MACDONALD, mary ella

MARYELLA MACDONALD,


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"IT'S REAL FOR US. NOT FOR HER.
WE'LL GET THE LETTER, YOU AND ME."
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( FULL NAME ) : mary ella macdonald
( NICKNAMES ) : none
( SEX ) : female.
( BLOOD TYPE ) : half-blood (canon list says muggle born but she is related to magnus macdonald, therefore either half-blood or pure)
( AGE & DOB ) : sixteen, june twenty-third (most websites list her as the same age as the marauders, especially considering her relationship with mulciber whom would have been in the same year as severus snape as well as avery)
( YEAR ) : sixth
( HOUSE ) : gryffindor
( CANON? ) : yes
( OCCUPATION ) : student.
( AFFILIATION ) : order member
( SEXUAL ORIENTATION ) : heterosexual
( WAND ) : holly, twelve inches, thestral tail hair core

( LIKES ) : potions, reading, astronomy, mischief, muggle music, meat, silence, quidditch
( DISLIKES ) : fire, her father, transfiguration, getting caught, rules,
( STRENGTHS ) : lying, keeping secrets, potions, smiling when not happy, making people laugh
( WEAKNESSES ) : serious moments, cynical, expressing negative emotions
( AMORTENTIA ) : leather, old books, grass, rain
( RIDDIKULUS! ) : her brother and mother burning
( EXPECTO PATRONUM! ) : the camping trip her whole family went on right before her eleventh birthday
( DEMENTOR'S KISS ) : her eleventh birthday
( MIRROR OF ERISED ) : her whole family, including her father, clapping for her at her graduation from hogwarts.
( PERSONALITY ) : on the surface, mary appears as a loud, witty girl with a constant smirk upon her face and a trick up her sleeve. though some people's confidence is merely a facade, hers is not. that's not saying she doesn't care how others think of her, she just doesn't let it influence her in any way. being quite the mischievous girl, when ever there is some prank being pulled or midnight adventure being planned, chances are mary is behind it. let's just say she has learned how to sweet talk herself out of trouble through experience. she will lie right through her teeth to get what she wants and luckily for her, she is excellent at it. if there is one thing mary could change about herself is the fact that she seeks revenge like bee seeks the perfect flower. if you get on the wrong side of her, you better watch out because not only does she know some people, but she has a few tricks up her sleeve. she has always been like this, even when she was a wee child; pulling pranks to get even with her brother.

when confronted with a not so pleasant situation, mary does what she knows she must do in order to get through it. if that means she has to manipulate others and lie to get her way, then so be it. another one of her 'survival' techniques, if you will, is pushing her emotions away. she has a psychological need to always appear unfazed by everything so she just avoids the issue for as long as she can. eventually everything becomes too much and she explodes in a mess of emotion, much like what happened on her first ride to hogwarts. if mary lets anyone see those underlying emotions, it is a huge deal for her.

probably the reason why the sorting hat chose her to be in gryffindor is her heart. if there's a threat to anyone she cares about, she would put herself in harm's way to ensure their safety. this is seen through simple things such as helping a first year who is being bullied by some slytherins to risking her life to save her brother and mother. when mary gets into something, she jumps in head first. she is very strong in her opinions and beliefs and is passionate in everything she does. if she is doing something in which she lacks passion, she knows to ditch it because there are so many things in this world to be passionate about. but sometimes she gets too passionate over things a little too quickly.

