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Full Character Name: Meredith Agnes May Misslethorpe
Character Birthday & Age: 7 June 1995. 17
City & Country of Birth: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn: Halfblood
House & Year: Slytherin sixth year

Wand: 11 3/4 inches, swishy willow with dragon heartstring

Physical Description:
Meredith has long dark brown hair. Prominent brown eyebrows. Her hair has a natural wave. At school she wears it down or in a loose ponytail. Her eyes are her most striking feature. Just like her mother they are bright blue with dark outlines to her irises. She has a narrow nose and a pale complexion. She has a mole below her eyebrow at the top of her nose on one side. To cover it Meredith wears a little makeup. She wears small earrings and two thin finger rings.

Meredith is short like her mother. Her father is very tall. Her mother has lectured Meredith many times on eating healthily. If Meredith comes home from Hogwarts looking at all fat her grandmother presses her to drink disgusting diet potions.

Her family like her to dress formally. Her maternal grandmother has a favorite tailor. She takes Meredith there every summer holiday. She pays for a set of tailored formal robes. Meredith tolerates the fuss. It is nice to have formal robes for meeting wizarding people. On these occasions she will wear her hair up in a bun and even a pointed hat.

On a Hogwarts weekend she would much rather dress like the muggles she sees in London. Now she has her mother's permission to venture into the Muggle world alone. She saves her allowance to buy clothes in London. There she favors pale pastel colors.


Personality Description:
As a friend

Meredith can prefer to work alone. She has grown up as an only child. Being alone is not unfamiliar. She does enjoy chatting to people and making friends. She pays attention to others and has good observation skills. Meredith is compassionate, understanding and caring. She is perfectly pleasant to know and befriend from any house. She will help you with your homework if it means you can hang out after. She is good at motivating. She can inspire others to achieve especially if they are doing something different to her. She is patient.

Realist. She does not indulge in dreams about her future. She would not enter a lottery. She sees life as a series of steps or doors. Or even snakes and ladders. Sometimes she is blunt with friends who enjoy supposing. She can be accused of pessimism. Sometimes this is just because she is finding it hard to see the other person's point of view. Meredith can find it hard to communicate her innermost feelings.

As an opponent

Better a friend than her enemy. Meredith is not above exaggerating and stretching the truth, especially to professors or to get out of trouble. She will try to justify her mistake and blame others rather than admit her failure. She has been known to drop a classmate in it for revenge, and the odd rumor could have originated with her. She is not overt or aggressive. Not one who would draw her wand to settle a dispute. More likely to seek revenge in quieter means.

As a student

Meredith is above average in intelligence. She works hard at school. When she is intrigued by the subject matter. She enjoys research and has great attention to detail. Her school notes are kept very well. Meredith keeps good relations with her teachers. She puts her hand up in lessons. She turns homework in on time. If she was disinterested in a subject she did the minimum. She worked on homework for another class. If a classmate struggles then she looks down on them and pities them.

When she achieves something she would like everyone to notice. She is unafraid of the spotlight. She is tough on herself to get things right when they matter to her. She drives hard and can be quietly competitive. Meredith can get very anxious. This is caused by her inner critic. It always asks if she is good enough. She suffers from periodic insomnia. She lost a lot of sleep during her OWL exams. She tries to hide her anxiety from her friends. They can tell because she is tired, quieter and fidgets with the rings on her fingers.

As a daughter

Meredith is closer to her maternal family. She enjoys being at home. She is very comfortable there as an only child. She even secretly enjoys doing chores and routines if she gets to spend time with her mother when she goes home. By the end of the summer she is bored of the chores. By the end of term she is bored of the school routine. She is keen to get from one place to the other.

Meredith has a weaker bond with her father. They have things in common. She acts much more grown up around him. She is sad to have not grown up with married parents. She hopes that when she finds someone and settles down they stay together forever.


History:
Meredith is the only daughter of Sandy Misslethorpe. Her paternal grandfather is the late Tobias Misslethorpe. He was the founding and first editor of Witch Weekly. Her mother is a healer of magical bugs at St Mungo's hospital.

She does not remember much of her time living in Bury St Edmunds. Her mother left her father when she was little. Her mother moved them back to London. They live with her maternal grandparents. They and her father funded a private muggle education for Meredith. This was luxury.

