Hogwarts School: A Harry Potter RPG

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Caroline MIDDLE Dobbs
Gender: Female
Age: 30 / 14 February 1943
Blood Status: Muggleborn

Education:
Hogwarts, Class of 1961 - Ravenclaw

Residence:
London

Occupation:
Lawyer

Do you plan to have a connection to a particular existing place (for example: the Ministry, Shrieking Shack) or to take over an existing shop in need of new management?
No

Requested Magic Levels:
Adult characters have 32 starting levels to distribute across these four categories (less levels can be used if you so desire, but no more than 32). The number of levels on the lowest ability must be at least half of the highest ability.

If you want levels above the usual 32 total, or a significantly uneven distribution of starting levels, please fill out and submit the Exceptional Levels special request form here.

• Charms: 8
• Divination: 8
• Transfiguration: 8
• Summoning: 8

Do you wish to be approved as a group with any other characters? If so who and for what IC reason?
No

Please list any other characters you already have at the site:
Roisin Byrne, etc

Biography: (300 words minimum.)
Caroline Elowen Dobbs was a complicated woman. A long time ago, when she was still a student at Hogwarts, she had finally fallen for a boy with dark hair and light eyes. He’d been flirting with her despite her ability to pretend not to notice, but once he broke down those walls she was all in.

It wasn’t destined to last, though. She and Maddox graduated in the 1961. He also left that summer to start his post-school career. And Caroline? Well, she was left pregnant with no idea what she was going to do.

Her parents told her to tell Maddox, but she never did. At first it was because she didn’t want to be the reason he didn’t follow his dreams. And then, once Morgan was born, that slowly turned to a seething resentment.

She no longer fantasized about what could have been with Maddox Barlowe, she was no longer interested. Instead, she focused on her own career as a muggle lawyer. Sometimes she found it hard to even look at Morgan without thinking about the girl’s father, so she often worked even longer hours than she would otherwise.

Men tried, unsuccessfully, to break through those same walls that Maddox had crashed through, asking her on dates. Part of her was flattered - though she would never admit to it out loud. She wasn’t interested in seeing anyone. One could say she was terrified of being reckless again, of having another fatherless child, so she kept to herself and her work.

And then news came that Maddox had returned to London due to his twin being so sick that she was going to die. A horrible situation, and something that would potentially cause the three of them to unexpectedly cross paths. So, instead of leaving it up to fate, Caroline wrote him.

Roleplay: 
You come across one of these posts on the site. Please select one & reply as your character:

Option One -
Amelia Nixon was many things, but she was never a pushover reporter that people could just usher away with a busy shuffle past. She was dedicated and eager to cut to the very middle of the current political tensions because she was Amelia Nixon and her articles would most certainly become front page material.

“Sir, please! It’s for the Prophet, how do you feel-“

Another one brushed passed her, the shuffling busy masses making their way through Diagon Alley for the lunchtime rush. This had been the best possible time to get people, but none of them were giving her anything to go with.

Only momentarily discouraged, the short red headed lady took a seat on a nearby bench. Her quill resting in her left hand and her notepad ready in the opposite hand. Amelia pouted, tapping the quill against her leg as she scanned the waves of people for somebody - anybody - who looked like they had something to say.

She had been dreaming of her name in bold print, Amelia Nixon: The Source of Today’s Tomorrow. She had been dreaming of the larger office and the secretaries that would fetch her the morning coffee and fetch her anything she needed. The VIP interviews and the most exclusive press passes. But all Amelia had was a page seventeen piece on the rising number of frogs in London.

Hardened by a day of no success, the reporter stood up and started to trod off down the alley. A loose stone on the cobble path caught her heel, sending the distraught girl toppling down to the ground.

“Merlin’s fog watch, my heel is broken! Help!” she yelled as she tried desperately to recover her shoe frantically in the middle of the Diagon Alley moving crowds.

Roleplay Response:
Lunchtime in Diagon Alley. Honestly, Caroline tried like hell to stay away from the Wizarding World as best she could – even more so lately since she had heard that Maddox Barlowe had returned. If this was ten years earlier, then she wouldn’t be worried about potentially running into him. At least then she would have had an excuse. Now? Now their daughter that he didn’t know about was eleven and that made her excuses null and void.

Totally zoned out, staring blankly ahead as she let the river of people carry her towards her destination (she was on auto-pilot now, too distracted by her thoughts, so she hoped she was going the right way), not even the journalist’s cries for help could snap her out of it.

No, the only thing that did was feeling something un-cobblestone-like under her feet. Caroline blinked and stepped back, bumping into the people behind her. There, a high heel. She furrowed her brow and looked around, wondering who on earth could have lost her shoe in such an inconvenient place.

That was when she finally spotted the woman sprawled out on the ground, the river of people continuing on their way while parting around the two women. “Oh, that’s quite unfortunate,” Caroline commented, still feeling a bit out of it all the while completely aware that Maddox Barlowe could be anywhere in the crowd.

She turned her back to the stream, in hopes of hiding herself from him if he was there, while she extended her hand out for the woman to grasp. “Let me help you,” she offered.

OTHER
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