Challenge: Fire the Canon's Character of the week drabble competition (week 4) on HPFC
Characters: Jason Samuels, OC (Daniel Samuels)
Prompt: Familial relationship.
Word count: 186
A/N: Jason's a half-blood. He has a muggle mother, a magical brother named Daniel who is three years younger than him (putting him in the same year as Ginny Weasley) and a non-magical sister, currently 9, named Erica.
Jason's hands were soaked in sweat, his fingers clammy and numb and just generally disgusting to the touch. I've never been so nervous, he thought, except of course he had. He'd simply elected not to remember, just like everyone else.
He remembered the anxiety, though, of the train journey. He'd sat with Daniel on the train, watched his little brother reading Hogwarts: a History, like it'd offer some kind of salvation, some answers.
It didn't.
"Samuels, Daniel."
Jason cringed, watching from his seat amongst the sea of black and blue. It'll be fine, he tried to convince himself, as he had been for the last thirty minutes. He still hadn't quite succeeded.
All he could think of was his half-blood brother, stuck in Slytherin with a bunch of untrustworthy snakes. Or perhaps in Gryffindor, with a bunch of reckless idiots. Or Hufflepuff, with all the compliant fools...
"Ravenclaw!"
He instantly relaxed, and he clapped the hardest. He grinned as the other blond, like a miniature version of himself, sat beside him. "The good house, huh?"
"Don't be horrible. The others can't help being what they are."