( HAIR ) : mary’ hair is stunning, and one of her best features. her long blonde hair bounces to the middle of her back in silky strands. though she loves her blonde hair, she often alternates between pale silky blonde and a startling red color. naturally, her hair is perfectly straight, but it can be curled and waved into any style easily and quickly. it is cut in a simple style, with one layer and the same length throughout, with bangs.
( EYES ) : her most memorable feature is her eyes. they are fairly large as far as eyes go and have a very thick, dark ring around the iris. they are usually the first thing people truly notice about her because the color is bright and eye catching. some people swear that they even see stars in her eyes. right after her hair, this is her second best feature, and it probably comes from a mixture of her parents, her mother having grey eyes and her father having blue eyes.
( FACIAL STRUCTURE ) : marlene has a fairly doll-like face: high cheek bones, a small nose that slopes a bit up at the end and rather flat chin.
( BODY STRUCTURE ) : although she isn’t the tallest girl, she is taller than the average female, standing at 5'6''. she is also quite slender, therefore not having the curves that other women have. however, that does not mean she is completely shapeless, her curves do still exist and her chest is slightly smaller than most of the girls around her. her long dancer legs also help out her overall appearance. covering her arms and back are horrible burn marks from her eleventh birthday. though she used to care about covering them up, she gradually began just accept them.
( ATTIRE ) : when not bounded by her school uniform, mary can usually be found donning a variety of clothing from flared jeans and flowing tops much like the hippie muggles tend to wear to much classier get ups given the occasion. though her style is fairly eclectic, she always manages to look very well put together.
( PLAY-BY ) : Jessica stam

( PARENTS ) : sue macdonald – thirty-four – book shop owner
oliver o’brian – thirty-six - unkown
( SIBLINGS ) : samuel macdonald - fifth year - hufflepuff
( OTHERS ) : uncle magnuc macdonald who tried to get the inistry of magic to lift the ban on the game of creaothceann in the1960s.
( HISTORY ) : it all started the summer after sue o'brien graduated from hogwarts. she decided that it would be fun to spend a couple of years back in her home country of ireland and live in dun laoghaire bay. one fateful night she met oliver macdonald, a musician who played guitar at one of the local pubs. the moment they met, it seemed like they had known each other forever. that christmas they were married and a month later they had a beautiful baby girl on the way.

on june 23, summer solstice, mary ella macdonald entered the world as at a healthy eight pounds. sue and oliver couldn't be happier. there was just one minor problem; sue still hadn't told oliver that she was a witch and at that point she decided she just wouldn't tell him until she absolutely needed to. a few months after mary' debut, sue was pregnant again, this time with a baby boy.

years went by and everything was great. mary and her father were inseparable. they'd spend every moment climbing trees, running around outside their farm house or down at the shore. mary and her mom loved each other dearly but sue was very rigid and controlling, the exact opposite of oliver. sue owned a small cafe in town so she was gone a lot during mary' childhood.

mary ' eleventh birthday was full of pumpkin carving and pie baking. things were going great until that afternoon an owl dark as soot dropped a mysterious letter on their door step. mary rushed excitedly to open it and sue's heart dropped and she snatched the letter from mary. she knew the day would come when she would have to tell oliver about magic and that was the day. she sat everyone at their round wooden table to tell them the truth.

"i have a little secret i have to tell you guys. i'm not normal." sue said.

"well i could have told you that," oliver chided with a large grin on his face, making mary and her brother giggle.

"honey, this is a serious matter," she scowled. and so she told them all about the wizarding world and hogwarts and that mary would be starting there that fall and her brother the next. mary and her brother were extremely excited and couldn't contain their questions. oliver just sat there with an expressionless face. "kids, why don't you go up stairs. mommy and i need to talk," he said without letting his gaze stray from sue's eyes.

they ran up to their room and mary knew something was wrong when she heard her father yelling. her little brother started crying when he heard the sound of someone being slapped. all mary could do was hold him tight and try to calm him down. hours passed and all they heard was the shuffling of things in their parents room next to theirs. the front door slammed and they could see their dad driving away.

the smell of wood burning drifted to their room. they bolted down the hall to be met by a wall of flames. her little brother bursted into screams where as mary bursted into survival mode. she dragged her brother back to their room and opened the window. the tree right outside was close enough for them to use it as an escape route. when they reached the ground, they saw that most of the house was engulfed by flickering flames. mary sat her brother at the end of their drive way, a safe distance from the burning house. "stay here. i need to find mom."

