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[Corrine Haven]

corrine haven
muggleborn - sixth year - slytherin
protean, charismatic, shrewd
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Corrine Haven slips from personality to personality. She cares about herself and her parents. Living in Slytherin house with the current crop of students has taught her to stop caring about anything else. She is a bit unconventional for the times in that the idea of being a housewife and mother is just about the most disgusting thing she could imagine lowering herself to. She absolutely looks down on anyone who wants nothing more. She's ruthlessly ambitious, but right now surviving is just about as high as she can aspire. She thinks of most things as a game, and she's very very good at playing games. She has the thickest skin you'll ever see. She will get angry and vengeful, but you won't see a hint of it until she's ready to rip your head from your shoulders. Honestly, Corrine has alot of bones to pick with alot of people at Hogwarts, and it's only issues of practicality and self-preservation that prevents her from going a bit berserk. FRIENDS: Probably not many. She is very good at charming people, but I don't think she could be convinced to put effort into many relationships. She doubtless is on good terms with many people outside Slytherin house, but real, honest friends? They will be few and far between. ENEMIES: Probably everyone in Slytherin house, give or take a few. Past that I can't imagine Corrine being sloppy enough to antagonize many others. There are probably people who get a bad vibe off of her, but I don't see many people rabidly hating her. Oh, maybe chess players? She's really talented at chess and probably could handily mop the floor with most players at Hogwarts. LOVERS: Well, Corrine isn't opposed to romance, but she won't really be a conventional 1940's girlfriend. If someone can't respect that she wants to makes something out of herself, she would never even contemplate dating them. She would be a fun date though, just because she's good at figuring out how to entertain people. If someone could actually entertain her, that would be interesting. Either way, any attempt at a genuine relationship with Corrine would be full of emotional evasion, dishonesty, and a certain note of desperation. DRAMA.
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helena tofty
halfblood - sixth year - hufflepuff
industrious, proud, insecure
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Helen is a deeply insecure young woman. She doesn't see herself as extraordinarily talented, or needed, or even particularly competent at almost anything. She works hard because she wants to stop feeling so marginalized and unnecessary. It's not helping much. She's quite sweet, really, but she's convinced that most people see her for the waste of space she is, so she tends to be wary and defensive towards new people. However, if one works past that reaction, you'll find an incredibly devoted friend. She does have quite the memory, so if there was something you said to her, or something you did in front of her you were hoping she'd forget, it's likely she didn't. In general she feels a bit lonely and a bit overlooked, even though in many ways she's not. FRIENDS: Though not thick on the floor, Helen is a fundamentally compassionate human being, so anyone who took the time to work past her shy exterior probably knows that she's quite genuine and affectionate. She is uncomfortable in crowds and with strangers, so if she met people on her own it was likely one on one. If someone reciprocates the kindness she extends towards people who haven't belittled her, Helen becomes a devoted friend. ENEMIES: Believe it or not, Helen actually feels a fairly large amount of disdain for alot of people. She and her family have worked tirelessly for everything they have. She has no respect for people who are clever and coast in school as a result, or people who are wealthy rely on that measure of their worth. Towards these people, Helen can get unusually condescending, so I wouldn't be surprised if few of them didn't like being sneered at by someone like her. Past that I frankly don't think she has much of a spine, and tormenting her would be a bit like kicking a puppy, but if you have a character who's into that, that's cool.LOVERS: Helen is a bit of an ugly duckling turned into a swan. She was rather gangly and awkward until a year or two ago, and since then she's lost the baby fat in her face and gained weight in the right places, so yanno, you might call her rather foxy at this point. She's a romantic, but a couple of things get in her way. Firstly, she's insecure so she often fails to reciprocate flirting, either because she misses it entirely or because she thinks they're trying to have fun at her expense. Secondly, she's afraid of growing to need someone more than they need her. Terrified of it actually. But I think there's potential for some pretty cute stuff here, so, yeah. Love should most definitely be in the air for this one.
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eleanor baddock
pureblood - seventh year - ravenclaw
repressed, intellectual, compassionate
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Eleanor is my little closet philosopher. She comes off as your typical pureblood socialite. Witty, one might admit, but certainly nothing extraordinary. In point of fact Eleanor deeply questions the world around her. The questions have mostly been impractical, but since her brother's recent death, she's beginning to wonder about her prejudices and inclinations. Still, even though she took after her father and has an aristocratic mindset, Eleanor is generally very social and kind. She doesn't treat almost anyone poorly, really, viewing it as horrible manners to hurt people deliberately. She's exceptionally loyal to her family, and her grief has made her detached in recent months. You should really read her app. FRIENDS: Lots. Elie came up in pureblood circles, and most of her friends are people she's known since childhood. Still, she's social and compassionate, and not unlikely to make friends with anyone who would approach her. She really loves intellectuals, but she tries to keep her own intellect under wraps which results in a strange tension with the more intelligent students. Still, they're her favorite, and all her best friends will be on the smart side. ENEMIES: Well, Elie's kind of a diplomat. She doesn't get heated about much, actually. She hates bullying, and will occasionally get snippy over that, but antagonizing her would be quite difficult. Oh, she's quite a traditionalist and is more than willing to sacrifice her own happiness to satisfy her family's expectations, and that has verged on the unsettling. She does run with a mostly pureblood crowd, so it wouldn't be difficult to associate her with some of the nastier types. LOVERS: Her pop has just finished arranging a marriage with another pureblood and I have two basic ideas. 1) Boy is nice, is secretly quite unprejudiced as far as blood goes, and is scared of being married to some purist harpy. She is afraid he'll be a purist douche. They circle around each other warily until they discover that their ideas aren't actually that different at which point adorable awkward romance ensues. 2) Boy is a purist. I feel I should mention that Elie will eventually change her blood politics from the shakily neutral ground she stands on now to outright support of equality, mostly because of her brother's death and his journals. Anyway, boy is a purist, not very right for Eleanor, and the poor thing begins to dread her marriage. Enter halfblood/muggleborn boy who she falls for in an unspecified manner. Cue endless drama.
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[Foras Rosier]

