SCAMANDER, Phoenix Levon

[Phoenix Levon Scamander]

Characters © Kieran
(Except not the grandfather Theseus and great-uncle Newt who are J.K. Rowling's characters, but only their names, occupations, blood status & Theseus' war participation are canon. Otherwise it's my fan vision, and all other characters are completely mine.)

Play-by: Oakes Fegley

CHARACTER'S NAME
Phoenix Levon Scamander

AGE
6-14 years old
* March 7th 1978

BLOOD
Half-blood

HOGWARTS
Ravenclaw

RESIDENCE
7 Walmer Gardens, Ealing, London
* Nearly photo-realistic 720° Virtual Tour

FAMILY

Father: Theodore Vincent Scamander
* 1945 | pure-blood
~ Auror
~ Animagus - (raven)
~ 190 cm / 100 kg - The additional weight is pure muscle.
~ Dark green eyes, medium brown hair but often dyes them darker.
~ Half-American from mother's side.
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Play-by: Chris Pratt

• Grandmother: Ember Leona Scamander (neé. Kelly)
  * 1895, † 1980 | half-blood
  ~ Healer
  
• Grandfather: Theseus Scamander
  * 1893 | pure-blood
  ~ Auror
  
• Great-uncle: Newton Artemis Fido Scamander
  * 1896 | pure-blood
  ~ Magizoologist
  

Mother: Saphira Ella Scamander (neé. Malloye)
* 1943 | muggle-born
~ Business-owner; Owns the Magical Menagerine on Diagon Alley, and a magic shop on Charing Cross Road.
~ 183 cm / 70 kg
~ Dark brown eyes and hair.
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Play-by: Saffron Burrows

• Grandmother: Melanie Caroline Malloye (neé. Holmes)
  * 1890, † 1980 | muggle
  
• Grandfather: Louis Jackson Malloye
  * 1890, † 1975 | muggle
  

Pets:
~ Gibson - niffler
As an adult 35 cm long  / 3 kg. They have charmed it to appear as a short-tailed chinchilla in the eyes of a muggle.
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APPEARANCE

Hair: Mid-brown / Dark brown

Eyes: Pale blue

Height/Weight: Average for his age.

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PERSONALITY

In his early childhood Phoenix was somewhat anti-social, preferring the company of his family rather than his peers unless the other children were also magical. He has nothing against muggles, quite the contrary he's used to muggle life style and has good muggle friends but he likes his wizarding friends' company better because with them he's free to babble about magical creatures which are the love of his life and to play with magical objects.

He's barely interested in muggle school subjects, and tends to skip school upon any chance of a magical adventure or studying magic. Theory lessons are the worst, for him experiencing practical life and things comes much more naturally than listening for long. Besides the career of a Magizoologists he is dreaming of becoming an inventor, to invent some new world-changing magical object – especially as he happens to be a very powerful wizard taking after his father and grandfather.
He hates cleaning which is why he's especially happy that he's usually only responsible for his own bedroom and mum charms their cleaning equipment to clean the rest of the house on their own, except for the bedrooms. He's much messier and lazier among family than when friends or guests are around.

Phoenix hasn't quite accepted the law that everything most exciting in this world must be kept hidden from muggles. He doesn't usually break the secrecy status in terribly grand ways, but likes to feel around his new muggle acquaintances attitudes towards magic and occasionally tries to sneak some small fantastic beasts from his great-uncle's zoo out into the muggle society.

So this boy is a bit rebellious and lazy, but has a calm temper. He usually fights just in self-defence or to defend a loved one, and hasn't thrown many tantrums since age three. He's a leader soul but isn't very good at compromising and doesn't shine in co-operating but very easily ends up doing whatever he himself wants to do, if the opposing person isn't a strong enough authority figure such as his mother. If he doesn't get his will through he usually sulks for hours until gives in or does some more or less unpleasant prank on the person in question.

