Approved Hufflepuffs

[Adrian Hollows]

Approved Hufflepuffs:

Kellyn Ellison H3

Sadie Rivers H4
Reagan Lorelei Scott H4

Merry Garwin H6

Lacey Langres H7

[Dana Coran]

Name: Lacey Langres
Blood: Halfblood
Age: 17
Year: 7
House: Hufflepuff
Pet: a small white kitten with a one black ear and one black front paw
Wand: 10 inches, unicorn hair, pine

Physical Description: Lacey has naturally blond-ish hair that reaches somewhere between her shoulder-blades and mid-back and hazel eyes. She is about 5’6 and rather fit thanks to swimming often. She also goes onto regular jogging tours to stay in shape, because there aren’t too many other ways of staying fit at Hogwarts. She isn’t a beauty, but she has her own quiet charm. She has the regular cute–girl-next-door look, but isn’t pretty enough to make people look after her twice.

Biography: Lacey’s mother was a pureblooded witch and her father a muggle. Her parents marriage started rather hurriedly, however the original happiness didn’t last for long. But the couple stayed together for the sake of Lacey and her younger brother Marcus. The couple lived in the muggle world, where Lacey’s father Roy owned a small store. When Lacey was 5 years old her younger brother caught a magical disease and without proper cure that hasn’t even been developed yet, Marcus died. This was the breaking point for the marriage of Lacey’s parents and her mother got a divorce remarrying a pureblood wizard and moving to the United States of America 2 years later.

Lacey stayed with her father. Being so young, she didn’t completely understand her brothers death so it wasn’t much of a shock for the young girl. The divorce however was and Lacey misses her mother dearly, often thinking that she wasn’t worthy enough to make her mother leave. The regular complexes most children with divorced parents go through and from which Lacey is only know getting over.
Lacey never went to a muggle elementary school. Her father tutored her at home while Lacey also helped out in the store, because Lacey showed signs of magic from a young age already. Therefore Roy explored the Diagon Alley with his daughter often to make sure Lacey would feel at home here later on. SO the receiving of Hogwarts owl wasn’t a surprise to either Roy or Lacey on Lacey’s 11th birthday.

Lacey is a nice girl. Sweet-natured and patient, however perhaps a bit too shy and willing to do a lot in order to avoid quarrles, argument and different kinds of frontal confrontations. She likes to draw and photograph and does so often only to charm her pictures to move later on. She is a bit dreamy, often loosing herself into her own magical world in dreams. All her pictures usually have long stories behind them which only helps Lacey to dream more and more. She is quiet and calm and wants to work in magical science one day. She would like to make sure that safe cures are developed for all disease so no more innocent children like her brother would have to suffer anymore and with her patience and willingness to work hard she has good chances in managing it. Lacey is relatively talented in Potions, but Transfiguration has always managed to slip from her grasp and she struggles very hard to pass the subject.

Lacey is an introvert who lets all her feelings out through drawing or taking pictures and making up stories for the things she draws. She is very close with her father as well, sending owls to him at many times a week. Her father has always supported all of Lacey’s decisions also. When Lacey gets nervous she tends to chew on her lips. She is also a student at a very prestigious Academy of Art for Witches and Wizards having received a scholarship there. By now she has attended it for 4 years and has hosted a few small shows, having even sold a few paintings - often do Dana, who was also her first model - even if she's far form a known name and aiming to pursue a career in painting.

[Dana Coran]

Name: Sadie (Kassadie) LeiAnn Rivers
Blood: Half- Blood
Age: 13
Year: Third
House: Hufflepuff
Pet: A snowy owl with sapphire blue eyes, and round gold markings named Colena
Wand: 11.5 inches long, made of Reed, with a Phoenix Feather Core

Physical Description:
Sadie is slightly tall for her age standing at 5 foot 8 inches. She has reddish brown hair with sparkling blue eyes. She has a fair ivory complexion with a round face and dimples in both cheeks, and a small dimple in her chin. Sadie has been told that when she smiles, it lights up the whole room. Sadie’s smile has not been seen much lately though due to things that happened in her first year.