heyyy meg. welcome to chime!

foras rosier

a fellow sixth year slytherin, foras and corrine actually have quite a few points of connection! foras is a very aristocratic pureblood and prefect who is known for his inability to smile and unwillingness to frown. he detests displays of emotion (at least in himself; subtle expressions in others are not quite so bad) and so he mostly comes off as very austere, stern and sort of unfriendly/intimidating. he's very academia orientated and a weird mix of progressive and traditional; he might find the fact that she's a mudblood distasteful, but he's not going to mention it to her, and he certainly wouldn't dream of being rude to her. chances are, he's chastised others in their house for doing so as it breaks the school rules, and rules are very important to him. it's unlikely that he'd seem particularly impressed by her presence, as he has three close friends (one of them tom riddle) and that is more than enough for him, but he would be as robotic and cordial as he is to anyone. as you've probably seen, foras is the head of the chess club, and he's incredibly good at his craft; he spends a lot of time studying plays and practising. honestly, he doesn't mind losing that much, as he's not very competitive, but it's highly unlikely that he'd lose to her if he was concentrating. STILL: she'd win at least a little respect from him for having talent. easiest way to his good graces, nbd. wow that got long.

zamira gulch

is also a sixth year slytherin, and is actually in her dormitory. zamira's kind of... weird. she probably doesn't publicly associate with corrine because she wouldn't like the stigma that comes from hanging out with a mudblood around the rest of slytherin, but she actually has very little regard for purism - she's just kind of not outraged enough to say shit about it. she's very selfish in many regards. but um as long as there was no one nearby she'd be happy to associate with her. personality-wise, she tends towards the sarcastic and has a somewhat cruel (though not hugely) sense of humour in regard to other people and their feelings. she also writes for the school paper and is close friends with gossip/sensationalist queen betty braithwaite, so idk what that could entail BUT MAYBE SOMETHING. she wouldn't be overtly mean to her face, idt (well no meaner than she is ordinarily), but she wouldn't be astonishingly welcoming when around their housemates. outside of the common room/dormitory, she might have surprised her by being a little more receptive. idk.

ruth harper

fifth year pureblood (I'M SENSING A THEME) whose name isn't very wealthy, but is very well established as being 'proper' stock. that said, she isn't really all that prejudiced, and would probably quite happily be friends with corrine/whoever else. they're not in the same year, though, and ruth isn't really one for games. she attends art club, but that's about it. idk, she's quite quiet and comes off as shy sometimes, though she is more just not very interested in making friends. but she's quite kind etc. the only thing is that she gets engaged to sinclair avery and by proxy starts sort of associating with all kinds of Proper Pureblood types, so she might end up ditching corrine a bit later on... charming, really.

brede jorgensen

probably won't have a lot to do with her tbf but he's a seventh year hufflepuff half-blood. he's got a thick norwegian accent bc both his parents are unrepentantly norwegian and have refused to acclimatise to england. um, his family abroad are very famous supporters of grindelwald, but his father is a blood traitor, so he's sort of automatically wary of most slytherins (even though he really does try to be unbiased and friendly to everyone). HOWEVER her being a muggleborn probably means that brede will actually like her and feel sorry for her being stuck in slytherin/be friendly to her. he's also the president of the wizarding trading cards club, so she can expect to be badgered into joining that if he does know her (even if he doesn't know her particularly well).

percival pratt

percy is a seventh year gryffindor and basically lives and breathes being a blood traitor. it is a core tenant of his personality. he's very, very obnoxious; he's loud, proud, and he talks in rhyming couplets and/or riddles, because his sisters educated him to when he was a toddler and the habit never left him (except when he's talking to friends). corrine will present a conundrum to him, because he is automatically inclined to defend muggleborns to the death, BUT he's also automatically inclined to hate slytherins, and he's a very, very set-in-his-ways creature. sooo. idk. he probably won't notice she exists as he has a bit of a narrow view of the world and only really notices people shoved in front of him. her being a girl and younger probably exempts her from the gross poetry he writes about purebloods and slytherins. LOL. but yeah. he wouldn't know what to make of her

