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AMY IRENE BROOKE
The knowledgeable know beyond anything, that they could never possibly know everything

BASICS
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FULL NAME Amelia Irene Brooke[/color]
NICKNAME Just Amy[/color]
AGE Sixteen[/color]
GENDER Female[/color]
HOUSE OR FORMER HOUSE Ravenclaw[/color]
BLOOD STATUS Muggle-born
PLAY-BY[/color][/color][/font] Karen Gillan[/color]
CANON OR ORIGINAL Original [/color]
ADULT OR STUDENT Student [/color]
PROFESSOR? IF SO WHAT SUBJECT? N/A [/color]
OCCUPATION? IF SO WHERE DO YOU WORK? (check out hogsmeade) Part-Time Waitress at The Three Broomsticks [/color]

WAND 9 inches, Unicorn Tail Hair, Rosewood[/color]
PATRONUS Mockingbird[/color]
MIRROR OF ERISED chocolate. Is that normal?[/color]
BOGGART a giant wasp[/color]

STRENGTHS • Intelligent: her head is definitely not filled with sawdust. She picks things up and can figures things out quickly. Also has a wealth of common knowledge (about the muggle and wizarding world) as she read up about anything that she didn't know
• Witty: wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure
• Confident: she had her slump when she was younger and people teased her for her style. But she grew up and actually really liked being who she is, and just rolled her eyes at bullies and they stopped, getting no satisfaction out of it anymore. She's very confident in how she looks and in herself, so screw what people think
• Funny: sometimes she doesn't intend to be funny, it just sort of happens. Just naturally very witty and is always up for a laugh
• Kind: will help someone in need and feel bad if she doesn't
• Independent: lives by the saying 'don't get somebody else to do what you can do better yourself'. Has always been independent.
• Stubborn and persistent and tenacious[/color]
WEAKNESSES • Impatient: if she wants something, she wants it now and she hasn't yet acquired the ability to just wait
• Easily frustrated/bored: she needs to do something or else she gets bored but if that something is hard and it frustrates her, she will throw a mini-tantrum and just leave it
• Condescending: not intentionally, though. Being smart, it's hard for her to understand how other people just don't understand
• Has to point out when something's wrong: this includes, and is mostly, grammar and spelling. She herself makes mistakes, but when she sees one, she /has/ to do something about it. Will even point out If teachers are wrong about something.
• Messy: can not tidy up after herself at all. Doesn't even notice it's messy.
• Conceited: can't be wrong. Will even prove she's right if it is actually wrong. Horrible in an argument.[/color]
LIKES + dark blue
+ guys with glasses
+ writing
+ Quidditch
+ her red hair
+ jogging
+ junk food
+ good movies
+ nice clothes
+ chocolate, chocolate and chocolate[/color]
DISLIKES- tomatoes
- dieting
- bad hair days
- people's who pretend to be something they're not
- homework
- guys with long hair
- sitting still
- classes[/color]
OVERALL PERSONALITY Amy is wacky. Best word to describe her. She can be energetic one day and potato-couch lazy the next. At the end of the day, nothing makes her happier than junk food and a good movie or a book. Not particularly shy; she will talk to you even if she hasn't met you before in her entire life and crack jokes and act like you've been her best friend for years. She's open about her thoughts and usually just says what's on her mind without really thinking it over. Extremely scared of getting hurt, though, and tends to stay away from anything dangerous. Although, with enough convincing, and if she really wants to do it, she probably will. Amy gets bored pretty easily, though, and tends to fidget and complain if she is. Will do anything to not be bored which includes reading, swimming, chatting with a stranger, going for walks, even doing homework, just anything. Can't concentrate on work for too long before getting miserable unless it's interesting to her. She's impatient and impulsive. Spontaneous. Talks excessively and behaves as if driven. Extremely forgetful and loses her things like mad. Very disorganised. Avoids tasks that require sustained or detailed attention or effort, cos she's just lazy about homework. Her teachers already know she'll probably give pretty good homework in, but don't expect it to always be in on time. Amy gets very frustrated when she can't figure something out and then just leaves it and does what she wants.

Can't live a day without her snacks and nibbles. She is so miserable if she diets and therefore doesn't. What's the use? Amy does tend to insult people without really realising it. Mostly because she just talks without any real consideration for the consequences. A bit condescending (okay, a lot) when people don't know things she thinks they're supposed to know. Tends to ramble a lot just because she finds it hard to keep her mouth shut. Yes, this sounds all over the place, but that's how she is; all over the place! She can't even sleep some nights because her mind is too busy thinking about absolute nonsense. As hyper as she is when out and about, she can become extremely lazy if she lays around too much but she still fidgets or doodles or just does something with her hands. Another of her faults is that she gives up WAY too easily. She's always up for starting something, promising herself to do her best, but just loses interest after a bit and moves on to the next thing. Creative, she loves to write stories but never finishes them except for in her head. She is rather sloppy, her room at home is a mess and her bed is never made in her dorm.[/color]