Meredith has tried artistic pursuits as creative writing, drawing, painting, dancing, learning instruments and singing. She enjoys singing. She is an accomplished harpist. 

She had a bit of a culture shock when she arrived at Hogwarts in 2006. Boarding school was nothing new. In Meredith's opinion some of the other students were rather slow. Her Muggle school had been filled with children who had tutors. Overachievers. Meredith had been happy but not top of her class. She felt she was an intellectual superior at Hogwarts. This was not true. Meredith soon identified who was worth quietly competing with. By the end of her first year she had formed a group of friends.

In her third year she started arithmancy and muggle studies. She expected them to be easier for her upbringing. They were not so popular with Slytherins. She began to make more friends in other houses through those classes. Care of magical creatures was a popular choice for everyone. She chose it too.

She widened her friends again. Joined the Hogwarts Players. School Choir. Attended the Howler meetings informally. Just to see. She became a prefect. Her family were very proud.

As exam pressure increased Meredith focused on the subjects of most use to her. She feared failing subjects entirely. Meredith was less interested in astronomy and history of magic. But she could not fail them. She poured hours into the most useful subjects: charms, potions and transfiguration. She joined the potions club. She slept for a week after the exams.

OWLS (10)

• Astronomy [ A ]
• Charms [ O ]
• Defense Against the Dark Arts [ E ]
• Herbology [ E ]
• History of Magic [ A ]
• Potions [ O ]
• Transfiguration [ O ]
• Arithmancy [ O ]
• Care of Magical Creatures [ E ]
• Muggle Studies [ E ]

Her most prized possession is her portable harp. It shrinks into a traveling case. It was a late birthday gift for her excellent OWL grades.

Meredith only needs to take five NEWT subjects. She takes her outstanding subjects: arithmancy, charms, potions and transfiguration.

She then had to choose from herbology, creatures, muggle studies and defense. Her mother wanted her to choose herbology and defense so she could become a healer later. Meredith ruled out muggle studies first. It had limited use. She could learn from observing real Muggles in London and reading newspapers.

She had a soft spot for creatures. The logical choice was Herbology with potions. But she chose defense instead. She reassured herself she would drop it and pick up Herbology if she changed her mind. Or drop it later and do five like everyone else. She could learn herbology later if she needed it. Maybe she could do alchemy.

NEWTS (6)

• Arithmancy
• Care of Magical Creatures
• Charms
• Defense Against the Dark Arts
• Potions
• Transfiguration

Now Meredith is in her sixth year at Hogwarts. She is undecided what she wants to do. Many doors are open. She is becoming more aware of what goes on in the world. She has started to think bigger. How will she be recognized.

Classes:

Core Classes No Charms Defense Against the Dark Arts No No Potions Transfiguration No

Electives No Arithmancy Care of Magical Creatures No No

How Do You Fit Into Your House?:
Meredith may be a friend to many and a 'milder' Slytherin, but she is still a Slytherin. She is not afraid to use her position to put others down who cross her by sly, underhand tactics. She is competitive, loyal to her house. Although not a cookie-cutter snake she still complies to the expectations of her house under any pressure.

Writing Sample:


Sum up your character in one paragraph:
Meredith is a seventh year Slytherin and also head girl. She is a friendly snake and it is better to be friends with her. She prefers quiet revenge. On the surface she is a good student and a prefect. She works herself hard. Now she has to decide what the future holds for her. And who she wants to be.

Special Title Request

Character Name: Meredith Misslethorpe
Title Applying For: Prefect
Character Biography: ?

What Experience has Prepared You For This Honor?:
Meredith is a good student. She works hard at school. Meredith keeps good relations with her teachers. She puts her hand up in lessons. She turns homework in on time. She is unafraid of the spotlight. She pays attention to others and has good observation skills. Meredith is compassionate, understanding and caring. She is perfectly pleasant to know and befriend from any house. She is good at motivating. She can inspire others to achieve especially if they are doing something different to her. She is patient.

What Do You Think the Most Important Aspect of This Job Is:?
Balance. Meredith must keep order in her house. She must stand up to those in her house. But she still wants her house to win. She is still a Slytherin. She must balance her studies with her duty. She must balance her friendships with her duty. She cannot be authoritarian. She will lose respect of her house. She cannot be a doormat. She will lose respect of her house and her teachers.


