Corby Gent
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| Corby Allen Gent | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 1 November 1982, 35 |
| City of Birth | Galway, Ireland |
| Blood status | Muggle-born |
| Physical Information | |
| Gender | male |
| Height | 5'11" |
| Hair Colour | Dark Brown |
| Eye Colour | Brown |
| Skin Colour | Tan |
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| Education | |
| School | Hogwarts |
| House | Gryffindor |
| Class of | 2001 |
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| Character Information | |
| Playby | Shane West |
| Michael | |
Corby Gent lives the life of luxury. He parties every night and sleeps all day. He drinks too much, parties too hard, and sleeps with way too many people; however, underneath that is a kind and caring guy that would do anything for those he cares about.
History
Corby had an early childhood not unlike many others. Mr. and Mrs. Gent, a respectable middleclass family in Galway, Ireland, had their firstborn child on November 1, 1982. Corby Allen Gent was a beautiful young lad, and a feisty one. Always vocal and mischievous, Corby had been suspended from grade school six times by his eighth birthday. Early into the following year, the Gent family was blessed with another little miracle, in the form of a bouncing baby girl, Clarissa. Corby doted on his baby sister, showing a kind and caring side his parents hadn’t realized existed.
By this time, his muggle parents had noticed that something was strange about little Corby. Things seemed to happen around him… impossible things. Shortly after his eleventh birthday, a representative from some foreign school came to their home and informed the Gent family, in no uncertain terms, that Corby was a very special lad and he needed to go to this school to hone and train his skills.
At Hogwarts, Corby found a fast friendship with the Creevy brothers: Dennis Creevey and Colin Creevey. After watching Dennis fall into the dark lake, Corby couldn’t help but think the tiny twerp would be an awesome sidekick. Sorted into the same house as the famous Harry Potter; Corby didn’t really share the brother’s obsession. He liked Harry alright, and sure, he was freaking talented, but that didn’t mean he should be praised like some god fallen to earth.
As their friendship grew, Corby began to realize that Dennis would never be a sidekick, if anything the two were a dynamic duo, equal in their explosive personalities. As the years went by, Corby started to figure out that he wasn’t so great at studying and stuff. He could perform the spells, but when it came down to writing essays or taking exams, Corby just couldn’t be bothered and it showed in his marks. The only thing that kept him from failing was his friends. Jesse and Dennis gave Corby a reason to succeed… or if not to succeed, at least to pass.
During the summer between his third and fourth years, the Ministry of Magic fell to the dark side, and Corby, bass in hand, fled the country with his band of misfits: Dennis, Colin, and Jesse. Scared for his life, Corby didn’t realize that those next few months would be the best and worst of his life. Jumping from place to place, avoiding the snatchers, making music by firelight, it was all so exciting and dangerous.
With his band of fugitives, Three Owl Standard was born. The Creevy brothers, more creative than Corby could ever hope to be, wrote the songs, and they’d perform, giving a bit of hope to all those that rallied behind Harry Potter via the Potterwatch radio broadcast.
Like all good things, this too must come to an end. One fateful night, the group was scattered. The following few weeks were the darkest times that Corby could remember. As an underage wizard, he couldn’t apparate and he couldn’t use magic, lest the trace pinpoint his location. He survived mainly by eating tubers and edible plants, with the occasional woodland creature when he could manage to snare one.
When the Dark Lord fell, Corby met back up with his friends, only to find that one wouldn’t be returning with them. Ever again. Colin had fallen in the battle. It was a difficult time for Corby, but was nothing compared to the hurt that it caused Dennis. The group returned to Hogwarts for their OWL year, but found that it was too difficult to try and get caught up, and Dennis and Corby decided not to return after their abysmal OWL scores (Corby did, at least, manage one ‘A’ in Divination).
The two managed to get by on the following they’d gathered during the war. They moved into a small flat in Diagon and continued making music. With the addition of Ricki, the group of four continued making music and the band’s audiences grew.
Three Owl Standard is now a major wrock band, a name every schoolgirl knows, a band every mother scoffs at but secretly envies.
