AMARYLLIS FARRELL || SIXTH YEAR || RAVENCLAW || TAKEN || FC: AMANDLA STENBERG
“My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world”
Born into a rich, but close-minded, Muggle family, Amaryllis was taught from a very young age that she was special and destined for greatness, as she was gifted with an extremely high intelligence. From the time she was three, her parents had her future all planned out- she would study at the most prestigious girl’s school in England, then go on to win a scholarship to Oxford or Harvard, marry a rich husband, have children, and make loads of money, effectively keeping the family line one of the most affluent in the country. Due to this, her mother paid thousands to have one of the best tutors in the UK tutor her on everything she needed to know to get a good job, despite the fact that, at her age, she should have been in kindergarten playing with other children. Amaryllis didn’t want to study algebra and long division, however. While she was sitting in her schoolroom, effectively bored to death by the tutor’s monotonous droning, she would let her mind wander all over the house and into the fields beyond. One day, while she was supposed to be writing a seven-page paper on the dangers of globalization, she concentrated her attention on the bouquet of flowers next to the window, and somehow- she wasn’t sure how she had done it- upturned it on her teacher’s head without leaving her seat. Her parents and the tutor were terrified, and allowed her to quit her studies, as they didn’t want anyone else finding out she had what they were convinced were magical powers.
A couple of years later, her Hogwarts letter came, and she was taken into London to buy her school equipment. Her excitement at seeing the town and Diagon Alley gave way to ecstatic apprehension about the future. Hogwarts was a very different experience for her to how she had imagined, however. She had grown accustomed to being able to do exactly what she wanted, when she wanted, and it was extremely hard for her to adjust to the prospect of school. She became quiet and withdrawn, and wouldn’t talk to any other student- having little to no contact with students her own age, she was socially awkward and unsure how to talk to others. Her main focus became the library, and as she found that it expanded her imagination (which was both a blessing and a curse, considering it terrified and uplifted her) she spent all her time there. She became polite and passive to her teachers, didn’t argue or talk back- in fact, she hardly concentrated at all, preferring to stare out the window and lose herself in her daydreams. Now approaching seventeen, she is still mousey and quiet, but she has told herself that she will try to talk to students more and try and find some friends, though is extremely worried her ‘reputation’ as a book-crazy dreamer will jeopardize that.
Upon hearing that the girl was found dead, her imagination has gone into overdrive, and she now stays in the library most days after lessons, researching every legend that mentions the forbidden forest. She is suspicious of the students who woke up near the forest, and, having read up on the situations that happened in the past, is sure that they have something to do with it, though she isn’t sure what yet (she’s working on it!) She also believes that if she had friends, she would be able to do some extra investigating with them, driving her more towards the prospect of meeting new people.
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