Post by Scarlett Maddox on Jan 13, 2011 3:30:04 GMT -5
SCARLETT PAIGE MADDOX[/font]
IS GONNA BE TOTALLY AWESOME
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I am slowly falling apart
I wish you'd take a walk in my shoes for a start
You might think it's easy being me
You just stand still, look pretty
Sometimes I find myself shaking
In the middle of the night
And then it hits me and I can't
Even believe this is my life
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AGE/DOB: 16, 9th February
YEAR: 6th year
HOUSE: Slytherin
AFFILIATION: Neutral
SEXUALITY: Straight/SIZE]
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EYE DETAILS: Her eyes are pretty average shaped and are of a grey-blue colour.
HEIGHT/WEIGHT/BUILD: Being one of the shortest in the school, Scarlett stands at 5’2 and weighs 114lbs. She has long legs for someone of her height and actually wishes she was taller because people are constantly making jokes about how she looks up to everyone. She is also reasonably thin.
FACE: Scarlett’s face is heart-shaped, this feature is more obvious when she’s smiling. Her cheekbones are high, resting between her nose and eyes.
STYLE: Dresses. That is the style that people often associate with Scarlett. There is just something sadly adorable about her and that is expressed through her clothes. Not that she means it to come out that way, she just likes the pretty muggle summer dresses. Although she doesn’t just wear the pretty things. You will often find her in a pair of black cowboy boots and every once and awhile she finds it fun to don a cowgirl hat.
FEELINGS: Scarlett’s thoughts are confusing, she never knows quite how to react to things. This might have been set off by events in her past but she often reacts strangely, unexpectedly. Though she attempts to view the world through hearts and rainbows, she actually has an undertone of Cordelia’s cynical thought process. She believes that things in this world never end perfectly and if they did, it would be a miracle. She also has trust issues, she thinks a lot about a person when she first meets them, overanalyzing them like girls are prone to do with almost every situation. And even after this analysis she is never quite sure what to think about people. She often wishes that peoples thoughts were broadcast in speech bubbles over their heads.
PLAYED BY:Taylor Swift
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LOATHES: Tomatoes, the smell of smoke, thoughts of death, loosing things, her hair, people patting her on the head, break-ups, crying in sad movies, the feeling of being watched, stress, Herbolagy, playing Keeper (because she’s really bad at it), Pumpkin Pasties, fighting with Cordelia, people thinking she’s the tag-along, being judged, the Room of Requirement
BOGGART: It appears with somebody choking Cordelia and Rory, signifying her fear of death, especially of her closest friends—the people she couldn’t bear to loose.
DEMENTOR: Watching the murder of her brother, and the endless days of torment after that.
PATRONUS: Her Patronus is a Panda and her happiest memory is the day she first met Cordelia. Everything was perfect. She had met her best friend, her brother was still alive and life was all rainbows and smiles.
AMORENTIA: Rain, chocolate and roses.
VERITASERUM: She has never told anyone, not even Cordelia, that she actually witnessed her brothers death. Also, she had a crush on Cedric when they were kids too, however she quickly got over it seeing as Cordelia and Cedric were meant for each other.
STRENGTHS: Putting her feelings into lyrics, holding a conversation, Charms, reading books in less than a week.
WEAKNESSES: Holding back tears, making the first move, reading people, Herbolagy, making good points, trusting others.
OVERVIEW:
Twisted, confused and over-emotional are probably some good ways of describing Scarlett Maddox. Her life has been somewhat of a tragic one and it has caused her to develop trust issues and typical things like that. Life effects your fears, your wants, your happiest memories, your desires and it is no different with Scarlett. She is more complex than you see on the outside.
On the outside you see Scarlett as what could be bubbly, naïve and simple. She has her blonde hair and pretty blue eyes going for her but really she is wise beyond her years. After suffering loss she depends more on people than she might like but also prefers to stand on her own as much as possible so that she doesn’t loose so much again. She is scared of commitment but longs for it at the same time.
