Hippocrates Smethwyk

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Your Name: Chan

Your Age: 17

Other Characters: Alice Longbottom, Alcaeus Wilkes

Experience: 4-5 years

Secret Word/Phrase: make love, not horcruxes

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FACE CLAIM: Viggo Mortensen

FULL NAME: Hippocrates Endymion Smethwyk. Don’t get him wrong, he’s happy that his namesake is the father of medicine and all… But he firmly believes his parents were under the influence when naming him. Then again, his dad’s name was almost as bizarre.

NICKNAMES: Hippo, Hip

AGE/DOB: 62 – 21 May, 1960

JOB: Healer, head of Creature-Induced Injuries department

BLOOD STATUS: Half… Though it’s a little complicated. His mother was a muggle-born witch, and his father a pureblood squib… He’s not entirely sure what that makes him.

SEX: Male

ORIENATION: Gay

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EYES: Piercing, ice blue.

HAIR: Dark brown, though it’s now flecked with grey.

HEIGHT: 5’9”

BUILD: Slender, not particularly muscular, just… Average.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: There are some scars that come with the territory of being a healer dealing with dangerous animals, but he doesn’t really have anything significant.

SKIN TONE: Moderately pale

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BAD HABITS:

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PERSONALITY: If ever there was a stereotypical Hufflepuff, Hippocrates is it. He is patient and determined, which makes him an excellent problem-solver (and made him able to work through Brendan’s issues – more on that later). He can’t stand unfounded prejudices, and has a wonderful tendency to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. He is unfailingly kind, and cares a lot about other people: that’s why he became a healer.

Hip is also a great person to have around as a friend. He’s outgoing, and totally unafraid to talk to new people. He has a witty sense of humor (he got that from his mother, he’s sure), and he’s definitely able to laugh at himself. Again in the spirit of a true Hufflepuff, he is also extremely loyal. It doesn’t take much to get him on your side, and once he’s there he’ll never leave it unless you give him a damn good reason to. He’s much better at sticking up for other people than he is at sticking up for himself, but he’s okay with that – he tends to not care what people think of him, and he will stubbornly do things his own way to the very end.

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WAND: Pine and unicorn hair, 12 inches

BROOMS: None

PET(s): A small, white Yorkshire terrier named Brianna

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AMORTERIA: Bubblegum, cucumber, and cloves (it’s weird, he knows).

MIRROR OF ERISED: Even though he knows it’s impossible, what he wants more than anything else is to have Brendan back (his partner of 42+ years who died of leukemia several years ago). He also wishes that he’d had/adopted children when he had the chance.

VERITASERUM: Not everyone knows that he’s gay, so I gues that’d sort of be a secret. But if you ask him about it, he won’t lie. Hip really isn’t the type to keep secrets. A true Hufflepuff alumn, he is always honest and straightforward.

BOGGART: A banshee. To be honest, they mostly just creep him out – though he doesn’t fancy listening to one, either.

DEMENTOR: Watching Brendan die, and knowing there was absolutely nothing he could do about it. Since Brendan only had one half brother, and had no idea who his father was, it was essentially impossible to find a match for a bone marrow transplant. He also had a history of bulimia, which made chemotherapy a bad idea. So far, there are no magical remedies for cancers of any kind, but Hip is looking in to that. He doesn’t want what happened to Bren to happen to anyone else.

PATRONUS: He knows it’s cliché, but the best memory he has is of his first kiss with Brendan. They had already been dating for two and a half years, and had been very close friends for nearly 8, before he was able to work through Brendan’s severe personal space issues. Needless to say, it was something he’d been wanting to do for a very long time. It also came at a very good time, when Hip was under an incredible amount of stress at work thanks to the First Wizarding War.

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FATHER: Cadwalader (Cad) Emrys Smethwyk. Pureblood squib, deceased. He was a magical naturalist in his day: he studied magical creatures because it kept him in the wizarding world without requiring any spellwork. He was also good with potions, which was part of what inspired Hip to become a healer. He was always carefree, very much a go-with-the-flow type.

MOTHER: Davina Bonnie Smethwyk (nee Galbreath). Muggle-born witch, deceased. Former head of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, which is how she met Cad. Stubborn and quick-tempered, she was also a loving mother, and had a wicked sense of humor.

CHILDREN: None

OTHER IMPORTANT FAMILY:

HISTORY: Hippocrates was born on the outskirts of Musselburgh, Scottland, in a mid-sized house by the North Sea. The Smethwyks weren’t exactly what you would call rich, but with Davina’s high position at the ministry, there was always enough money to live comfortably. Cad traveled a lot for his job, so Hippo didn’t see much of him until he was about nine, and old enough to go along.

As an only child, Hip had to do a lot of making his own fun. He read a lot, and listened to Muggle tapes. He also spent a good deal of time with his cousins: Addy, Liz, and Sam. Cad was very close to his sister, Brannemai, so he would often send Hip to stay with her when he and Davina both had to go away for long periods of time. The whole family was very close-knit, and always spent holidays together. All in all, Hip had a relatively typical childhood, one that was cheerful and carefree.

When he was eleven years old, Hip received his Hogwarts letter. His parents were ecstatic – based on the inconsistency of magic in their families, no one was sure that he’d inherited it. That September, on the Hogwarts Express, Hip met a quiet, insecure boy named Brendan Davies, who he would ultimately spend 47 years of his life with. He spent the majority of the train ride attempting to pull Brendan out of his shell, something that was largely unsuccessful – that shell would take nearly a decade to crack. Still, the two became almost immediate friends, and they were both sorted into Hufflepuff.