Biography:

August 22, 1985;

As a young couple begins to unpack their few belongings into the new home, they pray that it will be the right start for the new family. Luisa and Peter Rivers have only been married a year, and are already expecting their first child. Luisa worries everyday about the baby for its due date was last week. As Luisa continues to unpack, she starts to feel a pain in her stomach, thinking that she is only hungry; she goes to the kitchen to make a sandwich for herself, and one for Peter. A few moments go by and Peter realizes that Luisa has been very quiet, so he goes into the kitchen to find her. She is standing, propped up against the counter holding her stomach. “Peter, I think it’s time to go to the hospital.” She says calmly and quietly.

That was the night that Sadie LeiAnn Rivers was born. Sadie is the only child of Luisa and Peter. Being born a week late, her parents both always told her that she was very special, but she didn’t know just what they meant until she turned eleven. She is an exceptional student at the Muggle School that she attended last year. She is a very shy and quiet young lady, until you get her on a topic that she knows enough about. She also enjoys helping friends and the people in her neighborhood no matter how mean that the may be toward her. Sadie tends to be a little self conscious, especially when strange things happen while she is present. She has done community work ever since she was big enough to leave the house by herself. She enjoys reading and watching sports such as soccer. She also enjoys listening to the radio when ever she has free time.

Sadie has always known that there was something that separated her from her other muggle friends. She just didn’t know what it was that made her so different. Her friends always knew that she was not like them for when ever Sadie would get upset and wish something to happen, be it good or bad, that those wishes almost always seemed to come true. Suddenly, about a week before her 11th birthday, she got an answer to the question of why she was so different from her friends (a question that she asked her parents often, even though she knew that they did not know). In the middle of dinner, a beautiful yet small brown and white owl came through the kitchen window and landed in Sadie’s lap. This shocked Sadie for the simple fact that the owl had a letter address directly to her, including exactly which chair she was sitting in at the table. Sadie took the letter very cautiously, and turned it over. It had a strange seal on it. She opened it and began to read it silently. When she had finished reading the letter, she raised her head up, and with tears of excitement told her parents that the letter had been the answer that she was looking for. She was a witch and had been accepted to the best school of witchcraft and wizardry. Her parents were so pleased. As a special gift, her mother also bought her a beautiful owl. The owl was the most adorable one that Sadie had ever seen. She was white with sapphire blue eyes.

Sadie's first year at Hogwart's went some what well, until she received an owl from her parents. The letter had stated that they were both severely ill, and the muggle doctors did not know what the disease was, or how to begin to treat them for it. Sadie left her first year not knowing what she would find when she arrived home.
Once Sadie had made it safely home, she discovered that she had returned to an empty house. She also found a letter from her father. The letter was barely legible, but Sadie was able to make it out. It had said for her to go into her parents' bedroom, and look for a locked box. The letter went on to explain that the key that she had worn around her neck since she was an infant would fit the lock. And, that the box held some valuable family secrets.

After finding the lock box and examining all of the contents of it, Sadie had discovered that her father had actually attended Hogwarts himself, and that was the reason he was not as shocked as her mother had been. There was another letter in it, saying that if something were to happen to her mother and father she was supposed to locate someone from her father’s family. There was a list of whom she could search for, and a family photograph where all the wizards and witches in it were waving at her. She looked at the list again, and noticed that her dad had a sister who ran a store in Diagon Alley. Sadie decided to try there. She spent the whole summer looking for her aunt and she had found her, but had no luck in getting to talk to her. Sadie’s run in with her aunt was not a pleasant one. Time neared for Sadie to return to school, so she decided to just stay in Diagon Alley, and begin the search another time. She returned to Hogwarts unaware that she had a cousin attending school there too. Sadie has made it through her second year with no problems, except a constant sadness caused by the lack of family that she thinks she has. She even managed to make a few new unexpected friends. She had no luck in finding a family member, but has heard rumors that there is another girl in Hufflepuff with the same last name. This has sparked an interest in Sadie and has driven her to be determined to find this girl. Sadie is going into her third year, and that would make the year a perfect one. To find out that she is not the only Rivers left in the world, and to find out that she has family. Hogwarts is a magical place where Sadie knows that even the impossible has a chance of becoming possible.

