crowe, lafayette miles {finished}

name: Lafayette Miles Crowe
nicknames: Miles or Professor Crowe
age/year: 25
date of birth: October 30
house/occupation: Ancient Runes Professor
bloodstatus: Muggleborn
wands: 11 1/3‘ ashwinder skin, mahogany and cherry
broom: None due to his fear of heights

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height: five foot nine
weight: currently unknown as he is not concerned with it
general description: Miles is a unique individual though he stands at a rather typical five nine. His build is decent for his stature, though he's not extremely fit, he still carries his weight across his frame well. He keeps his hair long, usually down to just above his shoulders, and rarely tied back, though occasionally he'll wear a beanie on top when he's outside and its cold. His eyes are a shaded and masked brown. He learned to not let his eyes give him away any more, they are more like empty and muddy waters than windows to ones soul. The voice that he carries is generally one most would not fit with him upon first meeting him. He is very soft spoken, but yet its in a way that commands attention in his classroom, for the most part, he never raises his voice. With as soft spoken as he is, many have speculated he was hit with a poor sonorus spell.
face claim: tyler blackburn

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likes: at least eight
teaching
learning
reading
quidditch
coffee
old things
collecting antiques
his heritage
dislikes: at least eight
flying
liars
‘bad' students
talking about his past
milk
caramel
playboys
shouting
strengths: at least three
knowledgeable
determination
well skilled dueler
weaknesses: at least three
fear of flying
unsureness
commitment issues
dementor: characters worst memory
Miles's worst worst memory, as most his memories are bad, was when he was 19, he was set to be married in less than a month, but that would never happen as the day grew ever closer, he learned his bride to be wasn't everything he thought she was. When confronted, she lied about it to his face, which at the time he believed. What makes the fact worse was that night when he came home, he was the one that discovered a horrible find. And the letter she left for him, did not make things better. She loved him, but she couldn't honestly love him carrying another man's child. A man that refused to accept it and it tore her up, and she ended everything, he still has nightmares about finding her in their home.
boggart: characters biggest fear
The biggest fear that haunts this professor is that he's not true to himself. He knows that every relationship causes him to change. He's scared this path of constant change will end bad for him, death doesn't scare him, but causing his own terrifies him.
mirror of erised: three desires
First and foremost desire is to find himself and be happy with who he is. Not always bending to be what others tend to want him to be.

Second, after finding his real self, he wants a partner that will love him for who he is, and never try to change him.

Lastly, he wants a family. A family that is his own, one he loves, not like the family he was raised in.
amortentia: four scents
lavander
ambrosia
pine
pomagrante
veritaserum two secrets
He knows he had some involvement with his first fiance’s death. For they argued before he left to go out to the job he had at that time. Things were said that shouldn’t have been said, he didn’t physically do anything, but he knows that his insecurities played a major part, even though he had been cleared involvement.

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mother: Lela Little nee Crowe nee Halle / Sasha Crowe nee Van Wyck
father: William Crowe / Anthony Little
siblings: Two sisters, 3 step brothers, 1 step sister and 3 half brothers
pets: miniature lynx named Coon
history: It started long before Miles was born, but we’ll skip most the details and give a brief start. His father William Crowe, whom was part Native American and moved to London when he was only 16, and not long after met a young beauty by the name of Lela Halle. The two started seeing each other, and Lela’s sister Sasha never came to like William, driving the two sisters apart. But what really drove the wedge between the sisters was when Lela became pregnant shortly after her marriage to William. It was the first of the family for them. Both were girls. Lela was almost constantly pregnant, and the third pregnancy yeilded a boy, they chose to stay with uniquer names than common, naming the boy Lafayette Miles Crowe. But before the boy was born, William and Lela divorced, leaving him and his sisters to go constantly between the two familys, until William decided he needed time with his new family after not even a year after the two split.

Lela was beyond upset at her ex husband, that he would abandon the children so easily. She went to being a single mother of three with difficulty. She took on another job to afford what they needed. She still tried getting William to own up to his father duties to the children they had together, but after two years without any response, Lela made sure she had permanent custody of the children, and William paid for it. It helped, well would have if the money actually came in.

She eventually decided that the children, Miles included needed a father and started dating, but never introducing the men to the children. Until she met Anthony Little when Miles, her youngest was 5. Miles was unsure of the man, who came with a couple children of his own, whom Miles immediately didn’t like, but his sisters liked. Soon it was Miles that was always in trouble, blamed for almost everything. He even started losing touch with his mother, causing the boy to become quiet. He still did well in school, but he was almost always day dreaming there as well. He spent many hours in his room at home, to be alone, though his siblings tended to intrude.


Things changed at the age of 11, when he received a letter addressed to him. It confused him and his parents, but after a little deeper explination from a staff member at the school. It was decided that Miles would be allowed to attend this school of magic. They hoped to see him on holidays, which was when things got confusing for Miles. Jus before he went off to school his father wanted to now see the children he left years ago for his new family.

But he boarded the train and quickly made a few friends, but he was still more quiet than the others. Upon reaching the school itself he was in awe as the sorting started. He heard his name called, and others snickering at his name, as they used Lafayette instead of his chosen name. Frowning he took the stool and got sorted to Hufflepuff, after the hat debated between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. Quietly taking his seat he met some of his housemates, that became his dormmates for the years at school.

He made it a point to be called Miles instead of Lafayette, and soon his first name almost forgotten by the students. His school years passed without much incident, his grades were good, and he spent the summers back with his aunt and uncle.

As the years passed, girls started seeing him differently, and he dated a few, but never became anything serious. Not until he started dating in Seventh year. Things were good between them, but he noticed that he was changing a bit for her, but he kept on smiling, not aware of what was really going on. When they finished Hogwarts, Miles refused to go back to his aunts, and rented himself a little one bedroom flat, to which his girlfriend moved in with him, and they changed to engaged. But secrets were kept, and Miles was still changing, he felt he still had to be someone else to make his bride to be happy.

But thats when everything bad happened. Shortly before their wedding, he found she couldn’t take the double life, and though she loved Miles, she wanted something more, and the fact she didn’t honestly know who fathered the child she carried, she ended her life, and the babies, and Miles found the body. He didn’t know how to react, the letter hurting more than the fact she was gone. He moved out of his flat and found another, in another town.

Before long he started dating other women, changing in turn for each one, in the end to have each one leaving him. By the time he was 24, he was done, he found he liked living alone, and got himself a cat to keep himself company. He worked odd jobs until Hogwarts asked him to take over the position of Ancient Runes Professor, to which he accepted, and packed up and moved himself and Coon, his cat, to Hogwarts. He’s in his second year teaching, and is enjoying teaching, and is working to find himself. Maybe he can find complete happiness, maybe a woman isn’t even what he needs. Maybe one day he can find his true self, but for now, he’s content being just Professor Crowe.

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alias: tetra
age: forever and a day
experience: over 10 years
sample:see Hunter Savage and Farrah D'Eath