Though, she has also been left vulnerable. There is this need for love and to be loved so as to fill the holes left by her losses. And as much as she understands pain and suffering in this world she doesn’t really understand the blissful states of it or how to really take care of herself. Therefore she can be heavily influenced and fall into traps she otherwise wouldn’t.
Other than the depressing stuff, Scarlett does like to have fun. She is like the younger sister to her best friends Rory and Cordelia, playing that up for all it’s worth. She loves to laugh and enjoys just pointless fun in life, it makes up for the bad things.
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FATHER: Robert Maddox, 38, works at Gold Broom-makers, Death Eater, Slytherin
SIBLINGS: Jake Maddox, 17 (deceased), Order of the Phoenix…or he was going to be, Gryffindor.
b]OTHER IMPORTANT FIGURES:[/b] Owl named Avery, Cordelia Gold, Rory Diggory, Arthur Diggory, Reed Malfoy
WEALTH STATUS: Reasonably well off.
BIRTHPLACE: London
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Ottery St. Catchpole
OVERVIEW:
Scarlett Paige Maddox is the second and last born to Annabelle Claysey and Robert Maddox. She was brought up in the village of Ottery St. Catchpole with many other Wizarding Families including the Golds, the Diggory’s and the Weasley’s. Her older brother’s name was Jake Maddox.
Throughout her childhood, Scarlett formed bonds with the people around her. All the children in her village knew each other and had formed opinions of each other but it was most likely that you would have friends in every family.
Her best friends were Cordelia Gold and Cedric Diggory. The friendship formed pretty early on when Scarlett’s mother Annabelle dropped by Hanna Gold’s place bringing little Scarlett with her. Then later Cordy introduced Scarlett to Cedric. Cordelia and Cedric were both older than Scarlett but she has found that she finds better ties in the people older than her than she does in kids her own age.
Scarlett was also very close to her older brother Jake, often begging him to spend time with her when she wasn’t with her friends. Jake was patient although like any kid, sometimes patience was lost. Jake was five years older than Scarlett and when he left for Hogwarts she felt like a part of her had been taken. That’s when the problems started.
Her parents, most notably her father, were very big on the pure-blood notion. Her father playing on the Death Eater side, he was angry when his son was sorted into Gryffindor. Even worse was the fact that Jake was a proud Gryffindor, enjoying the fact that he was different and didn’t have to be deemed evil or whatever. It wasn’t as if Jake and Robert had ever had a good relationship but things just got worse and soon Jake hardly came home except when he needed to for summer holidays. Scarlett spent almost all her time with Cordelia and Cedric trying to forget that she never saw her most beloved family member anymore.
Soon enough the time came for Cordelia and Cedric to go to Hogwarts—this was the one time Scarlett regretted making friends with people older than her. She spent her time getting to know the Weasley’s a little better, becoming friends with Ginny and forever being unsure of Ron, finding herself laughing with the Weasley twins and giggling about Percy.
But then, it was her turn to go to Hogwarts. Her parents didn’t take her, she asked them not to. Instead she went with the Gold family, happy to be with Cordelia once again and hoping desperately that she would get sorted into Slytherin house so that she could be with her. She didn’t relish the thought of being alone, so if she was sorted into Ravenclaw or Gryffindor she would be devastated.
Thank the gods, she was sorted into Slytherin and she and Cordelia had a great time hanging out during classes and in the Common Room at night, often spending their nights in the Common Room instead of heading up to their dormitories where the other Slytherin girls slept. Scarlett never really made any other friends in her first few years. She looked at most of them as weird or different or flawed somehow and could find a reason for disliking almost anyone. Instead she kept well within the confines of her two best friends, Cordelia and Cedric, happy to stay there.
Year 2 was the worst year of Scarlett’s entire life. It was the year that tragedy struck, the year that solidified Scarlett’s fear of death…it was the year that her older brother Jake Maddox died.
The story is almost strange and involves some things that you wouldn’t expect to happen in Hogwarts.
