Secrets run deep within the Leofric family. Darkness fills the halls of her home, following her wherever she goes. Her past can't be escaped even as she works towards her future. Louella was a spoiled child. If it was a unicorn she wanted then it was a unicorn she would get. Whatever creature. Whatever book. Anything was right at her fingertips. It not only kept her quiet, but out of her parents hair. They were often too occupied to pay her any mind. If asked she would say it never bothered her, but it always had.
There was nothing Louella wanted more than attention. Positive or not, she was going to get it. Her parents said it built character as they avoided affection. It was going to help turn her into the powerful witch they wanted her to become. The void of love wold allow her to focus on less frivolous things. Louella was raised to be a Slytherin.
Hogwarts was her escape. A chance to make friends, to make connections she had never had before. While she kept everyone at an arms reach she couldn't stop the comfort that grew with the bonds. What her parents had never been able to give her professors had. She poured herself into her school work, cheating only when she found herself uninterested. If she let others make a show of themselves, then she could skate by. She could sneak off, get into things she shouldn't without anyone realizing. It was how she planned to live her life.