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There isn’t much of an explanation given with the length of the wand corresponding to her height, but Ollivanders has noted that it possibly meant that she is capable of doing fairly (and possibly overly) dramatic magic. As of now since she has combined her martial arts knowledge and her experience with Chinese spells (which tend to be showy and brightly coloured – similar to fireworks – when being aggressively cast), the wandmaker’s words have come true.

Adrianna took quite a while to find the wand right for her – she went through at least ten wands before this one reacted to her. It also took her a long time to master the wand; more or less after her one major assignment in China she seems to be able to unleash its full potential, or what she thinks is its full potential anyway.

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5’05”, chest-length black hair sometimes tied into a high or low ponytail, light brown eyes (almost amber), looks about 9 years younger than her actual age, fairly large eyes. Heart-shaped face. Apparently still gets carded if she buys alcoholic beverages. May be short, but her build suggests muscle, especially in her arms, legs and abdomen. She is not particularly curvy and is self-conscious with her lack of chest.

Almost always dresses in fitting leather/dragonhide jackets, light blue skinny jeans and shin-length boots. Contrary to popular belief she does not wear cheongsams; her dresses are styled after hanfu with touches of Western. She likes wearing red and gold; her favourite scarf is both colours. In the warmer months she’s usually seen wearing a light neckerchief, also with those colours. Also wears fingerless gloves. Her fashion is more of a young adult’s, but it seems to fit her well given her youthful image. If she’s wearing a dress she does her hair up in a bun, complete with hairsticks.

Her posture is confident, strong, with her head held high. The first thing people look at is the scars on her face. There are two that are parallel to each other on the left side of her face; the smaller one crosses both her lips at an angle. They are slightly discoloured. The scars were a result of a wanted werewolf murderer on the loose in China. She won’t let people touch her face for whatever reason. She also doesn’t wear makeup because of this.

Around her neck is a gold necklace with a dragon-and-phoenix pendant in the shape of a taijitsu. She always tucks this into her collar. This necklace was given to her by her then-boyfriend in China.

She speaks English fluently with a Beijing accent but prefers to swear in Chinese. Spoken languages are Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Welsh and French. She doesn’t like it if people assume she can’t speak or understand English.

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Positive: Very progressive and open-minded to new possibilities. Sociable, loves challenges. Always looks to doing her best and making the most out of everything she does. It’s very easy to know when she’s pleased with a job, because she looks like she’s invented something great. Outgoing, but when she’s down it’s very obvious. Very physical! She gestures a lot and isn’t afraid to get touchy-feely with people she’s close to. It is easy to differentiate between her being angry, sad, happy or cold; it’s hard for her to disguise her emotions. She is also very thrifty. She cannot lie with a straight face, it’s just not her thing.

Negative: Often gets a little too eager to take challenges and will try to have someone consider her for an assignment (at least) even if there technically isn’t a reason to give it to her. Failure is never an option for her; while she doesn’t show any sadness outwardly, she will get disappointed with herself. Doesn’t like people laughing at her either, it’s the only thing that will make her go and sulk a bit by herself. While she’s usually very optimistic, when she gets depressed she gets really depressed. She will go drink her sorrows if it gets too much.

Adrianna has a tendency to bottle up anger and let it stew into vengeance. Luckily this is only for people who have seriously wronged her and are pressing her buttons – mostly killing people. She is known for her ferocity in taking down wanted criminals.

She’s not very good with kids. She gets sad when she watches couples and happy families, owing to her background, but she never tells people or shows it – she just becomes slightly avoidant. It is possible that she can change this, but she’s currently too afraid of losing another loved one. It’s also the reason why she tends to be distant even with close friends and tries not to get too attached to people, but she doesn’t always succeed.

She loves Chinese music and cuisine; she often complains Chinese takeaway is nothing like the food in China. She also loves Chinese myths and customs, and doesn’t like the “distilled” Western versions; her outspokenness means she often tells people off. For example, never call a qilin a Chinese unicorn in front of her – she will extol the offender the virtues of the creature and chide them for not doing research.

While she may chide people for thinking her as a typical Chinese, she will admit that she can haggle like a champion and she’s always on the lookout for good deals. She’s apparently very used to people asking her to help them budget their finances.

She. Hates. Werewolves. Even if they use the wolfsbane potion and are contributing members of society, she hates being in the same building as them. Being near one causes her to stew and become very cold and aloof. Werewolves are not given the same privileges in China as they are in Britain, so she had no problem with them there, but she has already had a nasty shock about knowing that the British Ministry of Magic employs registered werewolves. According to her, she doesn’t expect the MoM to change their stance on werewolves “just because an upstart Auror has different opinions from the majority”, but she’s stated firmly that she won’t work on cases involving or alongside them, period.

Despite her young-ish appearance (and the fact she sometimes appears more of a young adult than a 40 year old), she is very respectful of anyone older than/senior to her. She willingly follows orders unless the order makes no sense to her; even so, she has trouble disobeying them and usually needs someone else to give her a push in the direction of disobedience before she does it. She is also less likely to argue with a man than a woman, although this relates to her family upbringing – she was not exactly close to her father and saw him more as a teacher figure than a parent.

