First and Last Name: Emily Cleary
Bloodline: Muggleborn
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
General Build: Average
Height: Average
Birthplace: London, England
Brief Family History: Emily was born blind to Sandra Cleary and Theo Jackson. Her parents broke up soon after, partly because of her blindness and partly because they just weren’t compatible. For three years it was just Emily and her mom in their loft. Then Emily’s mom started dating Jason Thompson. A year later, they were married, though Sandra chose to keep her maiden name. Emily did her first magic on their wedding day. She was frightened by the thought of her mother marrying Jason. So she shrank her stepdad-to-be’s shoes. They just assumed the shoes were lost. A year after that, Emily got her first sibling, a girl named Maizie.
From five years old, Emily attended a school for the blind in London, where she learned to use a cane and read Braille. She had three particular friends there: Jane, Mandy, and Tanya. Sometimes, while brushing her friends’ hair for them, she would magically streak their hair with color, though none of them could see. The colors usually faded pretty quickly, so the teachers never found out.
Emily got a second sister, Betsy, a few months before she got her Hogwarts letter. When she got the letter, she of course couldn’t read it. So she thought her mother was playing a prank on her when she read it out loud. But a Ministry official was there to help explain. Emily was more than ready to believe, it hadn’t been so long since she’d been listening to fairy tales on TV. The Ministry representative was able to find a Muggleborn who knew Braille and was able to translate Emily’s spellbooks to that.
Strengths (Including Personality and Academic): Emily is bright and likes to spend hours reading her books of Braille. So she should be an overall good student, particularly in a class that doesn’t require vision, such as History of Magic. She is also attentive to things around her – well, she has to be, otherwise she’d never know where she is. But it helps her to understand plenty of what goes on around her, even if she can’t see it. So she would know when it’s time to chop up ingredients in Potions, even if she can’t see the ingredients. She is diligent – she tries to keep up with her studies so she doesn’t have to try so hard in class.
Weaknesses (Including Personality and Academic): She is a loner because she finds it hard to work with people who aren’t used to accommodating her sight. So when asked to partner up in Defense Against the Dark Arts or Transfiguration, she wouldn’t be the happiest person alive. She gets absent-minded when she’s comfortable, so she might start daydreaming in the middle of a class and not know what’s going on after a while. She tries to avoid this, but sometimes she can’t help it. This is particularly true of History of Magic – she would do the reading, so the lecture might just be a repetition of what she read. Some might consider her fussy because she keeps her spaces extraordinarily neat – so in Potions, she might waste time sweeping up small messes when she should be working.
What House You Feel Your Character Belongs In and Why: Hufflepuff. Emily is incredibly fair-minded – she wishes the whole world would treat her like a normal person. She is also loyal to a fault – mostly to her family.