[Corrine Haven]

OMG,

Foras: I think Corrine would appreciate that he was decent to her much more than she'd let on, especially if he actually reprimanded people for being bastards. She'd understand that he'd find a grand token of appreciation distasteful, but she'd probably be what might be called thoughtful. As for chess, I think this would be when she could be seen to actively enjoy his company. She practices quite a bit when she's at home, and when she started coming to Hogwarts I imagine she started studying since she couldn't play people constantly. Either way, she's a very tactical player, though she can switch to a strategic thought process if she's in trouble. I imagine Foras would be strategic all the way. It's probably a 2:1-ish ratio about how often they beat each other. If she ever wanted to talk to him for real, it would be over a game of chess. She also probably thinks of her interactions with him in a chess-ish sort of way. YAY.

Zamira: Corrine wouldn't trust Zamira as far as she could throw her, but it would still be nice to have someone who wasn't horrible around. Sarcasm is something Corrine can jive with, though I think she'd be very guarded about what she directed it at. If Corrine ever wanted to subtly get someone back, she might mention things to Zamira in the hopes Betty got a hold of it, so gossip could be interesting with these two. Early on at HOgwarts it would definitely have surprised Corrine, but at this point I think they'd almost have an unspoken thing: You can be in your bed when it's just me around without your curtains trying to strangle you. Good stuff, no?

Ruth: Haha, Corrine doesn't care much about making friends unless their useful, so the two of them knowing each other very well is unlikely. THe whole ditching thing could be fun though. It might be interesting if when they were younger Ruth told Corrine that something she was doing was offensive to most wizards and from then on Corrine asked for etiquette advice? Ahahah, she had to learn it somewhere. So friendly terms but not exceptionally close? And it would probably be a bit more hurtful than Corrine would like to admit if Ruth were suddenly cruel/distant towards her. It would absolutely reinforce the 'trust no one' bit Corrine has going on.

Brede: D'awwwwwww. Haha, feel free to badger, and Corrine would probably show up and watch, but it's not the sort of thing she'd spend money on. I don't know how much she would appreciate the feeling sorry for her bit. It would probably offend her quite a bit actually. They could have a brouhaha over it. A very calm, biting brouhaha on Corrine's part anyway.


Percival: Honestly, when Corrine was younger, if she had any notion of someone protecting mudbloods she'd have used them shamelessly. In her first years she would have looked up at him (even now she's only 5'2") with huge tear-filled eyes and hold out her bruised limbs and ask if she could stay with him for the rest of the ball, please percy, please??? She would have done quite alot to convince him she was worth protecting if she thought he would actually do it consistently. And I think even though the whole please percy thing wouldn't be used so much anymore, she'd probably a) feel bad if she didn't stay on good terms with him because he did help her after all, B ) realize how useful it could be to have someone who would help her out in a tight spot, and c) maybe secretly enjoy his quirks/company a bit more than she'd admit. But yeah, no way does Corrine not try to worm her way into the affection of someone she could expect to protect her.

[Lucy Agrippa]

HELLO AGAIN! XD

SO RIGHT! I've got three babies to plot here...

Lucy Agrippa&Corrine: a fellow sixth year, Ravenclaw, pureblood, and a total bookworm. Lucy comes from a rather noble and old family although they aren't as known in the magical world as some. Lucy however has this crazy drive to prove herself in that family. She needs to BE something and do something with her life. So she studies like whoa. If she isn't in class or in the Ravenclaw tower she's always in the library. I feel like they should clash. Don't ask why just feels right O.o Like maybe they are competitive in classes and because of that over the years both of them would have held a grudge over the other but would never say anything. Lucy would certainly not want to say anything but she'd be rather...cold/short when talking or dealing with Corrine?? Yes??

Dominic Maestro&Corrine: also a fellow sixth year, halfblood, Hufflepuff, arrogant, musically talented, misunderstood. Dominic is rather difficult to deal with normally. He has a hard time communicating for real and when he tries it only comes out as him being rude or stuck up. He likes music (EVERYTHING about it like composing, playing, learning, talking) and that's really it. Schoolwork annoys him and don't dare try beating him at anything because he will soooo not like that. So...I would guess they know of each other but don't really get along. Unless you can think of something else? I'm open for anything!

Professor Merrythought&Corrine: old, the DADA professor, former Slytherin, outgoing and jolly, kind, powerful, pureblood. When Galatea Merrythought was younger she was your typical Slytherin; cold, determined, driven, self-centered and all that. But as time went on and things happened in her life Galatea learned there was more to life. So long story short...she's rather friendly and active to her students. She wants EVERYONE to do well. She would try and make her class interesting and active...nothing dull...because she wants the kids to be interested in school and her class. Although she doesn't tolerate some things...it is hard to cause Merrythought to anger now. Ummm I guess this would depend on what Corrine thought of DADA?