The scamp enjoys outdoor play and expeditions the most as well as experimental developing of magical objects, and wouldn't stay in bed even when ill. He'd have to be suffering extremely high fever to stay in bed without trouble. Because of his experimenting hobbies he's somewhat frequent patient at St. Mungo's. He's very close with his family members, but most with his mother.

From muggle society's things he's most fascinated by movies, video games, and remote-controlled and robot toys. Non-magical hobbies are photographing with his Polaroid camera, creating board games (often making use of his knowledge about the magical world and fantastic beasts), and football with his friends.

FAMILY BACKGROUND & LIFE

Both his grandfather Theseus' and father Theodore's blood called for law enforcement and action. Both were very powerful and gifted wizards and ended up studying to become an Auror. Thesues served as an Auror for a couple of years, until the muggle government set conscription and called all men between ages 18 and 40 to serve in the First World War. He wanted to fight for his country and applied for a special permission from the Ministry, and as a respected and accomplished Auror he was granted it but was made sure to receive only non-combatant duties like any other who was legally allowed to aid in that war. After the World War he returned to his Auror career and six years later, as a veteran Auror, he was assigned to help in trying to capture Gellert Grindelwald who was raising war in Continental Europe.

A Global Wizarding War was eventually declared and ended at the same time as the Second World War of muggles. Theseus survived and returned to Britain, bringing with him a wife. A healer he had fallen in love with while in a wizarding hospital for war injuries. She was an american wicth who had left because she did not feel she belonged in the over-controlling wizarding society of United States. Their son was born a few months after the wars ended in 1945. Theodore was his father's son, grew up listening to stories about his father's war heroness and other exciting adventures, inspired to become an Auror himself as well. In 1966, just after graduating from the Auror Academy, in a Christmas party of the Ministry of Magic he met Saphira Malloye, a young witch who worked at the Department for Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. Although Theo had chosen a career in law enforcement and detection, he loved helping his uncle with studying and caring for magical creatures, on his spare time. Through this common interest he and Saphira befriended each other.

Saphira had, after five years in Hogwarts, returned to a muggle state school and eventually attended a couple of years business school in the muggle society. In 1969 she purchased the pet shop Magical Menagerie on Diagon Alley when its founder wanted to retire. Theo was one of his regular customers as he kept a kneazle as a pet, and was falling for the shop's new owner. After four years of dating and eventually living together, in 1974, the couple married but did not wish to bring children into the shadows of yet another war – planning to make a baby after Voldemort one day surely would be defeated.

Someone upstairs had other plans for even though they used two types of birth control, Saprhira found out she was expecting in the summer of 1978. After the initial shock the couple was surprised how excited and happy they felt about it, regardless of everything. Theo's mother got to meet his grandson before unfortunately catching a bad case of Dragon Box while caring for a patient, and lost the battle with it in 1980. As did Saphira's mother who died of old age that same year. Saphira's father never knew his grandson as he'd passed away of old age years before the boy was born.

Around Phoenix's birth Saphira hired more employees for her pet shop, so she could be a stay-at-home mum for a time. Theo continued working as an Auror, as they decided that though the job was extremely dangerous especially during a wizarding war, the more Aurors there were the sooner the war would be over. Saphira did not worry very much because Theo was one of the best Aurors out there and rarely without a partner, but she became over-protective of their little boy. During the last two years of the war she barely took Phoenix out further than their own rare yard and to shop in a nearby convenience store.

She trusted the boy out only with his father or grandfather, which was when Phoenix got to make some muggle and wizarding friends but his social skills were rather weak. Phoenix would have been quite ready to start in a state school at age five when it came to controlling his accidental magic well enough, but his mother wanted to home-school him anyway. The family lived happily and by Phoenix's second school year, in the autumn of 1984, Saphira had relaxed, believed Voldemort was dead, and agreed to register the boy into a state school.

