Get to Know the Original Character (1/?): Celeste Maes
Full Name: Celeste Ann Maes
Birthday: Unknown
House: Ravenclaw
Blood Status: Muggleborn
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The only child to a Muggle couple with long-forgotten magical heritage, Celeste remained unaware of her abilities until Headmistress Contessa Lestrange knocked on her parents’ door. There were a few instances of magic before, as with all children, but they had been written off as forgetfulness or simply seeing things. Her parents were thrilled at the prospect of Celeste being a witch and did everything to ease the move.
Overall, Celeste belonged in the Ravenclaw house above all else. Her love of art was only one aspect of the Hat’s choice. She had a profound love of learning new things—eagerly scooping up every ounce of new information that she could achieve. History was, to her admission, one of her favorites. She had been the first student in her year to discover how to safely charm her own hair and, since then, it had been charmed a shade of blue. However, she loved learning new things to a fault; sometimes, she would shove aside her current assignments in favor of a new spell or a new book, leading her to struggle in some classes.
In her first year, Celeste Maes stumbled upon Gill De Schepper in a train car and they became fast friends, both being sorted into the Ravenclaw house among their arrival. Later the following summer, Celeste would also meet and become friends with Amelie De Smet, Gill’s best friend besides her, who was a year behind them. When Amelie came to Hogwarts, Celeste grew close to Amelie’s friends in her own year and they all wore matching pendants. After Amelie’s accident, while Senne and his family pushed them away, the girls had only become closer. Once a year, around Amelie’s birthday, her four closest friends would meet together and have dinner with just them.
On their first day of Potions with the Slytherins in year one, Celeste was paired up with Sander Driesen... and the two quickly bonded over their hatred of the (at the time) Potions professor and their mutual love of art. As a result, the two of them had become virtually inseparable and quite close. They would always help with the Quidditch Kick-Off Party, designing the flyers with other artists from Hufflepuff and Gryffindor. Celeste thought that Sander was the closest that she would have to a sibling—and Sander felt the same.
While Sander had his own studio, an abandoned classroom in some forgotten hallway, Celeste’s favorite spot in Hogwarts was the Astronomy Tower. Being able to be out in the air and see the stars was one of her favorite pass times, especially on nights when she could not sleep. And, it was the subject of many of her drawings. On rainy nights, she would find herself a high enough classroom in one of the towers and sketch the rain falling on the lake.
As a child born in the Muggle Age of Technology, Celeste has more knowledge of technology and the internet than most of her pureblood peers. However, she has to be careful about what she says to her Muggle friends from primary school and back how. They have no knowledge of magic and, due to magical laws, they cannot know. This aspect weighs on Celeste heavily, especially as she has one Muggle friend that she’s still “somewhat” close to.