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Thora Duffy
Status:
Muggle-born
Nationality:
Irish
Residence:
Seaforde,County Down, Ireland
Function:
First year, Gryffindor
Wand:
24,8 cm chestnut wood and unicorn hair
Strengths: She's strong-willed and stands up for herself. Intelligent and stubborn, she will do anything she sets her mind to without much need for outside encouragement. She's athletic and energetic and tougher than most girls her own age.

Weaknesses: She has a short temper and sees threats everywhere, sometimes without much provocation. She'll fight with someone over the smallest offence. She doesn't trust others easily, considering them enemies (or, at the very least, untrustworthy), and assumes they are out to get her until proven otherwise.

Likes: She likes quidditch and flying more than anything in the world and hopes very much to become a beater for her house quidditch team. Meat and potato dishes and chocolate potato cake are her favourite foods, and red lemonade is her favourite drink.

Dislikes: She dislikes reading, places that require her to be particularly quiet, and most other people. She doesn't like to be told what to do, whether or not she would do whatever she'd been told to anyways. She hates her older sisters (at least, she thinks she does).

Appearance: Thora is short for her age, with long and slender limbs that make her look tall from far off. She has medium red hair, fair skin, blue/ green eyes, and freckles. She is quite fond of wearing muggle trousers and warm jumpers in any colour other than green, if she can manage it, and she wouldn't be caught dead in a dress - unless her mother insisted. She is generally stand-offish, and works hard to maintain her image of a tough, tomboy. While she's flying or being active, however, she's much more agreeable and relaxed with those around her.

Her fingernails are jagged and bitten off and nearly always have dirt underneath them. If she's chewing on the inside of her lower lip, it's best to avoid her because it means she's trying to hold in a fit of temper. She's almost always moving or fidgeting, even in her sleep, so it's rare that anyone will find her sitting perfectly still, even when she's trying.

Personality: Thora is generally moody unless she's doing something active, though she doesn't know why, and her confusion over her moodiness tends to add to her stormy disposition. When she's particularly angry, she chews on the insides of her lips, which isn't usually painful until a day or two afterward, at which point she has forgotten all about having done anything to inflict such pain upon herself. She's liable to hit anything that speaks if the being in question is capable of anything other than quiet and polite chatter - anything and anyone except her parents and other authority figures, that is. Athletic pursuits of all sorts calm her down and sooth her temper.

Thora has three older sisters and one younger, all of whom have spent most of their lives tormenting her, as well as one another. Her parents step in rarely, if at all, when they can see no other way of preventing the negative actions resulting from the situation in question. They believe that children should learn to govern themselves rather than depending on an authority figure to inflict guidelines and punishments upon them. This, more or less, has resulted in a free-for-all in which each child is able to and capable of inflicting quite creative - and as yet unpunished - torturous tactics against one another (so long as the act in question doesn't insight parental attention of any sort). For these reasons, Thora is quite likely to gain and hold onto grudges with little provocation. She does not forgive easily.

Thora can usually be found climbing trees, running around in the rain, jumping in puddles, playing in the mud or with the family dog, Eoghan, and, when at school, flying as often as she can manage it. If she has to do homework, she'd rather do it on a tree branch with her legs swinging, than anywhere else. She would be much less irritable while doing homework if she could always do her homework this way, but rain and snow make this less feasible throughout much of the term.

If she encountered Amortentia, she would smell fresh cut grass floating on the breeze, butterfly bush flowers, and stewing meat and potatoes.

History: Her mother is descended from a long line of farmers and a long line of sons. With three older brothers, her parents had no need of her on the farm. There was no great joy in either family when Tierney and Fiona decided to marry, though there were three beaus who were quite jealous of Tierney for they'd wanted Fiona to themselves. For this reason, none of Fiona's children are close to their grandparents, though they visit twice a year.

Thora was born into a family of girls, all of whom have very different personalities and all of whom find her abnormally boyish behaviour to be a kind of unnaturalness deserving of special torment (though what Thora doesn't see is that they have each found something in every one of their sisters that they've decided is particularly unnatural and deserving of special torment). Even her baby sister, who should be beneath her in seniority, is able to torture her because she has the approval of their eldest sister. Thora hates her sisters, even Ava who has softened to her siblings since learning that she is a witch.

The years following Ava's first term at Hogwarts were the worst for her. Ava threatened constantly to use magic on her if she didn't clean up or put on a nice dress, and, though Ava said she only meant it in jest, Thora has been trying to work out the best way to get her back ever since her own arrival at Hogwarts. Of course, Thora knows now that Ava isn't (and wasn't) allowed to do magic outside of school so she no longer fears her in the same manner that she had that summer, and no amount of threatening from her sisters would now frighten her into doing something she didn't want to do.

She's spent most of her life running through in the rain and stomping in puddles and climbing trees with Conall, who she met around the age of four or five - she can't remember exactly - by tackling him because she thought he'd been following her. He swore he hadn't been - though he had - and after a very violent fight, in which both ended up with bruises and one landed the other with a black eye, and a lot of shouting, they ended in laughing it off and becoming fast friends. Conall was the only other person, apart from her parents, that Thora trusted... at least, he used to be.

The two children were practically inseparable until she discovered for sure, by way of her Hogwarts acceptance letter, that she was a witch. Her closest friend's father being a priest, she's terrified of telling him the truth about herself and so she quietly hid away in her room, pretending that she wasn't at home, and ignoring his visits until she could escape and go to school.