HOUSE & YEAR: Slytherin, 1961-1968
WAND: Mahogany, 10 inches, dragon heartstring core. Good for hexes.
PREFECT or HEAD: No, and she is incredibly annoyed about it. Not that it shows.
LOYALTY: Purebloods and the pureblood way, although she never wants to dirty her hands for the cause.
BOGGART: A man resembling a Muggle redneck - she saw one once in a magazine and it terrified her.
ANIMAGUS: No. She just doesn't have the personal discipline to go in for the training, as much as she might talk about it.
METAMORPHMAGUS: Absolutely not. That would be weird.
PATRONUS: She cannot cast one yet, although she is working on it. If she ever manages it, it would be an Arctic Wolf.
CLASSES: Ancient Runes, Arithmancy, Astronomy, Charms, Potions, Transfiguration
OWLS SCORES: Here.
QUIDDITCH: Absolutely not. It's a terribly unladylike sport, and she would only attend Quidditch matches in order to be seen with the right people. Duelling - now there's a past-time...
CLUBS: Duelling.

Sophia is bang on average height for a British female. Ordinarily she doesn't like to blend in, but with this, she is content. For reasons that will later become clear, she wants to look attractive, but in a conventional manner. Standing out for an unconventional reason is simply not acceptable as it won't help her future.

She is sturdier and healthier than she actually looks, as one older boy found in her first year when he tried to shoulder-barge her in a corridor. Sophia didn't budge an inch and he went flying, looking surprised. She has a steely inner core, physically and emotionally, and despite the bitter whispers from certain girls about how she might snap if a boy touched her, Sophia is tough. She doesn't exactly eat much, though, which is probably where rumours of an eating disorder started from. When one of her enemies suggested she didn't eat much on purpose, Sophia made the girl cry by saying she'd rather eat the way she did than by shovelling so much food down her mouth that thin-ness would result from involuntary purging. No-one ever broached the subject with her again.

Her eyes are a deep and clear colour, but this means that the occasional sneering or cruel expression show through all the more. Sophia keeps this expressions under wraps, though, preferring the icy or calmly neutral look where possible. Her true emotions are not for the world at large to see.

She has a thin, pale scar running across her right knee, the only physical sign that Dark Magic has been practiced in her family. Aged eight, she was watching her older brother, Julius, practice curses in the vault of the family manor. Distracted by his frustration in not properly completing the Imperius curse, he let out the entrail-expelling hex in annoyance. Realising immediately what he'd done, he dived on Sophia and pushed her to the floor, the blue light zooming just over their heads after it rebounded from the wall. Sophia badly hurt her knee in the fall, although it no longer causes her pain.

Her clothes are demure but nontheless pretty, as she wishes to catch the eye of the boys at Hogwarts - but only the suitable, pureblooded young men of course. She wishes to use her physical charms for the right reason - to get a husband, not to be looked at like some common slut. She never wears clothes that are very casual like jeans or t-shirts - trousers and blouses are as casual as she gets. At society events away from school, she adores wearing the beautiful handmade gowns that probably cost more than her Muggleborn fellow students' monthly rent.

Family Background
Sophia Artemis Rowle's birth came as more of a joy to her mother than her father. Although his wife had already given him an heir, Arcturus Rowle had been hoping for a spare before the distraction of daughters came along. However, it was not long before he became enchanted by the tiny baby girl, with whom he became much closer than with her brother.

Arcturus Rowle was a fifth year Slytherin when he first began to chat on a regular basis with Natalia Dolohov, a girl the same age in his own house. The first discussion occurred when they had been part of a large group in the common room, bemoaning the lack of what they saw as 'a half decent DADA teacher', one who would teach more about what they were facing rather than how to defend themselves. When the next Hogsmeade weekend came along, he asked for her to accompany him, and the young couple officially began courting. Almost a year later, just before the pair returned to Hogwarts for sixth year during which they would both turn of age, the match was approved by both families, and they returned to school as a betrothed couple. A month after completing their education they were wed in the grounds of the Rowle family home. It was there they lived, in a wing of their own, even after Julius' birth.

Early Childhood
By the time Sophia came along, Julius was one and Arcturus and Natalia had taken over the family property in Devizes, Wiltshire. In accordance with traditional pureblooded beliefs, Natalia remained at home to oversee the raising of the children (although the grunt work was naturally done by nannies and house elves) whilst Arcturus continued his job as one of the Ministry of Magic's Accidental Magic Reversal Squad. Chiefly, he was an Obliviator, although his talents were as such that he was often called upon to assist in other areas also.

