Hogwarts School: A Harry Potter RPG

Done. Sorry I forgot to repost.

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Tara Mori
Gender: Female
Age: 36

Education: 
Tara began her formal magical education at a tribal school in Colorado. At thirteen she began attending Salem Institute (1950-1955). She graduated with Honors from the Knight Society with a focus on Botanical Sciences.

Residence:
A flat in London where her mother-in-law could stay during her rounds of chemotherapy.

Occupation:
Ethnobotanist for the International Extramundane Society of Applied Sociocultural and Biotic Research. Stay at home mom.

Do you plan to have a connection to a particular existing place (example St Mungo's, the Ministry, Shrieking Shack) or to take over an existing shop in need of new management?
Type your response here.

Requested Magic Levels:

• Charms: 7
• Transfiguration: 12
• Divination: 6
• Summoning: 7

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:
None

Special Phrase: Tibble's Beard of Power

Biography: (300 words minimum.)
    Tara was born on a Montana Crow Reservation during the winter of 1938. Her given name was Tara-pahii-mi-dhii-ah, which was Crow for Rose That Grows Under The Dark Moon. It was a name given to her by the oldest matriarch in her mother's clan. Her mother was a member of the Spotted Horse Flying Clan. Tara's maiden name was Nahkii-hah-tsana, meaning Daughter of the Spotted Horse Flying Clan. Her father, a Swedish-American, was adopted into the clan when he married her mother. Tara's parents both had a long line of magic in their families. Her mother was the Medicine Woman for her clan. Her father, a descendent of Scandinavian herdsmen, bred the winged horses for which their clan was named.
     Tara took after her mother. She was tall and lithe with cedarn skin and ebony hair. Her oval face, with its high cheekbones and straight nose, was distinctly Crow. However, her bright, sapphire eyes revealed her Scandinavian heritage.
     Tara's parents bought their own land, just outside the reservation,  shortly after her birth. It was on that land that her father started the Big Sky Ranch. Big Sky became known for its winged horses, particularly spotted ones, as well as white buffalo.
     The next twelve years were very happy for Tara. She grew up as any Crow girl would. She learned to ride, hunt, cook, garden, skin buffalo, tan hides, quill, and sew, among other things. She and her younger sister, Ice From The Sun, helped their father with the animals. Tara helped her mother gather plants and dry herbs. It was through her mother's teachings that she developed a love of herbology. She visited the reservation often to assist her mother in healing. They attended several ceremonies, in which her mother played an integral part. The reservation was a settlement that the Department of Magic set aside for Crow Wizards and their families.
     Shortly before she turned eleven, she received a letter inviting her to attend the Plains Indian School of Magic. She attended that school for two years, learning the basics of Crow magic. She was supposed to go on a vision quest to seek her Hipapdhiri, or spirit helper, when she turned thirteen. Her hipapdhiri would show her which path to take. If she became a Medicine Woman like her mother, it would show her the sacred medicines and songs. But that year everything changed.
     That was the year that the Bureau of Tribal Affairs required that all Native American children attend schools of magic that taught "White" magic, not the "primitive" magic taught in Native American schools. This was a final Department of Magic attempt at acculturating Native American wizards into the Anglo-American magical tradition. Her parents, not wanting her to be sent to a substandard, Bureau-run school, enrolled her at Salem Institute.
     Tara hated being separated from her friends and family, everything she knew. She spoke english well. Her father had taught her english and swedish. But she hated not being able to speak her native language with anyone. She had to alter her name in order for the professors and students to be able to pronounce it. She struggled to fit in, but never felt accepted. Even after her younger sister started school there, she felt alone. Her sister made friends so much easier than she did. So she put all her time and energy into her studies. Despite being behind in her education, she caught on very quickly. She soon became the top student in her class. Her passion for herbology flowered as she was accepted into the Knight Society. She became very interested in the different plants and how they were used by different groups of people. She began to record the plants and herbs her mother and other Medicine Men/Women on the reservation used. She researched other tribes and their uses of plants. One of her professors nominated her to present her research at an international conference, her last year at Salem. It was at that conference that she received a job offer and met the love of her life.
     Ty Mori was a muggleborn, British graduate of Hogwarts, presenting his research on Anthropoid Creatures. His work was highly criticized and unprecedented. But his desire for social equality, particularly for Centaurs, Elves, Werewolves, and Giants, struck a chord in Tara's heart. It took all her courage to approach him. Before she could say more than her name, he complimented her on her work. And began questioning her about her own work. She had been so startled by his interest in her that she forgot to be shy. They only spoke for a moment before they were both pulled away to be introduced to important wizards. It was then that she was offered an internship at I.E.S.A.S.B.R., or the International Extramundane Society of Applied Sociocultural and Biotic Research.
     Her first assignment was to study the plants used by natives of the Central African rainforest. Ty happened to receive a fellowship from the same society, funding his research on magical creatures of the African jungles. Assigned to the same villages, they met once again. It was love. They were both passionate about the environment and equal rights. He loved that she was Native American. That was something she rarely encountered. Within a year they were engaged. Their next assignment was Japan. There they visited his grandparents. On their five-week break, he brought her home to meet his muggle mother who absolutely adored her. A year after that they were married. Soon after, Tara became pregnant with twin girls. They returned to the town of Bridgewater a few months before her due date. Tara anticipated returning to Montana shortly before her delivery, wanting to be with her mother. However, she went into labor two months early.
     The birth of their daughter was bittersweet. After going into early labor, Tara delivered one live and one stillborn child. Both she and Ty were devastated. The pale, crystal-eyed infant was laid to rest in the forest behind Ty's childhood home, under the young tree that memorialized his father's death. Her angel topped marble headstone read Genesis Rose Mori, May 11, 1958. Tara tried not to think of the child she lost, but it hurt just the same. She returned to her home in Montana as soon as she was able to travel. She spent the next five years trying to deal with the pain. Like before when her world had been turned upside down, she poured all her efforts into her responsibilities at hand. She poured herself into her research and raising her only child. Tara did not renew her fellowship the following year, and applied for a professorship at a Bureau-run magical academy for Native American children. Ty pulled some strings at the Society to get a grant for research on American winged horse breeders. That worked well for a while. Every so often, Ty would apply for new research, and he taught Care of Magical Creatures part-time at the Bureau Academy. But soon after Sierra turned five, Ty received increasing pressure to move on. He was getting ready to quit the society when Tara told him not to. She saw that he was restless. She knew he would never be happy staying in one place, or leaving her and Sierra.
     Tara resigned her professorship and begged the I.E.S.A.S.B.R. for a grant. Within two months they were in Amsterdam backpacking through Europe. Six months after that they were in Australia studying aboriginal magic practices and the local flora and fauna. Next it was Africa, South America, and Asia. They traversed five continents in the course of five years, their young daughter in tow. They were amazed at her ability to pick up local languages, and the ease with which she conversed with other people. They were also moved by her sensitivity to the plights of others. She attended magical institutes all over the world. They continued to travel like that, until Ty discovered the news that his mother had been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. It was then that he resigned his fellowship and made a flying trip home to Bridgewater. Tara followed after pulling their daughter out of school in the middle of the year to make the trip to England. With they bought a flat in London, so that his mother could be close to the cancer research center. Tara was now pouring all her efforts into healing her mother-in-law. She was searching her entire twenty plus years of herbological knowledge for a cure. Ty was petitioning the Ministry of Magic to allow his mother to be admitted to St. Mungo's.


