Post by Ginny Weasley on Oct 13, 2011 19:12:36 GMT
"The Sorting Hat doesn’t know me. It made a mistake. I’m not smart – I should have been in Hufflepuff."
Name: Abigail 'Abby' Grant
Age: 11
OC or Canon: OC
Year in Hogwarts: First
House: Ravenclaw
Blood Status: 2nd-generation ‘mudblood’; both parents were muggle-born.
Wand: 9 ⅔ inches, Chestnut, Unicorn hair
Strongest class at Hogwarts: Broom-flying
Physical Description: Average build and height. Dark hair, worn long down her back, with a few shorter strands framing her face. Has what could probably be called a pretty face, although it seems to carry a permanently worried expression.
Uniform: Wears the uniform properly – top button done up and everything –, although Abby typically wears a sleeveless vest instead of the normal sweatshirt.
Picture:
Family: Only child, parents were both muggle-born, and spent more time worrying about what would happen if You-Know-Who returned than giving their daughter the attention she needed.
Personality: While not exactly shy, Abby certainly isn’t a girl who is very confident in herself either. Used to keeping herself to herself due to a lack of attention from her parents, Abby isn’t used to – and even seems unwilling to - stand up for herself around others, to the point where most people can walk all over her. She also has a rather low opinion of herself – believing that she should have been sorted into Hufflepuff because in her opinion, she isn’t brave, smart or cunning – although because of this low self-esteem, she is not easily affected or hurt by others’ words. And in spite of her own doubts, Abby is actually more intelligent than she realises. Since arriving at Hogwarts, though, Abby has become more outwardly nervous, convinced that some of the Slytherins can tell her ‘lesser’ parentage just by looking at her.
One thing about Abby, however, is that she doesn’t give into despair or defeatism easily. She may get practically walked all over, and feel pathetic, but she doesn’t allow it to get her down or stop her from trying her hardest at classes or anything else.
History: Considering the year she was set to start at Hogwarts, Abby was very lucky to get into the school at all, given her parentage, as Voldemort’s new regime, only allowed pure- or half-bloods were allowed to attend. Her parents – foreseeing what was coming when news of Voldemort’s return began to leak out – had arranged for a close friend at the ministry of magic to tamper with their daughter’s records to make her out as a pureblood witch from a long-lost family, who had only been raised by the muggle-born couple, guaranteeing her safety and her position at the school. It wasn’t long after her Hogwarts letter arrived that Mr and Mrs Grant arrived home from buying her equipment in Diagon Alley to find that, as muggle-born, they both had been summoned to come forth for interrogation by the ministry.
Neither returned.
Leaving Abby alone in their home, scared and confused. Days passed, and the more time went by, the more Abby was convinced that the Dementors had got her mum and dad. Finally, knowing term was about to start and unable to wait any longer, the girl left a hopeful – but not very optimistic – note at her home, asking her parents to send her an owl when (more like if) they ever got back and set out for platform 9 ¾ alone.
Sample: Fists clenched and unclenched as she stood on King’s Cross station, her single suitcase at her side and the barrier to the platform directly ahead of her. For what was far from the first time, Abby nearly turned tail and fled back to her home. It wasn’t the prospect of running headfirst at what looked like solid stone that bothered her so much as who she might run into – literally or otherwise – on the other side. The idea of emerging onto a platform full of Wizards and Witches alone, more than anything else so far, was incredibly intimidating for the girl. If she accidentally let slip her true blood-status…
She had to do it, she told herself. Mum and Dad weren’t coming back anytime soon, and she couldn’t put her own life on hold to wait for them.
Still…
Dad had promised to be here to take her onto the platform, and his absence gnawed at her. Indeed, the girl seemed close to panicking outright. A glance at her watch told her that she had mere minutes to make her move if she didn’t want to have the matter taken out of her hands by the train leaving without her. That thought was enough to spur the girl into action. Lowering her head and bracing herself for impact – not with the barrier, but with whoever she inevitably collided with at the other end - Abby hurled herself towards the barrier, eyes closed, heedless of the stunned gazes of quite a few muggle onlookers, and vanished through it. It was only once Abby realised that she hadn’t actually run into anyone that she opened her eyes, slowed to a stop, and stared in something akin to wonderment at her surroundings.
