Name : Meaghan Heartfilia
Gender : Female
Blood Status : Muggleborn
Age / DOB : 25 / 2094 (2119 - 25: since the information thread was created in 2017 not 2019. Not sure if that matters.).
House : Ravenclaw HOH
Occupation : Muggle Studies professor
Pet: None
Appearance: Meaghan stands a trifle tall at 5'9" with a light peach complexion and short, very light brown hair kept in a tidy coif atop her slender noggin. She is slender of build, small of bust, with a rather hawkish nose but an off-putting kind smile to a face that, if not for the smile, would look rather permanently upset. Her stern features are quite incongruous to her personality though, as Meaghan lives by the Ravenclaw motto "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure." Her eyes are an iridescent light blue with a conspiratorial twinkle.
Personality : Meaghan understands that learning needs to be a fun experience as well as a knowledgeable one. Being one of the youngest professors at Hogwarts, she is in a unique position to connect with the students while still being a prime authority figure in their development. She also realizes that teaching is in itself a learning experience, where she knows it would be rather Slytherin-ly arrogant of her to assume that she can know all the answers to everything. Unfortunately for her, she does have a long-standing rivalry with Slytherin purely from a competitive standpoint. She attends every Quidditch match she can, sporting copious amounts of blue and purple, to cheer on her own house against the green and silver (and the other houses as well, but none more vigorously does she cheer against than Slytherin).
Virtues/Strengths: Wisdom, Counsel/understanding, Industrious, Patient, penchant for wordless spellcasting and occlumency (preferring to not give away as much of her strategy away to a potential opponent verbally as much as possible).
Flaws/Weaknesses: Too patient and overly strategic. If she devises a plan and it fails, she can struggle to improvise. Too willing to see the good in people, easily drawn in by elaborate, drawn out deception (like a student planning something malicious long-term) rather than whether little Johnny just lied about not chewing on a chocolate frog during class when he wasn't supposed to be. The older the student, the harder time she has getting through to them if they have a bad attitude (she blames her young age for this).
Spoiler: History
History: From the instant Meaghan got her letter, she was ready to be out of the Muggle world. She loved her average parents, but she just knew she didn't quite fit in with the Muggles and their way of life on a day-to-day basis. The second she had gotten to Diagon Alley, owls took an instant liking to her, although she didn't know why and didn't really reciprocate their affection. Later she realized, as she arrived at Hogwarts, that Ravenclaw was destined to be her house. A fact she proved to the Sorting Hat with logical explanations for why she should go into Ravenclaw. The Hat chuckled at the eleven-year-old's ability to combine logic and humor so flawlessly, putting the witty young one in her preferred house. Not to mention that purple was and still is her favorite color by far.
From the instant she met her kindly head of house and two amazing, studious prefects, Meaghan knew she loved Ravenclaw house and wanted to give back to not just her Housemates, but also the school as a whole. She did that by getting good grades, participating in the school newspaper, initially wanting to work for the Daily Prophet, and then wanting to be an Auror. When it came down to it, though, post-puberty, she realized that she was better with defending rather than attacking, and preferred the quill to magical duels, so she chose to take four NEWTs rather than the minimum five required to be an Auror. She ended up not taking Transfiguration as a fifth NEWT due to the professor at the time having a restriction of an EE grade or higher on her students' Transfiguration OWL exams. Meaghan had only gotten an A in that subject, so out the window went her the only subject she wanted a fifth NEWT in.
A few years after she graduated from Hogwarts, she decided to try applying for the Daily Prophet. They at DP decided they preferred someone whose writing was not quite so full of witticisms and flowery language. She ended up volunteering as a tutor to students who had failed out of Hogwarts, choosing to see the good in them. Eventually, Hogwarts noticed her efforts at reforming students, and - when she finally decided to apply for a professorship in either of her two favorite subjects, Muggle Studies and DADA, she was offered her choice of either the potions or Muggle Studies positions. While Meaghan had a knack for potions, receiving high marks on both her OWL and NEWT for the subject, she wanted to teach something that had a more profound impact on a wider variety of students' minds, thereby she chose Muggle Studies as her class, and immediately sought after the open Ravenclaw Head-of-House position like a bird seeking her nest.
Magic Level : 8 in all respects aside from her unusual proficiency in occlumency (and her ability to teach the skill to others). Debatable about whether she's a 9 due to her penchant for wordless spellcasting, but I didn't say she had a 100% spellcasting success rate with said wordless spellcasting.
Wand: Her wand is 9 3/4 inches, made of alder wood, with a dragon heartstring core.
Patronus : Her patronus is a wren, a happy little songbird whose intelligence is often underestimated by apex predators.
Specialities : No natural-born ones, but she's worked hard to become a practicing Occlumens. Her philosophy that she teaches her students is that knowledge is one of the greatest forms of power, and that you must safeguard your own supply with reasonable measures. Occlumency being the pinnacle of these reasonable measures.
*: Her Muggle Studies professor at the time gave her an EE instead of an O purely out of bias. Professor and Meaghan disagreed on some key controversial issues regarding how wizards should approach or back away from ever-evolving Muggle technology. Meaghan was for embracing Muggle technology in conjunction with wizardry, while her pureblood professor took a more traditionalist wizardly view on the subject, viewing Muggles as inferior in every way no matter what.