she ran up the front steps and took a deep breath before entering the house. she turned to the right only to be met with her mother's unconscious body laying on the kitchen floor. bruises were already beginning to form on her arms and cheek. flames were approaching quickly and started to singe mary' dress and some of her long red hair. she couldn't care less about the fire burning her skin, but more about getting he mother out of the house. she slapped her mom on the face until she awoke in a drowsy haze. mary helped her get out of the house and to her little brother. quick like a bullet, mary ran to their closest neighbors house and just by seeing her burns, they knew to call the ambulance.

mary went back to her mom and brother as they watched their house and belongings burn, waiting for the ambulance come and take away their pain. her mom and brother couldn't keep back the sobs for very long. brook was the only one who didn't shed a tear. they all had to spend the night in the hospital but mary had to spend the next week getting her burns treated. the hospital nurses said the burns would heal but would leave brutal scars all over her back and arms. all she could think about was that that was one birthday she'd never forget.

they soon moved to dublin, where sue had family that they could stay with. no matter how many times people told her it wasn't her fault, mary always felt to blame. if it wasn't for her getting the letter her dad wouldn't have left and tried to burn them. she couldn't wait to go to hogwarts so that she didn't have to see the pain she had caused to her mom and brother. eventually they really settled in dublin and sue opened a bookshop with a nice apartment on top. because she was always in the shop, sue didn't get to be with her children much so mary stepped up and acted more like a mother than a sister to her brother.

when the moment she had been waiting for came, she burst into tears on the hogwarts express. it was the first time she had cried since her dad had left. sometimes she detested being a witch because it made her father hate her but then again she met the greatest people ever and at hogwarts she felt like she had a family again.

( ALIAS ) : sarah
( AGE ) : sixteen
( EXPERIENCE ) : eight years
( CONTACT INFO ) : sarahmminnis@gmail.com
( HOW'D YOU FIND US? ) : pb support
( ROLEPLAY EXAMPLE ) :

if there was one thing artemis hated most about hogwarts, it was the trek from the gryffindor tower to the depths of the dungeons. add a pair of high heels to that journey and artemis really wouldn't be happy. but on this occasion, nothing could snap her out of the giddy feeling she had. a day that she would have normally spent running around hogsmeade with her closest friends was spent in preparation for this night. every curl on her head had been meticulously made with perfection in mind and the rouge on her lips was done ten times over to ensure it was flawless. artemis usually thought that degree of physical preparation was completely ridiculous but under certain circumstances she was prone to do ridiculous things.

directly after receiving slughorn's invitation to one of his infamous get-togethers, artemis rushed to the owlery to tell her mum of the good news. having heard nothing but great things about the professor and his connections in the wizarding world, her mum ran to the shops to get her daughter the perfect dress to wear. and artemis had to admit, it was the perfect dress. much like the fields artemis grew up in, the dress was a lively emerald green with gold buttons on the front. accompanied with her nearly translucent skin and fiery red hair, the whole ensemble embodied artemis' personality.

with an effortless grin plastered on her face, passerby’s continuously questioned where she was going. it pleased her so much to say that she had been invited to be a part of the exclusive slug club. most people were impressed and the fellow gryffindors she passed were surprised. "very few gryffindors are invited and even fewer halfbloods," warned a man in one of the many portraits. artemis had learned quickly that if you want information on something, the portraits were the best ones to ask first. they were the eyes and ears of the school and though most students just disregarded them, sharing secrets right in front of them. artemis knew to be very careful about what she said in front of them in case they overheard.

as she got closer and closer to the dungeons, her stomach began to flutter like a golden snitch. this was not a nervous or anxious feeling but rather one of excitement and anticipation. the moment she had been waiting for all day finally came as she saw light spilling from the open door to slughorn's office. she took in a final deep breath, checked her appearance and walked in with her head held high.

"artemis, m'dear! i'm so glad you could join us this evening!" professor slughorn boomed. so far, the "us" he was referring to consisted of a couple slytherins and one ravenclaw, which she only knew in passing. he motioned her to take a seat at the table and her heart raced even more when she saw name cards indicating where people were to sit. after searching for her name, she found it was opposite the two slytherins. strictly out of curiosity artemis leaned over to see who was sitting next to her. in neat black scrawl the place card read "septimus rosier." brilliant, she thought. just brilliant.