It all happened the day before the Christmas Holidays were to start, the day before everybody who was going home left. It was 11:31 at night and Scarlett was slipping out to sneak down to the lake. It wasn’t something she made a habit of doing, actually it was a dare Cordelia had made before she’d dropped off to sleep. Scarlett wanted to complete it and prove she could do something that might get her in trouble.
So, slipping out the door at the top of the stairs leading up from the dungeons, Scarlett edged towards the door that led out into the Entrance Courtyard. However, she was stopped by some voices that were coming from not too far up the Grand Staircase. She recognised them, most notably her brothers. Instead of heading towards the door, she walked slowly towards the staircase, peaking around the wall and tilting her head upwards. That’s when she saw them, two shady looking boys who had been harassing her brother for weeks. They were Slytherins, like her but they were proud Slytherins—former Death Eaters kids one would assume. Scarlett didn’t actually know their names, or she did but she couldn’t connect them to their faces in the dark. They seemed to be fighting although Scarlett couldn’t hear the words.
After a few minutes, Scarlett could see them moving off up the stairs as if some sort of decision had been made. Scarlett scrambled on her short legs to follow them, running up the stairs as quickly and quietly as was possible. She didn’t know where they were going and so she just followed them up stairs, through a corner door and down some corridors until they stopped in front of an empty stretch of wall. Scarlett stared, awed as the wall began to change, it formed a door and the boys stepped inside, leaving Scarlett scrambling to squeeze herself in without being locked out or noticed.
What was with these beanbags in the darkest corner? They seemed kind of continentally placed. But she sat down in one none the less, surprised at how little sound they seemed to make. And now she watched, curled up without knowing what was going to happen.
It seemed to be taking the form of a duel. This terrified Scarlett for she knew that anybody this dark looking from her house had to be bad news and trained somewhat in the Dark Arts. What had Jake gotten himself into? And for what, house pride? Watching as they traded hex after hex, obviously getting bored quickly.
Then it happened, the death blow. It seemed to be what they had been building towards this whole time.
“Avada Kedavra”
It happened so fast that neither Scarlett nor Jake really knew what had happened. She could just see the frozen look of terror on her brothers face before he crumpled to the floor too. It was all she could do to stop herself from jumping right out of her bean-y, quietly crackling seat. But as she slowly realized what had happened, and as the two boys walked out of the room alone, she found tears streaming down her face.
She slept in the Room of Requirement and told Cordelia that she had fallen asleep out by the lake, they made a few comments about how she was lucky she hadn’t been caught and Scarlett went through the day in a state of depressed shock, not really speak to anyone. Instead, she replayed the scene over and over again, torturing herself and trying to force the person in her head to do things differently. People asked what was wrong, she just ignored them.
Soon, people were wondering where Jake had disappeared to. Scarlett played along, noting herself that the boys who had murdered him had obviously left to go home for Christmas and they were probably going to stay away from Hogwarts from now on.
On Christmas Eve Scarlett’s parents turned up to collect her. They had received an owl that appeared to be written from Jake. They wouldn’t tell Scarlett what it had said exactly, but they managed to get the impression over to her that it was a suicide note. The few people that really knew Jake wondered what had possessed him to do such a thing, others wondered where the body was but nobody really voiced these questions—it just seemed inhumane.
No, Scarlett never told anybody the truth. She didn’t tell people that she could see Thestrals, nor did she share about the Room of Requirement—she let her friends find that on their own and preferred to stay as far away from the place as possible.
Not too long after Jake’s death, Scarlett went a little off the rails. She turned to things that she thought might heal her pain like drugs, alcohol and smoking, building walls up that she didn’t even really want. It took a lot of help from her friends to get her back on track again, and even then she is a lot different than her previous self.
Another shock came two years later in Scarlett’s fourth year. After problems with Cordelia and Cedric had already happened, things involving Cho Chang and other devilish unmentionables, Cedric Diggory also died. He too, was murdered but this time by none other than Lord Voldermort.
