sugar quills. They get messy and sticky after a while, and are a bit too sweet.
8) He remembers his first Potions class, a Professor who terrified the other students in his class, and a list of ingredients and directions which he read over once. It just kind of made sense, and the only thing that prevented a reputation of being Snape's pet subsequently was his cool indifference to any positive remarks his head of house might make about his performance.
9) Subsequent Potions classes were mostly uneventful, though he also remembers, not with much fondness, deciding to brew an extra credit diagnostic potion in third year after a stupid first-year housemate lost fifty points for Slytherin.
10) In second year, he made the Quidditch team as a Chaser and was told by new captain Marcus Flint to spot fellow new Chaser Angelina Johnson of Gryffindor. Perhaps she knew about it, because the first game both of them played, she glared at him across the pitch even as Flint and Wood shook hands.
11) In fifth year, Montague dated a Hufflepuff girl by the name of Angela Branstone. Both of them were quiet, introverted and aloof, and the relationship tapered off after about three months. About two months after that, he dated a Slytherin girl by the name of Alexandra Richardson, who broke up with him after about four months of considerate but very reserved behaviour on his part, and curious girls who ask her about it typically get told, somewhat spitefully, that he's cold-hearted and incapable of loving anyone. In seventh year, however, when it came to his attention that his partner in Potions class had an unrequited crush on him, he tried to be as kind as possible to her in the face of the situation.
12) Montague went to the Yule Ball with a Ravenclaw girl by the name of Verity Jenkins, who is his antithesis in many ways: short and blonde where he is tall and dark, loud and vivacious where he is quiet and composed, very uninterested in Quidditch where he is a Quidditch captain, and a friend of the hated Weasley twins to boot. However, both of them are motherless, and while neither of them talk about it, it's an instinctive recognition of kindred.
13) For all he seems like a serious, no-nonsense bloke who'd never ever engage in such activities, it is unwise to challenge Montague to a drinking contest. Possessing a ridiculously high constitution, he can calmly polish off a fifth of liquor, brew a batch of flawless hangover potion, dose the less-sober participants of the drinking contest as needed, drink a few glasses of water, and walk off to bed-- in a straight line.
14) Little-known to most, Montague was one of the fourteen eye-witnesses of teammate Miles Bletchley's infamous hexing of Alicia Spinnet, and took her to the hospital wing after scathingly telling her friend Angelina Johnson that if she entrusted the girl to, say, the Weasley twins, in all likelihood Alicia would end up with some permanent injury.
15) After said incident, he reprimanded Bletchley in private. While he has no qualms in winning however possible on the pitch or taking it easy on any opponents regardless of size or gender, he doesn't see the point in acting like a crass, uncouth churl to rivals off the pitch.
16) Montague was approached by Umbridge and asked to join the Inquisitorial Squad. Pragmatically, he agreed, and was left alone after that, much to his gratification. It seemed as though agreeing nominally to the High Inquisitor's regime afforded him some freedom from trouble, whether or not he actively partook in any of her suggested activities.
17) The day that Montague got shut into the Vanishing Cabinet by the Weasley twins, they'd come to confront him about some rumours that he'd been harassing Fred Weasley's sort-of girlfriend, Angelina Johnson. He'd snippily told the Weasleys that they were daft, and it was precisely the sort of hotheaded conclusion-jumping that they were exhibiting which caused for some people to discount their accounts as opposed to the statements made by the Ministry. This was interpreted as a threat by the twins to dob them in to Umbridge, and they hexed him before shoving him into the vanishing cabinet.
18) He doesn't recall that day, and when he did resurface, he couldn't remember anything for a fortnight. Those who visited him in the hospital wing (a surprising number, considering his rather taciturn and unsociable nature) were rather surprised to converse with an almost painfully polite and impersonal individual who thanked them for visiting him but had no idea who they were.
19) He remembers there being a rather peculiar, conflicted expression on one particular girl's face when he wondered aloud whom she was and why she seemed so familiar, and expressed his belief that they probably didn't date, as he thought he'd remember that if they had. He had no idea that said girl was his main rival in Quidditch.
20) Montague went to work for the Ministry of Magic after Hogwarts in the department of Magical Law Enforcement as a forensic investigator. Said choice of profession was a surprise to some yearmates, though none of them seemed shocked that fellow Quidditch captains Roger Davies and Angelina Johnson both got accepted into the Auror programme.
Author: maniacalmuse
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): Implied foul play concerning a character's death, very vague. Some slight Angelina Johnson/Montague shippy hints.
Word Count: 1280-ish
Disclaimer: Insert witty disclaimer here. Basically, it's mostly JKR's. Montague's characterisation is mine. Various other characters mentioned inspired by those credited below in the notes. No money is being made. No Slytherin Quidditch players are being auctioned off for sexual favours.
Author's Note(s): Thank you to zeft for suggesting that I do this in the first place, and for being awesome at 20randomfact-ing. Also, a huge thank you must be given to lucy_lupin, niyki and wickedpixy05 for some borrowing of random characters. Slight, tiny Angelina/Montague ship hints, if you squint.
Dedication: Whoever wants it?
1) It rained on the day that Solan Montague was born, even though his birthplace, Eastbourne is hailed as one of the sunniest places in Britain. He has a vague memory of his mother saying to him once that the skies were weeping when he was born, but he was quiet and stoic.
2) Montague's full name is Solan Everett Weston Montague, which he finds extensively pretentious. Typically, he goes by his surname.