She always greets people senior to her by balling up her left hand into a fist, pressing it into the palm of her right hand so that her right hand is angled with the fingers on the left, and giving a shallow bow of 45 degrees.

Her Patronus is surprisingly not a magpie - it is instead a tiger, to reflect both Shaozu's signature duelling beast and his own Patronus. This is mostly because she still has feelings for him even if she won't admit it.

Oh, and she’s vegetarian. And she’s recently taken a liking to lemonade with a dash of vodka. While she knows she has a drinking problem and it’s destroying her (and also means she sometimes comes in to work with a hangover) and possibly discouraging a new love life, she can’t handle her troubles without drinking.

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Adrianna was actually born Xin Ling Yue in Cardiff to a Chinese father and Welsh mother, both Muggles. Since both were citizens of Wales, she became a Welsh citizen.

She spent her childhood being told tales of China, her father’s birthplace, and all the myths. This later on developed into a fascination with the country of her heritage. She was very proud of it in Muggle school, but she was thought of as odd and weird and was mostly shunned and teased about her name. While her family life was not traumatic or bad in any way, she had – and still does have – a fair amount of strongheadedness and tomboyish qualities that got her in trouble mostly with her father, who was fairly stern with her and a traditionalist. If you ask her even now, she’ll say that she was closer to her mother. However, she has always believed that her parents meant the best for her.

So when the person from Hogwarts arrived the day she turned eleven, you could imagine her delight at being different. Her parents were less delighted and spent a long time contemplating the thought of sending her, especially since her father’s plans had been to send her to school in China.  Eventually he was persuaded by her mother to give it some thought, and decided that she would stay and pursue her education in the British Isles.

While they let her go to Hogwarts, they were still a tad reluctant about sending her to a school they'd never even heard of before; they asked her to write back as much as she could despite her attempting to reassure her parents that everything would be fine. Adrianna was immediately sorted into Gryffindor in a heartbeat. Her new friends had difficulties pronouncing her name, so she added “Adrianna” as her first name (it’s pretty to an eleven year old) and it has stuck ever since.

Unfortunately in 1981, just as the War was ending, her parents were killed by Death Eaters while she was at school. Despite her arguments with her parents over her choice of first name and going to Hogwarts, Adrianna was devastated and spent a few months antisocial and withdrawn. Her friends finally coaxed her out of her shell and got her to join various clubs. She remained a member of the Duelling and Charms clubs throughout her time at Hogwarts. Adrianna also made it a point to play Quidditch through her third to sixth year; due to her size and physical ability she played as Seeker.

Her OWLs were Potions, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Astronomy, Charms, History of Magic, Ancient Runes, Arithmancy and Herbology. At this time Adrianna had heard of the Auror Corps and had sworn to herself to make it there so that she could one day avenge her parents. She wiped the exams with straight Os.

She dropped only History of Magic and wiped the floor again in her NEWTs with straight Os, although she wasn’t kind to the people who joked about the Chinese being study-focused only. Perhaps as a result of her parents’ deaths her resolve solidified into iron and drove her onwards, with very little ever stopping her. Throughout her school life what she was proud of – her heritage – came second to her desire to make her parents proud of her.

Straight after graduating in 1987, she applied for the Auror training in the Ministry and passed with flying colours. She mellowed out a little during this time, as her experiences taught her that an Auror’s life was risky and fraught with danger, and when she was off work she had to take life a little slower.

As soon as she became an official Auror in 1990, she requested to transfer to China. Her excuse was to work with the Guardians in the Chinese Ministry of Magic, but in reality she really wanted to visit her birthplace and be proud of her heritage once again.

In China, Guardians are required to take a few extra supplementary courses – at least up to two. Adrianna chose Animagi, and also trained with a martial arts school in her free time. She shed her Adrianna name and stuck firmly to Xin Ling Yue. All that she brought from Hogwarts was her Gryffindor scarf, a replica of the Golden Snitch and a moving photograph of her friends in Gryffindor, which she stuck in her cubicle in the Guardian Corps in China.

 In China, Muggleborns are not considered as magically powerful as halfbloods and purebloods, so she was ostracised and treated as weak; normally British Aurors retained their normal rank, but in the Chinese Guardian Lions she was ranked as a Low Guardian – a “newbie penpusher”, as she calls it. She worked diligently in order to prove the Chinese Guardians wrong, becoming skilled enough in wushu to disarm wizarding criminals of their wands without using magic. The fact that qi helped her hone her concentration and focus in using magic helped, and soon enough she gained sufficient respect, skill and reputation to be promoted from Low Guardian to Guardian.

Adrianna did not return to England until March 2009. From 1990 to 2000 she travelled across China, working with the Chinese Guardians on various assignments. From 2000 to 2007 she was assigned to the Wolf-Man case, a serial killer who turned out to be a bloodthirsty werewolf with werewolf supremacy in mind and targeting children in particular. She does not talk about those seven years, but from her files the details are clear – she was the only Guardian in the assigned group to not be killed or turned into a werewolf (although she came close to it). Her penchant for vengeance increased throughout the years of watching her colleagues die; notable deaths include her boyfriend Liu Wei Long, and best friend Sun Shangquan. She finally cornered the werewolf in Hong Kong and personally hunted him down herself, although not without a few scars as a reminder.