[Victoria Summers]

Hello there Meg! Welcome to Chime

I haaave

Victoria Summers

I could almost see them sort of getting along? IDEK. Vicky's a muggleborn sixth year too, and is pretty loud and proud about the fact. Purism bothers her but not to the extent where she's seeking out people to protest about it, she sort of thinks it's all very stupid and tends to generalize about Slytherins and the like because of this. She's from some of the worst slums in London and works hard to get the good grades she does because she's not naturally super intelligent. She's a career girl too and desperately wants to work with dragons when she's older. She's not very typical in other respects, as she's a beater on the Hufflepuff team and sort of reckless off the field as well. Smokes, drinks, swears, most of her friends are trouble-making boys. At the same time she's pretty inclusive and friendly and would probably have reached out to Corrine in the past if she ever saw someone in Slytherin bothering her for being a muggleborn.


Jonathon Dawlish

Also a Hufflepuff, although a fifth year. He's crass and rough and basically the school bully and he hates all Slytherins no matter their blood purity. He'd call Corinne 'tits' or, alternatively, 'scaly tits' and make fun of her and be rude and generally just really obnoxious because he is a top-notch gentleman.

Helbert Spleen

School doctor, I don't see much but he'd probably like Corinne. He prefers girls who are less than typical because girly-girls actually kind of scare him because he's clearly super manly. He's younger than a lot of the staff and feels inferior a lot of the time because of this and other reasons so has a tendency to befriend older students. If Corinne ever ended up in the hospital wing, he'd be nice to her and possibly enjoy her company depending on how she was.

Euphemia Atlas

Sixth year too, but in Gryffindor. Very friendly, well-known as being 'easy', and not doing very well in any of her classes I am not seeing much. She wouldn't judge Corrine at all for her blood but their attitudes and such seem at odds so I don't think much would happen here. She's kind of bubbly and flighty and probably would just annoy the fuck out of someone like Corrine.

Welcome again!

[Corrine Haven]

Lucy: Well, they're both very driven, which is different from the status quo in women at the time, I would imagine. And Corrine definitely spends time in the library. I don't see Corrine being openly competitive, but if she had the idea that Lucy was trying to compete she'd take alot of joy in letting her O's stay out on the desk a little longer than usual just to rib Lucy. I think Corrine would think it was silly, but she likes messing with people she thinks of as silly, so yanno. The clashing thing could work.

Dominic: Corrine plays cello. That is the extent of her musical ability. She is more expressive than talented, really. She's no master cellist and doesn't practice enough. Corrine is pretty unflappable as far as rude goes, so she honestly might not be horribly bothered by him. I don't know what you mean by beat him at anything, but Corrine wouldn't bother unless he annoyed her on some level. Corrine finds herself most expressive when playing music. If that were the same for Dominic she might actually understand him a bit more than he'd be used to. She'd also be uncomfortable, because music makes her feel sometimes. I think there are alot of different takes for these two, but I don't think she'd really dislike him very uch

Professor Merrythought: Huh. Well. Corrine takes DADA a tad too seriously, I think. She wants to know how to defend herself, and potentially her parents. I could see her getting overzealous in class on occasion. Especially if dueling a Slytherin who disliked her I think Corrine would be prone to taking things a bit further than she should. I don't know how Merrythought would deal with that, but whatever we do with these two it's bound to be interesting!

[Corrine Haven]

Victoria: I think Corrine would be decent to Victoria but I don't see her really 'getting' Vicky. Even though they're both hoping for something more out of their lives, Corrine values manners and respectability. She has the occasional unconventional quirk, but not many of them break gender stereotypes, I think. Purism bothers Corrine in the sense that she's been the butt of alot of painful opinions about it. She doesn't go about shouting that she's the proudest mudblood ever. Corrine's family is upper middle class in London. She'd be friendly in return though. I just don't know how deep her affection would run

Jonathon: Honestly. I don't see Corrine being bothered by Jonathon compared to all the crap she gets from her house. She'd probably retaliate in a very non-committal manner. She'd probably just jinx his skin scaly or something if he got a bit too graphic with the insults. He'd be following her down the hall jeering and she'd just turn around, smile, whisper an incantation of one level of maliciousness or another and walk away. >.>

Helbert: Awww, I can see them being actual friends. Like maybe the type of friend Corrine didn't lie to all the time. He probably sees her quite often actually. And after she's been genuinely hurt is when she'd probably be the most open about her emotions. At some point in the past I can see her having come in with something really painful, and start crying because of the physical pain, but just keep on sobbing for a long time afterwards because of everything else. Most of the time she'd be very stoic though. It's just that he'd be one of the few people who might get to see extended flashes of very real emotion from her.

Euphemia: Um yeah. Corrine would look down on her and be very very bothered by her all the time. So no, probably not much here.