His father gave him a baby niffler as gift for his ninth birthday. A Magical Law Enforcement Officer had saved it during the arrest of a wizard who had illegally bred magical creatures. Theo adopted it, first intending to ask if his uncle would give it a home but decided to gift it to his son who was equally fascinated by magical creatures and had expressed interest in following in his great-uncle's footsteps. Theo reckoned trying to train a niffler might be a fun and fine starting challenge for the boy, though it did live with Newt for the first few months and the initial training was done by Newt so that it would be safe as a house pet and a reasonable challenge for a little boy when it finally arrived home.

Phoenix got support and advice in its care and training from his family, but of course the niffler was mainly the responsibility of his parents. The boy named it Gibson, and managed to train it so that it doesn't attack people in pursuit of sparkly, shiny things but tries to get them by begging or doing tricks. They were not able to completely suppress its natural instincts, which is why their house has a room dedicated to Gibson with a large conteiner of dirt for him to dig in, a water conteiner to bathe in, and full of shiny and sparkly stuff – mainly worthless junk, and they've used to locking their bedroom doors whenever someone isn't in the room so that Gibson wouldn't so easily turn it into a chaotic mess.

Gibson however has during the years gotten used to the fact that their house usually doesn't have anything sparkly anywhere but in his own little treasure space. If somewhere is, it quickly ends up in his treasure pile or inside his pouch. After Gibson arrived the family has always set their Christmas tree outside on their patio and made sure the patio doors are locked.

The locked interior doors and Gibson's love of sparkly things confuse their muggle guests, as all they see and feel is a short-tailed chinchilla. Gibson even has a cage in his room, but it's mainly his toilet for the family doesn't want to imprison it in a tiny space if they don't' have to. They walk it outside in a harness, mainly on their own yard but sometimes Phoenix gets permission to walk it around the neighbourhood.

Saphira had never been excited about a niffler as a pet, but agreed to take it in hopes to encourage her son to pursue the career of a Magizoologist. Rather a niffler as a pet than the boy too choosing the far more dangerous career of an Auror. Although a niffler is a relatively high-maintenance pet, she never really considered making the boy give it up - especially not after losing her husband, at which point to the boy it became also a dear and important memory of his father.

He attended Hogwarts only for two or three years after which his mother home schooled him in magic on weekends. He took his O.W.L. level examinations in 1994. He passed six O.W.Ls, achieved Outstanding grade in three of them; for one in the Care of Magical Creatures - having been especially well trained in it by his great-uncle Newt. Overall he put far more effort in his magical studies than into other school subjects, but his mother saw to it that he passed school terms with acceptable grades so that he would have a proper chance to attend higher education in muggle society if he should ever need or want to.

ALSO

- His father was one of the aurors who caught the Lestranges and Crouch Jr., ending the Longbottoms' torture. Overall he's a very well known and liked auror, one of the top aurors of the Ministry. Thus he was featured in the wizarding newspapers especially lot during the war and a couple of years after when they were rounding up Death Eaters and killing giants.

- His mother owns the pet shop Magical Menagerie on Diagon Alley, since 1969.

- In 1985 his mother also purchased a business space from Charing Cross Road,
right across the street from Leaky Cauldron. After receiving permission from the Ministry of Magic, in 1986, she founded a magic shop for muggles and wizardkind, naming it Moody Broomstick.

Of course none of the products for sale (at least on purposes) have direct magical power but are safe in the hands of muggles. While useful for wizards and witches. Such as crystal balls, cauldrons, herbs and many kinds of stuff muggles know about anyway and which do not really work without magical blood in the user's veins. As well as a wide selection of magic related books from muggle authors. In addition to friendly and helpful service she keeps reasonable prices and quality products, so many witches and wizards shop their needs from her. Especially if also interested in a muggle perspective of magic or wishing to avoid the sometimes crowded Diagon Alley.

Saphira advertises in muggle newspapers, as well as in the Daily Prophet and on Leaky Cauldron's notice board. Opening times and other essential details can be found in the shop's own in-game forum's description which is set as a sub-forum in London.