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Full Character Name: Hanna Judith Wagner Schäfer (neé Aigner)
Character Birthday & Age: 12 June 1972 (39)
City & Country of Birth: Innsbruck, Austria
Blood Purity: Squib
Alma Mater: University of Vienna - Biology; King's College School of Medicine
Job/Position: Physician - specializes in emergency and critical care at University College Hospital in London

Wand: N/A

Physical Description: At about 5'8'' and 140 pounds, Hanna is lean and muscular but with enough weight to confer definite curves to her body.  She carries herself with a strong and elegant grace that is a vibrant match to a finely-boned face.  Owing to her mixed South African, Polish and Austrian heritage, dark brown eyes are framed by warm brown skin.  Her tightly curled hair has been known to have a mind of its own and, outside of work, she rarely tries to contain it.  The bustle and sanitation guidelines of a hospital environment leave her in a constant state of battle with her hair.  She is a fan of fashion and keeping up with modern styles, but prefers some degree of practicality in her clothes, unless she's dressed up for some formal function or event. 

Personality Description:
Bright, independent and resilient are all good descriptors for Hanna.  She has learned the hard way that things don't always come easy, but that doesn't mean they aren't there for you.  Sometimes, you have to go out and find what's important and meaningful.  She loves her family - both the one she married into and is raising as well as the parents that adopted her.  She's learned to appreciate the love and stability that comes from people who chose to be around you and love you for who you are. 

Throughout her teenaged years and university, hiking, reading and photography were her usual hobbies - in addition to spending time at cafes with friends.  She loves to travel and explore and frequently spent weekends hoping on trains to explore whatever corners of Europe she could reach by train.  Balancing family life and medical school made pursuing hobbies a little more difficult but Hanna has started revisiting some of them as life starts to settle, again. 

For years, when Hanna first found herself in a group foster home, she'd weave fantasies of recently-unnoticed magical abilities surfacing and her parents returning to take her home.  As hope began to dwindle, she went through a period of bitterness and anger but, especially after being placed in a stable foster home, the bitterness faded to acceptance.  She learned to stop seeing the muggle world she now found herself in as second-best and began to embrace her new home, new school and new friends.  Now, as an adult, she hardly thinks of that other world.  Though she's aware of the wizarding world, especially before this past year when her son's abilities started to surface, she long since accepted she wasn't a part of it. 

Micha's abilities have, once more, forced Hanna to acknowledge and consider interacting with the wizarding world - and it's a new reality she's uncertain how to face.  She has never met another like her - someone from magic but without the ability - and for years she wondered if she was a complete anomaly.  A mutation, if she were to apply her new knowledge.  She wants to be happy for Micha but she doesn't want to walk back into a world where she's seen as discard-able waste. 

History:
When Finn and Anika welcomed their fifth child into the world, a healthy baby girl, the event was marked with the usual celebrations and family good wishes.  Bringing a new bright, young pureblood into the wold was always cause for rejoicing and everyone looked forward to watching the baby Hanna grow, spend her school years at Durmstrang like her siblings and parents before her, get married and start a family of her own.  But, unlike her brothers and sisters before her, Hanna's magical aptitude appeared to be slow to develop. 

As her eighth birthday came and went and Hanna hadn't even produced so much as a feather-enhanced hiccup, the family's worry grew.  Family friends referred the Aigners to a witch doctor in Csopak, Hungary who claimed to be able to detect a child's magical abilities.  Rozsa Mészáros took the Aigners' money, cast a few charms, sprinkled a few potions and declared the child a squib with no more magical potential than a common garden tomato.  For weeks, the Aigners discussed the situation and their options.  With their lack of desire to raise a squib, belief that they could even provide a decent life for her and few options at their disposal, they decided to cut their losses.  With a frayed, old suitcase stuffed with clothes, toys and few keepsakes, the child was handed over to the Austrian muggle foster care system in the belief she'd have better opportunities in the muggle world.

Confusion, anger and the hurt of abandonment shadowed Hanna heavily through her first few years in the foster care system.  But, by her fifteenth birthday, Hanna had (mostly) convinced herself her parents had done the right thing.  She'd been fostered by Luca and Theresa Wagner in Feldkirch, Austria, for almost four years and the Austrian government had approved the adoption petition.  She had completely caught with her peers academically.  She still, occasionally, remembered her previous life but had accepted there would have been no place for her in it.  She'd sworn of the magical world and was starting to, earnestly, look forward to her future prospects. 

By the time she completed Gymnasium, only a year behind the average, Hanna Wagner knew she wanted to be a doctor of medicine.  How biology worked and how people could manipulate it felt as close to magic as anything else and she knew that was her dream.  She attended the University of Vienna and completed a degree in Biology and spent a couple years as an intern before applying to Medical School when an unexpected encounter changed her plans.  A chance encounter led to love and, in the spring of 1998, she married Lorenz Schäfer, a German-borne widower with two young children living in the London.  Hanna relocated to London, had a son with Lorenz two years later and found happiness with her growing family.  Shortly after Micha turned four, with her husband's encouragement, Hanna returned to her previous dream and was accepted at the King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry. 

By the time she'd started medical school, Hanna had almost all but forgotten about the wizarding world.  It had fallen into distant memories and was part of a life that no longer belonged to her.  Her husband and the children from his first marriage knew nothing of that past life; they saw Theresa and Luca Wagner as Lorenz' parents-in-law.  However, things started to change when Micha began showing signs of magical ability at the age of nine.  When it became clear it was no longer feasible to keep Lorenz, Amanda and Anton in the dark - let alone Micha.  So, at dinner about a year ago, Hanna explained to the family about magic and wizarding schools and the wizarding world and her own family history. 

Hanna completed medical school in 2008 and entered a residency program in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care.  She just completed her residency in the spring of 2011 and recently started working at a hospital, alternating shifts between swing shift emergencies and intensive care. 

Describe your job duties and how you go about them:
As a low woman on the hospital shift roster, Hanna currently works two swing shifts a week in the emergency room and two day shifts in the critical care unit.  In the former, she triages patients and stabilizes them before discharging or referring to other specialties.  In the later, she sees to hospitalized patients with a variety of medical conditions. 

Elaborate on your expertise in your field:
Hanna completed a B.S. in Biology at the University of Vienna, her medical degree at King's College and a residency in emergency medicine and critical care. 

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Sum up your character in one paragraph:
Though born a squib to a pureblood Austrian family, Hanna was abandoned at a young age and grew up in the muggle world - isolated from magic.  Despite the early effects of rejection, Hanna accepted her place in the magical world and even flourished in it.  She spent most of her life in blissful oblivion - separate from the culture and unaware of even the existence of other squibs.  She married a wealthy hotel owner, moved to London, raised her two step children and son, and recently completed her ambition of becoming a physician.