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Aubrey Davis
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Recovering Hedgehog; Butler to Diana Selwyn
36 year old Halfblood
Recovering Hedgehog; Butler to Diana Selwyn
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Full Name: Aubrey Davis

Nickname(s): "Davis"; "Aww how cute is that hedgehog"

Birthdate: 5th June, 1858

Age: 36

Gender: Human (!) male

Occupation: Recovering Pet Hedgehog; Former Footman

Blood Status: Halfblood

Residence: London

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor

Wand: Rowan, 9”, unicorn hair, pliant. A second-hand wand, lost somewhere in the Urquart house in 1878.

Family:
John Davis | Father | 18xx - 1877
Fanny Davis née ____ | Mother | 18xx - 1877
Jacob Davis | Brother | 1854
Wilhelmina Davis | Sister | 1856
Hugo Davis | Brother | 1859 - 1884
Poppy Davis | Sister | 1863
Henrietta “Henry” Davis | Sister | 1866

Elijah Urquart | Jailkeeper

(He may also have a few... hedgehog children.)
Appearance
5'6 and change, Aubrey is right handed, and unassumingly plain in looks, with ginger hair and light eyes. He has pointed features (nose, chin) and usually some whiskery facial hair. He is often still twitchy, all darting eyes and barely-suppressed discomfort. He has a rodent-y air, one might say.

From 1878 - 1893, he looked like a hedgehog, because he was one.

...ty to Finn <3
History
CHILDHOOD | 1858 - 1869

Aubrey is born to a working class family in Yorkshire, and a terribly ordinary life; his parents, like their parents before them, have both worked their whole lives in domestic service, although Fanny leaves her position to bring up the children. Aubrey makes three, but Hugo, Poppy, and Henrietta follow soon after. Their parents are a witch and wizard, albeit uneducated: still, they know enough to explain that 'strange things' their children find themselves doing are, as it happens, magic. On account of this, they keep their children away from the local muggle school, and the children spend their days picking up odd jobs and what work they can, or looking after the younger ones. Aubrey is a cheerful child. A little distracted, but there's hope.

HOGWARTS | 1869 - 1870

Hogwarts has always been a bit much to hope for. Jacob, the eldest child, and eldest son, is where their parents try the hardest to better the family: he is the only child to achieve OWLs and able to seek a more promising profession. For the rest of them: they all attend for their first year, at least, and anything after that is entirely dependent on the chance of a scholarship. Some of his sisters prove a little quicker to pick up basic literacy and magical skills, but Aubrey is no youthful wonder, and so when his first year is over, his time is already up.

DOMESTIC SERVICE | 1870 - 1878

Aubrey begins the rest of his life as a page boy in a fancy wizarding household, doing menial work and not much better off than a house elf. At fifteen (1873), he gains a position as a footman – a lesser footman, not the first! – in the Urquart house, to an upper class, pureblood family who are granted a son and heir only the next year. Aubrey doesn't question his lot, though if he does tend to dream of excitement and adventure while he polishes the silver, well, where's the trouble?

His parents both die in the riots and chaos of 1877, which is the first real shake-up in the Davis family. It's not yet their last. Of course, when Aubrey goes abruptly missing in 1878 at the age of twenty, the Urquarts scarcely seem to notice. They promote the next footman under him. His siblings, on the other hand, are entirely more confused, but never get any answers, no matter how much they press. And their habit is not to press, particularly since they are all bound to their own households. If they stop hearing from him altogether, well... mostly they expect Aubrey has stumbled into new circumstances, somewhere; perhaps accidentally ended up abroad. (After ten years, they've obviously given him up for lost; Aubrey, if he's honest, can't blame them.)

THE HEDGEHOG YEARS | 1878 - 1893

The elder Urquart boy – a spoilt brat, even Aubrey can see that – shows his first sign of magic. By turning Aubrey into a hedgehog. Aubrey is perplexed, then panicked, then angry, then... nope, he's still mad about it. It's been years, and he's still. A. Hedgehog. Elijah co-opts him as a convenient pet. Aubrey bristles. (The only upside to this situation are his bristles, by the way.) Aubrey tries everything he can think of to make a break for it, to turn himself back, to let his family know what has happened to him. But, as it turns out, doing anything is a kind of an ordeal for a hedgehog. So when Elijah Urquart swans off to Hogwarts in 1886, Aubrey finds himself going with him. This is not what he wanted, this is not what he planned, and he's just gotta say: he does not understand.

He gets used to the life, though he won't admit to ever liking it. But there are upsides as well as downsides, and he makes a few allies in his new existence. They don't see what's right under their noses, but then, Aubrey has gotten increasingly hedgehoggy over the years.

THE HUMAN YEARS | 1893 - Present

At May 1893's Hogwarts Coming Out Ball, Aubrey gets accidentally transfigured back to his original form. In the nude, and thus he causes a slight scene, but Professor Foxwood takes care of him and Aubrey is... eventually let loose on the world again. He keeps his mouth shut about how it happened to him; he trusts the Ministry less than the thought that young Master Urquart will do the same to him again in vengeance.

Mrs. Diana Selwyn – or, as Aubrey knows her, Foxwood's fluffy cat – invites him to tea and offers him a proposal to work for her. He accepts, because although he never thought to go back into service, it's a way to find his feet in the world again. And she knows what it's like, as well as he does.

Personality
As a human, he was happy-go-lucky. His head was always lost a little in the clouds, but fanciful daydreaming didn’t usually stop him from knowing his place, getting down to earth and down to work. He was never the brains in any room, nor the looks, nor the most outstanding in any regard – but he was warm-hearted, fun, and willing to make the best of things.

As a hedgehog, he was... not so amiable.

THE REVIEWS
"You are smart!" He exclaimed, not a single patronizing note in his voice. He was impressed.Archer Belby
“Meow,” she stated, matter-of-factly conveying that he smelled quite bad. Did he not ever clean himself? Those curious spine-looking things all over him must make it hard, and his tongue probably did not reach very far.Diana "Duchess" Selwyn
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Formerly known as Davis, Elijah Urquart's pet hedgehog.
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