Hip was quick to make friends outside his house, too – he was on good terms with the group of boys that became known as The Marauders, and became almost inseperable from a Gryffindor girl named Emmeline Vance. Despite some rumors that began circulating in the following years, their relationship was absolutely platonic – Hip had known since he was about seven that he was gay, and he made no real attempt to hide that from people he became friendly with at Hogwarts. The only people he didn’t seem to get along with at Hogwarts were the Slytherins: they seemed to have an innate disregard for Hufflepuffs, and there was no way he could get on board with whole Magic is Might deal. With a muggleborn for a mother and a squib for a dad, it’d make him a huge hypocrite… No pun intended.

Hip’s first years at Hogwarts passed happily, but for the most part uneventfully. He did well in all of his classes (well, except for History of Magic, but really – who ever did well in that class?), stayed out of trouble, and was reasonably well liked. By the beginning of his third year, though, he was hopelessly in love with Brendan. The boy was deeply troubled – the more Hip got to know him, the more things seemed to be wrong with him – but he really was a sweet kid, and amazingly strong to pull through everything that had happened to him at such a young age (( ask me about this character. He’s fun xD )). And Hip, being a very typical Hufflepuff, had undying patience with him. Halfway through their sixth year, they were officially (if quietly) dating, though it had been unofficial for at least a year before that.

Despite the normalcy of schoolwork, friendships, and budding romance, things were not all well at Hogwarts: a war was in the making out in the wizarding world, and the students were taking the hit. House rivalries sometimes bordered on violent as the students began to take sides, officially and unofficially. Being on good terms with James Potter and the gang, Hip was one of the first members of the anti-Voldemort group The Order of the Phoenix. Unfortunately, something he’d never been good at was dueling: he could work defensive spells just fine, and mundane household things were easy work, but when it came to inflicting harm on another person, Hip was never able to see the point, which made him very vulnerable in “combat” situations. Instead, he decided to help the best way he knew how: by studying to become a healer.

One thing can be said for wars: they provide a massive number of job openings for people who want to go into medicine. When Hip graduated from Hogwarts with top-level N.E.W.T.S., St. Mugo’s all but begged him to become part of their staff. He started work in the Accidental Spell Damage ward, which was incredibly busy with the results of all-too-frequent duels. After almost a year with that department, someone finally noticed that Hip had incredible knowledge of magical creatures and various antidotes, and moved him to the Creature-Induced Injuries department.

When, in 1981, the First Wizarding War came to an abrupt halt, Hip saw nearly half of his coworkers lose their jobs. Only the very best Healers were kept on staff, and he was lucky enough (and skilled enough) to be counted as one of those select few. Over the next decade, he worked his way up the food chain, and in the spring of 1993 he was promoted to head of the department. Around Christmas of 1995, he was presented with one of his most challenging cases ever when Arthur Weasley was admitted, suffering snake bites that just didn’t seem to stop bleeding. Ever. He tried cauterizing the bites, putting charms on them, and even – at Arthur’s own suggestion – tried some Muggle stitches and staples. When none of that worked, Hip began working huge amounts of overtime, studying the venom of whatever snake had bit him (which was completely unlike any other snake venom he’d dealt with) and, after several long days, was able to develop an anti-venom. This achievement earned him the strongly renewed friendship of the Weasleys, and an award for Healer of the Year.

Before he knew it, the wizarding world was in the grip of a second war. By mid-1996, not even the Minister of Magic could deny that Voldemort was coming back to power, and that horrible things were happening all over again. The staff at St. Mungo’s saw another significant increase, and Hip was back to working 8 to 10 hours shifts, with barely any time in between. But then, almost as quickly as it had started, it was all over again – Harry Potter defeated Voldemort in the early summer of 1998, and everything calmed down again. A sickening number of lives had been lost, though – Hip saw easily half of the people he’d gone to school with in the papers, either as dead, missing, or arrested. There were several months of adjusting, but once it was all back to normal he was free to focus more on his personal life.

As the head of his department, Hip was entitled to much more vacation time. He took to traveling regularly with Brendan, who worked as a freelance technical writer and therefore wrote his own work schedule. Several times, Hip considered adopting children; but he knew that Brendan would be completely against the idea, even if he wasn’t very vocal about it (Brendan had never been good at speaking his mind). And so 18 years passed without much change, and Hip was content with his life.

Then, in late November of 2016, Brendan got very sick. Despite all of Hip’s connections, not a single Healer in any department of St. Mungo’s was able to figure out the cause. Finally, Hip sent him to a well-respected (even in wizarding circles) Muggle hospital. There, Brendan was diagnosed with leukemia. Most of the magical world hadn’t even heard of cancer – somehow, it had only been spreading in the non-magic world. Either that, or it had gone unchecked in the wizarding world, masquerading as other things. Over the next several months, Brendan received immunotherapy treatments – the only reasonable leukemia treatment for someone with his history. The cancer appeared to go away, which came as an enormous relief, but in early 2018 it went into remission.

Completely out of Muggle options, Hip struggled to find some kind of magical cure. He spent countless nights researching the different causes and forms of cancer, different possibilities for magical equivalents, but again and again he came up unsuccessful. In August of that year, Brendan died. Hip left his department to his second in command and took a full three months off from work to deal with the loss. He stayed as positive as he possibly could, though, and returned to St. Mungo’s that winter. He now devotes a great deal of his time to cancer research, and has developed several experimental treatments for different types of the disease. Nothing conclusive has happened yet, but Hip isn’t the type to give up – he never wants anything like what happened to Brendan to happen to someone else’s love.

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