[Edwin Zonko]

kennilworthy whisp
same year, halfblood and a gryffindor. in the future, he goes off to fight against grindelwald and then settles down to write prolifically. among his works is quidditch through the ages. so he's pretty into quidditch, except he's not really made to play it - scrawny, bespectacled sort. he's more so into the strategy of it. he likes to pen plays, etc. which leads him to other interests - like chess! he's a very good chess player, and i don't imagine she'd mop the floor so easily with him. however, he's a little less skilled than the president, because rosier is absolutely ridiculous and yeah. those two often play long after everyone else has left, match after match, usually half-deadlocked and silent. aside from that, kennilworthy is more a people-pleaser than anything - he'd be unfailingly kind to her, and even has a sort of motherly streak to him. i'm not sure she'd get a glimpse of that, but he'd definitely be friendly, if a little on the quieter side.

otis bagman
is a dirty, filthy orphan boy. same year, ravenclaw, muggleborn. he curses, fights, smokes, cheats, lies and steals. bagman's not really the friendly sort, if only because he has a sort of gang mentality toward others. however, her housing wouldn't bother him in the slightest - his best friend is a slytherin. if she didn't act condescending or like she was looking down on him, i'm not sure he would be friendly in his own otis way. however, if he thought she was stuck-up, he'd probably be a bastard to her in passing. not an enemy, per se, but probably profane and a little obnoxious whenever he remembered she was around. all depends on her!

erica hooter
dormitory mates! erica would not be awful to her like most slytherins, and the two have quite a bit in common, actually. she's a halfblood and she puts on a really convincing goody-goody-sweetheart sort of act. she's friendly and charming and sensitive and lady-like - except when she's not. :/ while she does maintain a few of those qualities sincerely, she is also a very greedy and jewelry-loving sort of girl. she grows up to take on the name erica stainwright and, using her advanced skill in potionmaking, orchestrates an international scam. so basically, they share a drive and duplicity, but i'm not sure if it'd be enough; erica is also a coward, and if corrine was abrasive, she wouldn't push it and would back off right away. anyway, yeah.




that's all i can think of. i have a bunch of other characters though (john homme, seventh year ravenclaw, muggleborn, shy painter; herbert beery, thirty-six year old blood traitor, actor and sarcastic herbology professor; sinclair avery, fifth year slytherin, pureblood and future death eater; katie rosmerta, fourth year hufflepuff, pureblood, polite and friendly but hangs out with a nasty, catty crowd; eddy zonko, sixth year ravenclaw, halfblood, future founder of zonko's joke shop), and if you can think of anything for any of them, i'd be delighted. welcome!

[Corrine Haven]

Kennilworthy- Yay! I like kindly quiet chess playing bespectacle sorts. Corrine probably likes people who don't ramble too much. And unfailing kindness isn't something she's used to getting, so I imagine if she were going to actively seek out someone's company it might be him. Woot!

Otis- I don't know how Corrine would deal with Bagman. She's from a relatively well off family, so even though they're both muggleborn I don't know if she'd find much to relate with him about. She'd understand how shitty coming from an orphanage in London might be though. If anyone were to stir pitying/maternal instincts it might be him, but I'm sure she'd also find him frustrating. I think she'd try to take a passive interest in cleaning him up a bit, but I doubt that would accomplish much. ANd in the meantime she'd doubtless get frustrated... thoughts?

erica hooter
Yay not awful! Hahaha, goody goody. I know what you mean. I feel like Corrine is very well composed except the very rare and chosen moments where she becomes a scary badass harpy. And LOL just looked Erica Stainwright up. I love it. Corrine however, is not a coward. But honestly I don't think it would bother her. Corrine just wouldn't rely on Erica for anything. I feel like they'd be able to commiserate quite a bit, but past the occasional moment of acknowledging that they both know exactly what the other one is doing I'm not sure what to do with them.

I will read the apps of your other characters in a bit, and see if I come up with anything.

[Kennilworthy Whisp]

kennilworthy
aww, that sounds sort of sweet. he's a bit reserved, if only because his first year was filled with a few bullies. those were mostly scared off, however, when he became friends with rudolf, a current seventh year who he's still quite close with. right now, his friends are pretty exclusively big guy's guys - quidditch types. LOL, aside from a little reserved and a little quiet, kennilworthy is known for quite a few eccentricities, mainly being a vegetarian in 1942. also, he'd probably try to talk her into playing backgammon with him. anddd the only other thing i can think of is he has a very dry and sarcastic wit; kenny almost always has something to say, even if it's under his breath or over a head. it's gotten him into trouble, but he's sort of used to having rudolf/dangerous/magnus around, and they can all take jokes really well. ANYHOW, i think they'd be fun to have interacting. if you want a thread or note, i'm down

otis
well, he was born into a workhouse and not an orphanage, and so was separated from a mother who soon died at a fairly young age. he never knew either parent, and i don't think he really talks about it much. he's left with a few quirks from his time there (and his times on the streets after he ran away), including stealing food from the dinner table to keep in his dormitory as though he might soon be cut off LOL, and a very big issue with authority figures. if she directly asked about his childhood, i can't imagine he would lie much, though he is a little compulsive about lying. he wouldn't see any gain (or any entertainment value) in lying to her about it, so he wouldn't. her trying to clean him up would make him laugh. and would make me laugh. and if she made a decent first impression, i don't think he'd mind her getting frustrated and huffy or whatever. adasgdh

erica
erica's only dropped her composure a couple times so far in her school career, and all in very contained and un-public mediums (for one reason or another, lmao). maybe they can just be amiable - she wouldn't stick up for her all that much unless corrine caught her eye. forgot to mention she's also a really ineffective prefect, so i suppose she might also take up for her on occasion in her own cowardly, trying-not-to-offend anyone manner. so, um. yeah, they'd probably be legit.



