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20 Facts About Blaise Zabini (HP, 687 words, G)
Title: 20 Random Facts About Blaise Zabini
Rating: G
Word Count: 687 words
A/N: Written for the Harry Potter Random Facts Fest.
Title: 20 Random Facts About Blaise Zabini
Rating: G
Word Count: 687 words
A/N: Written for the Harry Potter Random Facts Fest.
- Blaise Zabini was an exceptionally beautiful and well behaved baby. He did like to start as he meant to go on.
- Blaise's father, for various reasons, failed to invite Great Grandmother Zabini to his naming and so, sometimes, Blaise randomly turned into a girl. Since he was as adept with his wand as his sneer, people took it in their stride. To Blaise it just meant he could have twice as many clothes in his wardrobe.
- One of the reasons for the snub was that Blaise's father made his fortune by building up fake companies, embezzling all the money, and then faking his own death to cover the trail. Blaise's mother had only ever really been legally married the once, but she liked the ceremony, so they had it anew every time.
- Blaise's mother was of old French stock, his father of Italian, though the closest branches of both families had resided in England long enough that they still considered the Blacks to be new money and often invited the Malfoys around purely so they could mock them when they were gone.
- Blaise was quite displeased when his mother wouldn't let him keep Draco as a pet and sulked prettily until Great Grandmother Zabini killed the gardener and then bought him a thestral.
- One of the other reasons for the snub was that Great Grandmother Zabini was quite, quite insane. When he was fifteen, she turned herself into a horse and never turned back. Blaise never did learn her real name. He called the horse Gigi for short. He didn't bother naming the thestral.
- Blaise never saw the point of making an effort when he didn't have to.
- And if you did have to make an effort, it was important that people believed it was effortless, which is why he did most of his studying early in the mornings before the others got up -- he wasn't lazy: he was efficient --
- --and during Quidditch matches, which Blaise secretly hated with a passion, except during those few games when Ginny flew seeker because, even if she was a blood traitor, she made the Quidditch uniform look smoking hot.
- Blaise excelled at Potions, Transfiguration and Herbology. He would have excelled at Charms but he spent too much of every lesson trying very hard not to laugh at Flitwick.
- Oh, come on. Tiny little squeaky man thing! Hilarious!
- Of course, he lead people to believe he excelled at everything, effortlessly. Blaise suspected he was only the person who was grateful for the final battle at Hogwarts because it delayed his NEWTs long enough that he could make his results reflect that illusion.
- Lie until it's true was the Slytherin way or, anyway, it was Blaise's, and it worked out nicely. For Blaise, which was rather the point.
- Blaise put in exactly enough of appearance at the final battle that whichever side won would remember him there, casting hexes, and then retired to a safe distance. Not one of his spells actually hit anyone, of course, and priori on his wand would reveal no Unforgivables at all.
- Because that was what spare wands were for, after all.
- Blaise was rather intrigued by the idea you could steal magic and rather annoyed when he worked out he'd wasted a week of unrestricted access to the more darkly esoteric volumes in Hogwarts library on Death Eater propaganda.
- There was nothing more annoying than falling for someone else's lies.
- After the war, he became an Unspeakable so he could keep his unrestricted access to dubious books and because it amused him to be calmly mysterious at people. He was, of course, superb at it.
- He married well to a beautiful and interesting wife and had beautiful and interesting children and generally lived a very satisfying life of quiet excellence.
- Blaise started the war as a hot, rich Pureblood with good prospects. Blaise finished the war as a hot, rich Pureblood with good prospects. To be honest, he couldn't understand what all the fuss was about.
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