Post by Fred Weasley II on Feb 6, 2014 19:39:25 GMT -5
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FEMALE
RAVENCLAW
HALF-BLOOD
HETEROSEXUAL
MAISIE WILLIAMS
MEGHAN ALANNAH FINNIGAN
 ‘Leanbh’, Grandma Finny used to call her – still calls her, truth be told. It means ‘child’ or ‘baby’, which she has always been known as, having been born last in a line of seven children to Lavender and Seamus Finnigan on a rainy mid-February morning in 2011. They even named her the baby, giving her the middle name Allanah, which is essentially a warm way of saying ‘darling child’. This, Meghan claims, is why she doesn’t like it. She much prefers her first name, given in honour of Grandma Finny herself, whose maiden name was Meegan before she met their daideo and fell madly in love. It makes Meghan a little dizzy thinking about it, but by the time Meghan had been brought into the Finnigan family, half of the them had almost grown up already. Tommy and Brigid were in their last years at primary school, with Cara and Moira not too far behind either, and that’s not even mentioning the two toddlers and baby Meghan. How Lavender managed, Merlin only knows, but manage she did, and despite barely scraping by at times, having to mostly live in hand-me-down clothes and play with Brigid’s old dolls, Meghan can honestly say that growing up was great. The eldest three tended to play together most often, but included middle-child Moira enough for Siobhan, Patrick and Meghan to bond amongst themselves as they went through nursery and infants. It was around this time when Meghan finally began to realise they weren't a normal family. It was too subtle for her child mind at first, to notice the way nobody at school had a wand like her older brothers and sisters, or that the teachers never bothered to use magic for the more difficult tasks around the classroom, but it dawned soon enough. Meghan was six years old when she went home to ask her mother the pressing question and learned the family secret of witchcraft and wizardry. That not everybody could have the ability to be making a batch of shortbread, scrubbing a pot in the sink, and pegging the washing on the line all at the same time like her mother was confusing to Meghan. She struggled with the notion, which she deemed incredibly unfair on her friends, it wasn’t until she had moved up into the juniors, at the age of eight that her parents felt she was old enough to learn about the wizarding world and its volatile relationship with that of the muggle one. It was carefully explained how some people were just born with magic, and others were not, as well as the prejudices of those with views on families of different blood-statuses, and what lengths certain ones went to when they disagreed about it all. They taught her about the Ministry of Magic, Wizarding London, Hogwarts, the two Wars, and what had happened to both Seamus and Lavender during that eventually brought them together. Tommy, Brigid, Cara and Moira even showcased what they had learned at school in an attempt to welcome Meghan into this fantastical new world and effectively the family. They had all gone through the same big reveal and jarring change at a similar age, so nobody could have anticipated Meghan’s reaction, which was instantly to shy away from everything magic-related that surrounded her. The whole thing just didn’t sit right with her. There was something dangerous and uncertain about it that left Meghan living every day following in a nerve-wracking build-up to the moment when she herself would do magic. Just a year later, at the rather far-gone age of nine, that fateful day arrived. It was the day Siobhan received her Hogwarts letter and out of apprehension for her closest sister, Meghan caused the acceptance letter to catch fire in their mother’s hand. Luckily, a replacement was dispatched immediately, but the fact that her first bit of magic was something as violent as fire set in stone Meghan’s reservations about the whole thing. Against her wishes, Siobhan left for school that September and Meghan sank back into the safety of her primary school friends and clung to their comfortable muggle ways. Patrick left the following year, and Meghan grew more and more frightened of the next September when she, too, would be expected to leave. In the summer holidays her father took her to pick out a wand at Ollivander’s and spent hours frustrating the poor man there by not connecting to any one he handed over. They left without one, but Grandma Finny, as ever, came to Meghan’s rescue and handed down her own wand, saying she hardly did anything but sit and read these days, so she didn’t need it all that much anymore. Despite its warm and welcoming atmosphere, Meghan started Hogwarts extremely wary of everyone and everything. She wasn’t sure what being housed in Ravenclaw meant other than knowing it wasn’t where most of her siblings had gone, and that that was strange - Siobhan had made that much clear to her when she’d been placed in Slytherin. Her first year was a tough readjustment, and when she wasn’t being shouted at in class to use her wand, or laughed at and called a squib, Meghan was sitting alone in her dormitory or hidden away at the back of the library reading. This wasn’t to say that she didn’t have any friends; Siobhan and Patrick had set a reputation for the Finnegan’s so that Meghan almost immediately had companions and people to sit with at lunch, but nobody could understand her reluctance to what they insisted was an amazing gift that she should be proud of. Second year was an improvement, beginning with the out of nowhere birth of her nephew, Rory, who was the most adorable baby Meghan swore she had ever seen in her life. People also began to get used to Meghan’s odd ways, and despite remaining averse to performing spells, the reading she did in her spare time of anything from textbooks to history books meant that she was, in theory, a fairly good witch. Her long-term fears of disappointing her parents by not enjoying magic were at least partially put at ease knowing that she was getting good grades. Third year is about the commence, and Meghan is trying to make the most of her family spread across the country by pestering them by owl to let her visit. PERSONALITY: Meghan knows that magic is a part of her and she can't really escape it, but is extremely wary of it all. She’s read the history books and she knows the type of people that are out there, so she’s constantly aware of how it can go very wrong and be very corrupting, and therefore feels paralysed by the fear of something happening to her or one of her family members and them getting hurt - the way their mother did. (Werewolf attack!) In a magic-free setting, Meghan is a completely normal, cheery young girl, but at school she can appear a little timid and nervous, especially in her practical lessons. She loves reading and listening to music, particularly her brother’s band whom she tells anybody who will listen about. She dislikes watching Quidditch, as it is horrifically dangerous in her eyes, and transfiguration, in which she is terrified of turning something living into an inanimate object and not being able to turn it back. Her paternal grandmother is her favourite person in the family, but out of her siblings she is closest to Siobhan. Cara has always been the eldest sister that she can talk to, being that Cara has always put more time into caring for the younger kids, but Tommy is Meghan’s cuddly big brother who gets all of the love, despite putting in minimal effort. STE 23 GMT |
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