When Isobel arrived, she was brought up along with Sophia, where the little girls began their education early. This was not the education typical of a small child, for instance, learning how to read and write (although these were skills instilled in them very early). As young women from a long pureblood line, they were taught about what would be required from them in the future. As well as long lessons in cultural subjects such as music (Sophia's specialty was the wizarding composer, Sangfort), the rigid rules of high society etiquette and manners were drilled into them, along with the expectation that they would one day marry and raise similar families of their own. Their mother never specifically referred to the ideal that Muggles and Muggleborns were inferior, but these were values that the children picked up nontheless. They knew that they were different to people who did not possess magical ability, and they could not lived in such a stilted, rarefied environment such as theirs without somehow absorbing the fact that everyone they knew was pureblood, even down to the human housemaids. This, Sophia's young mind concluded, had to be for a reason.

Arcturus Rowle, however, was different. His siblings, Morfin and Caractacus, would both become fully fledged Death Eaters, and while he would not bear the mark, he wished to blend in and be a subversive influence on the unacceptably pro-Muggle wizarding society that was developing after Grindelwald's fall. His children often heard him say things like "we need to protect ourselves" and make reference to the Muggles who killed witches and wizards during the witch trials popular in previous centuries in England. One of Sophia's vivid childhood memories is of a letter in her father's library, an artefect from the early 17th century. It was a letter to one of his ancestors, describing the executions in excruciating details. It had only been a falsely accused Muggle who was killed, so this was not considered important, but the disgust hit Sophia in waves, almost as if she could feel the pain of flames on her own flesh. Arcturus was very satisfied that his oldest daughter was beginning to understand the threat posed by Muggles.

Three years after this incident, it was Julius' turn to go to Hogwarts. In preparation for his entry into a world where he would be forced to mix with his inferiors, Arcturus began to teach him magic - some of it very Dark - to boost his defences and attack and give him an advantage over the interlopers. He hoped that his heir would demonstrate skills at least level with his own at the similar age, but Julius' failure to complete many of them was a great disappointment to him. After lessons where he performed particularly poorly, he occasionally locked his son into the crypt, only letting him out after several hours' chance to practice. It was on one of these days, a mere week before Julius was due to catch the Hogwarts Express for the first time, that he forgot to lock the door, storming out in temper. Sophia snuck in to watch, and the aforementioned accident occurred. Unfortunately for Julius, Arcturus had already begun to favour Sophia over his eldest child, and he was enraged. Unwilling to even look at him, never mind touch him, he punished Julius with a rather nasty stinging hex and shut him in his room for days, allowing a single meal a day to be delivered to him by the house elf who looked after the children.

Hogwarts to Present
Her brother's absence led to a peaceful period in the house for Sophia. She spent several evenings snuggled on the settee in the library with her father, listening to his stories about brave and noble wizards who fought for the advancement of the purebloods, presenting them as a put-upon minority. She was sad to leave the Rowle manor for her own first time at Hogwarts, although she was excited about the other young witches and wizards she would meet from similar backgrounds to hers. She had also had magic lessons with her father, and been much more successful than her sibling had been.

As expected, she was sorted into Slytherin almost immediately. She noted with interest that Julius had not been lying when he talked of their family's house's rivalry with the scarlet clad Gryffindors - a few of them even gossiped when they heard her name and where she had gone. This seemed typical of this house, however, and with the encouragement of her elders she shrugged it off. She knew she was better than them.

Perfectly confident in her own ability, she became a little lazy in her studies, although she still coasted through the more practical classes. Generally speaking, her Hogwarts education passed along relatively quietly up until the very end of her fifth year. Sophia had spent much of the year ignoring teachers who pleaded with her to work harder, saying she had such potential to do well, but the 16 year old girl was complacent and somewhat lazy. If her goal following leaving school was to marry well and have children, what use would there be for magic? She would have servants to do it for her. She never stated this to Professor Slughorn in her careers interview, but she implied it to others in her common room when the career information leaflets were ritually left there.

