About YouName: Carley
About The CharacterQUICK ANSWERSName: Gregory Priapus Goyle
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gargreggleHouse & Graduation Year: Slytherin '98
Occupation: student
Allegiance: Whoever his family and friends tell him. For now, that's Voldemort.
Blood Status: pureblood
Birthday & Other Important Dates: November 30, 1979
PB: Channing Tatum
Image Link: hereLONG ANSWERSAppearance: Greg is tall, about 6'4, and heavily muscled, the classic beater's build. His face is slightly squashed from one bludger too many, but woe betide the person who points it out -- Greg is more than big enough to make you regret it. He tends to hunch, a mannerism left over from puberty when he shot up suddenly. He keeps his hair clipped close and is usually found in plain robes, school robes, Quidditch robes, or sweats.
Likes & Dislikes: likes: hitting people, Quidditch, food, girls, his family, purebloods
dislikes: reading, writing, Mudbloods, feeling stupid, losing, disappointing his parents or superiors
Personality: Greg is intensely loyal. This is easily one of his defining traits: he shows blind loyalty to his friends (especially Vince and Draco), to his family, and to any allies who will make a use for him. Greg is not the swiftest broom in the shed, but he at least knows enough to be aware of this. He knows that he's most useful as a tool, a particularly musclebound pawn for his friends who do the thinking, that doesn't shy away from brutality, violence, or cruelty. He trusts his friends not to lead him astray. He sometimes has trouble dropping someone who's proven fickle, but it's definitely difficult to earn his trust back once lost. Generally speaking, you get one shot with Greg, but he's a good person to have on your side, and a bad one to have against you.
Greg could definitely be considered "too dumb to fool." It's impossible to trap or confuse him with complicated word games, because they're over his head. When you get past his level, he either exits the conversation or keeps repeating the same thing that he thinks is related to your point. He can read and write, but not very well -- his handwriting is the awkward chicken scratch of a child, and he occasionally has to sound things out or guess at a word. He doesn't always bother; whatever he ends up doing in life, he knows it will probably not involve books, and he understands enough to get by in daily life. He did not do well on his OWLs and, if he wants his NEWTs, will be spending an extra year in Hogwarts. The only class he consistently does well in is Care of Magical Creatures -- somehow, he just gets along with animals, and they tend to like him.
Yes, Virginia, Sagittarians can get sorted into House Slytherin. And not always as Quidditch players, either, although there have been jokes made about how the Hat will sort big, tall Sags into Slytherin just to pad out the team. Slytherin Sagittarians are sorted primarily because of their ability to dream; these Sags have a vision, and with the support of their House, can channel their energies to great achievements. In return they give their House something priceless beyond rubies: a sense of perspective. Temporary failure is not humiliating to the Sagittarius Slytherin, merely a temporary setback in pursuit of a goal. They can laugh at themselves even when other people are laughing at them, and of course that turns the joke on the idiots who came up with it in the first place. (How devious.) These Slytherins will coast through their classes if they can get away with it; they'd rather envision the future than attend to the details of the present.
Relationships: Garrett Goyle, father, Slytherin '78, solicitor Greg is not much like his father. Garrett is high-class, intelligent, and refined, and no one is quite sure how Greg came from
that. He is quite stern with his son, but nevertheless loves him and Greg loves him back, and does everything in his power to impress and please his father.
Veronica Goyle nee Fittleworth, mother, Slytherin '78, homemaker and socialite Greg's relationship with his mother is rather more distant. She did well with a new infant, but she's never really seemed to know what to do with him since then.
Amelia Fittleworth, cousin, Ravenclaw fifth year Greg's a little hesitant to acknowledge Amelia -- she's a Ravenclaw, not supportive of the Dark Lord, and her bloodline is...questionable. Still, she's family, and Greg has made it well known to her that should anyone mess with her, he has fists that are large and share blood with hers. Family comes first.
Vincent Crabbe and Draco Malfoy, friends Mr. Crabbe and Mr. Goyle were friends, and Greg and Vince grew up together. With Draco making the plans and the pair of them carrying them out, they make a perfect team.
Background: Garrett Goyle and Veronica Fittleworth met at Hogwarts, started dating fourth year, and had their mothers planning their wedding by fifth. They married the summer after graduation, and Veronica was pregnant within a few months. The war was at its height at this point, and Veronica was caught with a curse when someone tried to assassinate her husband, a known Death Eater. She survived, as did the baby, but once Greg was born, she was told she probably would not conceive again, and if she did it would be life-threatening to try to carry to term.
Knowing he would be their only child, Garrett and Veronica doted on their son and did their best to raise him as the perfect Pureblood gentleman. Unfortunately, it became evident by the time he reached Hogwarts that he was way, way too dumb. Fortunately, he had an equally dumb partner in crime in Vincent Crabbe, and upon reaching Hogwarts, someone who clearly knew how to harness and use him in Draco Malfoy. Greg at least had the good sense to be Sorted into Slytherin, when his parents had feared Gryffindor for him -- that was where the big dumb ones went, right?
Draco didn't always seem to really like him, but that was okay. People trusted him, and came to him to solve whatever problem could be solved with fists. He never hesitated to thump someone his classmates said needed thumping, nor to parrot what he'd heard his father say, never stopping to consider the morality of it. Greg's morality is family.
Plot Intentions: To follow Draco around, beat people up, possibly to take a Mark? and generally be a bad guy at Hogwarts. Alternately, for someone to convince him he's on the wrong side and convert him (although they'd have a serious job ahead).