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I don't suppose anyone could find me a face claim I could use to represent this girl, could they? I'm no good at finding that sort of thing myself, and I really want to have a better picture for an avatar of her than just using the above drawing. If someone did find me one, it would be greatly appreciated ^^
Name: Abigail 'Abby' Grant
Age: 11
OC or Canon: OC
Year in Hogwarts: First
House: Ravenclaw
Blood Status: 2nd-generation ‘mudblood’; both parents were muggle-born.
Wand: 9 ⅔ inches, Chestnut, Unicorn hair
Strongest class at Hogwarts: Broom-flying
Physical Description: Average build and height. Dark hair, worn long down her back, with a few shorter strands framing her face. Has what could probably be called a pretty face, although it seems to carry a permanently worried expression.
Uniform: Wears the uniform properly – top button done up and everything –, although Abby typically wears a sleeveless vest instead of the normal sweatshirt.
Picture:
Family: Only child, parents were both muggle-born, and spent more time worrying about what would happen if You-Know-Who returned than giving their daughter the attention she needed.
Personality: While not exactly shy, Abby certainly isn’t a girl who is very confident in herself either. Used to keeping herself to herself due to a lack of attention from her parents, Abby isn’t used to – and even seems unwilling to - stand up for herself around others, to the point where most people can walk all over her. She also has a rather low opinion of herself – believing that she should have been sorted into Hufflepuff because in her opinion, she isn’t brave, smart or cunning – although because of this low self-esteem, she is not easily affected or hurt by others’ words. And in spite of her own doubts, Abby is actually more intelligent than she realises. Since arriving at Hogwarts, though, Abby has become more outwardly nervous, convinced that some of the Slytherins can tell her ‘lesser’ parentage just by looking at her.
One thing about Abby, however, is that she doesn’t give into despair or defeatism easily. She may get practically walked all over, and feel pathetic, but she doesn’t allow it to get her down or stop her from trying her hardest at classes or anything else.
History: Considering the year she was set to start at Hogwarts, Abby was very lucky to get into the school at all, given her parentage, as Voldemort’s new regime, only allowed pure- or half-bloods were allowed to attend. Her parents – foreseeing what was coming when news of Voldemort’s return began to leak out – had arranged for a close friend at the ministry of magic to tamper with their daughter’s records to make her out as a pureblood witch from a long-lost family, who had only been raised by the muggle-born couple, guaranteeing her safety and her position at the school. It wasn’t long after her Hogwarts letter arrived that Mr and Mrs Grant arrived home from buying her equipment in Diagon Alley to find that, as muggle-born, they both had been summoned to come forth for interrogation by the ministry.
Neither returned.
Leaving Abby alone in their home, scared and confused. Days passed, and the more time went by, the more Abby was convinced that the Dementors had got her mum and dad. Finally, knowing term was about to start and unable to wait any longer, the girl left a hopeful – but not very optimistic – note at her home, asking her parents to send her an owl when (more like if) they ever got back and set out for platform 9 ¾ alone.
Sample: Fists clenched and unclenched as she stood on King’s Cross station, her single suitcase at her side and the barrier to the platform directly ahead of her. For what was far from the first time, Abby nearly turned tail and fled back to her home. It wasn’t the prospect of running headfirst at what looked like solid stone that bothered her so much as who she might run into – literally or otherwise – on the other side. The idea of emerging onto a platform full of Wizards and Witches alone, more than anything else so far, was incredibly intimidating for the girl. If she accidentally let slip her true blood-status…
She had to do it, she told herself. Mum and Dad weren’t coming back anytime soon, and she couldn’t put her own life on hold to wait for them.
Still…
Dad had promised to be here to take her onto the platform, and his absence gnawed at her. Indeed, the girl seemed close to panicking outright. A glance at her watch told her that she had mere minutes to make her move if she didn’t want to have the matter taken out of her hands by the train leaving without her. That thought was enough to spur the girl into action. Lowering her head and bracing herself for impact – not with the barrier, but with whoever she inevitably collided with at the other end - Abby hurled herself towards the barrier, eyes closed, heedless of the stunned gazes of quite a few muggle onlookers, and vanished through it. It was only once Abby realised that she hadn’t actually run into anyone that she opened her eyes, slowed to a stop, and stared in something akin to wonderment at her surroundings.
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I don't suppose anyone could find me a face claim I could use to represent this girl, could they? I'm no good at finding that sort of thing myself, and I really want to have a better picture for an avatar of her than just using the above drawing. If someone did find me one, it would be greatly appreciated ^^
