Application for Hogwarts School
→ CHARACTER INFORMATION.Name: Nina Rosalyn McCormick
Birthday: 16th September, 1935
Hometown: Barnton, Cheshire
Bloodline: Halfblood
Magical Strength (pick one): Transfiguration
Magical Weakness (pick one): Divination
Year (pick two): preferably a first year, but otherwise second year please!
Biography: Nina is the youngest daughter of Claudine Amelie McCormick (née Roux), a French witch from a respected Pure-blood family, and Andrew James McCormick, a Muggle-born wizard whose family were delighted to see him accepted into Hogwarts. Although Claudine's family haven't exiled her, as such, the household rarely spend time with her proud pure-blood heritage; they seldom invite the McCormick family over, even at Christmas, and when they do meet, Claudine can see the disappointment in their eyes at her having married a "mudblood". Andrew's family, on the other hand, were quite the opposite. Andrew had been an only child, and his parents were ecstatic to witness their otherwise fairly untalented son accepted into the wizarding world. They were fascinated with everything magical, and wholly supported Andrew in all of his wizarding ventures. Her paternal grandparents were truly the most welcoming family anyone could wish for - at least, that was what Nina had been told. According to her parents, Nina and her grandparents got on famously for the fifteen months that they were acquainted, before they disappeared. Nina's father is a firm believer in the time-warp; his parents wouldn't just vanish like that.
Nevertheless, despite their lack of extended family, the McCormick family couldn't be happier. Nina has two older siblings, a brother and a sister, Samuel and Annabel, an aspiring quidditch player and journalist respectively. The household live in a sleepy little wizarding village named Barnton, in Cheshire, England, although they own a small house in remote Scotland, where the nearest village is Hogsmeade, twelve miles away. As a result Nina is well acquainted with the town - Honeydukes was a regular haunt of hers during their family getaways when she was younger.
→ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.House Request: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw or Slytherin, I don't mind! [I don't think her personality's particularly suited to Hufflepuff.]
Personality:Having two extraordinarily talented older siblings simply does not raise an introvert - Nina has spent her entire life needing to stand out against her brother and sister's achievements. She's loud, bubbly and confident, and has no issues with talking to new people - even if they're years older than her!
Nina's pretty talented at making friends, and she prides herself in having a large circle of people she likes. She likes to form opinions of people for herself, not listening to rumours of what others have to say about them. However, once she has formed an opinion, she'll stick by it, and make sure everyone else knows what she thinks of someone - be it good or bad. For example, if she considers someone a friend, and hears someone else insult them, she will let loose - on the receiving end of one of her rants is not a good position to be in! On the other hand, if she has met someone once and formed a negative opinion of them, she'll tell everyone else about how she thinks so and so is fake, or boring, or how how flat their hair is.
Nina will never back down from an argument; she's stubborn and fierce, and sees confrontation as a fun activity as opposed to something that'll hurt someone's feelings. Although she'll rarely bring personal matters into a debate, if someone else initiates it, she has no issues with ripping their personality to shreds. She won't hold grudges for a good debate, and holds people who'll argue with her without getting offended afterwards in high esteem.
Nina's clever - she's hardworking, although she'd be quick to add that her entire life doesn't revolve around her grades. Unfortunately, her combination of a quick tongue and a lot of confidence sometimes results in her getting into trouble, be it with her peers or with her teachers. She's known to make snarky comments or to answer back, and although she doesn't intend to be hurtful, she doesn't think before she speaks. Fortunately, the penalty she faces for acting like this doesn't bother her - she won't dwell on someone being offended, and doesn't view detention as the end of the world.
Despite being fiercely loyal to her friends, Nina can be a little unpredictable. It's a rare occasion, but has "gone off" people in the past, and this can be very sudden. One day she'll be somebody's best friend, nothing wrong, and the next she'll ignore them. Observing this, one would assume that the other person had done something to deeply offend Nina, but knowing Nina's character, it's more likely that they haven't done anything at all - if they had, we'd all know about it. Maybe she just gets a little bored.
Nina's open about her inner thoughts and feelings - not just narrating her opinions of others, but about anything. She'll have no qualms about telling all her friends about her newest crush, be it a celebrity or a classmate. If it is a classmate, she doesn't really care if they find out - she'd rather be openly rejected than to be the sort to brood for months over someone who barely knows she exists.
In short, the strengths of her character are that she is friendly, independent, charismatic, open, witty, fun to be around, loyal, thick skinned and confident. Her weaknesses are her bluntness, slightly unpredictable nature, lack of sympathy, not thinking before she speaks, her lack of respect for anything creative, and her knack of occasionally putting herself before others.
Appearance:Nina has dark, glossy, dead straight hair, although her hair naturally forms little ringlets. Annabel, Nina's older sister, would gently tease her for these curls, and although she would never admit it, it secretly upset Nina. As a result of this, Nina's mother, Claudine, cast a spell on Nina's hair to make it thick and straight and can be, and she was delighted by this. She has chocolate, wide set eyes, a small nose, and glowy, slightly tanned skin. Her lips are full and wear a smile, the majority of the time. She measures around four feet and nine inches, aged eleven, which is fairly average height, and is slender in physique, although by no means weak looking.
→ SAMPLE ROLEPLAY.In response to option two.Whenever Nina found herself with very little to do, she usually found herself people-watching. People-watching was an activity that she had enjoyed from the age of around six, when herself and her mother sat waiting on platform ten of King's Cross Station, waiting for her father to return after dropping Annabel and Sam off on platform nine and three quarters, ready for Sam's first day of Hogwarts. They observed the muggles walking by, inventing names, life stories and purposes for these people - "His name's John Buttercroft! He's an accountant, although his dream is to start his own business, and he's running because he's late for a meeting that could cost him his job!" Years on, Nina played this game so much that it began to annoy her mother, so she played it alone. And still, five years on, would she play people-watching, although it wasn't quite as fun at Hogwarts; maybe she had some idea of their name, or some other fact about them.
However, one person Nina knew nothing about was the boy scrabbling around in the flowers in front of her. He was obviously much older than her, maybe a fourth or a fifth year, and he was pretty intent on finding something in the flowerbeds. Nina frowned as he pulled apart the flowers, ruining the display - although she guessed an older student could easily fix it with a wave of their wand. The boy paused his messy fumbling in the flowers and stood up, wiping his nose on his sleeve. He looked at Nina and said scornfully, "Can I help you with something? It's not polite to stare."
Nina raised her eyebrows, and asked in an inquisitive tone, "What
are you doing?"
The fact that he was evidently so much older than her didn't really intimidate her; after all, he was the one making a fool of himself rolling around in the flowers.
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