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Pisces are loyal in their own way. They’ll send a text saying, “I’m here if you need to talk” right as their phone dies. They are always there to listen. It may be difficult for them to not internalize other people’s problems and make them worse in the process. They can be gossips, not maliciously, but because they’re genuinely interested in other people’s personal lives. They vacillate between codependent friendships and needing lots of alone time. Friends can take this as a slight.

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To Leos, loneliness is a captive state. It literally binds them to the cage of their own desire. They’ve got a hole inside of them that they try to fill with love, attention, and approval. They want to be loved for who they are. They want genuine connections, but take a long time to learn how to initiate them. They’re always searching for meaning.

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Aries tend to be impulsive, impatient, and hotheaded. They do not apologize for their anger. They say “I don’t care” and mean it. They don’t always have the best self-control, so they need to learn how to be more patient.

Addicted to action and excitement, Aries are often the cause of their own turmoil. All Aries want to feel things intensely, which is why they can sometimes be prone to reckless risk-taking. It also means they are often reacting out of emotion rather than from a place of calm clear-headedness.

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I GOT MY HEART’S DESIRE, AND THERE MY TROUBLES BEGAN—

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“He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter things happened for no reason, and people paid for things that weren't their fault.” ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

RESIDES: A townhouse in Cambridge known as “The Nook.” If his friend’s ask, he’s been “renovating” since he moved in. In reality he just likes having the place to himself. All four stories of it. BORN: Milano, Italy. RAISED: For the first seven years of his life he lived between the ancestral Zabini estate in Lombardy and the palazzo in Venezia. It was only after the war was well over that the Zabinis moved back to England where his mother’s notoriety made them controversial dinner guests. With a family name like theirs they couldn’t be made pariahs, but with some of the more notable names of British Magical Society amongst her former husbands, they have no shortage of enemies. PETS: A very loud, very annoying Oriental Shorthair cat named Pothos that was a gift from his godfather before leaving for Hogwarts. Blaise adores it. CAREER: A Chaser for Puddlemere United, recently traded from the Tutshill Tornados where he was a reserve. Some Tornados fans have claimed this to be a deep betrayal of their team and declared Puddlemere as their new arch-rivals. EXPERIENCE: A reserve for the Tornados for two years, he was poached signed to Puddlemere at the beginning of the current Quidditch season after one of their Chasers (the ill-fated Wilda Griffiths) was injured in what was supposed to be a pre-season friendly match. Previously played for Slytherin since his third year. EMPLOYER: Puddlemere United’s manager, Philbert Deverill. POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Neutral, though his loyalty, if tested will always fall on the side of his friends and family. BELIEFS: He has very shallow beliefs about the value of blood traitors and muggleborns, but also has little interest in the Death Eaters or being caught under the thumb of anyone if it doesn’t suit his goals. The only thing that truly motivates him is the happiness of his family and friends. MISDEMEANORS: None that will ever be discussed or proven. FELONIES: None that will ever be discussed or proven. DRUGS: Occasionally. SMOKES: Socially. ALCOHOL: Socially. DIET: Strict and highly regimented. LANGUAGES: Italian, English - his French and German are passable at best. PHOBIAS: ?? TBD ?? HOBBIES: Gossiping, travel, being exactly as shallow as he pleases without complaints about how he could better himself (thank you). TRAITS: + witty, direct, charismatic, athletic. - vain, judgemental, secretive, pretentious.

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FATE IS A VERY WEIGHTY TO WORD TO THROW AROUND BEFORE BREAKFAST—

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“Like wine, Provençal magic had its own distinctive terroir. It was rich and chaotic and romantic. It was a night-magic, confabulated out of moons and silver, wine and blood, knights and fairies, wind and rivers and forests. It concerned itself with good and evil but also with the vast intermediate realm in between, the realm of mischief.” ― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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THE ROOM IS ON FIRE AND SHE’S FIXING HER HAIR—

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“Sometimes he looked at her and thought, Gosh, I wonder what’s underneath all that anger, all that hard glossy armor? Maybe there’s just an innocent, wounded little girl in there who wants to come out and play and be loved and get happy. But now he wondered if maybe that little girl was long gone, or if she’d ever been there at all. What was under all that armor, all that anger? More anger, and more armor. Anger and armor, all the way down.” — The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman.

