Name: Sophie Hallowell
DOB: May 8, 1962
House: Gryffindor
Year: Fifth
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Bisexual
Blood Status: Muggleborn
Alliance: The Order
FC: Victoria Justice
Sophie was once a normal muggle girl. She went to school, her mother taught dance lessons, which she attended from the time she could walk, she played in the park with other children, and her life was fairly normal, or, at least, that’s how it appeared. Behind closed doors, when Sophie and her mother were home, they faced the monster that was her father. Others found the man charming, never thinking twice about the girls getting bruises from tripping down stairs, or Sophie’s broken arm from falling out of a tree. Those seemed like valid reasons for injuries, no matter how frequently the two were hurt. And he always promised he’d never do it again, going through the motions of apologies and buying them gifts, but it always happened again. That’s how her father got away with it; his charm and handsome smile, always buying his two favorite girls something new to spoil them with. No one wanted to think he could be a monster behind closed doors, even Sophie’s mother. People will believe anything if they want it to be true badly enough.
With the first uses of accidental magic that showed up in Sophie, mainly those of protection, her father grew angrier. It wasn’t that he was a violent alcoholic, triggered by drinking, or that the girls did something that might especially anger him on the days that it happened, it was small things that happened on days when he was in a certain mood. So, when he went at Sophie one day after she’d left one of her toys on the floor and he’d stepped on it, and he was knocked backwards into the wall by nothing, she got a worse beating. Sometimes, her magic protected her mother, sometimes herself, it depended on the day and her own emotions. When Sophie was eight, and her magic had caused her father to fall down the stairs after a particularly bad beating, her mother took Sophie and left. It wasn’t long, however, before their father found them. Less than a week, in fact, and he threatened to take Sophie away from her and never let her mother see her again, saying he’d already contacted a lawyer. Her mother couldn’t bear the thought of her daughter being alone with him, so they returned home, where everyone told them that they were sorry for the loss of Sophie’s grandfather, who, had been dead since before Sophie was born. It was then that the two girls realized just how stuck they really were.
When Sophie was eleven, however, she got a Hogwarts letter, one of the school’s professor’s bringing it to them. Her father was furious and didn’t want his daughter to go to the school, but her mother was glad that Sophie would be out of danger for the majority of the year, even though she didn’t vocalize this, or her support for the school. Eventually, the professor convinced her father to let the girl attend, the mentions of not being able to use magic outside of school being the main attraction. It gave him back the control he’d lost before with his wife and daughter, along with another reason to take his anger out on his daughter; she was sin in need of punishment. Plus, if he ever did drive her to use magic, she would be expelled, so for him, it was a win, win. Hogwarts quickly became a safe haven for Sophie, at least, for a while. It was when words like ‘Mudblood’ and ‘Muggle Scum’ were tossed her way, along with curses that she realized she’d been wrong. However, at Hogwarts the Gryffindor had a fighting chance. She refused to take it, any of the bullying and pain that came with it. She wasn’t the smartest, or best at dueling, but, Merlin help her, she took nothing laying down. She fought back with everything she could, often studying harder than many of her housemates in certain classes just so she knew how to defend herself. She fought back when she was ridiculed, or attacked, and defended others as best she could as well. That isn’t to say she went looking for fights, but she refused to be ashamed of who she was, or hide out, because some people wanted to hurt her. She’d been hurt her whole life without cause, so it didn’t scare her anymore.
Things changes during her fourth year, though, around April, there was a car accident and her mother was in a coma for almost a month before she died of organ failure, and Sophie was left alone with her father. Hogwarts really became her safe haven, because the only time he could hurt her was when she was home. Not everything at Hogwarts was about feeling safe, however. She had friends, enjoyed flying and magic, she joined clubs and went to Hogsmeade. Sophie even made the quidditch team her fourth year as beater, and a prefect her fifth. Hogwarts became her home and her friends became her family. Little did she know, that she even had a half-brother living in the Hufflepuff basements.
Sophie is a strong girl, but she is vulnerable as well. It takes her a bit longer to trust people, because she knows how much damage one person can do. Still, she is amicable and usually kind, always trying not to bring pain to others if she can prevent it. She isn’t always the brightest when it comes to school work, but she is street smart and quick on her feet.
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Fifth Year Gryffindor Prefect
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