okayyy <3 look forward to it, if you do

[Corrine Haven]

kennilworthy- nice. Haha, big brawny gryffindor friends. I like it. Haha, vegetarian. Corrine would insist he's scrawny because he doesn't eat meat. And she would absolutely play backgammon with him. *I love backgammon* Haha, she should learn in game. It'd be great. Dry and sarcastic and not very loud would suit Corrine just fine, I believe. I'm not sure where to throw them, is the main issue...


otis- Yeah, I think it's important that she took an initial interest in him during her first year when she still thought she might have a normal social life. At first it would be because he was muggleborn, which would have been important to her when she first came to Hogwarts. And then when she started trying to teach him how to tie ties she'd say things like "Didn't your parents teach you anything?" and then that knowledge would come into play. But it would be very like Corrine to half-heartedly attempt to tuck his shirt in once in a while, and occasionally try to explain why appearances are important, and tell him that she could get him a good suit in London if he'd just let her fit him. Basically hilarity. A note could go entertaining places, but so could a thread.

erica
Ah, gotcha. Amiable sounds about right for these two then. They're too Slytherin to expect anything more from each other, I think. Corrine would appreciate the occasional protective thing, but acknowledge it internally as entirely useless. XP

[Foras Rosier]

foras

well, i imagine the ratio would be a little less than that; foras is close to being a genius as far as tactical/strategy stuff goes, and is currently operating as tom riddle's second in command. but, yeah, it's not inconceivable that she beats him occasionally! but, yeah, i think that'd be cute. i'm going to start a chess club thread later today, so watch out for that! but yeah i think he'd probably like her/respect her in his own, quiet way. it's probably difficult to tell, though, being as weird and stoic and stern as he is. but he certainly wouldn't object to talking to her over a game.

zamira

yeah, that sounds good to me! also, zamira smokes and i abuse it to death as a point of interaction for her to be out of bed at odd hours, so if corrine was out of bed for whatever reason, they could probably have a surprisingly civil conversation. so, yeah.

ruth

i think when she was younger she might have quietly sent her a note telling her that something she was doing wasn't good, then corrine could have asked after that? because she's quite quiet and unassuming generally. but yeah i like all of that! she's also got quite a wit on her, so they could always drily joke around together or something. idk really but there you are

brede

oh, he'd never say it aloud, and he's extremely conflict avoidant, so it's unlikely that they'd have a proper argument about it. brede spends most of his life trying to be pleasant to everyone because he's a pretty cool guy.

percy

oh man. idk, he'd have a hard time trusting her because she's a slytherin and HELLO WE DON'T TRUST SLYTHERINS but on the other hand if she got him on side by crying at him, she could be the one slytherin he'd be willing to defend. he'd probably lament her sorting a lot. :\ his ability to protect is.... questionable, but he'd certainly deflect blows off her and onto him. he's constantly hexed, jinxed and cursed for his poetry and only ever comes back for more, usually with a psychotic giggle. SO. yeah, that could be cute tbqh.

[Decimus Mulciber]

welcome again, meg! just going to ramble uselessly at you, i doubt this will amount to much.

“dangerous” dai llewellyn

seventh year ravenclaw, muggleborn. dai is the ravenclaw quidditch captain and well known for the reckless stunts he pulls both on and off of the quidditch pitch. he has widely gone by the nickname dangerous since his first year, mostly because he has no sense of self-preservation, doesn’t stop to think about consequences and gets a kick off of the adrenaline rush that comes with risking life and limb. dai has a tendency to treat even the vaguest of his acquaintances like they’re his friends and is relentlessly friendly to everyone off the bat unless they give him a good reason not to. i don't see A LOT for them, tbh, but if they were to interact for whatever reason he would be unfailingly friendly to her.

elizabeth shacklebolt

seventh year gryffindor, pureblood. lizzie is sociable by nature, but tends to be drawn to colourful characters and unintentionally overlooks those with more mild and subtle personalities. she is quick to form her opinions of people from first impressions. having never had much of an attention span she quickly grows bored of things – and people, for that matter – that don’t excite her or are too serious. her sense of humour is unrefined, and even childish. at this point she has begun figuring out where her passions lie, and devotes her time to those. while she is a proud blood traitor, and unashamedly interested in muggle studies, she is not a particularly outspoken one unless the situation calls for it. i don't know if they would really know each other, but if lizzie was aware that she was a muggleborn slytherin she might get curious about it.

