Gabriel Darren Collins

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Name of Character: Gabriel Darren Collins

Age and Birthday: 38, 12th February

Appearance (details): Gabriel is of average height. At the age of 16 his son is almost as tall as him. Just like his wife he has blonde hair that gets darker the older he gets and while he was pale blonde as a boy his hair colour is a dirty blonde, almost light a light brown nowadays. Both parents being blonde lead to the children having the same hair colour. His eyes are of an ice blue, but they by no means seem cold, but rather the opposite as there’s usually a friendly smile on his feature which easily reaches his eyes and makes them shine. He’s of average built, but gained a bit of weight when he got older and his kids weren’t permanently demanding his attention as they went off to Hogwarts. With his children growing up he tries to keep up with them and instead of dressing in grandfather clothes he tries to wear more modern things that are still suitable for his age.

Gabriel could be called ambitious. As he couldn’t get a full education in his younger years due to the war, he wants to catch up with what he missed, but it’s much more difficult to learn basic spells in later years. Still he did his best and still does, but it’s good that he doesn’t need too much magic in his job or he would be in danger of getting depressed as each failure pulls him down a bit more. Therefore it was hard for him at first to accept that his wife was far more skilled in magic as he was, but his love to her made this fact eventually become almost insignificant, at least in their relationship.

When his children went to Hogwarts Gabriel was glad that they had the opportunity he didn’t have as he is still resentful about the fact. So he supports his children at the best of his ability and tries very hard to have a good relationship with them instead of being the old man who doesn’t know a thing about the world his children grow up in. Whenever he has the chance he bonds with his children, trying to understand them as he loves them more than anything.

Job and Title Manager at the Magical Menagerie

Background of the character: Gabriel Darren Collins was born into an all muggle family in Hampshire, and thus was one of many muggle-born students to be surprised with the reveal that he was a wizard. He went to Hogwarts at the age of 11, as all Hogwarts students do, was sorted into Hufflepuff and did not attend the years after. He and his family – mum, dad, gran, sister, and brother – moved to New Zealand to escape the madness that occurred in Britain. After the defeat of Voldemort, he joined the British wizarding world once again, his family all moving back now that it seemed safe. His magical education cut short, he felt that his life of wizardry was doomed, until Mallory Anne Lenox burst into his life one dismal evening at the Leaky Cauldron.

It was after they’d had a quarrel over Mallory’s most recent boyfriend and Gabriel had stormed out in the pouring rain that Mallory realized she was in love with her flat mate for the first time. She waited all evening for him to return, fixing him a hot cup of tea when he returned and nursing him back to good health from a bad cold in the following days. Mallory did not bring over more boyfriends and moped whenever Gabriel stopped by her work to let her know he was bringing a girl back. She didn’t want to confess to him first. It had been her father that confessed to her mother first and she had always expected her romantic relationships to start the same. But she broke down one night when he came stumbling through the door, a random brunette hanging from his arm. She shouted at him before declaring that she loved him and rushing into her room, slamming the door.

Even in his drunken stupor, Gabriel was able to gather his senses enough that he understood Mallory was not joking. So he sent away the random girl, sobered up over night, and sat down outside Mallory’s room the whole night so that they could talk when she came out. They did, though Mallory was tight-lipped at first, and they decided to try out a relationship. It worked out, the two of them together. After a year and a half of dating, they married, and started a family a year later. They moved from their flat to a nice home in Godric’s Hollow following the birth of their first child.
Once the second war occured the family thought it safer to leave the country once again to escape the registration of Muggleborns and consequently keep the whole family out of danger. After the death of Voldemort they returned once more.

Parents (dead or alive): Muggles, dead

Siblings (dead or alive): sister and brother, both alive

Souse/boyfriend/girlfriend: Mallory Anne Collins (former Lenox)

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