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The girl was younger than him. He had seen her around before but never really gone up to her before. When he first started here at Hogwarts, he had gone up to anyone and everyone to try and make friends but his family name was well known and either people hated him for being a Simon or they hated him for not being what a Simon should be or they just hated him because he wasn't a "proper Slytherin" and whatnot. Tate tried not to take too much offense to it because, well, it did hold some truth. He wasn't mean. He wasn't snarky. He could be a tad bit sassy (he blamed Luke entirely) but for the most part he was just, well. Tate. He'd been described as a kitten before - playful and cuddly. Or sometimes even a puppy. The only time he ever really was anything but nice was if someone hurt Luke or said something to Luke that he didn't like (or when guys started flirting with Luke which totally did not make him jealous at all nope) but, for the most part, Tate was a pacifist which really did not fit in with his Death Eater family's ways, something he had struggled to deal with his whole life.

”Lovely! I’m glad you were able to survive the avalanche unscathed. It was all a very unfortunate accident I must say.” Her voice was very soft and his smile grew. This girl seemed nice. At least for now, since she didn't seem to know who he was. "Indeed. But no one got hurt, yeah?" he responded with a light chuckle, placing his bag on the table she was currently standing on because, well, it seemed he had found his spot to do his homework in. ”I’m very well indeed. Though I think I have a bit of an allergy to all the dust in the air on this old books. These books haven’t been receiving all the love they should all these years. I must say most of them have probably been ignored for a very long time” The thought of the books never been used was actually upsetting and he ended up frowning as he looked at them, all dusty and old looking. "Poor books..." Luke would surely make fun of him if he found out that he was feeling bad for some books but Luke didn't have to know everything, now, did he? Especially about how I feel about certain... things.

”I really did make quite the mess … haven’t I?” Her statement drew the tall seventeen year old out of his thoughts and he blinked big, green eyes up at her, nodding, but didn't say anything as she spoke once more. ”Don’t worry though. I can fix this” Tate was about to offer to help clean up the books when, suddenly, the other student drew out her wand and waved it, sending the books back into place with what seemed like practiced ease. "Magic..." he chuckled with a shake of his head. Despite growing up in a pureblood family, sometimes he still kinda... forgot magic existed. ”I know I’ve seen you around here and there… but we haven’t properly met before” His body tensed slightly but his lips stayed pulled into a smile, warily taking the offered hand. Would she turn angry when she found out who he was? ”I’m Tallulah Luna Thistlebrooke. But most people just call me ‘Lula’… it’s shorter and easier to say I suppose.” Wow, that name was a mouthful. Thank goodness she had a nickname! He would never remember that, otherwise.

"And you are?” He released a sigh, reaching a hand up to run it through his messy curls. "I'm Tate," he said, leaving his last name out of his introduction. Quite honestly, he hated his last name and the image attached to it because he was nothing like his family. Not any of them still living, anyway.

Name: Tate Christian Simon
Age: Seventeen (February 1)
Sexuality: Pansexual
Blood: Pure
House: Slytherin
Year: Seventh - Prefect
Alliance: Order (Pretending to be a spy for the Death Eaters)
Wand: 10 in, holly, centaur tail hair core
Patronus: Unicorn
Boggart: Luke either dead or with Dark Mark

Personality: If you ask his parents, they will tell you that Tate is stubborn and doesn't listen well. They will tell you that he is turning out to be a disgrace to the Simon family name. If you ask his schoolmates, they will probably tell you, at least if they were fellow Slytherins, that he is a god awful Snake and that he probably should have been sorted into a different house. Honestly, that's all pretty true. Tate is stubborn and doesn't like to do what others tell him to do if he thinks it's a bad idea. There are, of course, a few exceptions. For example, if Luke told him to do something, there is a 99% chance that Tate will do it because Luke is his best friend, his oldest friend, and he has no idea what he would do without the shorter lad. He'd also nothing like your typical Slytherin. He is very much a cupcake. Cuddly, giggly, always wanting to research new magical creatures (unicorns are his favorite, with horses being his favorite nonmagical creature). He doesn't like to fight but he does get jealous easily and will defend his friends without hesitation, even if that usually ends in him either getting beat up or hit with a hex of some sort. He's not like your typical wizard that always uses magic. He actually really likes Muggles and doing things the "Muggle way" so if he breaks something, for example, and it happens often because his long limbs and large feet make him rather clumsy, he will most likely try to fix it by hand at first.

History:

Mother: Elizabeth Simon
Father: William Simon

Nearly everyone in the wizarding world has heard about the Simons. They go way back with the Death Eaters and Voldemort. In fact, they were some of the first Death Eaters! A horrible, nasty pureblood family that scorned half bloods, muggle borns, and, of course, muggles themselves. They did terrible things. They killed, they tortured. Anyone in the family that refused to join the Death Eaters were killed unless they managed to escape first... and then the Dark Lord fell. And then Tate was born. And the Death Eaters were coming back into power. Elizabeth and William were quick to join up again and quickly began pushing Tate to become a Death Eater as well except it didn't quite go as planned. You see, right from the start, Tate was different. He liked to laugh and wear flower crowns and was very interested in muggles and unicorns and rainbows and peace and joy and happiness. Basically everything his family was against. And it didn't help that he was quickly getting awfully close to Luke, who is now his best friend, in a way that was... more than just platonic friendship. The Simons weren't against same sex relationships but Luke's family was so the Simons quickly put a stop to the blossoming relationship around when the boys were fourteen. Knowing that Luke's family didn't approve, Tate began to hide his feelings. Or trying to, at least. To everyone else around them, it was bloody obvious that the boys had feelings for one another, but they would both kind-of-sort-of deny everything. They never outright said they didn't like each other, really, it was more of a "he's cute isn't he ha ha please stop asking questions" type of thing. But it was difficult. Very difficult. All Tate wanted to do was hold his best friend's hand and kiss his face and snuggle him at night when they slept. Especially towards the middle of the seventh year at Hogwarts when both of their families really started pushing the whole Death Eater thing.