amanda celeste brocklehurst

- C.S. LEWIS

Contact Information
NAME: Lena
AIM HANDLE: macgirl50
OVER 17?: Yes!
TIMEZONE: US/ Eastern [GMT-5]
CDJ: dejavroom // lena
EXPERIENCE: 6 years in various games.
PB: Mandy Moore
JOURNAL TO BE USED: clawcutie

Basics
FULL NAME: Amanda Celeste Brocklehurst
NICKNAMES: Mandy, Mands, Manda, etc.
HOMETOWN: Where they live outside of school
AGE: 17
BIRTHDAY: 5th November 1979
BLOOD STATUS: Pureblood


Family/Relationships
PARENTS:

MOTHER: Samantha Brocklehurst, schoolteacher.
FATHER: Edmund Brocklehurst, bookstore owner.

SIBLINGS: 3 brothers and 2 sisters.
EXTENDED FAMILY: Potential for plenty of cousins; no one significant.
FRIENDS: Intelligence, fun. Mandy isn't very picky and is friendly to everyone.
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Dating Ernie MacMillan of/on since the Yule Ball during 4th year.

Education
HOUSE/YEAR: 6th Year Ravenclaw
GRADES: Excellent Student.
FAVORITE SUBJECTS: Charms, HIstory
LEAST FAVORITE SUBJECTS: Transfiguration, DADA

Politics
LOYALTY/ALLIANCE: Neutral, but leaning toward the good guys.
POLITICAL VIEWS: Mandy doesn't understand the purist attitude. She loves people no matter what their background and thinks it's silly to judge someone for something beyond their control. She's not very vocal about it, though, preferring to appear neutral and keep out of trouble.

Appearance
APPEARANCE: Average height at about 5'5 and average build. Mandy has a slender, athletic frame that is kept in shape by regular exercise. She favors casual clothing - comfort over style - and almost always wears a smile.

Personality ETC
WAND: 9 1/2 inch Reed and Kelpie Mane. Springy.
BOGGART: An empty bookshelf. No, really.
PATRONUS: N/A. She doesn't know how to cast one.

LIKES: Literature, running, Quidditch, nature/camping.
DISLIKES: Cramped spaces, licorice, empty bookshelves.

STRENGTHS: Charms, Cooking, Flying, Good Listening, Sweet, Friendly, Optimistic.
WEAKNESSES: Transfiguration, Defensive Spells, Impatient, Naive, Easily taken advantage of.

DETAILED PERSONALITY:
Mandy has always been the friendly, bubbly sort of girl most people find easy to get on with. Her curious nature made it obvious why she was sorted into Ravenclaw, but she was always friendly with those outside her house, too, having a friendly smile for any who might approach her. She loved to socialize and still would to this day if there was much of it to be done. Mandy is very much a people person. She likes being up on the latest gossip and trends.

Rather than being one of those simpering girly girls, Mandy is a big lover of nature. Camping, hiking, etc are some of her favorite past times and she hates being cooped up indoors for long. She loves flying for the freedom it gives her. She likes the weightless feeling she gets on a broom and the way the wind whips through her hair. She really loves playing Quidditch a lot and will miss it when she's done from school if she doesn't end up on a pro team.

Mandy is a loyal, understanding friend to have. A Ravenpuff at heart, she values her friends and family and there is little she wouldn't do for them. She's not a very patient sort, but she's always willing to listen to a friend in need and she likes to think she gives pretty good advice, especially in matters of the heart. Her mother writes trashy romance novels, so of course she's an expert at such things!

Any specific plot ideas for your character? Nothing specific, really, but I'm open to anything!


History
Mandy was born one of six children to a magical couple who is obviously still very much in love, even to this day. Those close to the Brocklehursts often like to joke that you would think they would know about the various methods of preventing babies, but the truth is that their large family has always been a very happy one and Mandy grew up surrounded by people who loved and adored her, which is never a bad thing.

It was no surprise when she received her Hogwarts letter at 11. Being a pureblood, it was something expected and Mandy had been showing little signs of magic since the age of three, anyway. It was no surprise, either, when she was sorted into Ravenclaw. Even at 11, Mandy was already a bookworm and her frequent explorations around the neighborhood often got her into trouble. There were Muggles and Magical folks alike in their neighborhood and that fascinated Mandy. She wanted to know why they were different. She wanted to know everything about the Muggle things that she didn't have growing up. Their sports, especially, fascinated her and she begged and pleaded her way into a large collection of Muggle books long before her own schooling began.

Hogwarts was amazing for her. It was beyond anything her parents or older siblings could have described and she was fascinated. Mandy quickly soaked up everything Hogwarts had to offer her, excelling in many of her classes and working hard to keep up in the others. As a magical child, she'd grown up loving Quidditch, of course, but she was blown away by her first flying lesson all the same. Mandy was a natural on a broom and she was instantly taken with the freeing feeling being on a broomstick gave her. There was nothing like it.

After being stuck as an alternate her second year, Mandy finally nabbed an open Chaser position in her third. Ecstatic owls home soon followed, along with begging her parents for her very own broom. They relented, though she was forced to spend her holidays working it off in her dad's shop. She didn't mind, though. It was easily one of her favorite places to spend her time, anyway.

As her life at Hogwarts continued, she started to think about the future. She's thought about trying to play Quidditch professionally. She's thought about going into research. She's thought about opening a shop of her own in Hogsmeade or Diagon. Mandy isn't really sure what her future is going to look like, but right now she's just enjoying being young and trying to pretend the world is less scary than it is.


Samples
JOURNAL ENTRY:
I absolutely love this time of year. The flat's all decorated with the windows charmed to twinkle all sorts of pretty colours and I've a tree put up and I've baked so many different cakes and things. I'm not fantastic at it, but I think they turned out pretty well. I've even managed to do a lot of my shopping, though, of course, I have more to do.

Remember how amazing Hogwarts used to look at Christmas time? It seems like such a long time ago, doesn't it?

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It still feels so strange to think that I am actually married and to Andrew Kirke. Amanda Kirke. It still feels so strange to say or to write. He's very handsome and I know it could be worse, but it still feels so strange.

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I think I need to invest in more books. I've read everything I have and I feel like finding something new. Does anyone have any suggestions?

RP SAMPLE: here