3) Montague's father, Julian, is an executive for a large Arithmancy firm. He met twenty-year-old Isabella Weston at a company Christmas party. She was the daughter of his personal assistant and ten years his junior, and he fell in love with her and married her not four months into their acquaintance. For the first year of their marriage, the servants only exhibited the most perfunctory work, considering the young woman to be a social-climber and interloper.
4) Montague's home is in a seaside resort, and he grew up close to the water and beaches. He doesn't enjoy going to the beach when it's crawling with tourists and noise, but there's a small section of it which belongs to his family, protected by Muggle repellent charms, and he occasionally goes there to think.
5) He received a toy broom for his sixth birthday and flew higher on it than the spells said that it was supposed to go. The wind buffeted him and he very nearly fell out of the air at twenty feet, but some sort of instinct told him that if he were to come closer to the ground, the wind wouldn't be as strong, and he dove downward. His hypothesis proved correct and he escaped with a few scrapes, though the broom, carried by momentum even after he'd jumped off, slammed into a tree.
6) Montague's last memory of his mother was her lying on her bed, her black hair streaming like ink around her colourless face, telling him to promise not to give his father any grief. He was three years old and promised, not understanding. She died of a long "illness" that night. It would be ten years later that he'd understand how much of an illness it wasn't.
7) Montague thinks he's probably the only person alive who doesn't like sugar quills. They get messy and sticky after a while, and are a bit too sweet.
8) He remembers his first Potions class, a Professor who terrified the other students in his class, and a list of ingredients and directions which he read over once. It just kind of made sense, and the only thing that prevented a reputation of being Snape's pet subsequently was his cool indifference to any positive remarks his head of house might make about his performance.
9) Subsequent Potions classes were mostly uneventful, though he also remembers, not with much fondness, deciding to brew an extra credit diagnostic potion in third year after a stupid first-year housemate lost fifty points for Slytherin.
10) In second year, he made the Quidditch team as a Chaser and was told by new captain Marcus Flint to spot fellow new Chaser Angelina Johnson of Gryffindor. Perhaps she knew about it, because the first game both of them played, she glared at him across the pitch even as Flint and Wood shook hands.
11) In fifth year, Montague dated a Hufflepuff girl by the name of Angela Branstone. Both of them were quiet, introverted and aloof, and the relationship tapered off after about three months. About two months after that, he dated a Slytherin girl by the name of Alexandra Richardson, who broke up with him after about four months of considerate but very reserved behaviour on his part, and curious girls who ask her about it typically get told, somewhat spitefully, that he's cold-hearted and incapable of loving anyone. In seventh year, however, when it came to his attention that his partner in Potions class had an unrequited crush on him, he tried to be as kind as possible to her in the face of the situation.
12) Montague went to the Yule Ball with a Ravenclaw girl by the name of Verity Jenkins, who is his antithesis in many ways: short and blonde where he is tall and dark, loud and vivacious where he is quiet and composed, very uninterested in Quidditch where he is a Quidditch captain, and a friend of the hated Weasley twins to boot. However, both of them are motherless, and while neither of them talk about it, it's an instinctive recognition of kindred.
13) For all he seems like a serious, no-nonsense bloke who'd never ever engage in such activities, it is unwise to challenge Montague to a drinking contest. Possessing a ridiculously high constitution, he can calmly polish off a fifth of liquor, brew a batch of flawless hangover potion, dose the less-sober participants of the drinking contest as needed, drink a few glasses of water, and walk off to bed-- in a straight line.
14) Little-known to most, Montague was one of the fourteen eye-witnesses of teammate Miles Bletchley's infamous hexing of Alicia Spinnet, and took her to the hospital wing after scathingly telling her friend Angelina Johnson that if she entrusted the girl to, say, the Weasley twins, in all likelihood Alicia would end up with some permanent injury.
15) After said incident, he reprimanded Bletchley in private. While he has no qualms in winning however possible on the pitch or taking it easy on any opponents regardless of size or gender, he doesn't see the point in acting like a crass, uncouth churl to rivals off the pitch.
16) Montague was approached by Umbridge and asked to join the Inquisitorial Squad. Pragmatically, he agreed, and was left alone after that, much to his gratification. It seemed as though agreeing nominally to the High Inquisitor's regime afforded him some freedom from trouble, whether or not he actively partook in any of her suggested activities.
17) The day that Montague got shut into the Vanishing Cabinet by the Weasley twins, they'd come to confront him about some rumours that he'd been harassing Fred Weasley's sort-of girlfriend, Angelina Johnson. He'd snippily told the Weasleys that they were daft, and it was precisely the sort of hotheaded conclusion-jumping that they were exhibiting which caused for some people to discount their accounts as opposed to the statements made by the Ministry. This was interpreted as a threat by the twins to dob them in to Umbridge, and they hexed him before shoving him into the vanishing cabinet.
18) He doesn't recall that day, and when he did resurface, he couldn't remember anything for a fortnight. Those who visited him in the hospital wing (a surprising number, considering his rather taciturn and unsociable nature) were rather surprised to converse with an almost painfully polite and impersonal individual who thanked them for visiting him but had no idea who they were.
19) He remembers there being a rather peculiar, conflicted expression on one particular girl's face when he wondered aloud whom she was and why she seemed so familiar, and expressed his belief that they probably didn't date, as he thought he'd remember that if they had. He had no idea that said girl was his main rival in Quidditch.
20) Montague went to work for the Ministry of Magic after Hogwarts in the department of Magical Law Enforcement as a forensic investigator. Said choice of profession was a surprise to some yearmates, though none of them seemed shocked that fellow Quidditch captains Roger Davies and Angelina Johnson both got accepted into the Auror programme.