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Muggleborn
Level 8 - The Atrium
Ministry Greeter
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Lowell Bristow
Werewolf Rights Lobbyist
Running for Minister
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Full Name: Lowell Bristow
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Date of Birth, Age: February 17, 1981, age 28 |
Played By: talkingbird
Actor Image: Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
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You might say Lowell Bristow was born into politics, with a father who served on the London Assembly for a good part of Lowell's childhood. It's his mother who is the magical one in the family, a pureblood nee Yorick, making Lowell almost a perfectly even half magical and half muggle. Magic was never a secret within the family, and on his weekends home from boarding school in Ascot, where he attended since age six, Lowell was always enthralled by the parlour tricks and show-charms that his mother and her wand would entertain him with. Never quite sure whether or not their son would be magical or not, Lowell grew up with an awe of magic that never entirely left him, even after he showed his first signs of magic and received his Hogwarts letter.
At Hogwarts, Lowell made quite the addition to Gryffindor with his stubborn conviction to his beliefs, often translated into bravery when others disagreed. He was charming and charismatic amongst his peers, made prefect although never Head Boy, and graduated quietly three years after the Second War's battle at Hogwarts. With England going through reparations after the war, Lowell looked around at the country he lived in and...wanted more than just being one of the characters in the rebuilding drama going on. He felt strangely restless, not eager to settle down at all, and so after a year spent listlessly job hunting and finding nothing to capture his interest, Lowell made up his mind to take some time to see the continent, backpacking across Europe and through Russia.
The first fifteen months of the trip, Lowell regards to this day as perhaps some of the best times of his life. He learned French in France, picked up a decent amount of Castillian in Spain, learned to appreciate snow in Switzerland, how to swim in the Dead Sea, and other lessons too numerous to name. He felt as though this was an education far more deep running than just the spells and bookwork he'd received at Hogwarts -- this was a real world education. When Lowell stopped for a week in Warsaw, he was already filled with so many ideas and plans to take back to England, ways to help aid the recovery of his nation. He briefly considered going home then, rather than continuing his journey to Kiev, but after a few days consideration, he decided to forge ahead, still curious about the world.
Halfway there, dark in the middle of the night, Lowell was attacked by one of the bands of Fenrir Greyback's werewolves who had fled England after the war ended. Lowell was not only bitten -- he was mauled. Even with his quick wandwork, there were too many for him to stand a chance. Lowell never made it to Kiev.
Instead he awoke back in London after being found by a Ukranian farmer the next morning. He was informed of his lycanthropy and, after a two week recovery, discharged from St. Mungo's. When Lowell stepped out of the hospital doors, he was surprised to see how much Wizarding London had changed -- and how much it hadn't. Despite all the war recoveries that had happened, so much in so little time, Lowell was suddenly being treated like a second class citizen, all because of his lycanthropy. He was turned from restaurants, denied jobs, even asked to leave his apartment complex all because of it. Lowell Bristow, accustomed to being a fairly well to do member of society, was now a second class citizen.
This was what prompted his first forays into politics. He began in a Werewolf Rights lobbyist group, eventually gaining followers and supporters who believed not only in Lowell's promise of better werewolf rights, but also in his other platforms, things he saw working in other European nations -- an emphasis on wizarding education and better protection for the wizarding world from muggles. His ideas and plans even brought him attention and support from members of the Wizengamot, an honor Lowell never thought he would see.
With Kingsley retiring, Lowell immediately saw a chance for change. While he as nothing but respect for the accomplished career of Pius Thicknesse, Lowell feels that the real issues of this election (equality for magical creatures, and better protection from muggle interference) are ones that his foreign policy experience are better suited to handle. He just wants the chance. |
Last edited by Ernie Munch; 05-09-2009 at 10:30 AM.
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