I'll still play the student character regardless of whether or not the professor character is accepted. If you'd like to interview me in PM about my HP RP resume, I'll gladly share my experiences there.
Spoiler: Student App
Name: Katerina Hollyhock
Gender: Female
Blood Status: Pureblood
Age / DOB: 11 / March 12, 2108
Current School Year : 1st year
House: Slytherin
Occupation: Student
Pet: ringtail orange tabby cat named Fluffykins
Appearance: Katerina, or Katie as she prefers to be called, is very pale of complexion. Her stature is so tiny with such a hunched posture that she constantly looks, and feels, like she wants to go invisible. She has piercing emerald green eyes framed with pretty long black lashes and long, tousled black hair that she doesn't bother to cut. She is tiny, and her family has a history of being short-statured and non-athletic, so sports are one of the furthest things from her mind as it's usually one more opportunity for her to be teased.
Personality : She doesn't think she's very good at being a Slytherin. She wishes she had gotten any other House. Her fellow Housemates tease her constantly for being such a shut-in bookworm. She doesn't even read academically, she just reads fantasy novels (both magical and Muggle) as well as comic books for fun. She prefers the company of animals, namely hippogriffs, horses, etc. to people, because the vast majority of people tease her for her height, for being socially awkward, for any number of things really. As a result, her favorite classes have become CoMC and Herbology, and she's taken to hiding out with Moaning Myrtle while reading a good book. The ghost sometimes offers Katie advice on how to deal with bullies, although the advice is often far too gory for Katie's liking. Katie is resolved at attempting be a "nice" Slytherin who is nice to all people, proving the Sorting Hat wrong. She often wonders what kind of ambition or greed or intelligence the Sorting Hat saw in her to put her in what she considers to be a wretched House.
Virtues/Strengths: Emotional endurance, a strong moral compass, compassion for animals, decently intelligent.
Flaws/Weaknesses: Physically weak, frail (prone to asthma and has to use a specially pre-approved spell to clear her airways), quite lazy when it comes to studying versus reading for personal pleasure (she's a last minuter), and is depressed due to being socially awkward with very few friends so far.
Spoiler: History
History: Her parents were both wizards, her mother a Hufflepuff and her father a Ravenclaw. Her mother was a stay-at-home mom, taking care of her and her six other sisters (all older and all graduated from Hogwarts). Her six sisters, all born a year apart, all work in the wizarding fashion or arithmantic industries. Despite her mother's protests to the contrary, Katie worries that she was just "the accident child" never meant to happen, as her mother was thirty-nine when Katie was conceived, and forty when Katie entered the world. Her father never admitted to it, but Katie thought he seemed disappointed or even bitter at never bearing a son.
With that cheery background in mind, Katie was both excited for and dreading her letter from Hogwarts when it arrived. She wanted to be a Gryffindor, show her dad that she had courage and could be as tough as a son might be for him. She wasn't cut out for being a tomboy, but she would have tried for him. Katie is nothing if not loyal to people she loves. To her, she still cares about her family, even if as the youngest child, she is quite low on the totem pole of her parents' affection especially due to her slacker tendencies in the world of academia.
As she enters Hogwarts, her favorite hangouts to get away from her depressingly dark, dank, dungeon dormitory, are the library, Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, and the Care of Magical Creatures areas.
Magic Level : 1
Wand: Her wand is a short 7 1/2 inches in length, made of hazel wood, with a unicorn hair core.
Patronus : Not learned yet, but I have a pretty good idea of what it will be.
Specialities : None so far.
For 5/6 yrs: OWL Classes : N/A
For 7 yrs: NEWT Classes : N/A
For Adults: NEWTs earned : N/A
Last edited by MissScrivener; 08-07-2019 at 07:48 PM.
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Name : Everly Valhalla
Gender : Female
Blood Status : Type O
Age / DOB : 21
Current School Year: (if applicable) Out of school House : A kingdom
Occupation : Luna(Queen)
Pet: (cat, owl or toad.) Dragon, Cat, Panda, 2 dogs and a white wolf
Appearance: Human but can turn into a wolf Personality : Sweet kind caring loving and shy Virtues/Strengths: She has the power of mind control and she can control plants. Flaws/Weaknesses: Silver, and Wolfsbane History: Everly was the daughter of a king her family was ripped apart by rogue wolves they attacked her pack only a very few survived her parents unfortunately was killed she was raised by another pack family in hopes to one day find and kill those who harmed her family and her pack.
Magic Level : (see magic rules thread) She can control the plants around her. Wand: No wand
Patronus : (if applicable) Specialities : (ifapplicable. ie: Animagus / Werewolf / Metamorphmagus. It should be noted that these conditions would not be common.) She is a wolf mixed with and Moon Elf
For 5/6 yrs: OWL Classes : Not sure what this means
For 7 yrs: NEWT Classes : Not sure what this means
For Adults: NEWTs earned : Not sure what this means
Welcome to the life of a beautiful white wolf I hope to hear from you, Loves Always Everly
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