I will not go into too many details of Cedric’s death as we all know the story but I will say that Cordelia and Scarlett were stunned by it. This was the second person Scarlett had lost and she was beginning to think that everything and most notably everyone had an expiration date. What if Cordelia was next? Cordelia had her own emotional problems, her soul mate had just died…what do you think?
Most recently Scarlett had a relationship with a boy named Alex Rammings. Cordelia had dragged Scarlett there during summer for distant family members wedding that she was required to go to. During the wedding Scarlett was introduced to Alex, whose Grandmother was a friend of Cordelia’s family. The two connected as they both had tragic pasts and both fit each other quite well. However, Scarlett had developed issues with love that she had never encountered before and due to these issues the relationship ended and Scarlett returned home angry with herself.
And now it’s the new school year, what will it bring/
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AGE: 15
GENDER: Female
EXPERIENCE: 2 Years
MEMBER TITLE: Admin
SPIKE WANTS: ME! SEX! No, his telly.
ANYTHING ELSE?: I am awesome, and in love with Spike…hense the above statement. I’m sure this is not what I’m supposed to put in here
RP SAMPLE:
Topaz peered down at her Defense against the Dark Arts essay that she had been working on. Being the type that generally enjoyed class, she did have a good enough reason for skipping. Or maybe it wasn¡¦t such a good reason¡Xit depended on how much you knew about Topaz in general. And for the people in this school, that wasn¡¦t much.
It was hard enough being the newest student¡Xwith the exception of two others¡Xin Hogwarts. But somehow, she was the most mysterious of the group. Serenity Brook made Topaz think of rainbows and ponies and Alex Rammings¡Xdespite being one of her closest friends¡Xwas already getting around the girls, despite his shy nature. But neither of those things made either of them mysterious. Maybe it was her fault that everyone talked about her behind her back. She had made it plain that she wasn¡¦t here to make friends and the friends she had made weren¡¦t joined at her hip. She preferred to be alone, and she made sure people understood that.
Looking up from her essay, Topaz studied the girl lying on the couch in front of her. What had she said? Ruling Slytherin? That could only mean one thing.
¡§Heidi Fernandez¡¨ Topaz stated, realization hitting her. She smirked slightly as she studied her. Gorgeous, perfect, an aura of ¡¥I¡¦m better than you, no matter how hard you try¡¦. She was the type of girl Topaz didn¡¦t like, the type she had met many times before and their company had always been short lived. Why was everyone expected to know who this Heidi chick was? Who cared? Topaz didn¡¦t see the point in the whole ¡¥Royalty¡¦ shit.
¡§Enjoy hell?¡¨ Topaz repeated, thoughtfully throwing her Quill in the air and catching it again. It was an amusing comment. Did Heidi Fernandez really think she was capable of making someone¡¦s life a living ¡¥hell¡¦? Topaz highly doubted it. ¡§If you want the truth, I¡¦ve lived through hell. I don¡¦t think anything you do to me could ever compare to be honest. If I lived through that to be here for this conversation then I think I¡¦ll come out of your hell dancing and singing¡¨
A smirk played on her lips as she scribbled a line on her parchment. She wasn¡¦t completely focusing on her conversation with Heidi; she just wasn¡¦t in the mood to deal with this. It was becoming¡Kwhat was the word? Boring. Maybe she would leave, just so she could have her peace back.
Peace. That reminded her¡Xthough the reminder was unexplainable¡Xof her first conversation with Dumbledore. A good amount of that conversation had been one sided. Topaz had not been in the mood for a wise crack old man to be telling her all about his school for the magically able. If she was remembering correctly, she had laughed. Well, it had sounded stupid at the time. She had never imagined she would be sitting her now discussing being in magical classes with another witch.
Meeting Dumbledore might have been the best thing for Topaz¡Xthough she wasn¡¦t prepared to admit that. Ah, now she remembered what had reminded her of this conversation. She had told Dumbledore to go away and leave her in peace, he had replied with some riddled comment that Topaz hadn¡¦t taken the time to memorize.
