oona doyle | 24 | muggleborn | order of the phoenix
“Oona's a good, strong name -- Ma says it means 'lamb.' Can't really say I'm much of a lamb but it gets people's attention. Ma always says it was her favorite name; she saw me when I came out and knew 'twas mine. What else...Well, I’s born in Derry an' it's where me heart is. Things weren’t pretty, sometimes they were pretty bad, but it’s home, ye know? I wouldn’t trade it for nothin’, s’made me who I am.”
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born & raised in Derry, Northern Ireland
Gryffindor alumna
ardent Irish Catholic & Nationalist
legal assistant @ Wizengamot Administrative Services
former Leaky Cauldron waitress (among other things)
spiritual, passionate, action-oriented, outspoken, decisive, focused, quick-thinking
loves the underdog; has strong instinct to protect & defend
learning to pick her battles & embrace her two opposing worlds
MBTI:
INFJ personalities usually have many strong opinions, especially when it comes to issues they consider really important in life. If an INFJ is fighting for something, this is because they believe in the idea itself, not because of some selfish reasons.
Strengths:Determined and passionate;; altruistic;; inspiring and convincing;; very insightful
Weaknesses: Extremely private ;; can burn out easily;; very sensitive;; perfectionistic;; always need to have a cause
WAND: Ash, Dragon Heartstring, 11 inches, firm
The ash wand cleaves to its one true master and ought not to be passed on or gifted from the original owner, because it will lose power and skill. This tendency is extreme if the core is of unicorn. Old superstitions regarding wands rarely bear close examination, but Mr. Ollivander finds that the old rhyme regarding rowan, chestnut, ash and hazel wands (rowan gossips, chestnut drones, ash is stubborn, hazel moans) contains a small nugget of truth.
Those witches and wizards best suited to ash wands are not, in Mr. Ollivander's experience, lightly swayed from their beliefs or purposes. However, the brash or over-confident witch or wizard, who often insists on trying wands of this prestigious wood, will be disappointed by its effects. The ideal owner may be stubborn, and will certainly be courageous, but never crass or arrogant.
FAMILY:
4th of seven siblings, including two sisters and three brothers.
Comes from a family of Republicans, and grew up overhearing more than her fair share of political conversations about civil rights for ‘her people’ and the corrupt Irish Free State. Her father used to drag all of his children who could walk to hear the speakers on their soapboxes and their radio was always broadcasting some underground nationalist station. Their small flat was also filled to the brim with books and newspapers,.
Her Da was on the housing action committee, never stopped talking about how important it was to fight for reform. Members of her family were always marching in one demonstration or another, sometimes coming back battered and bruised.
Her oldest brother, Connor (whom she adored) joined the newly Provos, not long after the Battle of the Bogside. He didn't care if the Protestants were poor or not but their Da couldn't stop quoting Marx, talking about class conflict.
But then her Da is detained and tortured , never the same., and Oona sees Connor's body, bloody and broken like Christ himself, courtesy of the UVF. None of the Doyle's were ever the same after that.
HOGWARTS/MAGIC/THE WAR:
Oona was no stranger to sluts being thrown at her on the street, the sounds of riots outside their window, rules and boundaries they weren't supposed to cross because it was dangerous. So when she encountered a different kind of prejudice in the magical world, it didn't really feel as though much had changed.
As Voldemort rose more prominently to power, his murders taking up pages in the Prophet and his followers began growing, she found herself becoming more deeply embroiled in the ongoing conflict -- it was always emotionally relevant for her, of course, but Oona preferred to keep her distance. She had her own fighting waiting at home, didn't she? Somewhere along the line, that changed. Perhaps with maturity and time, perhaps it was just inevitable. Oona was not made to sit on the sidelines, to turn a blind eye. If she did that, if she refused to embrace the contradiction of belonging to two opposing worlds, made the choice to turn her back on a fight that is intimately hers just as much as the one at home, then could she honestly live with herself?
In the end, the answer was no.
Peace may not be acheived, as Oscar Romero wrote, through the fear or terror, the silence of cemeteries, or the silent result of violent oppression, but peace cannot happen without action. In the case of the war the wizarding world finds itself embroiled in, much like the one her family fights at home, there is too much bitterness and anger and blood for peace to come without a fight. An age of hope can only be reached when the world is set up properly for it to occur, and sometimes that means people must die. Contrary to what some might say, there are things in the world worth dying for, and as a Doyle, Oona knows more than a few of them. Maybe one day she'll end up beaten to death on someone's front porch like Connor or tortured and never the same like her Da, but she's not afraid. Never afraid.
i am not broken. i am free