RESIDES: A flat located above Dogweed & Death Cap, Diagon Alley. BORN: Porthmeor, Cornwall. RAISED: A cottage right on the waterfront, Porthmeor, Cornwall. PETS: None that are hers, specifically. She recently gave a dog to her parents in the hopes it might absorb some of their attention. CAREER: Former-Auror. Current Head of Security for Club Raven. EXPERIENCE: Auror’s Academy Graduate, 1994. Eight and a half years as an active duty Auror before suspension. EMPLOYER: Cavalier Avery. POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Light. BELIEFS: Alastor Moody was (and still is) the greatest auror of their time. That blame falls as much on the shoulders of those who fail to take action as those who commit the crime. That neutrality really isn’t an option when there is a choice to be made about human rights. MISDEMEANORS: She is an officer of the law. FELONIES: .. In the name of the law? (No.) DRUGS: She really does care about her career. SMOKES: Has never once made it through an entire cigarette. ALCOHOL: Yes. DIET: A steady diet of leftovers that her father’s filled her freezer with. LANGUAGES: Spanish, English. A creative combination of both. PHOBIAS: She is terrified of losing her abilities or the prospect of failure. HOBBIES: Finding trouble wherever she goes. Fixating on work. Annoying Moody. Terrorising her cousins. TRAITS: + Vibrant / - Tactless: Loud. Energetic. Brash. Annoying. There were many ways in which Tonks’ existence could be quantified, but subtle was not one of them. Over time Tonks has taken to wearing her loud reputation like her own coat of arms; her very best and worst attributes flaunted with a deliberateness that seems almost too knowing, too on the nose, to not be covering for something. Arrogance and recklessness, hot-headed impulsiveness and a particularly caustic brand of wit wielded with a blunt charm that she’s grown increasingly fond of throwing in the face of the people who would whisper behind her back about just where here loyalties lie these days. The flippancy with which she greets the world, like she’s in on the joke that the rest of the world hasn’t quite caught the punchline of, only seems to grate on those who wish she’d treat the importance of her position with a little more respect. Tonks lives her life at full volume, with little regard for the opinions or delicate feelings of others who would ask her to reign it in, just a little, for their own comfort. + Driven / - Reckless: Nobody could ever say that Tonks did not possess an iron will, when it came to the things she wanted in life. Underneath all that vibrant glossy armour she wears like a warning sign, Tonks’ honourable qualities lurk: she may not always enjoy the banal, everyday routine of being an Auror, just as she may not think much of the people in charge, but Tonks is dedicated and steadfast in her job and worked tirelessly to get there. She has proven, time and again, a willingness to make the hard choice and put the greater good over her own reputation or honour. It takes a certain kind of steel to say precisely what is on your mind, to act even when duty and honour and all those boring noble virtues they try to instil in young Aurors tell you not to. She has never lacked for that sort of courage: the kind that requires a certain amount of defiance and a whole lot of audacity (and the willingness to circumvent every rule of authority, when your real loyalties and values are tested). Tonks has been forging the steel in her spine since she was old enough to frustrate her parents with her own headstrong opinions on what she wanted from life and how that differed from their hopes for her, and if she did not flinch (often) beneath her father’s gentle disappointment than there was certainly no one in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement who could make her cringe. And that was the truth of it: what people called boldness was only a matter of knowing what you wanted and being unafraid of what it would take to get it — and there was no length that Tonks was not willing to go to in order to do what’s right. + Insightful / - Nosy: If there was one thing that Alastor Moody taught her during those long years in the Academy, it was the value of deeds over words. The department may have been overrun, of late, with those too preoccupied by political ambitions to see the bigger picture and be willing to ruffle feathers, but Tonks has always been more insightful than she’s given credit for. Her knack for reading a room and the intentions of the people in it had been honed by her naturally suspicious mentor and years spent studying faces intently, all their little quirks and shapes, in order to recreate them in the mirror. For better or for worse, when put into a tight corner Tonks does not falter and she does not hesitate. Those who would call her impulsive would probably be correct, but she vastly prefers decisive and while her approach doesn’t always end well, she’s resourceful enough to almost always land on her feet running. The talents of a fighter, however, are not the talents required of a diplomat and lately her propensity for digging her nose into things that the higher ups have deemed off limits have landed her in hot water within the department. While Tonks has always considered her talent for thinking on her feet, acting decisively without wasting time on the buffering, to be her strongest asset, she fears that in order to return to the job she worked so hard to get, it will be inaction that is required of her this time around. Trading her autonomy for one man’s whims again is not something Tonks relishes the idea of, especially when there are dire consequences for turning a blind eye to what might be coming.

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