damocles belby

sixth year ravenclaw, halfblood. damocles is a bit of a potions prodigy and more or less an all around nerd. he’s exceptionally intelligent and is genuinely passionate about the ~pursuit of knowledge. his closest friends are a group of very like-minded students and he tends to be quite oblivious to who’s who and what’s what. damocles is incredibly one-track minded and is highly prone to losing himself in a book or potion, barely surfacing for long enough to eat or sleep until he’s done or disrupted. because he’s so caught up in his own little world he’s embarrassingly uninformed about the wider world. being in the same year i'm sure they have had enough shared classes to put a face to a name! if they had shared a project (or did so in the future) he would probably respect her work ethic.

decimus mulciber

sixth year slytherin, pureblood. decimus says very little, and is even more intimidating for it. he subscribes to the standard pureblood ideologies and is also a member of walpurgis, but really more on the outer circle than anything. he’s pettily sadistic and a bully for it; he enjoys picking on those who he considers weak but is very cautious of getting caught and avoids doing so if it would be running the risk (or at least puts it off for the time being). though decimus is very rarely linked directly to any nastiness these days the general consensus is still that he’s not someone to mess with. his opinion of her would not be even the slightest bit charitable, and i am sure he would have made this quite clear over the years. maybe in the past he indulged in some less restrained bullying - but presently he tends to keep to the shadows as far as that sort of thing goes. regardless, they won't be fond of each other.

catriona mccormack

fourth year hufflepuff, muggleborn. catriona is a bit unconventional for a girl. she was raised by her dad alongside three brothers and lacks any femininity. her friends are a group of ragtag hufflepuff girls who she is ridiculously loyal to, and because of them she has no real interest in going out of her way to befriend anyone else. she isn’t quite as mean as she often comes across, but she doesn’t think before she speaks and has a knack for stepping on toes and ruffling feathers. cat is a chaser on the hufflepuff team and fanatical about the sport. she’s quick to anger, obnoxious, mouthy and prone to getting into fights. i suppose this could go one of two ways - but tbh, i doubt cat would be able to manage not offending corrine. so if you want a scrappy little fourth year running underfoot and actively trying to piss her off, holla.

[Gwendolyn Morgan]

hi meg! i'm cora! this is a very belated welcome to chime! sorry we haven't got to meet earlier. excited to be off absence and get to plot!


roberta weasley
7th year gryffindor
roberta is a fairly friendly and easy-going girl, without a huge tendency towards conflict. she doesn't like pureblood prejudice and her family is known for being progressive, butshe doesn't go out of her way to cause arguments. she hangs around with various gryffindors, mostly from blood traitor families, and her older brother teaches charms. she would definitely not be rude to corrine and would even be quite friendly if they interacted, but i'm not sure to what extent she's aware of younger slytherins. still possible for them to get on though.

eileen prince
5th year slytherin
eileen's family fell from the aristocracy some generations back after losing their fortune and then going into business to try to get it back. their reputation is generally for being greedy and a little social-climber-y. eileen, however, has never demonstrated any of the charm that her parents would have liked from her. she has a very sullen, withdrawn manner and a tendency to assume she will be judeged and disliked, which tends to make it easier for her to be. she is on the outer edges of the better pureblood circles, and doesn't really have the charm to change that, or the opinion of herself that might cause her to learn. she's fairly jealous of people in better situations than her, but for the most part is pretty withdrawn and inward. generally, i think, she comes off as odd and a little dull - her single passion is for gobstones club which she presidents. she would not be intentionally rude to corrine necessarily, but her manner is pretty sharp and she's definitely not openly friendly, and wouldn't feel a need to be to her. she's friends with zamira and erica so that's another possible connection.

lisette scamander
7th year ravenclaw
she's a halfblood and not terribly interested in hierarchies or politics of blood. lisette's interests and friends are primarily artistic: she herself is somewhat of a patron of the arts, and has a very developed and informed sense of aesthetics. she is generally thought to be one of the prettier girls in their year, but she's actually also not attracted to boys (very secretly) and has a reputation for turning them down. she encourages rumours that she may be seeing her best friend john homme and tends to stick very close to her small group of friends (which includes percival pratt). lisette is fairly scheming herself, and in that way not dissimilar to corrine, but of course that isn't likely to bring them close together. but she's pretty reserved with people she doesn't know, so she wouldn't approach corrine, but she wouldn't be unfriendly if they happened to interact.

druella rosier
4th year slytherin
druella is foras' younger sister, and her manner is in a lot of ways similar to his. she is unfailingly polite and well-mannered, ladylike and mostly rather reserved. she has been strongly encouraged to refrain from speaking to unless spoken to and overall taught to be unimposing and unassuming while biding the time until her future marriage. druella has a fairly listless, detached manner, and some slightly childish personal interests, but she is very appeasing and ladylike company when called upon. she wouldn't think highly of corrine, but like her brother would never be outwardly rude to her. likely they would cross paths often, so we could do something with that if you like.