Tell a Story From Your Past That Has Proven Your Mettle:  
The young Slytherins came in two types. This is what Meredith believed. The first made themselves as small as they could. Please do not hurt me. Please do not notice me. Let me have a quiet life. They had heard about the reputation of Slytherin. They were introverted. They were too young to know their true snake potential. Meredith could have been one of these. The second was there to prove themselves. Establish their dominance. Loud. Trying too hard. Making jokes at the expense of others. Believed they were too good for it. Or believed they were the next Head Boy already. The girls tried to be grown up when they were still little.

It was a big castle to find your way around. Meredith noticed one of the quiet ones by his dormitory door. Stood still in the shadows. In one hand an envelope. His fingers creased it. He was looking at the older students. They ignored him. They had better things to do. Meredith noticed him. Without a word she got up. Went to the bookshelves near him. Even though she did not need a book.

"Need directions to the owlery?" She asked. Quiet. Pretending to pick a book. If you drew attention they would see his glassy eyes. "Count to ten then follow me." She put the book back. Turned to her friends. "I forgot to write down a book name for my essay. Save my seat. Be ten." They did not notice the boy who left straight after her.

Walking alone from her class Meredith was thinking about her homework. A younger girl ran past her in the hallway Pushing people out of her way. Head down. Meredith frowned. Her arms were full of books. She thought about yelling in annoyance. She turned the corner. On her usual route. The younger girl was ahead. Running down the stairs. Then bang. She fell. The step that was not there every odd-numbered Wednesday. She had fallen straight through it. Now she was crying. Meredith rolled her eyes. But hurried carefully. Put her books down two steps above.

"Here." She offered her arms. They were in the same house. The girl's face was swollen with tears. She was upset. Not just because of the step. Meredith hauled her out. The girl mumbled thanks.

"Whatever is the matter?" Meredith asked. "Something has upset you bad." The younger girl burst into more tears. She had fallen out with her dormitory girls. Been sent to Coventry. Meredith rolled her eyes again. What silly children. "But you can talk to other houses. Just because we are from Slytherin. It does not stop us being friends with other houses. You go have fun with them. Your dormitory will forget. Or if they do not I know where you can buy itching powder for their beds." They laughed.

Meredith's Threads

= finished
= open
= inactive

February 15 - Father Dearest
March 10 - Birthday Kick-About
March 15 - Mirror of Erised School Trip Sign-Ups
March 17 - We Have Not Yet Begun to Burn
March 17 - Tea Interrupted
March 18 - Disappearing Diricawls!
March 19 - Not Another Monday
March 22 - Adult Education
March 22 - People Only Die in Proper Duels
March 30 - Haunted by the Past
March 30 - They Say Only Prats Become Prefects~
April 11 - Look Inside, What do you Find?
Aug 18 - A Murder of Crows

Special Title Request

Character Name: Meredith Misslethorpe
Title Applying For: Head Girl
Character Biography: Link

What Experience has Prepared You For This Honor?:

Meredith is a good student. She has been a prefect for the last 2 years. She works hard at school. Meredith keeps good relations with her teachers. She puts her hand up in lessons. She turns homework in on time. She is unafraid of the spotlight. She pays attention to others and has good observation skills. Meredith is compassionate, understanding and caring. She is perfectly pleasant to know and befriend from any house. She is good at motivating. She can inspire others to achieve especially if they are doing something different to her. She is patient.

What Do You Think the Most Important Aspect of This Job Is:?

Balance. It is a great responsibility. She has her NEWT exams ahead. Her career choices. Then Meredith must keep order in her house. She must stand up to those in her house. But she still wants her house to win. She is still a Slytherin. She must balance her studies with her duty. She must balance her friendships with her duty. She cannot be authoritarian. She will lose respect of her house. She cannot be a doormat. She will lose respect of her house and her teachers.

Tell a Story From Your Past That Has Proven Your Mettle: 

See her prefect app.

Meredith took on extra responsibility with the dueling club in Sixth Year. Wanted to be the club president. So in the spring Meredith asked Professor Storm for some more tuition believing her skill and talent will make him choose her. She also tried to raise her game with other subjects, and stretched her time. Ultimately she decided that to become Head Girl she needed to look broader. Also her friend was well suited to the role. Better to delegate. She dropped her intent with the dueling club but remains an active supporting member.