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Character Name :

Katherine Yvonne Warwick

Age/Year :

16/4th

Biography :

Until her acceptance at Hogwarts, Katherine lived a quiet and unexceptional life as the only child of a middle-class London family. The only point of interest was a single day, June 26, 1995; Katherine was missing for almost twenty-four hours, and while she was found unharmed, she remembered absolutely nothing of what occurred. Later that summer, Katherine began showing signs of magical aptitude by performing accidental magic, and Muggle Studies professor Charity Burbage was dispatched to deliver her acceptance letter, explain the nature of the magical world to her and her parents, and help Katherine prepare for her first year at Hogwarts. That was where the problems began. Katherine’s before-school shopping ran aground when she visited Ollivander’s to be matched with a wand—or, in Katherine’s case, to fail to be matched. Out of all of the wands in the great craftsman’s shop, not one would accept her as its master. Over the following days, Ollivander wrote to every other master wandmaker he knew, many of whom sent back advice or even sample wands for Katherine to try. Nothing worked, and Katherine was forced to enter Hogwarts wandless. The problems only continued at sorting, when Katherine was placed in Ravenclaw. While she was intelligent—indeed, many of her professors described her as the most naturally talented student they had ever had at magical theory—Katherine’s lack of a wand severely hampered her practical use of magic, much to the embarrassment and scorn of her Housemates. This particularly impacted her grades in Charms, Transfiguration, and Defense Against the Dark Arts, and while Professors Flitwick and McGonagall did their best to be accommodating, Dolores Umbridge was not so understanding, likely due to Katherine’s blood status. As a result, while she did well in the wholly theoretical class, she completely failed the practical portion of her DADA exam and was forced to repeat her first year. The next year, Katherine performed better, likely due to Umbridge being replaced as DADA Professor by Snape. Katherine had always performed well in potions, and while the Slytherin Head was by no means gentle or kind—more than once, Katherine found herself sobbing alone in the bathroom after his class—he gave her good marks in the class, perhaps better than she deserved, and pushed her, in his own dysfunctional way, to live up to her potential. That year exams were canceled due to the murder of Headmaster Dumbledore, so it's unknown if Katherine would have passed. The following year, Katherine was unable to attend Hogwarts at all because of the You-Know-Who-controlled Ministry’s policy forbidding Muggleborns, though she continued to study magic on her own in the hopes that, should she eventually be able to return to school, she might be able to avoid being forced to repeat another year. This hope was borne out the following year, when she managed to pass her second year exams and move on to her third year. In the 1999-2000 school year, Katherine applied to be part of the Hogwarts delegation to the 1999 Triwizard Tournament at the Beauxbatons Academy, mostly to avoid her regular classes and exams, and was accepted. As she was not actually at Hogwarts for most of the year, learning instead from the Beauxbatons teachers and the few Hogwarts professors who had made the trip, she was exempt from exams and passed easily into her fourth year.

Personality :

I’ll go ahead and do this in-game.

Blood Status :

Muggleborn

Appearance :

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Character Strengths :

Katherine has a grasp of magical theory far beyond her years. Indeed, advanced knowledge often seems to just come to her out of nowhere, leading to an incredible and seemingly effortless performance on theoretical assignments.

Character Weaknesses :

For an unknown reason, Katherine is completely unable to master a wand; indeed, the fact that she is able to perform any sort of magic at all wandlessly at her age is nothing short of remarkable. However, she is severely lacking compared to her wand-wielding peers, and at best only half as strong as she should be in the practical application of magic. As a result, she has found herself bullied, with some of Hogwarts’ less savory students privately alleging that she couldn’t really be considered a witch at all.

House :

Ravenclaw