gwendolyn morgan
6th year hufflepuff
prefect and chaser, gwendolyn is a very ambitious and dedicated person and student, with a strong sense of fairness and honesty, that she expects from other people she interacts with. because of a sheltered up-brining, she has yet to see her race, gender or blood status as an obstacle to her ambition, and tends to be a little naive for it, though not in a very weak way. her father is rather important in the ministry and her mother is well-known in the academic community and though her passion is really for quidditch, at the moment, she intends (and is expected) to follow in her father's footsteps. they are actually classmates so could interact, though idk if they would be friends exactly. gwen would definitely interfere if she anyone bullying corine, and stand up for her.

mildred carpenter
nurse
newly arrived school nurse, who served in the resistance against grindewald as a medi witch, and lost her left arm to it. mildred is a pretty steady person, who gets on well particularly with her patients. she is strongly opposed to purists and would very much disapprove of corrine's housemate's treatment of her. they're really only likely to meet if corrine ends up in the hospital wing though - but that's maybe possible!

[Corrine Haven]

OMG, SO MUCH. I'll be replying in installments.

So, Bez first:

Foras: Mkay, well, it doesn't really matter how often they beat one another. I'll definitely throw her into the chess club thread soooooon. Haha, Corrine has been forced to be quite closed herself over the years, so I doubt she'd take his dead-pan very personally. It'd be funny if she decided she didn't have to try around him and just be kind of sharp and pragmatic. Anywho.

Zamira: Niice. Yeah, Corrine has a very regulated sleeping pattern that rotates around the schedule of the people who are meanest to her. Very early is the best bet here. I'd love to see Zamira be pleasant one day when Corrine is just not in the mood for people. I imagine those happen occasionally. Corrine is so unfailingly civil generally that it might make for an interesting situation.

Ruth: Aww, I want to see the twelve year old versions of these two awkwardly work out etiquette. XP. Oh god, and I can imagine Corrine not knowing what to wear for the first ball they were allowed to attend and so on. Haha. I don't really know what to do with them aside from establish their mo before the whole avery plot kicks in. Ideas?

Brede: Aww, then no snapping at him. If she found out about his family ties she might get curious and since he's so friendly she might risk bothering him about blood prejudice. It's not like she gets to ask the people who actually are prejudiced why they bother. I think that has potential to be a really interesting conversation.

Percy: (disclaimer: I don't know what acronyms mean, so tbgh is right over my head) Ahaha, she would cry at him. Even if it just meant evening the odds a bit since he's apparently no good at protecting for real. It's way easier to bully one person. She knows alot of the reversals for minor jinxes and hexes and such since she'd had to deal with them alot, so they could make a funny pair. "For the love of pete, Percy! How long have you gone 'round with your ears like that?" Etc. Poetry. Ahaha. Corrine would probably find him charming in a very boyish way. I think she'd see him as very young. And she'd be peeved but amused at his apprehensions about her house. Lalala, I want her to just idly challenge him on it once. "I know they're all inbred harpies, but I'm not inbred, so why does it matter?" lalallala, I'm out.

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ALI
“dangerous” dai llewellyn
Awww, that's cute. The only thing I've got is that Corrine really respects people who do things well, especially if they can make a game elegant. She might admire Dai's quidditch enough to tell him so, but past that I think she'd just appreciate his friendliness.

elizabeth shacklebolt
I mean. I think it'd be difficult to be unaware of the only muggleborn slytherin (that I know of), so that obstacle doesn't have to exist. I think what lizzie thought about corrine would be largely based on whether corrine knew anything about her, and what situation they first met. If it was a group in which corrine felt comfortable being social, I think lizzie would be impressed. Corrine can be very charming. Otherwise she'd probably seem horribly boring to Elizabeth. If Corrine had noticed her tendencies she would have adapted accordingly. It all depends on where we put them basically, so what are your thoughts on the matter?

damocles belby

*has been sorely tempted by hufflepuff girl in potions club* AHEM. Corrine is likewise enamored of knowing things. I would love to see them in an academic setting, because she generally tried to keep her intelligence under wraps for a long time. It wasn't until this school year that she's really let loose in public, so it could be fun. Previously she probably just would have quietly done what was necessary if she and damocles were working on a project. It could be fun for them to work together this year because I imagine she'd shamelessly pick his brain and let her knowledge loose. It would probably require him forming a different opinion of her. They would be fun.

decimus mulciber
There is a boy who is particularly cruel, but one day she’s in a corner and that familiar swell of anger pushes good magic out of her wand, stronger than he expects and he is against a wall, held there again by the invisible hands she finally learned the incantation for.

“You putrid bitch! This won’t stand!”

“What will you tell them? That the little mudblood Haven could have skinned you alive? I think not.”

Can that be Decimus? PLEASE? I think Corrine would have learned not to snitch a long time ago just because there would be mo refuge in Slytherin if she did, so she'd still be a safe target for his nastiness. But of course, she always did have some fight. OMG. PLEASE. Corrine is radiating hate waves.

catriona mccormack

Lol, yeah, I think Cora would probably find Catriona extremely bothersome. I mean, how hard is it to be polite? God. I don't think Corrine would do much about Catriona, but if you ever want someone to make Catriona feel like an uncultured animal... We can make it happen.