Mystery, it¡¦s healthy.
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I am slowly falling apart
I wish you'd take a walk in my shoes for a start
You might think it's easy being me
You just stand still, look pretty
Sometimes I find myself shaking
In the middle of the night
And then it hits me and I can't
Even believe this is my life
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AGE/DOB: 16, 9th February
YEAR: 6th year
HOUSE: Slytherin
AFFILIATION: Neutral
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EYE DETAILS: Her eyes are pretty average shaped and are of a grey-blue colour.
HEIGHT/WEIGHT/BUILD: Being one of the shortest in the school, Scarlett stands at 5’2 and weighs 114lbs. She has long legs for someone of her height and actually wishes she was taller because people are constantly making jokes about how she looks up to everyone. She is also reasonably thin.
FACE: Scarlett’s face is heart-shaped, this feature is more obvious when she’s smiling. Her cheekbones are high, resting between her nose and eyes.
STYLE: Dresses. That is the style that people often associate with Scarlett. There is just something sadly adorable about her and that is expressed through her clothes. Not that she means it to come out that way, she just likes the pretty muggle summer dresses. Although she doesn’t just wear the pretty things. You will often find her in a pair of black cowboy boots and every once and awhile she finds it fun to don a cowgirl hat.
FEELINGS: Scarlett’s thoughts are confusing, she never knows quite how to react to things. This might have been set off by events in her past but she often reacts strangely, unexpectedly. Though she attempts to view the world through hearts and rainbows, she actually has an undertone of Cordelia’s cynical thought process. She believes that things in this world never end perfectly and if they did, it would be a miracle. She also has trust issues, she thinks a lot about a person when she first meets them, overanalyzing them like girls are prone to do with almost every situation. And even after this analysis she is never quite sure what to think about people. She often wishes that peoples thoughts were broadcast in speech bubbles over their heads.
PLAYED BY:Taylor Swift
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LOATHES: Tomatoes, the smell of smoke, thoughts of death, loosing things, her hair, people patting her on the head, break-ups, crying in sad movies, the feeling of being watched, stress, Herbolagy, playing Keeper (because she’s really bad at it), Pumpkin Pasties, fighting with Cordelia, people thinking she’s the tag-along, being judged, the Room of Requirement
BOGGART: It appears with somebody choking Cordelia and Rory, signifying her fear of death, especially of her closest friends—the people she couldn’t bear to loose.
DEMENTOR: Watching the murder of her brother, and the endless days of torment after that.
PATRONUS: Her Patronus is a Panda and her happiest memory is the day she first met Cordelia. Everything was perfect. She had met her best friend, her brother was still alive and life was all rainbows and smiles.
AMORENTIA: Rain, chocolate and roses.
VERITASERUM: She has never told anyone, not even Cordelia, that she actually witnessed her brothers death. Also, she had a crush on Cedric when they were kids too, however she quickly got over it seeing as Cordelia and Cedric were meant for each other.
STRENGTHS: Putting her feelings into lyrics, holding a conversation, Charms, reading books in less than a week.
WEAKNESSES: Holding back tears, making the first move, reading people, Herbolagy, making good points, trusting others.
OVERVIEW:
Twisted, confused and over-emotional are probably some good ways of describing Scarlett Maddox. Her life has been somewhat of a tragic one and it has caused her to develop trust issues and typical things like that. Life effects your fears, your wants, your happiest memories, your desires and it is no different with Scarlett. She is more complex than you see on the outside.
On the outside you see Scarlett as what could be bubbly, naïve and simple. She has her blonde hair and pretty blue eyes going for her but really she is wise beyond her years. After suffering loss she depends more on people than she might like but also prefers to stand on her own as much as possible so that she doesn’t loose so much again. She is scared of commitment but longs for it at the same time.