ROLEPLAY
Reply as your character to the following:

It was impossible for Dianne to stay out of trouble. It wasn't that she was looking for trouble, it's just that trouble always managed to find her. Today she wished she could find something equally familiar but more comforting.

The five-year old girl hugged her puffskein closer to her and brushed her face in its soft fur for comfort. She had named him herself and he was always her special pet. No she was certain she had never gone down this side street before. Her anxiety increased every second as darkness fell as she walked down the road. A loud noise came to her left and she buried her face in her pet's fur completely. The scared girl bolted the opposite way slamming the both of them into the wall of the nearest building. Tottering back a few steps she found a door a few feet to her right and ran to open it. What light there was inside spilled out into the darkness and she spilled into the room.

Once in, she was caught between the impulse to curl her cloak up more tightly around her and loosen her grip on it. She wasn't alone anymore but she was now among strangers instead, which was nearly as terrifying. Her puffskein had recovered from the shock of the wall and now was purring contentedly as the girl hugged it, causing a mildly calming effect on the girl. Gathering her courage, she marched up to the nearest person, pulled on the nearest clothing hem and blurted out in a loud voice:

"I'm lost and it's dark and I wanted to know where I am but I'm not scared but I am worried that Sambundeakin is scared because he's little and needs something to eat and wants to go home."

She paused to draw a breath in her nearly never-ending sentence, "He misses my and his mommy."

To explain the scared girl held up the custard-colored puffskein. Sambundeakin the puffskein, however simply purred as if nothing on earth was wrong in the world.

Roleplay Response:
  Tara fingered her medicine bag as she browsed the shelves of potion ingredients. She mentally explored her stores at home, trying to remember what she needed. She bumped into someone as she stepped back from the shelf. "I'm sorry," she apologized. She remembered a time when she would have tensed up and held her breath, waiting for a negative reaction or a racial slur. A conditioned response from her childhood growing up in America. She hadn't done that in years. The last time she had, she had become dizzy waiting for a reaction that never came.
     Tara was brought out of her thoughts by a tug on her sleeve. She looked down into the frightened eyes of a little girl. Tara listened as the girl explained her predicament all at once. "I'm lost and it's dark and I wanted to know where I am but I'm not scared but I am worried that Sambundeakin is scared because he's little and needs something to eat and wants to go home." The girl took a breath and finished with, "He misses my and his mommy."
     Tara hid a grin as the girl held up a perfectly content puffskein. Tara crouched so that she was at the girl's level. "Sambundeakin is scared?" Tara gently pet the purring, custard-colored creature the girl held out. "We certainly don't want him to be scared. I would be happy to help you get him safely home." She looked at the girl, smiling warmly. "My name is Tara. What's yours?"


SHOPKEEPER QUESTIONS
Answer these questions only if you are applying to be a shopkeeper as well.

Shop name: Type your response here.
Shop Description (200 words minimum): Type your response here.

What purpose will this shop serve other than selling things and being the home of your character? Why would people want to RP there just for fun?
Type your response here.