She then spent the rest of 2007 recovering from the case, especially due to having several nervous breakdowns after the werewolf’s capture. According to her, when she was on the brink of a nervous breakdown she had picked up her Gryffindor scarf and remembered the good times she had had in Hogwarts. After some consideration, she finally requested to leave China and return to Britain permanently. Chief Guardian Lion Gan Shaozu (簡绍祖) agreed to let her go despite the other Guardians not wanting to lose their Senior Investigator, especially because he sympathised with her and understood her anxiety and worries.

After a long and quiet talk with him, she left for England in 2009, and then spent a little more time recovering for a few months, catching up with the country’s changes and quite liking the lack of stigma against being a Muggleborn. The change of scenery and people around her relaxed her much more, and she became what she is today thanks to the move.

Adrianna restored her first name and asked to rejoin the Auror Corps in the British Ministry of Magic after her recovery period in 2009. Only time will tell if her transfer was the right decision for her to make – right now it’s just too early to tell. At the moment she wants to reconnect with people she knew in Hogwarts and the Aurors in the Ministry and make new friends. And hopefully not get stereotyped as a typical Chinese.

She still suffers from nervous breakdowns even now, and can often end up bitterly blaming herself for the deaths of her loved ones during these times. She hopes that anyone she meets won’t be put off by these depressing episodes and will at least understand the hurt she’s still going through no matter how much she tries to hide it.

She has never looked back on her life as a Muggle.

In terms of romance she has only had one man in her life that she really wanted to live with, Guardian Liu Wei Long. They were in fact planning to get engaged, but plans changed after Wei Long’s death at the hands of the werewolf. After the funeral she had a brief relationship with Gan Shaozu while she pulled herself together, but then felt guilty towards Wei Long’s memory and broke up with him despite Shaozu admitting his feelings for her. He is currently the only person allowed to call her Ling Ling, which was Wei Long’s affectionate nickname for her, and both of them are close friends.

She hasn’t had a boyfriend since then.

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Because she has just only rejoined the British Auror Corps, she spends most of her time really just doing paperwork and familiarising herself with the United Kingdom once again. Given that she believes things won’t be as bad in England as they are in China, she’s hoping to be reassigned out into the field once again (although she would rather do it with a partner). She would really rather not take on anything that has to do with werewolves, but otherwise she will happily deal with criminals, dark magic and everything in between.

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She has nineteen years of being a British Auror Correspondent in China, including being Senior Investigating Auror/Guardian on the seven-year Wolf-Man Murder case, personally capturing the criminal in the end. She has working knowledge of both giving and taking orders and is skilled in unarmed martial combat as self-defence. Although she is currently spending time doing paperwork in order to recover from

the case, she has kept herself up to date on current matters and looks forward to practising her knowledge and experience in England.

(Although she doesn’t expect to use her martial arts much, since this is not China, but she does have a tendency to go into a stance when she duels.)

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Having experienced her own struggles and share of trauma from her job, Adrianna has returned to England to recover from her troublesome time in China and stand for herself as a force for good. Whether she succeeds or fails at this is up to her, but she plans on not failing as much as possible. She hopes that the wounds from her experiences will heal in time.

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Adrianna learned of the basics in Hogwarts, but it wasn’t until she took up the course in China that she began to work on it seriously.

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In China, Aurors are encouraged to become a registered Animagus for purposes of facilitating their information gathering and easy getaways. Adrianna saw the benefits of it and joined the intensive course to supplement her Auror training. Her form relates to how the magpie is seen as a good sign and lucky symbol to the Chinese.

She doesn’t always necessarily use it for her job; sometimes she changes into her Animagus form to cheer people up, steal small objects or, alternately, let people have something to throw stones at. However, she doesn’t necessarily let other people know she is an Animagus even though she is firmly registered with the MoM.

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She changes into a European magpie. She didn’t exactly foresee that magpies are a bit of a nuisance in England (or that they are signs of ill omen, seeing as she studied Animagi in China), but she keeps her distance and tries not to give in to the temptation of stealing anything shiny she sees. She does keep track of how many people try and salute her, though (4, to date).

While it’s not necessary for her to dress in black and white prior to changing, she sometimes feels it’s essential because she prefers having the mindset for it.

Afterwards she usually has to resist preening her non-existent feathers (she ends up fiddling with her hair ceaselessly) and stop herself from eyeing shiny objects.

The form doesn’t necessarily affect others, but she often finds it amusing once in a while to hop/strut around waving her long tail in her Animagus form to make people smile. She doesn’t sing often, just in case people get irritated.

Unlike most magpies she has a white teardrop on her breast in magpie form; this is her necklace in human form. Her beak is also notched in one place where one scar crosses her lips in human form. The other scar is indicated by a lack of feathers.