Though, she has also been left vulnerable. There is this need for love and to be loved so as to fill the holes left by her losses. And as much as she understands pain and suffering in this world she doesn’t really understand the blissful states of it or how to really take care of herself. Therefore she can be heavily influenced and fall into traps she otherwise wouldn’t.
Other than the depressing stuff, Scarlett does like to have fun. She is like the younger sister to her best friends Rory and Cordelia, playing that up for all it’s worth. She loves to laugh and enjoys just pointless fun in life, it makes up for the bad things.
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FATHER: Robert Maddox, 38, works at Gold Broom-makers, Death Eater, Slytherin
SIBLINGS: Jake Maddox, 17 (deceased), Order of the Phoenix…or he was going to be, Gryffindor.
b]OTHER IMPORTANT FIGURES:[/b] Owl named Avery, Cordelia Gold, Rory Diggory, Arthur Diggory, Reed Malfoy
WEALTH STATUS: Reasonably well off.
BIRTHPLACE: London
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Ottery St. Catchpole
OVERVIEW:
Scarlett Paige Maddox is the second and last born to Annabelle Claysey and Robert Maddox. She was brought up in the village of Ottery St. Catchpole with many other Wizarding Families including the Golds, the Diggory’s and the Weasley’s. Her older brother’s name was Jake Maddox.
Throughout her childhood, Scarlett formed bonds with the people around her. All the children in her village knew each other and had formed opinions of each other but it was most likely that you would have friends in every family.
Her best friends were Cordelia Gold and Cedric Diggory. The friendship formed pretty early on when Scarlett’s mother Annabelle dropped by Hanna Gold’s place bringing little Scarlett with her. Then later Cordy introduced Scarlett to Cedric. Cordelia and Cedric were both older than Scarlett but she has found that she finds better ties in the people older than her than she does in kids her own age.
Scarlett was also very close to her older brother Jake, often begging him to spend time with her when she wasn’t with her friends. Jake was patient although like any kid, sometimes patience was lost. Jake was five years older than Scarlett and when he left for Hogwarts she felt like a part of her had been taken. That’s when the problems started.
Her parents, most notably her father, were very big on the pure-blood notion. Her father playing on the Death Eater side, he was angry when his son was sorted into Gryffindor. Even worse was the fact that Jake was a proud Gryffindor, enjoying the fact that he was different and didn’t have to be deemed evil or whatever. It wasn’t as if Jake and Robert had ever had a good relationship but things just got worse and soon Jake hardly came home except when he needed to for summer holidays. Scarlett spent almost all her time with Cordelia and Cedric trying to forget that she never saw her most beloved family member anymore.
Soon enough the time came for Cordelia and Cedric to go to Hogwarts—this was the one time Scarlett regretted making friends with people older than her. She spent her time getting to know the Weasley’s a little better, becoming friends with Ginny and forever being unsure of Ron, finding herself laughing with the Weasley twins and giggling about Percy.
But then, it was her turn to go to Hogwarts. Her parents didn’t take her, she asked them not to. Instead she went with the Gold family, happy to be with Cordelia once again and hoping desperately that she would get sorted into Slytherin house so that she could be with her. She didn’t relish the thought of being alone, so if she was sorted into Ravenclaw or Gryffindor she would be devastated.
Thank the gods, she was sorted into Slytherin and she and Cordelia had a great time hanging out during classes and in the Common Room at night, often spending their nights in the Common Room instead of heading up to their dormitories where the other Slytherin girls slept. Scarlett never really made any other friends in her first few years. She looked at most of them as weird or different or flawed somehow and could find a reason for disliking almost anyone. Instead she kept well within the confines of her two best friends, Cordelia and Cedric, happy to stay there.
Year 2 was the worst year of Scarlett’s entire life. It was the year that tragedy struck, the year that solidified Scarlett’s fear of death…it was the year that her older brother Jake Maddox died.
The story is almost strange and involves some things that you wouldn’t expect to happen in Hogwarts.
