Post by aisling sinead abercrombie on Sept 22, 2012 20:15:03 GMT -5
AISLING SINEAD ABERCROMBIE
aisling (ASH-ling): "a male wizard got together with a female muggle one day, and BAM I popped out, end of story."
well, that's the version aisling tells people when they ask. truthfully, her parents married each other after a not-so-long period of courtship. her father was fresh out of hogwarts when he met her mother, and they instantly fell in love. a few months later, there was a shotgun wedding and nine months after that, she was born. the circumstances of her birth weren't very extraordinary, to tell the truth. her mother found out very quickly that her husband was a wizard, and was surprisingly tolerant of it -- with one exception. he was free to go and practice magic to get things done in his free time, but their baby was going to be raised as a muggle; no magic allowed once the baby was born.
so, when little aisling came out all crying and struggling and ugly, her parents made the vow to raise their daughter to be as mundane as possible. unfortunately, that promise was difficult to keep -- even from the get-go. aisling was always very outdoorsy, and she stuck her nose where it didn't belong. aisling got in trouble numerous times as a child, ranging from climbing up a tree and being unable to get down to attempting to use a trash bag as a parachute and breaking her arm instead. she had no magical accidents as a child, just the ordinary disasters; her parents were beginning to think that their daughter had no magical ability whatsoever.
when she was eleven, she got the invitation to hogwarts. her mother didn't want aisling to go -- "I'm going to lose my baby!" -- but her father eventually convinced her otherwise. aisling took the news that she was magical in stride; becoming a witch seemed like such an adventure, after all. she was quick to get accustomed to hogwarts, and is looking forward to the day when she can leave and maybe even get some sort of job as a witch, instead of being a boring old lawyer or doctor or whatever it was her mother wanted her to do. despite her parents having kept magic away from her, they're still on excellent terms and aisling visits home as often as she can.
aisling has a very strong sense of justice -- she can't just stand by while if something 'wrong' is happening. aisling is not afraid to say what she thinks, when she thinks it. as with most hufflepuffs, she is very accepting and will not discriminate against anyone and believes in second chances -- but she's very upfront about things, and can be more than a little bit sassy. to her friends, she will remain unswervingly loyal. if she had to choose between her life and that of a friend of hers, she will always -- always -- put theirs first.
this kind of selflessness gets her in trouble, though, and she usually comes off as something of an irritating, badmouthed goody-goody. her sense of honor can be pretty extreme -- no, she won't let you cheat off her test and she will tell the teacher if you try. essentially, she's the one whose morals don't exactly let other people like her too much. aisling can't let things slide, she will call you out, then try to reform you. as stubborn as her personality is, however, she does realize that sometimes she takes things too far. (unfortunately, her pride tells her that she was more in the right and she won't apologize. welp.)
her boggart would probably be her parents' corpses; she loves them more than anything. her erised, on the other hand, would be herself as the minister of magic -- as minister, she would be able to implement more laws to prevent something like the current dark lord scare from happening in the future. aisling is very idealistic, but she refrains from violence. she is very bad with spells such as stupefy, but as it turns out, she is very proficient with spells like protego and expelliarmus -- a reflection of her firmly non-violent beliefs.
see celeste.