[Solitaire Keighley]

Name: Sadie Leila Rivers
Blood: Half-blood ( Sadie doesn't know that she's actually
pureblood)
Age: 14
Year: Fourth
House: Hufflepuff
Pet: A snowy owl with sapphire blue eyes, and round gold markings named Shadowlynn

Wand: 11.5 inches long, made of Reed, with a Phoenix Feather Core

Physical Description:
Sadie is slightly tall for her age standing at 5 foot 8 and a half inches. She has reddish brown hair with sparkling blue eyes. She has a fair ivory complexion with a round face and dimples in both cheeks, and a small dimple in her chin. Sadie has been told that when she smiles, it lights up the whole room. Sadie’s smile has not been seen much lately though due to things that happened in her first year, but that all may change this year.

Biography:

August 22, 1985;

As a young couple begins to unpack their few belongings into the new home, they pray that it will be the right start for the new family. Luisa and Peter Rivers have only been married a year, and are already expecting their first child. Luisa worries everyday about the baby for its due date was last week. As Luisa continues to unpack, she starts to feel a pain in her stomach, thinking that she is only hungry; she goes to the kitchen to make a sandwich for herself, and one for Peter. A few moments go by and Peter realizes that Luisa has been very quiet, so he goes into the kitchen to find her. She is standing, propped up against the counter holding her stomach. “Peter, I think it’s time to go to the hospital.” She says calmly and quietly.

That was the night that Sadie LeiAnn Rivers was born. Sadie is the only child of Luisa and Peter. Being born a week late, her parents both always told her that she was very special, but she didn’t know just what they meant until she turned eleven. She is an exceptional student at the Muggle School that she attended last year. She is a very shy and quiet young lady, until you get her on a topic that she knows enough about. She also enjoys helping friends and the people in her neighborhood no matter how mean that the may be toward her. Sadie tends to be a little self conscious, especially when strange things happen while she is present. She has done community work ever since she was big enough to leave the house by herself. She enjoys reading and watching sports such as soccer. She also enjoys listening to the radio when ever she has free time.

Sadie has always known that there was something that separated her from her other muggle friends. She just didn’t know what it was that made her so different. Her friends always knew that she was not like them for when ever Sadie would get upset and wish something to happen, be it good or bad, that those wishes almost always seemed to come true. Suddenly, about a week before her 11th birthday, she got an answer to the question of why she was so different from her friends (a question that she asked her parents often, even though she knew that they did not know). In the middle of dinner, a beautiful yet small brown and white owl came through the kitchen window and landed in Sadie’s lap. This shocked Sadie for the simple fact that the owl had a letter address directly to her, including exactly which chair she was sitting in at the table. Sadie took the letter very cautiously, and turned it over. It had a strange seal on it. She opened it and began to read it silently. When she had finished reading the letter, she raised her head up, and with tears of excitement told her parents that the letter had been the answer that she was looking for. She was a witch and had been accepted to the best school of witchcraft and wizardry. Her parents were so pleased. As a special gift, her mother also bought her a beautiful owl. The owl was the most adorable one that Sadie had ever seen. She was white with sapphire blue eyes.

Sadie's first year at Hogwart's went some what well, until she received an owl from her parents. The letter had stated that they were both severely ill, and the muggle doctors did not know what the disease was, or how to begin to treat them for it. Sadie left her first year not knowing what she would find when she arrived home. Once Sadie had made it safely home, she discovered that she had returned to an empty house. She also found a letter from her father. The letter was barely legible, but Sadie was able to make it out. It had said for her to go into her parents' bedroom, and look for a locked box. The letter went on to explain that the key that she had worn around her neck since she was an infant would fit the lock. And, that the box held some valuable family secrets.