Around the end of her sixth year, she became suspicious of her brother Julius' behaviour. He was becoming quiet and withdrawn, and avoided her whenever she approached him to talk. Two days after the end of term Julius was found dead on the steps of the war memorial in the centre of Devizes. The word put out to Muggles in the area was that he had been drunk and died of alcohol poisoning, celebrating the completion of his education - a a mere assumption as they had found no signs of death on him. The small amount of whisky in his system was nowhere near enough to kill, yet as a reason it was snatched gratefully, as the local police did not wish to be blamed for the escape of a murderer and the inability to solve such a very strange crime. In reality, Julius had duelled with a fellow Hogwarts graduate from the local area, a Muggleborn with whom he had had a long running rivalry in school. For once, Julius had not started the fight. It turned out that he had an undiagonosed heart condition, and the stunning spell to the chest killed him almost immediately. Despite his growing estrangement from the rest of the family, due to his disappointment as an heir, the family were devastated and Sophia's resentment of Muggleborns grew.

Under her father's instructions the day after the burial, Sophia resentfully agreed to keep her beliefs to herself. He desired to protect his daughters even more, now they were all he had left, and Sophia began to accept that it was more important than ever to pretend to blend in with the rest of wizarding society. Resentment burned within her, though, and she knew that one day, when an opportunity presented itself, her revenge would be great. Woe betide anyone who majorly crossed her when she returned for seventh year...

The Slytherin Sagittarius

Slytherin Sagittarians are sorted primarily because of their ability to dream; these Sags have a vision, and with the support of their House, can channel their energies to great achievements. In return they give their House something priceless beyond rubies: a sense of perspective. Temporary failure is not humiliating to the Sagittarius Slytherin, merely a temporary setback in pursuit of a goal. They can laugh at themselves even when other people are laughing at them, and of course that turns the joke on the idiots who came up with it in the first place. (How devious.) Although bright, these Slytherins will coast through their classes if they can get away with it; they'd rather envision the future than attend to the details of the present.

If Sophia is described as a dreamer, it is not because she is a girl with her head in the clouds. When she dreams, she dreams big. Her Slytherin ambitions, something she isn't afraid of hiding, are threefold; to marry well (preferably as soon as possible after graduation), to produce beautiful pureblooded children for her husband, and to have a powerful job at the Ministry of Magic to concern herself with in the mean-time. She is crafty and will contentedly blend in with the views of others in order to stab them in the back later - much later, so that no-one in school who wrongs her will have a clue about it. Sophia is a girl who plays the long game. Academically, she has been known to coast - while smart (years of private tutoring helped on that front), she can occasionally be lazy when she doesn't see the point of studying certain matters. History of Magic? She's pureblood, she was taught it all growing up. Herbology? She'd rather not get dirty, the help can concern themselves with that. Muggle Studies? Yeah, I don't think so.

LIKES: Being feared, revenge, being admired, expensive wine, expensive chocolate, pureblood culture.
DISLIKES: Blood and guts, Muggles, dirt and sweat, heavy food, crass behaviour.

STRENGTHS: Self-belief, keeping her opinions to herself, etiquette, subtlety, ego-boosting.
WEAKNESSES: Laziness, single-mindedness, vicious tendencies (she could be an excellent bully if she put in the effort to be).

MIRROR OF ERISED: Inheriting the Rowle manor in Devizes from her father, co-inheriting property with her husband, being surrounded by lots of perfectly groomed children (with a male first-born).

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Most people's first impressions of Sophia depend on what they know about her beforehand. With no prior knowledge whatsoever, they would think that she is pretty, and probably that she seems quite nice and polite, if a little introverted. Those who know the Rowle name will recognise her inherited features - the somewhat haughty look when presented with something unpleasant, for instance, or the inherent self confidence with which every member of the family carries themselves.

As a family member, she is warmer and more relaxed, with a genuine love for those who protect and encourage her. She does, however, wish that the more politically vocal members of the family would sometimes be more subtle, as she worries terribly for their safety and has no wish for any of them to be persecuted for being anti-Muggleborn.

As a friend - and she has few who are true - she is perfectly happy to do favours when enough trust has been earned to indicate that she will be able to call on them in return. It takes a lot to earn her trust, but even so, there are few people who she truly opens up to, and hopes that one day, when the political climate stabilises, she will not be so suspicious as to what someone is really thinking.

As a girlfriend, she is non-existent for she one day hopes to be a wife, and she refuses to give away anything that will harm her reputation. She wants to be a good, respectable pureblood wife, and until then she will only go as far as dating pureblood boys from families who are not blood traitors. Slytherins, preferably, though Ravenclaws would also be acceptable. When she is married, she will be a loyal and devoted wife who will do whatever her husband asks, though if she proves her worth and provides him with children, she isn't above using that fact as leverage to get what she wants.