First and Last Name: Sophie Barlow
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Bloodline: Half-Blood
Hair Color: Light brown
Eye Color: Blue
General Build: Petite
Height: Tall
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Birthplace: Oxford, England
Brief Childhood History:
Sophie Amelia Barlow was born on August, the 21st in Oxford, England.
Her father, Brutus, comes from an old and established family of British wizards, while her mother, Annemarie, is a Maths professor and Muggle. In the early ninteens she came frome her hometown Berlin to Oxford to work at the University for half a year, where she fall in love with Brutus, who used the Library of Oxford University to write a work about “Magic in Elizabethan Times“. Although he told her in an early stage of their relation, that he was a wizard and she accepted it officially, she has always struggled with that “abnormal talent“ of her husband. She always tried to live as “normal“ as possible.
Naturally, the whole rest of the Barlow family turned away from Brutus since he married a Muggle and his children would only be “Half-Bloods“, something never had happened in Barlow family before.
Soon their first daughter, Sophie Amelia, called Sophie, was born in Oxford, where they bought a little house, two years later a second daughter, Marlene Johanna, called Marla, followed. The sister were mostly educated by a muggle nanny hired by their mother, at the weekends and University holidays their mother looked after them personally. She tried hard to keep them as far away from magic as possible. Their father spent more and more time with working on his scientifical books, he never tried to build any kind of relationship to his daughters. Even at the meals he spent at home he hardly said a word. Although Sophie had always a big desire for getting to know her father better, Annemarie was glad about the fact he didn't influence the girls with magic stuff.
Most of her free time Sophie spent with her sister and her nanny ambeling through parks or reading books at the library. While Marla hated that kind of “boring“ live, Sophie loved it. She always had read a lot, but never fictional stuff: She loved History books, Biology books and all the other books containing nothing fantastical, magical. Since the time she could spend with her mother was rare, she loved it especially. Her mother tried always to organise the freetime of her doughters “reasonable“, which means, that she took them to museums, to the opera and so on. Sophie was hardly ever allowed to watch TV or play computer games, which she didn't miss at all.
Sophie went to a normal primary school, where she always tried hard to not attract any attention, which was impossible for she was always very tall, approxemately one head taller than the other children in her class. She hated it, that's why she formed a habit of always standing a little bit humpy, which didn't make it any better, naturally. Besides her tallness she also attracted a lot of attention, when something “magical“ happened: when a child who hit her suddenly found a rat in his pants, or a piece of cake, which just had flown through the air to hit Sophie's face, stopped and floated softly onto her plate.
Sophie always knew about her “talent“, her mother had also talked to the teachers about that issue, so she never got any serious troubles, but she hated it anyway. Unless her little sister Marla, who loved to use magic at any chance (no matter if it was a good chance, however) and couldn't wait for getting to Hogwarts, Sophie didn't want to go there at all. She felt like she would then be a freak in a group of other freaks somewhere in the Scottish outback, it seemed to her like being deported to a kind of madhouse or something. Like her mother she just wanted to have an ordinary, calm life. Magic was something frightening to her.
The night before her first day at Hogwarts she bet her father on knees, that he would let her go to a Muggleschool and forget about the fact she was a witch. Her mother was supporting her. But her father demanded that she would go to Hogwarts, he even got angry and shouted at her. It was the first and only time, her father established himself against the mother. So Sophie came to Hogwarts as many Barlows before her, but most of them surely were happier with that circumstance.
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Strengths (Including Personality and Academic):
Her favourite subject might be History of Magic, since in her opinion things that already had happened couldn't harm her. Also she has no problem with studying boring facts and datas, she somehow enjoyes it. She likes everything other students would consider as boring, as Herbology.
Her personal strength is care. She is worried all the time (and sometimes about herself), but mostly she worries about her friends. You can count on her, she will always help you (although you maybe sometimes didn't know before that you need any help at all).
Also she is very reasonable, would never do something dangerous or stupid and always tries to stay in the backround.
Weaknesses (Including Personality and Academic):
The fact, that magic frightens her, makes her weak at nearly any other subject: She hates nothing more than “Defence against the Dark Arts“, followed by “Potions“ (she always is scared about getting poisened accidentally). Transfiguration is also none of her favourites. Sophie would never ever touch a broom to fly around on it, she can't even watch a Quidditch game without closing her eyes now and then.
Her biggest strength is also her biggest weakness: with her desire to help and safe everybody she can be really annoying (some also think, she is smart-alec).
She is not very self-confident, especially about her look for she looks so different to the most girls of her age, and she is absolutely sure that no boy would ever like her.
What House You Feel Your Character Belongs In and Why:
I consider Sophie in Hufflepuff.
It's pretty obvious that she can't go to Griffindor as most of her Barlow-relatives, for braveness is not exactly her strength. Slytherin is also not her case, for she never wants any harm to anyone (and the mean children there would emotionally kill her, though). And although she is not absolutely not silly, she fails in most subjects, so she would be a total outlaw in Ravenclaw too. Since Helga Hufflepuff once said “And I'll take the rest“, and Sophie can be considered more or less as “the rest“, it would be the perfect house for her.
