Waker Nolan

Waker Lane Nolan
Biographical Information
Born	14 September 1990, 27
City of Birth	Colchester, Essex, UK
Current City	Exeter, Devon, UK
Blood status	Muggle-born
Physical Information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Height	5'9"
Hair Colour	Blonde
Eye Colour	Brown
Skin Colour	White, olive-toned (tans easily)
Relationships
Father	Joe Nolan (muggle)
Mother	Wendy Nolan (muggle)
In a Relationship: George Carter
Children	Amelia Carter
Magical Characteristics
Wand(s)
10.5 inches, Maple wood, dragon heartstring core (Made by Ollivander)
Education
School	Hogwarts
House	Ravenclaw
Class of	2009
Occupation
Title: Assistant Department: Mysteries Ministry of Magic Title: Intern Department: Mysteries Ministry of Magic
Character Information
Playby	Magdelana Frackowiak
Biography
Waker

Waker Lane Nolan (b. 1990-09-14) is a muggle-born witch from Colchester, Essex, England. She is a Ravenclaw alumnus (2002-2009) and former Head Girl at Hogwarts (2008-2009) at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland. She is currently an assistant at the Ministry of Magic.

Waker is very goal-oriented, preoccupied with work and making good impressions. She is not as good at personal interactions, though her friendship skills have improved over the years, particularly in her latter years at Hogwarts. Waker's friends include Theta Pepper, Edmund Klint, and Grace Eddy. She has a complicated friendship with Fauna Blake. Waker has dated George Carter since May 2008. The two broke up in early 2009, but rekindled their relationship before graduation. George is her first serious relationship since Devlin Matthews, whom she now claims to dislike. Waker and George have a daughter, Amelia, born March 15, 2010.

History

Waker is the only child of Joseph and Wendy Nolan, a pair of good-natured-if-bookish muggle pediatricians who met at a hospital in Bristol during a lengthy E.R. shift. Each timid and romantically inexperienced, Joe and Wendy exchanged friendly cafeteria chat for nearly two years before really getting to know one another more intimately. It was another two years before they exchanged wedding vows, and almost a decade of knowing one another before Waker was born. By then, they had opened a tiny children’s clinic in Colchester.

For a pair of educated adults who have devoted most of their lives to treating children, the doctors Nolan have always made for rather pitiable parents. It is not that they are unkind or ill-intentioned—on the contrary, they are both usually sweet and generous toward Waker— but that they have simply never had their priorities straight. Not instinctively maternal, Wendy often left Waker in the care of her mother-in-law when her daughter was only months old. Thus, Waker was raised on bottled milk and a snobbish old woman’s cynical bedtime tales.

While her parents continued their full-time occupations as selfless do-gooders for the population at large, Waker grew into a perpetually independent little girl. By five she had learned that snipping back at her grandmother was futile, and thus learned to tune out the old bat’s whining. She took to school and books like a fish to water, and the Wendy and Joe noticed just enough to congratulate themselves for passing on their academic interests. Regrettably for them, Waker has never had aspirations to devote her life’s work to other people.

Signs of magic began to creep in around the time Waker started kindergarten. The girl tried desperately to control the strange occurrences, at first believing them to be negative side effects of her occasionally wandering attention. By age eight, she knew that whatever was “wrong” was actually “special”. Still, she kept the evidence from her parents, grandmother, teachers, and peers… until the owl on her eleventh birthday.

Waker’s parents were uncertain about Hogwarts and magic, but they did see a benefit in sending their beloved only daughter away to be educated. A boarding institution would give her the attention she deserved, they reasoned-- and oddly enough, her grandmother agreed (under the delusion of sending Waker to a highly elite all-girl’s liberal arts school in Wales). Waker had no intention of declining the invitation, no matter her family’s feelings, but it was convenient that they agreed.

The first year at Hogwarts not only brought out promising magical ability in the Nolan girl, but it also introduced her to a world that could be her own… one which allowed no grandmother’s snide remarks or parents’ sporadic suggestions and untimely counsel. Waker became slightly more outwardly confident than she had been in muggle school. She made a handful of acquaintances, and returned the next year with a positive mindset. Though littered with tension and sometimes exhausting academic rivalry, Waker enjoyed each year more than the prior.

Waker scored very high on both her O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. exams, going on to become Head Girl and enjoying an internship with the Ministry of Magic between her sixth and seventh years. Waker continued to intern after graduation, eventually accepting a desk job in the Department of Mysteries. She has plans to enter Unspeakable training.

Waker gave birth to her first child on March 15, 2010. She lives in Exeter, Devon with George Carter, who plays for the nearby Chudley Canons.

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