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Julie Shaw
Status:
Muggle-born
Nationality:
Scottish
Residence:
Inverness, Scotland
Function:
Fourth year, Hufflepuff
Wand:
25,9 cm chestnut wood and phoenix feather
Determined | Amiable | Bookish | Curious | Clumsy | Stalwart

"Never thought myself as a belter, just grew up same as most kids did in a town startin' to swell up with new folk looking for that bloody monster. Wasnae too short, my hair ruddy brown with red through it in the light, eyes as blue as Lake Ness. My life was simple enough, had a Mum like everyone else, worked her hands sore at Aldi and tended gardens for some of the richer folk. Mah Dad was... Dad, lost his job after havin a wee bit of a fight with his boss. I didnae spent much time at home.

I wasn't anything popular in primary school, bein' sorta quiet, but I enjoyed the course work and did mah best. I liked figurin' stuff out, and I got good marks for all my efforts. School was easier than home most of the time, and I got oan with most folk, kept my nose clean so I could keep going to school. I got used to the routine, till it changed.

Little things kept happening, mah favorite bag that I'd snagged open seemed mended after I'd cried about it. The neighbor's dog that was always keen to snap at mah heels started bein' friendly after I got so scared I fell over. The locked front door opened when I leaned against it on a day Dad forgot to leave the key out when he left for the pub, causin me to fall on mah back in the foyer.

I always talked to mum, but we couldnae figure what was happening. I was always a clumsy girl, so we jus' thought it was good luck finally winding mah way. It reassured me, an I went on with my life with the random "luck-ness monster" followin' me around. Mum thought it was cute to call it that.

Never even seen an owl up close until I got the letter, I froze in spot, starin' at the parchment like a gawping numpty. It waved it at my face, blinkin slowly like I was taking years to sort it out. When I finally figured out how mah hands worked and took it, gettin' cuffed on the head by a wing mind ya, I didnae believe it.

Suddenly my Luck-Ness Monster was made a reality, I was accepted to a school of witchcraft and wizardry? How was that even a thing, and how the bloody hell am I to send an owl?"