Blaise is a good-looking, tall black boy with high cheekbones and long, slanting eyes. He had a famously beautiful mother who has been widowed seven times (each time under suspicious circumstances, after which she acquired all her late husbands' possessions). Zabini is described as extremely vain, and like other Slytherins in his year, has strong prejudices against Muggle-borns and "blood traitors."