FAMILY MEMBERS. | Eireann Teague-Gilpatrick, half-blood, 62. Ruairi Gilpatrick, half-blood, 63.
*** Gilpatrick - Half-blood, brother, Ministry, 31. *** Gilpatrick - Half-blood, sister, Kenmore Kestrels Chaser, 30. *** Gilpatrick - Half-blood, sister, open job, 20. *** Gilpatrick - Half-blood, sister, open job, 19.
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CHILDHOOD. | Eireann Teague-Gilpatrick and Ruairi Gilpatrick met at Hogwarts and were the best of friends until their seventh year. They began to date and a year after graduation they were married. Two years after that the half-blooded couple welcomed their first child into the world. When he was born his hair was little wisps of dark hair which is where his name came from. It became clear he had inherited his mother's Metamorphmagus abilities when his hair changed colors around the six-month mark to a bright purple color. Thrilled that her son had her family's ability she showed it off to her side of the family as well as close friends to the point he would sometimes change his hair color for the attention. Being the child of two half-bloods he grew up equally in the Muggle and wizarding worlds.
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YEAR 01. | A quiet but hot-headed youth he was sorted into Gryffindor at Hogwarts and showed many brave traits as well as a healthy bit of recklessness. He did well in his classes but excelled in transfiguration and charms. He also first met Ian Huxley and quickly came to a mutual dislike for one another.
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YEAR 02. | In his second year, he was a relatively good student. He enjoyed learning magic and being away from home, but couldn't wait for his older sister to finally graduate next year to stop keeping an eye on him.
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YEAR 03. | Finally he was alone! His older brother and sister had graduated, and his two younger siblings were still three years away from coming to school. He also picked up Basic healing and Care of Magical Creatures in this year to give him a starting idea of what he might want to do when he was older. Basic Healing quickly became his favourite class.
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YEAR 04. | This year was the odd one. He was starting to notice both girls and boys, awkwardly making his way through flirting with both until he got his first kiss. It seemed to spark something in the young Gryffindor that had him experimenting with dating multiple people.
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YEAR 05. | Basic healing quickly became a class he was both very good at and at the same time enjoyed doing. The elective course came so easily to him that he, in fact, decided in this year that he was going to be a Healer when he graduated. With that goal in mind, he worked his hardest to get the required grades to meet his hopes. It's also the year he and Ian Huxley became friends and then more than friends without actually dating.
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YEAR 06.
| By this point he had gained a bit of a reputation. He had no real friends besides Ian, and as it was their last year together, they had to make the best of it. His grades suffered a little for it, but he had a lot of fun with him and others in between maintaining passable grades.
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YEAR 07.
| Ian had graduated and he thought he was about to spend his last year alone. That was until a transfer student from Beauxbatons arrived. Ciaran immediately decided to make the wheelchair-bound Jero his friend. The two were almost always together in this last year of school, often with Ciaran pushing Jero's wheelchair if he got stuck in mud and snow. No way was he going to leave him alone at the school on Hogsmeade weekends after all.
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ADULTHOOD. | Upon graduating he became a junior Healer with a bit of nervous energy. This is important to note because he had an angry look to him when not nervous but once he was anxious? The young man almost always looked as though he was being trailed by a dark cloud everywhere he went. At least until he was comfortable and people got to know him. Ciaran finished being a junior Healer with no incident, his placement in the Pediatric Ward was at first awkward.
Children had a tendency to find him scary, however. It took him some doing before he used his Metamorphagus abilities to make his appearance more child-friendly which is what he became known for. The ability made him the one Healer that could soothe and make laugh, even the most injured child. A new pattern emerged where he was the best with the kids though being caught with his ability active made him nervous and thus a dark cloud tends to still follow him about.
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