Your Nickname: SJ
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Are you over thirteen? Yes
How did you find us and decide to write with us? Friend
If you have written other characters here: Yes
If Yes, list them all: Macaulay Nettlebottom, Sophie Flickwick, Stella Elphick, Waverly Roh-Ballentyne
Is this a Primary or Secondary Character?: Primary

Full Character Name: Isadora Lunelle Elphick
Character Birthday & Age: April 2, 1995 (15)
City & Country of Birth: Walberswick, England
Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn: Halfblood
House & Year: Hufflepuff 5th Year

Wand: Pliable 14” smooth Redwood with a core of Unicorn Mane

Physical Description:
At 15, Isa already stands a good 6 inches taller than her petite mother, with the same smooth tawny (though perhaps a little lighter) skin, brown eyes and curls. Depending upon her mood, the black curls find themselves equally left to gravity or tamed by potions and braids, recently she experimented with the idea of dreadlocks for a brief time. Her build is lean, like most dancers, her long limbs most comfortable moving to the familiar beat of the Firebolt Five. This grace, unfortunately, doesn’t always extend to regular life. Despite her mother’s best efforts Dizzy often feels awkward and gangly, wishing desperately to condense her long body down that towering 6 inches (which Stella might also wish for, if only to stop being an armrest for her spunky sassmouth daughter). She has yet to find a style voice of her own, in large part because a good portion of her life is spent in a uniform, but when she’s allowed to be left to her own devices it’s a hodgepodge of whatever muggle influences seem interesting that morning.

Personality Description:
Upon meeting Isadora it isn’t exactly a mystery how she got the nickname Dizzy. Her bright, effervescent smile matched with slick on her feet wit and the energy of half a dozen jumping beans Diz is constantly on the go. True to Hufflepuff form she works hard, though most often her work resembles more play than work-work. When she is interested in something she seizes upon it with a zeal that could almost be called holy. She throws herself completely into whatever it is (dancing, gardening, her extensive Wizard Chess collection, to an obsession with her cellphone to rival any muggle 16 year old), but she has the disadvantage of also running herself into the ground while she’s being a pro at ISA DOES THE THING. She goes and she goes and you think she might just go forever when suddenly she just stops. That’s it, dead in her tracks, and sleeps for three days straight. When she needs to recharge she just untangles herself from whatever it was that had so consumed her and puts it to the side for a little while. This obviously works better in correlation to things like collections and seeing Wrock shows rather than, you know, taking care of a Crup or cross breeding Kneazles with housecats (Stella put an end to that idea full stop, straight away).

She can get a bit short sighted, the sort of person to bite her nose off to spite her face as it were – especially when her feelings have been hurt. She can get into a snit over the slightest perceived wrong, but rather than an explosive reaction she’s more likely to regard the offender coolly, with a hurumphing pout and pin prickly retort (her favorite is currently “I dislike you and your mother stinks of Elderberries”). Of course with her attention span the anger isn’t held onto long, grudges aren’t something she is really capable of, though it might not always seem that way as she has a slight case of chronic foot in mouth. She can be perfectly lovely and charming but every so often (far more than she’d like to admit to actually) things just pop into her head and passed her lips without Isadora having taken pause to consider perhaps some thoughts are better left at just that, thoughts.

She is a deeply loving and loyal person, popcorn temperamental bouts of indignation aside. She’s the first to offer an ear or shoulder, to pick up the slack when she sees others struggling. Her capacity for empathy seems almost endless, she is very much a miniature version of Stella in all the best ways (and some of the not so best ways), she chooses to believe most people want to be good and they just need you to be patient with them, which is really all she wants from everyone else – patience and understanding that she’s still trying to figure out what exactly the sort of person she’s supposed to be is (even if she acts like she’s already got it all figured out). 

History:
If you were to ask Stella about Isa’s childhood she would probably hem and haw, looking incredibly guilty. It is not exactly a secret in the Elphick house that when mother and daughter left Wizarding society in 1998 Stella took Dizzy from everything and everyone she had ever known (including Dizzy’s still emotionally elusive father). The lucky part about all of this is the simple fact Isa doesn’t remember. The resentment Stella fears Isadora feels just doesn’t exist. Moving from place to place, the lack of magic, it was what she knew until she was almost eleven years old. She always knew they were different of course, her mother dressed like a neo-hippy  and read fortunes for a living, but that bohemian paradise with its global influences was all she’d ever known. By the time she left for Hogwarts she was so in love with the idea of real magic and having a mother who had such a powerful gift like Sight, well, there were just too many new shiny things to focus on the fact there had been so many secrets kept!

It was an adjustment at first, being around so many people all the time and having to share her space. For eight years she had basically existed in a world with only her mother and whatever playmates could be found in the park or down the lane. She had to learn to accept that when things got comfortable the answer was not to just move again, and how to form friendships, to not be selfish with herself or her things. They were not particularly easy lessons to learn, but she had some excellent examples set for her. Besides, Diz was having so many adventures she didn’t have time to realize the reaction some might have to the situation was resentment. Even the latest upheaval of Stella leaving the Ministry to come teach hasn’t set the 15 year old on edge. She’s actually very excited to have her mother back in her daily life. The separation proved to be the most difficult part of getting a Wizarding education.

Fifth year of course is a whole new ball of wax. OWLs are no joke, much of the summer was spent in review, well at least after she returned from the trip, because unlike her mother she was not going to get tied down into one place with the whole big world to see. Not that Stella has ever made her feel like the sacrifices she made were really sacrifices or even hard decisions, but Izzy knows what it’s like to want to run wild and free, to go and go and go and not have to answer to anyone. It’s a feeling Dizzy understands more and more every single day. She’s absolutely bursting to get back to Hogwarts though, to take fifth year by storm and oogle all the eyecandy in year seven.


Classes:

Core Classes Astronomy Charms Defense Against the Dark Arts Herbology History of Magic Potions Transfiguration No

Electives No Arithmancy Care of Magical Creatures No Muggle Studies

How Do You Fit Into Your House?:
Loyal, energetic, hardworking, with an open heart, Dizzy tries very hard to embody all that is the best of Hufflepuff and lead by example. Though the things she works on or for might not seem all that important to anyone else she has a tireless sense of dedication.

Writing Sample:
See Dolly St. James

Sum up your character in one paragraph:
Upon meeting Isadora it isn’t exactly a mystery how she got the nickname Dizzy. Her bright, effervescent smile matched with slick on her feet wit and the energy of half a dozen jumping beans Diz is constantly on the go. True to Hufflepuff form she works hard, though most often her work resembles more play than work-work.