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Username: Petra Paisley
Name/Nickname: She prefers to go by Paisley
Age: 15
House/Year: Gryffindor, 4th year
Wand:Hawthorn and Dragon Heartstring
This wand is flexible and strong, but sometimes unsteady. Very good for transfiguration and charms, but indicates mostly intuitive approach to them. can be successfully used for protection: It is good for spells that bewilder the enemy. Also suits well for healing purposes. In dark magic, can be used for invoking painful visions or for torturing, but not for will-dominating.
Parents: Her parents are Martin and Elise Paisley, both pure-blood wizards. Her mother (and her mother's family) have always traveled constantly, and friends of the family often refer to them as gypsies because of it. Upon first notice, Petra acts more like her mother, quiet, withdrawn and somewhat pessimistic. He father is the complete opposite, and is so friendly, outgoing and English that most people wouldn't believe they were related. Martin is a banker by profession, and manages several banks that specialize in converting Muggle and Wizard money, located in the US and Europe.
Blood: Pure-blood on both sides, and while they value pure-blood, it isn't because they think Muggle-born wizards have less value, they just believe that rearing children with another pure-blood wizard will ensure that they are more powerful. (Consequently, discussion of Squibs makes them very uneasy wink )
Personality: Because she didn't grow up around people her own age, she doesn't really know how to act around her peers. She's a show-off one moment, and the next she's horribly embarrassed. She blushes as much as she brags, and is just rather awkward in normal social settings. Despite this, she has a great sense of humor and she's very ambitious, witty, and cunning. What she lacks in social skills she makes up for in book-smarts and simply understanding the way magic works. The sorting hat considered putting her in Slytherin because of her how ambitious she is, however, it also thought that it would retard the development of her personality.
Appearance: She has shoulder-length brown hair that is usually never very neat. She has golden-brown eyes (whiskey eyes) and tanned skin. She's in excellent physical shape, Petra believes that being in good shape is one of the best defenses. Petra has a light scar along most of the length of her spine.
Favorite Class: Potions
Best Subject: Charms
Least Favorite Class: Divination
Worst Subject: Divination (She thinks it's trash and refuses to even attempt. Her paternal great-grandfather was a rather famous Seer, and her family has been waiting for such properties to appear in their children for some time.q)
Fears: She is overall quite brave, though she startles easy. However, her boggart would be an old, Middle-Eastern wizard. He was the most terrifying person she ever met, and he taught her for a short period of time.
History/Biography: Petra never had a place she could call home, because her parents seldom settled down for a full year. She was schooled in magic as a very young girl, and had an incredibly varied education. A lot of her childhood was spent in the Americas, she was born in the United States, but they spent as much time there as in Mexico and South America(to learn older, less refined magic). The last teacher she had was a man named Abdul Alhazred, and many respectable witches and wizards believed he was mad. In the short time that she studied with him, she learned a great variety of combative and dark magic. When Alhazred was on his death bed, he gave Petra an amulet that he said would always protect her, and so she swore to never remove it. The old man was very fond of Petra, evidence in that he actually agreed to instruct her, however she was mortally terrified of the man because of the things he showed her.
Other: She has a great love for birds of prey. Her pet is a male Prairie Falcon named Seraph, her Patronus would alternately take the form of a female Osprey and a male Vulture, and when she gets that whole Animagus thing down, she'd take the form of a Gyrfalcon.
 Petra Paisley · Tue Aug 07, 2007 @ 04:15am · 0 Comments |
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