Post by Poppy Armstrong on Dec 28, 2010 23:48:37 GMT 1
Poppy Katherine Armstrong
sixteen, female, heterosexual, half-blood, student
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sixteen, female, heterosexual, half-blood, student
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Height: 5’2.5”
Build: Pint sized.
Wand: Holly and Phoenix Feather, seven and a half inches. Poppy’s wand is strong, active and definite. It is good at protection spells, in particular defence against dark magic and can be successfully used in transfiguration. It is unsuitable for charms, struggling with even the most basic spells.
Patronus: Monkey; Poppy thinks of the last family outing she took with her parents before they split up. They went to the zoo and saw all the animals and then went for ice cream.
Boggart: Poppy is quite afraid of falling off her broom. So boggarts appears as herself on a broom that suddenly goes out of control and tries to shake her off. Poppy combats this by charming herself into a cowboy outfit and riding the errant broom like a bucking bronco.
Dementor: The summer before she went to Hogwarts when her mother found out that magic existed. Poppy spent a couple of weeks crouching on the landing in the evenings with her little brother listening to the muffled sounds of her parents arguing.
Amortentia: Broom polish, coconut and sherbet.
Nicknames: Pops and popcorn.
Clothing Style: Poppy is a bit of a hippy. She likes floral prints, faded denim, bell-bottomed jeans and headbands. That said she isn’t opposed to updating her look a little by adding a few rock touches, like a leather jacket or some dark, smoky eyes. And what girl doesn't occasionally like to look as pretty as a princess.
[/font][/ul][/size]the biography
Carrie Swan, 40, Managing director for a big shot company in London.
Siblings: Peter Armstrong, 13, student at Hogwarts.
Other Important Figures: Seth Hevulen, 17, student at Hogwarts.
Pets: A fish called Wanda. Wanda isn’t the brightest fish in the bowl; she tends to swim into the glass every so often. Poppy has dutifully brought her to Hogwarts ever since second year anyway, even though fish aren’t one of the pets allowed at the school.
Pensieve:
Poppy had a relatively uneventful childhood. She did everything you'd expect of a young girl, she squabbled with her brother, played made up games with him, imagined that one day she was going to grow up and marry a prince and went to a normal, muggle primary school. She never did particularly well in her lessons, nor did she do badly enough to draw attention and concern from her teachers. One thing she was always very good at was making friends. So, apart from the occasional hiccup like something very unusual when she got emotional she had no idea that there was a whole world of magic out there.
The letter for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry arrived in the summer, just as Poppy had begun to wish that something exciting would happen. She didn't want to go to the local secondary school, with its unappealing bottle-green uniform and the blazer that made her itch. At first her mother had thought it was a joke and it wasn't until Gilbert got home from work and took her aside to explain that he was in fact a wizard who represented muggles in cases involving magic and even showed her his wand that she believed it. Carrie didn't take it well and Poppy can vividly remember sitting at the top of the stairs listening to her parents argue.
The next day her father took a day off work and they went shopping for her things. Her mother had refused to even acknowledge them when they left and Poppy spent the journey worrying about it. Diagon Alley soon made her forget all about it. Getting her equipment for Hogwarts was one of the most exciting things Poppy had ever done and she returned home laden with sweets, a wand, several sets of robes and a cauldron full of textbooks with diagrams that moved on their own. She tried to give her brother a chocolate frog, but Carrie caught her and stamped on it then sent them both to bed after dinner without any pudding. That evening Poppy lay awake in bed straining to hear the muffled shouts of her parents downstairs.
Her departure to Hogwarts was a tearful one and while her mother didn't say a word she hugged Poppy very tightly before they left for the trainstation. Poppy had thought she would be homesick, but at Hogwarts she made plenty of new friends, in particular on Seth Heluven, who didn't say much, which was perfect because she talked all the time. She spent quite a lot of time pushing him out of his comfort zone, by hugging him and ruffling his hair and asking him questions that couldn't be answered with a single word, but she liked to think she always knew when to leave him be. The two of them met properly during their first flying lesson in first year, when Poppy got a little overzealous with a turn and landed on him.
Her first summer back home was a big shock for Poppy. Gilbert and Carrie had split up and were living in separate homes. They both assured her that it wasn't her fault, but Poppy couldn't help feeling that if she hadn't been magical they never would have got a divorce. She spent the first half of the summer with her father and for the first time in 15 long years he was allowed to openly use magic around the house, so he spent a lot of time catching Poppy up on the magical experiences she'd missed out on living a muggle life. For the last three weeks of the summer she quickly learnt not to mention magic around Carrie.
Her second year at Hogwarts was tougher the first. Poppy was having a hard time dealing with her parent's divorce, but she managed to find comfort in two places. The first was with Seth, who had been through a similar experience when her older sister got accepted to Hogwarts and their father didn't take the news very well. He was as caring and understanding as any friend could be and, perhaps to distract her, they started to get lizards (and fish) included on the list of pets allowed at the school. The second comfort to her was Quidditch. Poppy was too young to be on the team, but that didn't stop her from trying out and the captain of the team at the time promised that she had enough potential to make it on the team in a few years time.
In her third year Poppy helped Seth sneak his lizard into the school. Or at least they tried and then one Abraham Grey caught them, but all he did was teach them a nifty little charm to make sure the lizards were warm enough in the cold castle considering they could hardly bring a heat lamp with them. In her fourth year Poppy made it onto the quidditch team as a reserve chaser, but all that meant was that she spent every match even more anxious about the outcome. In her fifth year Ash O'Neill transferred to the school and she made no secret of the fact that she didn't like the American. Not only did he take over the quidditch team even though he couldn't fly, he struck up a 'special friendship' with Seth that Poppy didn't approve of at all. The only thing Poppy could think of to do was do exactly the opposite of everything Ash told her to do on the quidditch pitch, which only earned her another year on the reserves bench.
Now in her sixth year Poppy has finally made it onto the quidditch team properly and she looks set to be the captain for a final year at school. In preparation for this role Poppy as started quite the rivalry with Amelia Pace, the current captain of the Gryffindor quidditch team. She often attempts to get in Amelia's face and trash talk her team, but this isn't very effective when she only really reaches the girl's shoulder. Poppy spends the rest of her time encouraging Seth to play, ruffling his hair when he least expects it and doing muggle puzzles with him like crosswords. Poppy doesn't take these puzzles very seriously, filling the blanks in with any old words and then announcing she's done, in spite of Seth's protests to the contrary.
[/ul][/size] [/font]the inner workings
Dislikes: Ashley O'Neill, Amelia Pace, early mornings, charms, anybody who makes her friends unhappy, the summer holidays, gobstones, losing
Quirks and Habits: a little bit loopy, gives hugs whether people want them or not, cries at the sad bits in trashy romance novels/films, thinks glasses make her look thirty percent more intelligent so steals Seth's glasses all the time
Mirror of Erised: to be quidditch captain, for her parents to get back together, to make her parents proud
In Depth Personality: right, so everything that makes your character who they are goes here. include strengths and weaknesses. You can either list them with some explanations (in which case we expect at least five strengths and five weaknesses), or you can do paragraphs (minimum of three, roughly 300+ words).
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Experience: Yes please.
Time Zone: The best one.
How Did You Find Us?: One day God said “Let there be light.” And there was light. That way she could see under the sofa properly and found Hex building a nest there.
Play By: Pixie Lott
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One day a monster.