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[table][tr][td][b]Name: [color=#ffffff]Henri Charles de Bourbon[/color][/b]
[b]School: [color=#ffffff]Beauxbatons[/color][/b][/td]
[td][right][b]Year: [color=#ffffff]2nd[/color]
Status: [color=#ffffff]Pureblood[/color][/b][/right][/td][/tr][/table]
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[table][tr][td][quote][b]Appearance:[/b] Henri's features are handsomely defined and very pleasing to stare at, with ashy blond hair styled in slightly messy curls to maintain a mischievous yet dashing look. His soft grey eyes seem to glimmer like silver whenever the light hits just right, making it impossible to not be lost in the intensity of his gaze. Henri has sharp jawlines and high cheekbones, along with beautiful fair skin and a bright complexion.[/quote][/td][td][quote][center][img]/files/8376fcf4b31d5cf7.jpg[/img][color=transparent]==========================[/color][/center][/quote][/td][/tr][/table]

[quote][b]Personality:[/b] Once you've met Henri, it is impossible to dislike him--the young French is nothing but charming, outgoing and incredibly charismatic. Henri has his way with words, knowing and saying exactly what people want to hear whilst accompanying it with a disarming smile. He's particularly gentle with the ladies and the pretty boys--he never fails to compliment them to earn their favour, as he feels attraction towards both genders. Never would anyone suspect that underneath all that dazzling outward appearance is a manipulative, conniving and vain person. Henri knows he's got the charm and he's learnt to use it to his advantage. He viciously guards his darker side away from people and he doesn't have a conscience--if you aren't someone he considers as valuable within his entourage, he would never extend a hand in need when you're in trouble. Henri knows not of compassion and sympathy for others in his heart.[/quote]

[quote][b]History:[/b] [reducio]Carnelian Miller [revelio](Regina's great-grandfather)[/revelio] had had a darling wife whom he cherished dearly despite the circumstance of their arranged marriage due to Pureblood traditions. Together, the couple had bared brilliant and prodigal children by the names of Charles and Melvina Miller. Whereas Charles--the older brother--would attend Hogwarts for his education and wed Allura Raywood of Durmstrang a few years after his graduation before having their only coveted son Alfred, Melvina found herself enchanted by the bewitching calling of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and pleaded for her parents to allow her to study within the sophisticated walls of the [i]Académie.[/i] Thus was the beginning of Melvina Miller's story, where she was sent to France and encountered the wonderful and gentlemanly Alexandre Louis de Courcillon in her fourth year. Alexandre was in his sixth year when they met for the first time, and both Purebloods quickly became enamored with one another.

When Carnelian discovered that the prestigious House of Courcillon had a family prestige that could be traced back to French nobility during the 17th century, he immediately gave his daughter and her lover all of his blessings when Melvina had announced her willing engagement with Alexandre--since it was a beneficial marriage that would expand the House of Miller's connections to France. Melvina de Courcillon then gave birth to a beautiful girl whom she named Juliette Marie, and being the only child in the family, that girl would grow up to be condescending and extremely pretentious. It was almost unbelievable that anyone could ever come to genuinely like such a vain woman as Juliette, yet she somehow charmed the Pureblood Heir of the House of Bourbon to fall irrevocably in love with her and leave his at-the-time fiance Annalise de Montfort to marry Juliette instead. People whispered that she had used Amortentia, others rumoured that Guillaume Alphonse de Bourbon was simply infatuated with her otherwordly beauty--all blond hair and shining grey eyes like diamonds. Despite the circulating hearsay, Juliette was married into the House of Bourbon and two years after, Henri Charles de Bourbon [revelio](Regina's second cousin)[/revelio] was born.

Juliette Marie de Bourbon had wanted a daughter to pamper like a princess, but she'd got a son instead, and it was for this reason that Henri never received maternal affections from [i]Mère[/i] throughout his childhood. [i]Père[/i] was too besotted with the now Bourbon matriarch to even notice, and Henri was left to be raised by caretakers and preceptors. Henri inherited his good looks from his mother, and unfortunately, all of her bad traits as well. He came to resent his parents for their neglect, even though he'd learnt the art of the mask and pretended to be a good, obedient son. He never understood the concept of love as he's never received it from his parents, and soon Henri became a new constant rumour within the French Pureblood society as a child conceived through Love Potion, thus unable to feel love--fuelling the already scuttlebutt of Guillaume and Juliette's romance. This knowledge was one of the many causes of Henri's hidden rotten side, but the moment that he stepped foot into Beauxbatons, the young Bourbon Heir vowed to make use of his beautiful face and charm he'd got from his detestable mother to one day trample both of his parents and bring the House of Bourbon to new heights within Wizarding France. This conviction only grew when his sister, Charlotte Diane de Bourbon, came to this world when he was 11--the spoiled little princess that [i]Mère[/i] had always wanted.

[i][b][u]First instance of magic:[/u][/b][/i] It was during supper with both of his insufferable parents that Henri displayed the potential prowess of his magic. Henri was only five when he unintentionally exploded all of the glasses and china plates on the table due to bare concealed anger after a underlying vicious comment [i]Mère[/i] had thrown at him. One of the broken pieces almost marred Juliette's flawless skin. Henri suffered a furious scolding from [i]Père[/i] and was grounded in his quarters for three consecutive days.[/reducio][/quote]