After finding the lock box and examining all of the contents of it, Sadie had discovered that her father had actually attended Hogwarts himself, and that was the reason he was not as shocked as her mother had been. There was another letter in it, saying that if something were to happen to her mother and father she was supposed to locate someone from her father’s family. There was a list of whom she could search for, and a family photograph where all the wizards and witches in it were waving at her. She looked at the list again, and noticed that her dad had a sister who ran a store in Diagon Alley. Sadie decided to try there. She spent the whole summer looking for her aunt and she had found her, but had no luck in getting to talk to her. Sadie’s run in with her aunt was not a pleasant one. Time neared for Sadie to return to school, so she decided to just stay in Diagon Alley, and begin the search another time. She returned to Hogwarts unaware that she had a cousin attending school there too. Sadie has made it through her second year with no problems, except a constant sadness caused by the lack of family that she thinks she has. She even managed to make a few new unexpected friends. She had no luck in finding a family member but never gave up the search.

Sadie’s third year had a few unexpected surprises after the Christmas holiday. Sadie, as usual, spent Christmas at the castle trying not to remind herself that she had no one but her friends to go home to or with. No family to celebrate a holiday that was mostly about family itself. Making through Christmas and the last of the winter, the first part of spring held a glorious surprise for Sadie. Spring brought sunshine and flowers and even an unexpected friend from Slytherin. As the two girls spent their first hours together, they realized they had more in common than they would have ever imagined. Sadie shared her drawings with the new girl only to find out that the younger Slytherin’s mother was in a family photograph that also included Sadie’s father, Peter. Sadie had finally found another family member. Delighted in the fact that she had finally found more family, Sadie didn’t care that the girl belonged to the Slytherin house. That didn’t matter at all to Sadie. Summer led to being able to get to spend time with her new found cousin, and the two girls not being alone. Headed into her fourth year, Sadie’s never had a better outlook on the year ahead of her as she does now that she knows she’s not alone in the world.

[Adrian Hollows]

Name: Kellyn Ellison
House: Hufflepuff
Blood: Pureblood
Age: 13
Year: Third
Wand: 10 inches, phoenix feather, pine wood.

Appearance (a description of what your character looks like.): With long brown hair and dark blue eyes, Kellyn is undoubtedly pretty and she knows it. She’s thin and toned from years of dancing and gymnastics. She’s tall for her age, a trait for her father’s side since her mother is rather short. Vertically challenged, as her mother prefers to be classified.

Biography (Include information about the characters history, family, personality and hobbies):
Robert Ellison was forced into an arranged marriage by his parents at the age of 17 but divorced his wife three years later. Allison willingly handed over custody of Kellyn to her ex-husband but reserved visitation rights at her leisure. By the time Kellyn had turned five, she had a step-mother, Rachel, and had only seen her real mother three times in two years. Rachel preferred to stay at home and look after Kellyn during the day while her husband worked, an arrangement that suited both of them, especially when Rachel found out she was pregnant. It seemed that, with the arrival of the new baby, Kellyn was pushed aside. After a letter from her young daughter, Allison arrived at the house in the middle of the night, dressed rather oddly, and demanded that Kellyn live with her from now on since she was apparently no longer wanted.

The second battle for custody lasted only a few weeks, with Rachel forcefully persuading Robert to let Kellyn go and just be happy with their son. Life with her mother was certainly different to anything she had ever experienced before since Allison was a well-known actress and model who travelled all over the world for her photo shoots and movies. Determined not to let her child suffer through the almost negligent attentions of Robert and Rachel again, Allison ordered her agent to make it known that Kellyn would be travelling with her for five more years until she turned eleven and would be sent to Hogwarts.

