User Profile

Name: Octavius Pepper
Birthday: 4th June
Blood Status: Mixed
House (former or current): Ravenclaw
Parental Units?:
Marcellus Pepper, father. Works at the Ministry of Magic, in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.
Huang Li, mother. She was born in Chongqing, Si Chuan, China. She moved to London after getting a job in the Ministry of Magic in the Department of International Magical Co-operation.
Additional Units?: My younger brother Huang Kun (or Huang Kun Pepper) is third year Hufflepuff and he's white as my pop, but he got the Chinese name.
Place of residence: I live in a pretty big but not too big 'ouse in Nottin' Hill, West London. My room's got two beds - one fer a friend - an' we got two spare rooms as well as mine, me brother's an' me parents' rooms.

What’s your story, morning glory?: I was born into a pretty rich family. Lucky for me the past few generations 'ave been gettin' quite liberal 'an all, 'cos me dad married 'imself a pretty little chink and that ain't normal for a rich ole family what's been hobnobbin' with the likes of the Blacks and the Malfoys. Not that me family 'as liked the Blacks or the Malfoys for a while, what with this Voldie fella about gettin' up to all sorts of intolerant rubbish.

Aye, I was a good wee kid, as nice as anyone could wish. Got a little sprout three years after me so I teased him a lot. The colour of our family amused me grandmother to no end, we were two white and two as yellow as anyone from good ole Chinaland. I liked me grandmother. She passed when I was eight. Not safe, that. I grew up speakin' English and Mandarin, 'cos Mum is proud of her heritage and wanted to pass it onto her boys. When they saw that I was always gonna be taken fer a Chinese man, they named me for dad's side of the family. When me lil' bro was born and with no sign he had a Chinese mum, they named him for her with her family name and everything. Now he only goes by Huang Kun, though he's Huang Kun Pepper on the Hogwarts roll jus' so they knows he's my family.

We always had the greatest library I'd ever seen and me granddad before he died used to read me books wi' me sittin' on his knee all curious-like. It were good times, but he died jus' after teachin' me to read. I reckon it was partly the idea of not wastin' his last project that I started readin' so passionately an' soon I was hooked. Me memory for names or what I 'ad for breakfast is shocking but I can tell ye about the goblin wars though I studied them in fourth year or the habitats of certain breeds o' dragons though I last read about them in the holidays between me firs' and second year. 'Cos me memory is so good for the book readin', I learn languages like there's no tomorrow. I started learnin' Spanish in me firs' year and learnt one a year after that. I'm not sayin' I'm bloody perfect at seven languages but I could have a conversation by now, y'know. A well good one at that.

Me O.W.L.S. in Fifth year were quality as I knew they would be. Only one A, in Transfiguration. I can never get those wand movements right though in Charms I aced it again. And Ancient Runes and Arithmancy were Os too. As well as three other classes. I'm lookin' forward to the N.E.W.T.S. 'cos they'll all be subjects I'm suited for.

Suppose since we're up to this year I should give ya my appearance details and the like. Well, when ya look at me ya can see what colour my skin is (tho' if you ain't worked it out by now you're a right plonker), my hair, what clothes I wear. I stand at a measly 5'1" and if you tease me about it you're dead. I'm skinny, too so I don't weigh much. Still, people never expect me to 'eadbutt them and my wand's faster than theirs.

Make a string of adjectives: bloody, smarmy, copper, rough, lush, sound

What do people love about you?: I'm a fun bloke, y'know. Always something goin' on when I'm around, unless yer makin' fun of me. An' I stick up for the little people, 'cos we gotta stick together. To be a chink at Hogwarts is not too hard, but with a name like Octavius Pepper I do get people askin' me stupid stuff, so I know what it's like to get unwanted attention. Them girls what get picked on and just wanna be left alone can come to me, and them lil' weedy kids who just study all the time. O ho, I also get a fanclub sometimes because I'm a cute little chink and the girls love that. I jus' turn that smile on and they're mine.

What do people hate?: Well, I 'eadbutted that guy for callin' me shortie, din't I? Weren' too popular for that, with all 'is mates. Even some of my mates tell me I get too aggressive when sommat gets me goat. If someone's bein' an arse to me, I ain't just gonna sit there and take it like a bint, I'm gonna be an arse right back at them. Gets me in trouble, it does. Especially 'cos I'm in Ravenclaw and we're all expected to be smart and quiet-like, y'know. But I like me books too and sometimes that gets right up their noses - the Slytherins mostly - seein' me sittin' around nice and 'appy havin' a read. Don't help them none that I like to read out loud when there's a git around just to see their faces going crimson. Some people think I'm lettin' my family down by talkin' like a pikey wi' no education. Me mam an' dad got no bother with it, e'en though their thirteen year old son sounds smarter than their sixteen year old.

Your one crippling weakness: Guess after the way me mates are pressurin' me I'd have to say me temper, right. Don' like people ta be criticising me and mine. I guess I'm a bit touchy about me height though I don't care if people call me names for me colour. If they go on 'bout me mam I'll put their nose though the back of their 'eads though and that gets me in trouble. I got a quick wand and a lot of hexes for those who run their mouths off about me family or me mates.

If your life was the Titanic and your raft only had room for three people you know, who would they be?: Me mam, me dad and me brother, Huang Kun. Me mam and dad are great people, they let a man be who he is gonna be whether that's as British as they come or 'let's speak Putonghua at home'. They're pretty much what you'd imagine as a stereotype of their country but they accept and love each other an' their sons like they grew up together. Me lil' brother is a proud little chink, tho' he's as white as Dumbledore's bum. He's a bloody quality brother and I wouldn' have no other.

Would you jump off your metaphorical raft to make room for a stranger?: Oh yeh, iffen they was a good sort. Got no time for those jokers who think they're all that, but anyone willin' to say please is alright by my books.

Share your passions: I got a passion for books, for languages, for Britain an' for my family. Books are the wealth of the world, ain't they. Almost everythin' we know is written down into books and a person who can read can know anything. Well, I wanna know things so I'm a voracious reader. The big things I wanna know are languages. You know there are at least 3000 languages in the world? I can speak English, Mandarin (Putonghua), Spanish, Bulgarian, French, Russian and Giant so far. I'm great with 'em. I wanna go into work as a translator when I'm done wi' school, so I try to learn one every year. This year I'm studyin' Mermish. O' course I love bein' an English citizen. I love me country jus' 'cos of the safe stuff we've got an' the way I can be who I want to be. Ya already know 'bout me family.

Your thoughts on this Voldemort bloke: Ahh he's a wanker of the biggest kind. Jus' wants ta pick on the lil' people, don' he? Muggles and Mudbloods an' all that shite. There ain't nothin' wrong with bein' a mixed breed as I'm fine proof an' one person don't deserve to rule the world anyway. If anyone's gonna be rulin' anything I'd rather we get to choose, like with the Minister of Magic. Yeh I'd do my bit to figh' against him any day.

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