It all happened the day before the Christmas Holidays were to start, the day before everybody who was going home left. It was 11:31 at night and Scarlett was slipping out to sneak down to the lake. It wasn’t something she made a habit of doing, actually it was a dare Cordelia had made before she’d dropped off to sleep. Scarlett wanted to complete it and prove she could do something that might get her in trouble.
So, slipping out the door at the top of the stairs leading up from the dungeons, Scarlett edged towards the door that led out into the Entrance Courtyard. However, she was stopped by some voices that were coming from not too far up the Grand Staircase. She recognised them, most notably her brothers. Instead of heading towards the door, she walked slowly towards the staircase, peaking around the wall and tilting her head upwards. That’s when she saw them, two shady looking boys who had been harassing her brother for weeks. They were Slytherins, like her but they were proud Slytherins—former Death Eaters kids one would assume. Scarlett didn’t actually know their names, or she did but she couldn’t connect them to their faces in the dark. They seemed to be fighting although Scarlett couldn’t hear the words.
After a few minutes, Scarlett could see them moving off up the stairs as if some sort of decision had been made. Scarlett scrambled on her short legs to follow them, running up the stairs as quickly and quietly as was possible. She didn’t know where they were going and so she just followed them up stairs, through a corner door and down some corridors until they stopped in front of an empty stretch of wall. Scarlett stared, awed as the wall began to change, it formed a door and the boys stepped inside, leaving Scarlett scrambling to squeeze herself in without being locked out or noticed.
What was with these beanbags in the darkest corner? They seemed kind of continentally placed. But she sat down in one none the less, surprised at how little sound they seemed to make. And now she watched, curled up without knowing what was going to happen.
It seemed to be taking the form of a duel. This terrified Scarlett for she knew that anybody this dark looking from her house had to be bad news and trained somewhat in the Dark Arts. What had Jake gotten himself into? And for what, house pride? Watching as they traded hex after hex, obviously getting bored quickly.
Then it happened, the death blow. It seemed to be what they had been building towards this whole time.
“Avada Kedavra”
It happened so fast that neither Scarlett nor Jake really knew what had happened. She could just see the frozen look of terror on her brothers face before he crumpled to the floor too. It was all she could do to stop herself from jumping right out of her bean-y, quietly crackling seat. But as she slowly realized what had happened, and as the two boys walked out of the room alone, she found tears streaming down her face.
She slept in the Room of Requirement and told Cordelia that she had fallen asleep out by the lake, they made a few comments about how she was lucky she hadn’t been caught and Scarlett went through the day in a state of depressed shock, not really speak to anyone. Instead, she replayed the scene over and over again, torturing herself and trying to force the person in her head to do things differently. People asked what was wrong, she just ignored them.
Soon, people were wondering where Jake had disappeared to. Scarlett played along, noting herself that the boys who had murdered him had obviously left to go home for Christmas and they were probably going to stay away from Hogwarts from now on.
On Christmas Eve Scarlett’s parents turned up to collect her. They had received an owl that appeared to be written from Jake. They wouldn’t tell Scarlett what it had said exactly, but they managed to get the impression over to her that it was a suicide note. The few people that really knew Jake wondered what had possessed him to do such a thing, others wondered where the body was but nobody really voiced these questions—it just seemed inhumane.
No, Scarlett never told anybody the truth. She didn’t tell people that she could see Thestrals, nor did she share about the Room of Requirement—she let her friends find that on their own and preferred to stay as far away from the place as possible.
Not too long after Jake’s death, Scarlett went a little off the rails. She turned to things that she thought might heal her pain like drugs, alcohol and smoking, building walls up that she didn’t even really want. It took a lot of help from her friends to get her back on track again, and even then she is a lot different than her previous self.
Another shock came two years later in Scarlett’s fourth year. After problems with Cordelia and Cedric had already happened, things involving Cho Chang and other devilish unmentionables, Cedric Diggory also died. He too, was murdered but this time by none other than Lord Voldermort.
