Post by Ginny Weasley on Oct 12, 2011 7:26:53 GMT
“I swear I won’t lose another person close to me to the Death Eaters – even if it means not getting close to anyone, period.”
Name: Susan Bones
Age: 17
OC or Canon: Canon
Year in Hogwarts: seventh
House: Hufflepuff
Blood Status: Half-blood
Wand: Ash, 13”, dragon heartstring
Strongest class at Hogwarts: Potions
Physical Description: Susan is a girl of average build. She has long ginger hair sometimes worn in a long plait down her back. Her face is rather round in shape, and she has blue eyes.
Uniform: Generally seems to make an effort to wear it properly, no variations to note.
Picture:
Family: Mr and Mrs Bones (parents), Amelia Bones (aunt, recently deceased)
Personality: While she hasn’t always been this way, circumstances – the murder of her aunt, in particular – have moulded Susan into a self-contained, brooding girl who frequently seems tense, is bitter towards any Death Eaters, and keeps people at arm’s length, only allowing close friend Hannah Abbott to see how, below it all, she is simply terrified of losing the few surviving members of her family to the Death Eaters. Susan also has a tendency to let her concentration in classes drift when under stress, resulting in her not doing as well in Hogwarts as she possibly should have.
History: Susan started at Hogwarts in 1991 and was sorted into Hufflepuff, where she became close friends with fellow house members Hannah Abbott and Ernie Macmillan. In her second year, Susan started to become friendly with Hermione Granger, as the two sat together in Defence against the Dark Arts classes, and both shared an ‘interest’ in Professor Gilderoy Lockheart. Hermione’s petrification by the Basilisk came as an immense shock, and despite the Gryffindor’s revival later that year, had the effect of making Susan more reluctant to try and get friendly with anyone else, in case they, too, should get wounded or killed. This disinclination was decreasing a couple of years later, until Cedric Diggory – a member of her house, if not actually a friend – was killed during the Tri-Wizard tournament, one again intensifying Susan’s reluctance to get close to anyone else.
In spite or because of this, however, Susan was one of the students who joined the DA the following year, knowing that – if Harry’s assertions about Voldemort’s return were true – her family would likely be a target, since her grandparents and uncle had been murdered on his orders during the First Wizarding War and her aunt, Amelia Bones, was highly-placed in the Ministry. Like her aunt, Susan was particularly interested in Harry’s ability to conjure a fully corporeal patronus, although she was unable to achieve this for herself when Harry taught the spell. Later in the year, the Death Eaters who had murdered her uncle and his family broke out of Azkaban, and Susan was unwillingly bombarded with questions on the matter. On top of this, Susan also had the stress of preparing for her OWLs that year, as well as being bullied at least once by Crabbe and Goyle, who took her wand and taunted her about her aunt being a ‘troublemaker’ at the ministry.
Over the following summer, Susan’s fears of getting too friendly with anyone were proven justified as her aunt Amelia – a figure Susan had been particularly close to – was murdered by Lord Voldemort in her own home. Returning to Hogwarts for her NEWTs, Susan started to become more and more worried that the remaining members of her family – herself and her parents – would be targeted next, and this stress contributed to her accidental splinching of herself while learning to apparate, although her leg was successfully reattached. Susan didn’t show up at the Battle of the Astronomy Tower later that year, since she no longer carried her DA coin, and when she found out, bitterly regretted the missed opportunity to get revenge for her aunt’s murder. As the summer passed with no sign of the Death Eaters being brought to justice – and Voldemort’s takeover of the Ministry of Magic – Susan began to grow vengeful, determined to make the Death Eaters who were running loose pay for the death of her aunt if she could manage it.
Sample: Hand clenched tightly around her wand. In all her time at Hogwarts, the girl had never done anything like this – but then again, desperate times, as the saying went…
She flattened herself back against the wall once again. If she was caught jinxing a teacher, even a vile Death Eater of a teacher… well, some of the punishments she’d heard of didn’t bear thinking about. Still, if all went well, they wouldn’t even know it was her.
Pretty big ‘if’, that was.
Susan gritted her teeth. For the kind of minor satisfaction this would give her, the risks hardly seemed worth it. But, even as small a way as it was, it was vengeance, in kind, for her aunt’s murder. “For Aunt Amelia.” She whispered, before leaning around the corner and shooting a trip jinx at Amycus Carrow’s back. The man fell hard, at Susan was sure she heard the crack of a nose breaking even from where she stood. Without waiting a moment longer, the Hufflepuff girl pulled back around her corner –
And nearly collided with the second Carrow sibling. The wand still in her hand was all the proof the Carrows would require that the male’s fall had been more than just an accident.
