Finlay Mackenzie - Hufflepuff - 6th Year

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[/color][/b] 6th May 2009 (sixth)
Height: 5’6”
Build: Finlay is slim and toned, mainly due to her love of sports and fitness. However, this has meant that she is semi lacking in the womanly curves department, but push up bras and chicken fillets are her best friends.
Wand: A 8 inch wand handed down from her great grandmother and made from Hazel. It’s meant to improve her artistic ability, magical knowledge and optimism. The energy of hazel wood promotes love and creativity. It should’ve helped Finlay shed her baggage; open herself up to her full potential. The wood also promotes creative expression, eloquence, and art of all types. It is a wood connected to the fire element, which suits her personality at times! The core is hair from the mane of a Kelpie, which is good for most spells but Finlay knows it’s only really there because her family are Scottish and proud of their heritage.
Patronus: Scottish Wildcat - again due to her heritage. The memory that she uses to bring forth the patronus is her first ‘gig’ for her family.
Boggart: As tragic as it sounds, her boggart is Chucky. She caught a bit of the film when she was young and has had a morbid fear of dolls since, especially ventriloquist ones.
Dementor: Losing her grandfather, it’s been the only time she ever lost someone she loved.
Amortentia: Clothes dried outside on a line, Armani Code, Tigi Hair Products, Rose and Wine bubble bath.
Nicknames: Finn is cool, but call her Finny and you will get a kick to the nearest spot that will cause most pain.
Clothing Style: When in school, Finlay can either be found in her robes but when she is dressed ‘civilian’ as she puts it, she can be found in a pair of old ripped jeans, her favourite pair of Globes she’s had for years, and some t-shirt that will likely have some muggle rock band splashed across her chest. When not like that, she’ll be in her pyjamas or her sports gear or shorts and a tank top.

[/font][/ul][/size]the biography

[/color][/b] Susan, 37, Healer and Mick, 43, Guitar Legend/Manager
Siblings: N/A
Relatives: Maternal Grandmother, Morag, 57
Other Important Figures: N/A
Pets: N/A

Pensieve: Witchcraft and wizardry is nothing new to Finlay. It goes back in her family to the old days, the days of druids and celtic tribes. Her family are not snobs, they do not care how pure your blood is, your class or your creed. They work hard for a living but they also know how to celebrate hard too! Her family is not your average nuclear family, sure she has her mum and dad but they were busy with their jobs which meant they weren’t home for long periods of time. So Finlay spent a lot of time living with her grandparents whilst her dad was touring and her mum was off teaching medicine and doing what she could to save the world.

It wasn’t a bad thing. Finlay’s grandparents were two of the coolest people she knew. She was submerged in the family’s heritage, the pride and the magic from the day she was born! It was when she was little over five years old that her family realised how much of her father’s influence she had. When asked to sing a song for the teacher in her primary school, Finlay could have picked Baa Baa Black Sheep or Humpty Dumpty… but no, the child stood in front of the class and belted out Lostprophets’ Last Summer. Shortly after that, her dad bought her her first guitar and she took to it like a duck to water.

When Finlay was ten, she got the letter from Hogwarts, one of the proudest days of her life. Her family were ecstatic and the party they threw was one she has never seen beaten. It took her dad three days to get over the hangover, her grandmother moaned about being hit by a bus for two days after that! She attended Hogwarts for three years without any problems, finding school a brilliant place to be, getting… passable grades but nothing spectacular, but finding her forte in the creative classes, anything where her musical talents or her art could take off and flourish. Her guitar was always at her side and she played wherever she could, whenever she could.

However, her blessed life was about to take a turn, and it was one hell of a downward bump. In her second term of her forth year, Finlay discovered the draw back of falling in love with a normal person. Her grandfather, at the tender age of 60, had suffered a heart attack. He was the first person she had ever known to die, and the pain was second to none. Unfortunately for Finlay she was already at a tender age, the middle of puberty, her head already an emotional mess. Add a deceased relative in the mix and she did what any other teen, wizard or not, would have done. She rebelled. Finlay started acting out, bullying students, skipping classes and all manner of other things she isn’t too proud of. This only ceased when her father caught wind of it, sat her down and gave her the talking of her life. He never yelled, that’s what she remembers most. He never once raised his voice but that only highlighted the disappointment in his tone. He mentioned how her granddad would feel, how it would kill her grandmother to hear what she’d done. Finlay felt so sick after she just ran, ran as fast as she could for as long as she could. Now, whenever she feels pent up or needs to clear her head, she runs.

There are things she still hasn’t kicked from her rebellion, the smoking and occasional drinking being the main ones. She just tries to keep her head together, working hard to make up for the slide in her grades, get on with school the best she can.

[/ul][/size] [/font]the inner workings

[/color][/b] Her guitar, Singing, Running, Sports, Flying, Partying, Drinking, Smoking, The dark, Clean sheets on defuzzed legs.
Dislikes: Rap, Potions, Herbology, Fake people, Exams, Being cooped up, Being talked at, not to.
Quirks and Habits: She stammers when she’s lying. She taps her tummy when she’s bored. She’ll do that thing when you close one eye then the other to make a stationary object move when she’s bored. She still gets low at times and gets quiet and just likes to be alone.
Mirror of Erised: At the moment her dream is just to make it to the end of school with good grades. However, longer-term dreams are to be able to help schoolchildren who have rebelled, help them to get back on track. Her pipe dream would be to be a musician.

In Depth Personality: This is anything but simple when it comes to Finlay because complex doesn’t even start to describe this girl. She is a sweetheart underneath it all, she just locked that person up for a couple of years and ended up semi losing herself. She cannot describe her feelings very well if you were to ask her straight out, but listen to the lyrics of songs she writes and/or sings and you will find them pure, elegantly written poetry of things she has been through.

She’s a witch, but that doesn’t change the fact that, physically, she is like any normal sixteen year old. She likes to be girly at times, she likes to curl up and watch movies or go shopping, talk about the hottest guy in school etc. She also, as most teen girls do, is curious about sexuality, knowing she likes guys, but wondering what the other side would be like.

She has the trait that runs through all the females of her family and ask anyone who went to school with her mother or her grandmother and they will tell you that Finlay is the spitting image of the pair of them at her age, feisty. Get her riled enough and it doesn’t even matter if you’re built like Hagrid, she’ll get in your face and have no problem throwing a punch or two if you really get on her nerves. This rarely happens… more than once a month

Normally, Finlay would be able to stay optimistic about things. She was always the girl who looked for the silver lining. However, since her rebellion, she has become a little too ‘real’, the optimism replaced by pessimism. She is getting better though, becoming more fun and less doom and gloom. She is headstrong and she hates to be talked down to because of her age, her size or her gender. Although she cannot yet put her feelings into words, she can throw cutting insults and witty comebacks like there’s no tomorrow!

[/ul][/size] [/font] behind the mask [/font]

[/color][/b] Cam
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