Norah Mayfield, First Year Slytherin - Characters

5 Mar 2018, 03:45

Name: Norah Josephine Mayfield
Birthdate: 10/06 (10 June)
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Portsmouth, England
Blood Status: Muggle-born
Wand: 22,6 cm mayhaw wood and dragon heartstring
House: Slytherin
Family: Richard Mayfield (father), Margaret Mayfield nee Harris (mother), Chloe Mayfield (sister)

Appearance: Norah stands at around 4'9" and is still growing. She has fair skin, brown eyes, and wavy ash-brown hair. She's in good health with fair upper body strength from years of sailing. Norah isn't one for makeup outside of some blush and mascara for formal events. On a day to day basis, she rocks the natural look. Her hair falls to about mid-chest, and she loves styling it everyday. Braids are her go-to look, but she's also known to try out buns and various up-dos. Outside of her school uniform and robes, she has a casual outdoorsy style with a flair for feminine. Her middle class background shows, and her accent is fairly nondescript. She can put on a good show of a Pompey accent for humor, but she normally doesn't sound like she's from anywhere in particular.

Personality: Norah comes off as a confident, natural leader. She knows her place in the world and finds strength in that fact. While she may doubt her skills and brush aside compliments, she rarely doubts herself. While learning about her magical abilities came as a shock, Norah received the news with aplomb. By nature, she's an inquisitive yet cautious girl. Her interests change with the seasons, but she is able to apply prior knowledge to new fields. Thanks to support from her family and friends, she learned to cherish and nurture her curiosity and can present herself as the model student. Behind closed doors, she'll soak up information like a sponge even at the neglect of her schoolwork. Norah's an introvert and finds that the best adventure ends in the safety of her own bed with a familiar book.

She has a quiet disregard for rules when they conflict with her own interests and isn't one to be told 'no'. She holds great command over herself and reveals her cards as she wishes. Few things really unsettle her. However, she's the benevolent dictator and lacks a ruthless edge to take whatever risks necessary. On the whole, she seems harmless. Just a confident and smart student. She has her strengths and weaknesses in all things, though her spirit won't let her give up without a fight.

History: Norah was born in Portsmouth to a seemingly normal family. She had two loving parents, a couple cats, and a good group of friends from school. From an early age, Norah proved herself to be an inquisitive child with a great love for the world around her. Her favorite word was 'why', and her parents fed that insatiable curiosity. She read constantly and could spend hours on the Internet researching whatever obscure subject caught her interest at the time. At school, Norah kept close to her friends, and rarely saw any reason to expand that tight-knit group.

Her first talent for magic showed up when she was five. She had been out sailing with her parents and lost her favorite flip flop in the ocean. Despite her parents' best efforts, there was no calming the girl. During Norah's tantrum, the water around the boat bubbled, and before long, her missing flip flop came hurtling out of the water and landed inside the sail boat. As soon as Norah realised that her shoe was returned to her, her tantrum stopped along with the bubbling water. The rest of the day was uneventful, but Norah's parents couldn't figure out what they had seen. The memory faded in Norah's mind, but she continued to show magical abilities ever since. Sometimes, it was small things like changing the colors of her Crayons and markers. Norah's friends just understood their friend as having strange talents, and they accepted her for who she was. Some of her classmates were less accepting, and she experienced some bullying when she couldn't reproduce her tricks. That only drove Norah deeper into the companionship of her friend group as well as her reluctance to bring in new friends to the fold.

The day her Hogwarts letter arrived, Norah had busied herself with observing a colony of ants in the backyard. The letter arrived not by owl post, but by an in-person delivery. It was a shock, both to her and her parents, that she wouldn't be following the same route as normal girls her age. Later, Norah's parents told her that she took the news remarkably well, but the gears in her mind were working overtime to comprehend and place the new flood of information into her existing understanding of the world. At first, it was agreed to keep the newfound knowledge a secret outside of the house, and Norah holed herself up to do as much research as possible on the new school and magic.