Full Character Name: Cosima Hazel Early
Character Birthday & Age: 23 Feb 1997
City & Country of Birth: Slandermouth, England
Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn: Halfblood
House & Year: Ravenclaw Fifth Year

Wand: 9in, maple, unicorn tail hair

Physical Description:
Cosima has shoulder-length brown-red hair, pale skin, and freckles. She has a pert little nose, thin lips, and dark eyebrows. Puberty is upon her and she's not sure what to do with her new curves - definately in an awkward phase. Lately she's dressing in oversized sweaters and is into colorful leggings. She carries her entire life with her in a satchel.

Having been raised in Slandermouth, Cosima has a Northern accent. She walks fast and speaks quickly. She narrows her eyes when she's thinking.


Personality Description:
Cosima is inquisitive, curious, and unafraid. Her mother raised her alone and taught her everything about being independent, vocal about her needs and boundaries, and to never be satisfied with superficial knowledge: there's always more to know.

Her mother did not shelter Cosima from adult topics, so Cosima is more knowledgable than many of her peers about things like sex.

Like her mother, she has progressive values in so far as her privilage allows her to have a sophisticated (or not) understanding. She supports free werewolf rights, the gay rights movement, racial equality, and social justice. She is still struggling with the role of objectivity in truth.

Her aspiration in life is to be an investigative journalist but she's not willing to wait until she's an adult to begin. She is on staff of the Hogwarts Howler despite her low opinion of its quality. She types her stories on an old mechanical muggle typewriter, although it is difficult to find ribbon and she has to cut parchment to size when she runs out of real A4. (She secretly writes Slither Girls fanfiction, but has no one to share it with.)

Cosima is kind to most people but doesn't feel like she has any close friends, just regular friends. This bothers her, but she's not sure how to change it.

She enjoys Quidditch and she got onto the team as a second-string Chaser last year.


History:
Cosima is being raised by single mother Torrence. Cosima didn't meet her father until a couple of years ago. Her mother and father (wizard George Tally) had grown to be friends again. Cosima hasn't yet resolved her feelings about having her father back in her life, and George following her lead.

Torrence is a fortune-teller slash therapist, providing for the emotional health needs of her clients through a mixture of traditional divination practices and conventional talk therapy. She and Cosima are very close and hides nothing from her. The two speak frankly on all topics.

The two have lived in the same house in Slandermouth since Cosima was little.

Cosima was very happy to go to Hogwarts and pleased to be sorted into Ravenclaw. As a little girl, many would have called her strange, a sort of only-child home-schooled old-soul syndrome. As the years went by, she got much better finding her place and fitting in with her peers.

There is nothing drama-free about attending Hogwarts in the late 2000s and 2010s. The Tetrawizard Tournaments, werewolf injustices, fail-struck Quidditch matches, kidnappings, dementors, Magical Measles - every day it seemed there was some new breaking story to nose into. Cosima decided that her role was to be an outside observer, diligently recording everything that happened. This was when she decided her destiny in life was to be a journalist.

Academically, Cosima has middling marks. She's a fair student and well-behaved, just not very interested in the hands-on and messy. She doesn't plan to pursue very many NEWTS because she wants more time to focus on her career.

She wants to take over the Hogwarts Howler.


Classes:

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

Electives No No No No Muggle Studies

How Do You Fit Into Your House?:
Cosima is the textbook Ravenclaw - curious and conventionally smart. She couldn't really imagine herself in any other house.


Writing Sample:


Sum up your character in one paragraph:
Teenage witch Cosima Early was raised by a single mother to be curious and independent. She gets on well with others but doesn't always feel like she fits in. She is very interested, to the point of obsession, in journalism.