I will not go into too many details of Cedric’s death as we all know the story but I will say that Cordelia and Scarlett were stunned by it. This was the second person Scarlett had lost and she was beginning to think that everything and most notably everyone had an expiration date. What if Cordelia was next? Cordelia had her own emotional problems, her soul mate had just died…what do you think?
Most recently Scarlett had a relationship with a boy named Alex Rammings. Cordelia had dragged Scarlett there during summer for distant family members wedding that she was required to go to. During the wedding Scarlett was introduced to Alex, whose Grandmother was a friend of Cordelia’s family. The two connected as they both had tragic pasts and both fit each other quite well. However, Scarlett had developed issues with love that she had never encountered before and due to these issues the relationship ended and Scarlett returned home angry with herself.
And now it’s the new school year, what will it bring/
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SPIKE WANTS: ME! SEX! No, his telly.
ANYTHING ELSE?: I am awesome, and in love with Spike…hense the above statement. I’m sure this is not what I’m supposed to put in here
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Topaz peered down at her Defense against the Dark Arts essay that she had been working on. Being the type that generally enjoyed class, she did have a good enough reason for skipping. Or maybe it wasn¡¦t such a good reason¡Xit depended on how much you knew about Topaz in general. And for the people in this school, that wasn¡¦t much.
It was hard enough being the newest student¡Xwith the exception of two others¡Xin Hogwarts. But somehow, she was the most mysterious of the group. Serenity Brook made Topaz think of rainbows and ponies and Alex Rammings¡Xdespite being one of her closest friends¡Xwas already getting around the girls, despite his shy nature. But neither of those things made either of them mysterious. Maybe it was her fault that everyone talked about her behind her back. She had made it plain that she wasn¡¦t here to make friends and the friends she had made weren¡¦t joined at her hip. She preferred to be alone, and she made sure people understood that.
Looking up from her essay, Topaz studied the girl lying on the couch in front of her. What had she said? Ruling Slytherin? That could only mean one thing.
¡§Heidi Fernandez¡¨ Topaz stated, realization hitting her. She smirked slightly as she studied her. Gorgeous, perfect, an aura of ¡¥I¡¦m better than you, no matter how hard you try¡¦. She was the type of girl Topaz didn¡¦t like, the type she had met many times before and their company had always been short lived. Why was everyone expected to know who this Heidi chick was? Who cared? Topaz didn¡¦t see the point in the whole ¡¥Royalty¡¦ shit.
¡§Enjoy hell?¡¨ Topaz repeated, thoughtfully throwing her Quill in the air and catching it again. It was an amusing comment. Did Heidi Fernandez really think she was capable of making someone¡¦s life a living ¡¥hell¡¦? Topaz highly doubted it. ¡§If you want the truth, I¡¦ve lived through hell. I don¡¦t think anything you do to me could ever compare to be honest. If I lived through that to be here for this conversation then I think I¡¦ll come out of your hell dancing and singing¡¨
A smirk played on her lips as she scribbled a line on her parchment. She wasn¡¦t completely focusing on her conversation with Heidi; she just wasn¡¦t in the mood to deal with this. It was becoming¡Kwhat was the word? Boring. Maybe she would leave, just so she could have her peace back.
Peace. That reminded her¡Xthough the reminder was unexplainable¡Xof her first conversation with Dumbledore. A good amount of that conversation had been one sided. Topaz had not been in the mood for a wise crack old man to be telling her all about his school for the magically able. If she was remembering correctly, she had laughed. Well, it had sounded stupid at the time. She had never imagined she would be sitting her now discussing being in magical classes with another witch.
Meeting Dumbledore might have been the best thing for Topaz¡Xthough she wasn¡¦t prepared to admit that. Ah, now she remembered what had reminded her of this conversation. She had told Dumbledore to go away and leave her in peace, he had replied with some riddled comment that Topaz hadn¡¦t taken the time to memorize.
Mystery, it¡¦s healthy.
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