Young, curious and friendly Kellyn was an instant friend to the group of people who followed her mother around and a few of the photographers even insisted on taking a few photos of Kellyn and Allison together, ‘to show the motherly side of the model’ he claimed. When her Hogwarts letter arrived, Kellyn was eager to experience the magic both of her parents had described to her but also reluctant to leave behind the flashy lifestyle she had grown accustomed to. However, something that her mother told her made her determined to go. Her cousin was there, Allison told her secretively, and she hadn’t had the best life so far. Ashlyn had been bounced from relative to relative, excluding Allison due to her lifestyle, and just when she had gotten settled, she had to move again. “She’s lived alone for years, Kellyn,” Allison told her, knowing that she was manipulating her young child but doing what she had to for both of the girls. “So go, go and make friends with her and cheer her up. Don’t let her be lonely anymore.”

Since her first year, Kellyn has been trying to work up the nerve to approach her older cousin but every time she gets close to the Gryffindor she hears the sad music from her violin and retreats back to the Hufflepuff common room or to the grounds where she’ll practice her gymnastics until the sadness fades. It’s hard to get through to someone who wants to be alone but Kellyn believes in fairytales and happy endings and will do anything to get her cousin the happy life she deserves because she has felt, albeit for only a short time, what it is like not to be noticed or loved.

[Adrian Hollows]

Name: Meredith (Merry) Amber Garwin
House: Hufflepuff
Blood: Half-blood
Age: 16
Year: Sixth
Wand: A rosewood wand with a unicorn hair core, 10 inches.

Appearance (a description of what your character looks like.): With long black hair that shines brown in the sunlight and light green eyes, Merry is pretty even though she denies it to herself and terms herself merely ‘passable’. She’s strong from years of self-defence and archery classes. She’s a few inches taller than the average sixteen year old girl which just, in her words, gives her an excuse to not wear impractical heels.

Biography (Include information about the characters history, family, personality and hobbies):
Merry is the fourth of six children and so has never felt the pressure of being the eldest, which has perhaps led to her laidback attitude about everything. Very little ever fazes her but she knows that her parents struggle with money and so she has been working from a young age. Her mother came from a pureblood family but was given an ultimatum: either forget about her muggle lover or leave her family. Since she was already pregnant with her first child, Merry’s mother chose to be disowned and instead married the muggle man she had fallen in love with. Merry and her siblings were all raised with love and affection but they also knew that their father regretted being the reason their mother had lost her inheritance.

Without a doubt, Merry is very much her father’s daughter. They both share the same features and a similar personality. He has always encouraged her to do whatever she wanted to do which was why, despite her mother’s protests, Merry was allowed to enrol in archery and fencing lessons when she was eight. She adores history and has always been fascinated with the medieval times to the extent of wishing she had personally experienced them. She also has a fondness of pirates and fighting that exasperates her sisters and mother because they don’t understand why she would prefer her bow and arrows and rapier to going out shopping or sitting down in front of the fire and talking. Her brothers, however, have always adored having such an outgoing sister to play with them, especially her younger brother and she was always their chosen playmate when they were children. Her two older brothers and older sister moved out after graduating Hogwarts and Merry misses having them around during the summer so she always pesters them until they allow her to spend a few days with them. The rule between the six children has always been that, no matter how busy they are, they will always make time for each other and help them out of trouble. They made this pact when Merry was the youngest child and renewed it twice when Phillip and then Rosa were born a few years later.

During the school year, Merry only works during the weekend but she works all summer, every summer. Her younger siblings are too young to work and her older siblings have left home so the main responsibility of helping her parents falls on Merry’s shoulders. Despite such pressure, she’s still as cheerful and talkative as she was when she was a child though a lot less naive. She can look after herself – as she should, Merry has always thought indignantly – after nearly ten years of self defence lessons. She’s a brilliant shot with her bow and arrows and has often won prize money from competitions. What started as a child’s hobby evolved into a way of making money but Merry knows that she can’t make a career out of shooting arrows. But working three jobs over the past few summers and, under her parent’s orders, keeping half of her money for herself has earned her enough money to feel confident that she will be able to afford an apartment for herself after graduating Hogwarts until she can settle into a more permanent job. Other people have been in her position and survived, as Merry knows from her obsession with history, but she doesn’t expect the fairytale-like happy ending that some of those people received. Happy endings don’t come to ordinary people like her and Merry refuses to taint her life with dreams that won’t come true. She’s not a girl who waits to be rescued but rather a girl who will fight for a life she can enjoy without being troubled by worries about money.