Susan uttered a word Aunt Amelia certainly wouldn’t have approved of had she still been alive.
Name: Susan Bones
Age: 17
OC or Canon: Canon
Year in Hogwarts: seventh
House: Hufflepuff
Blood Status: Half-blood
Wand: Ash, 13”, dragon heartstring
Strongest class at Hogwarts: Potions
Physical Description: Susan is a girl of average build. She has long ginger hair sometimes worn in a long plait down her back. Her face is rather round in shape, and she has blue eyes.
Uniform: Generally seems to make an effort to wear it properly, no variations to note.
Picture:
Family: Mr and Mrs Bones (parents), Amelia Bones (aunt, recently deceased)
Personality: While she hasn’t always been this way, circumstances – the murder of her aunt, in particular – have moulded Susan into a self-contained, brooding girl who frequently seems tense, is bitter towards any Death Eaters, and keeps people at arm’s length, only allowing close friend Hannah Abbott to see how, below it all, she is simply terrified of losing the few surviving members of her family to the Death Eaters. Susan also has a tendency to let her concentration in classes drift when under stress, resulting in her not doing as well in Hogwarts as she possibly should have.
History: Susan started at Hogwarts in 1991 and was sorted into Hufflepuff, where she became close friends with fellow house members Hannah Abbott and Ernie Macmillan. In her second year, Susan started to become friendly with Hermione Granger, as the two sat together in Defence against the Dark Arts classes, and both shared an ‘interest’ in Professor Gilderoy Lockheart. Hermione’s petrification by the Basilisk came as an immense shock, and despite the Gryffindor’s revival later that year, had the effect of making Susan more reluctant to try and get friendly with anyone else, in case they, too, should get wounded or killed. This disinclination was decreasing a couple of years later, until Cedric Diggory – a member of her house, if not actually a friend – was killed during the Tri-Wizard tournament, one again intensifying Susan’s reluctance to get close to anyone else.
In spite or because of this, however, Susan was one of the students who joined the DA the following year, knowing that – if Harry’s assertions about Voldemort’s return were true – her family would likely be a target, since her grandparents and uncle had been murdered on his orders during the First Wizarding War and her aunt, Amelia Bones, was highly-placed in the Ministry. Like her aunt, Susan was particularly interested in Harry’s ability to conjure a fully corporeal patronus, although she was unable to achieve this for herself when Harry taught the spell. Later in the year, the Death Eaters who had murdered her uncle and his family broke out of Azkaban, and Susan was unwillingly bombarded with questions on the matter. On top of this, Susan also had the stress of preparing for her OWLs that year, as well as being bullied at least once by Crabbe and Goyle, who took her wand and taunted her about her aunt being a ‘troublemaker’ at the ministry.
Over the following summer, Susan’s fears of getting too friendly with anyone were proven justified as her aunt Amelia – a figure Susan had been particularly close to – was murdered by Lord Voldemort in her own home. Returning to Hogwarts for her NEWTs, Susan started to become more and more worried that the remaining members of her family – herself and her parents – would be targeted next, and this stress contributed to her accidental splinching of herself while learning to apparate, although her leg was successfully reattached. Susan didn’t show up at the Battle of the Astronomy Tower later that year, since she no longer carried her DA coin, and when she found out, bitterly regretted the missed opportunity to get revenge for her aunt’s murder. As the summer passed with no sign of the Death Eaters being brought to justice – and Voldemort’s takeover of the Ministry of Magic – Susan began to grow vengeful, determined to make the Death Eaters who were running loose pay for the death of her aunt if she could manage it.
Sample: Hand clenched tightly around her wand. In all her time at Hogwarts, the girl had never done anything like this – but then again, desperate times, as the saying went…
She flattened herself back against the wall once again. If she was caught jinxing a teacher, even a vile Death Eater of a teacher… well, some of the punishments she’d heard of didn’t bear thinking about. Still, if all went well, they wouldn’t even know it was her.
Pretty big ‘if’, that was.
Susan gritted her teeth. For the kind of minor satisfaction this would give her, the risks hardly seemed worth it. But, even as small a way as it was, it was vengeance, in kind, for her aunt’s murder. “For Aunt Amelia.” She whispered, before leaning around the corner and shooting a trip jinx at Amycus Carrow’s back. The man fell hard, at Susan was sure she heard the crack of a nose breaking even from where she stood. Without waiting a moment longer, the Hufflepuff girl pulled back around her corner –
And nearly collided with the second Carrow sibling. The wand still in her hand was all the proof the Carrows would require that the male’s fall had been more than just an accident.
Susan uttered a word Aunt Amelia certainly wouldn’t have approved of had she still been alive.