MOTHER Erica Danielle Brooke neé McKay, 41, Muggle[/color]
FATHER Ronald Richard Brooke, deceased, Muggle[/color]
SIBLINGS Half-brother, 7, Christian Jeremy Brooke, Muggle[/color]
OTHER all muggles
Amy's Aunt Yolandie on her mother's side is married to Emmett Jones and they are the parents of her nephew, Timothy. Amy's grandmother on her mother's side is Marlene, married to Peter Llewellyn. Grandfather on mum's side is Cornelius McKay, married to Hannah. Her father had another child with his next wife, Mary, called Christian, who is her half-brother. She doesn't know them.
There are loads more, but that's her closest, immediate family. She knows nobody from her father's side of the family.
Also, a ginger cat (ginger family, this) called Spaz Benjamin and a hamster called Sheldon Jeremy (not pompous at all then)[/color]
HISTORY Amy was born to her Scottish parents in a Scottish town and it was all very Scottish. 'Till this day, she has been continuously Scottish. She also has a cat. Honestly, do you need more than that? Yes? Okay, fine. Greedy.

When Amy was four, her parents got divorced and she and her mum lived alone ever since. Her father had cheated on her mother with a younger girl called Mary, and they later got married and had Amy's half-brother, Christian. Amy and Erica did well on their own, getting along brilliantly. Honestly? Amy has always considered her mum to be one of her best friends, someone she could share and trust with anything. Yes, sometimes her mum pissed her off, but all mums do that! As for her dad; they were never really close. He treated her with courteous detachment. Of course she loved him, but probably not as much as she was supposed to. Next to her and her mum's house, lived a primary teacher, who Amy adored and in the process, she taught Amy how to read and write at a really young age, kick-starting Amy's love of literature. Will obsess over Lord of the Rings and Sherlock Holmes because that's just what she's like.

Her magical powers first started showing with things just disappearing around her. First trivial things, like pens and shoes, but then her entire bed disappeared. Which is important. For sleeping. Years later, she found it all in the Room of Requirements. Further information on the girl's fairly normal life before Hogwarts: she ran into a wall once, played a sheep in a Nativity play, attacked Harry Potter and clinged to his legs (she's a fan), has ingested a bee by accident and got stung on the butt by one on the same day, been chased by a turkey and knitted a scarf. That is basically all.

Once in Hogwarts, the girl got sorted into Ravenclaw for her cleverness. Along the years, she's gotten into detention a fair few times for not shutting up, ran into a wall again, made a few friends and knit one more scarf. One very significant thing is that she basically became sisters with Valerie Dryden. They just sort of... clicked. But that was only in their fourth year. Years one to two were lead believing the other sucks and should not even breathe the same air as you for they are not worthy. Well. A little less dramatic than that. They just had a bit of a falling out in their first year. Amy was reading Lord of the Rings on the train and Valerie said she liked Legolas. Amy said he was boring and hell broke loose. One does not simply say that Legolas is boring. Two blonde girls, a short one and one with an air of bitchiness, broke up the fight and for some reason, Amy made friends with them. Valerie and Amy were completely different people and moved in different circles. Amy never really made proper friends, (the blonde bimbos don't count) not connecting with anyone properly. She was everyone's friend, but nobody's best friend. The two blonde bimbos dumped Amy for another 'BFF' (the term was never ever fitting) and Amy joined Valerie's group. Yeah, she and Val didn't get along, so Amy mostly hanged with Val's friend Bianca. Until, one day in grade four, she and Valerie just got talking about all types and stuff and fangirled about books and muggle tv shows and stories when they were the only two in the study hall. Who knew they actually had so much in common? Ever since, they've been thick as thieves. Valerie's a huge part of Amy's life. Seriously. Massive. She loves that girl to bits. They talk about everything, understand each other completely, tease eachother like best friends do, and are just never apart unless they have to be. (What the hell happened to Bianca anyway? -shrugs-)

When Amy was 13, one vacation she was at home, she got a call at ungodly hours of the night and it was her father. He told her he loved her and to thank her mother for taking care of her and hung up. Amy just knew that was his suicide note. Honestly, yes, when the muggle police showed up at their house to confirm it, she was genuinely sad. It was one of the two times she cried over her father's death. The other was when they lowered him in the ground and she put a flower on his coffin. Yes, she loved him, but her life didn't change at all when he died. She had been detached from him even when he was alive, so why should it bother her now?

At the beginning of her sixth year at Hogwarts, Amy was forced to move to her grandparents (Marlene and Peter) as her mother had to move to America for her job. She missed her mother immensely, but kind of warmed up to living with her grandparents on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She had the biggest room since it was upstairs and old people and stairs are not the best of friends. They lived on what could have been a farm if things grew there. They have four Jack Russells (which she hates), called Billy, Louis, Isaac and Jacob and a big, loud thing with white fur and large black spots they're almost positive is most likely a wolf, called Angus. Amy only ever loved Angus. No, wait, that's a lie. She wanted to run him over with her car, the bugger. Her grandfather was always very fond of animals, so they also had three horses, a white one called Spooky, a brown one called Towdy and a black one called Katie. Katie was Amy's horse, and the only horse she ever rode. Badly. But rode she rode. Amy ran around the fields outside the house every morning (if it wasn't raining), often sat on the roof (if it wasn't raining) and picked apples from trees nearby (sometimes even if it was raining).

The rest, as they say, is history.[/color]
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