[Adrian Hollows]

Name: Reagan Lorelei Scott
Blood: Muggle-born
Age: 14
Year: 4th
House: Hufflepuff
Wand: 10 inches, unicorn hair, rosewood.

Physical Description: Reagan has long, light brown hair that the sun inevitably bleaches to a dark blonde colour during the summer. Naturally, for an acrobat and gymnast, her body is almost unnaturally flexible and toned. Neither short nor tall and with ordinary light green eyes, Reagan could easily fade into the background without being noticed if it weren’t for her innate tendency to show off and entertain the crowds with her unusual skills.

Biography: Reagan is the adopted child of Caryn and Matthew Scott, two travelling circus performers who hadn’t really expected themselves to become parents. Yet, when a distant relative begged them to take custody of her daughter after she died, how could they possibly refuse? Both adults knew that the life that Reagan would have wouldn’t be a stable one, but it would be exciting and eventful, and the girl would learn so much more than someone stuck in the same place for the whole of her life.

Until her sixth birthday, Reagan helped out behind the scenes as her parents and her extended family, as she considered the rest of the circus, travelled around the world. She helped performers get ready for their time in the spotlight, mended rips in costumes, fed pets and trained under her mother during the day. It was hard to be properly educated when the longest they stayed in a town was two weeks but Reagan learned how to read and write under the tutelage of her surrogate uncle, the circus master. When she turned six, however, her education was focused solely on learning the skills that she would need for a life in the circus. She was taught how to throw knives (rubber knives at first, of course, because Reagan had come to be the adored little niece or sister to the close-knit troupe so no one wanted her to be injured), how to juggle, the gymnastic moves that would aid her if she showed an aptitude for acrobatic tricks and even given lessons in how to catch an audience’s attention from the very start of the show from the ringmaster. Due to the amount of travelling they did, Reagan quickly picked up the general essence of many languages during her childhood. She wasn’t taught properly so a lot of her knowledge isn’t exactly correct, which explains the condescending looks from some people, but she always manages to make herself understood eventually.

Her accidental magic started late in her childhood, causing temporary confusion from the muggle members of the troupe before a wizard, Leon Finley, who had abandoned the magical world stepped in to explain things quietly to Reagan, her parents and the circus master. Confused but willing to follow Leon’s instructions since he knew more than anyone else, the circus settled in England a few months before Reagan’s tenth birthday. During the journey from America, where they had been performing before Reagan’s accidental magic became too obvious to ignore, Leon started to explain the basic elements of magic and Reagan found herself utterly enthralled by the stories about Hogwarts and everything that happened there. She felt guilty about keeping such a big secret from most of the people she considered family – especially since secrets weren’t often kept in the troupe unless it involved a dark, unhappy past that was just too painful to mention, though such pasts were rarely found in such a bright, happy troupe of circus performers – but Leon had firmly warned her about the consequences of telling muggles about the wizarding world, perhaps exaggerating to make sure Reagan didn’t disobey him, so Reagan kept her mouth firmly shut about the mysterious lesson she was receiving from her new tutor.

Hogwarts, just as Leon had warned her, was hard to adjust to for someone who wasn’t so much used to fitting in as standing out and attracting attention. Reagan had been an active part of the circus shows since her eight birthday and the other performers had always encouraged her to speak her mind and make herself noticed so quietly fading into the background simply wasn’t in her nature. Her mother and father had made her promise to keep practising her tricks to keep in shape so Reagan naturally upheld that promise in the courtyard because it was the best place available in Hogwarts. The crowds that gathered around her and commented in surprise at the bold first year with no sense of shame or embarrassment didn’t bother her in the slightest. Most of the time, Reagan barely noticed them, being too involved in her routine which grew more complicated each year as her limits increased and her family continued to push her towards exceptional improvement.