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Character Information
Name: Julie Powers
Canon Origin/Series: Scott Pilgrim [character page], relying mostly on the comic for her background
School Year: 6th year
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Out of school living location: York, England
Blood status: Pureblood
Personality: Julie Powers is pretty much universally acknowledged to be a bitch, even by her friends and the guys she dates. Regardless of this complete bitchiness, however, she's something of a social butterfly and knows almost everyone. She also easily makes friends with pretty much everyone she meets - although it has to be mentioned that those friendships aren't exactly deep unbreakable bonds of mutual love and respect. She's still kind of terrible sometimes, even to her friends, being completely willing to be a bitch if they irritate her and tending to value her cool friends over her less cool ones.
It's something of a mystery as to how Julie manages to be friends with everyone despite the fact she's a bitch and a half, but the answer to that mystery is really pretty simple: she throws all the best parties, all the time. If you don't go to Julie's parties, you will never be cool. This is just a fact. Throwing parties is probably the one thing Julie loves most - in the comic, it's mentioned that she shares a small, expensive apartment with three other girls because they knew it would be the best place to throw parties. Julie is very dedicated to throwing awesome parties, with occasional themes like "Underwater Pimp and Ho" and "Canadian Politics circa 1972 but You're Secretly Batman". Oh, and "Halloween", I guess. So she's also fairly creative, at least regarding party themes.
While Julie's main interests are bitchiness, making cool friends, and throwing parties, she's responsible enough to graduate from university, hold down a barista job, and make plenty of judgments about other people's inabilities to get their own lives together. Like that idiot, Scott fucking Pilgrim.
Canon Background: In both the Scott Pilgrim comics and movie, Julie is very much a secondary character. The first time we see Julie in the comics is when Scott is dragged to one of her parties by Stephen Stills (in the movie, Julie herself tells him to come), which he doesn't seem to be too happy about. He thinks the party is boring (though everyone else seems to be enjoying themselves), and he totally thought Julie and Stephen broke up. However, he meets Ramona Flowers there, and asks Julie for information about her, which Julie somewhat reluctantly provides while also forbidding him from hitting on her because he's too much of a loser.
After that, Julie shows up at The Clash at Demonhead's show, presumably invited by the band leader Envy Adams, her former college roommate. Despite a flashback that clearly shows Julie bitching about Envy and saying "If I'm ever friends with that loser, I want you to kill me", she acts very friendly with Envy, who is now famous. The comic narration even states that Julie "wants to get on Envy's good side now that she's famous", and Julie buddies up to her pretty shamelessly. This is cut short by Scott getting into another fight. In the movie, Julie pretty much sides with Envy, while in the comic she's only an observer.
In the summer, Julie invites most of the main cast to her aunt's house at the beach for her birthday party, and mostly just throws attitude around and gets angry because Stephen Stills sings a song that he wrote that is basically about how much of a bitch she is. And yet, they still seem to be dating. She attends the band's recording session (which she hates), ditches everyone at the restaurant afterwards to hang out with her other, cooler friends, and starts to get jealous over Stephen Stills spending time with another girl, Knives. Later she actually apologizes for her jealousy, however (the only time we ever see her apologize about anything), convinced that he couldn't see anything in Knives.
At another one of her many parties, Julie invites two of the ex-boyfriends Scott needs to fight, apparently either on purpose or just not caring that they're gunning for Scott ("A tiny robot is kicking this guy's ass, if anyone wants to watch. Oh, and then the band's gonna play.") Not too long after that she sets their band up to play a show as a 'petty act of revenge' for one of her and Stephen's many breakups, knowing that they will suck due to not having practiced in months. The whole show is actually just a set-up so Scott can get his ass kicked, though it's not clear whether Julie knew that. She also invites the same guys yet AGAIN to one of her parties, not seeming to care about the whole evil ex-boyfriends thing much at all, and she taunts Scott for possibly getting dumped.
Then Julie moves to Montreal. She shows up at the climax of the comic for the opening of the new Chaos Theatre, probably because it's the place to be, and is a bitch to Scott yet again. Scott also decides that Julie turned Stephen Stills gay, because what other possible explanation is there?
Mostly, Julie's role in the comic is to throw parties where things happen to the main characters, be a bitch, and stand in the background reacting to stuff that happens. She is, however, pretty darn good at those things.
Background (AU!Canon; HP): Dog. Julie is from a fairly well-off but not particularly distinguished pureblood family. Her grandmother created a wizarding fashion line that became extremely popular for awhile in the 1920s, and the money and reputation from that propelled the family from their formerly poor and unknown status to a much more prominent place in wizarding society. The woman had excellent taste and managed to parlay her brief popularity into a lasting success, and now the Powers family is known for their fine quality robes - but they're still very much considered 'new money', and looked down upon a bit by the older and more established pureblood families.
Julie was somewhat spoiled growing up, but as she got older she began to notice how older families treated her own, and it irritated her. When she received her letter to Hogwarts, she began having more interaction with other wizards in general, and quickly realized that if she was friends with all the coolest people, then obviously she would have to be acknowledged as cool also, no matter how nouveau riche her family might be.
Since her fourth year, she's been throwing pretty regular parties, and they are awesome parties. Practically everyone's been to at least one, and while they're fairly tame at Hogwarts (no alcohol, though of course if someone else brings alcohol, it's not like she can stop them....), during school breaks her parents let her do whatever she wants, which can get a bit crazier than the school parties. Still, everyone knows Julie and Julie's parties, and if you don't get an invite - well, you're just not really anyone, now are you?
Oh, and she also goes to class and stuff. Whatever. She's not the most amazing student, but she does okay, particularly in Muggle Studies and Charms. And she's been dating Stephen Stills on and off for years, which is pretty inexplicable due to her utter bitchiness. Days.
How would your character fit in to each House?
Gryffindor: While Julie is in some senses brave, being totally willing to be a bitch to everyone (and make friends with everyone), it's not really one of her defining characteristics. She's also not particularly chivalrous, and she'll quickly back down if she's confronted with a situation that she can't deal with. Hey, it's not her problem.
Hufflepuff: Well, she doesn't really flinch from hard work, and Julie does know almost everyone. She's even loyal in her own way, staying friends with people and inviting them to her parties despite thinking they are total losers (and saying that to their faces). However, she's not really very tolerant at all, and her kind of friendship is... not exactly the Hufflepuffian ideal. She has no real problem getting in her friends' faces and doesn't go out of her way to help them out if they need it, to the point that it can seem like she's throwing them under the bus (but they'll still get an invite to her next party).
Ravenclaw: Although not an idiot, Julie isn't the best student around. She doesn't hate learning, and can see the use of it, but she doesn't have any particular passion for studying. She can be pretty creative, though, and witty in her own bitchy way.
Slytherin: Julie isn't very cunning, or much of a leader, but she's certainly very socially ambitious - though it should be noted that she's not really ambitious in any other way. Still, she's pretty dedicated to (and skilled at) making friends with all the coolest people and having the best parties, and is willing to do quite a bit in pursuit of those goals.
Sample Journal Entry: What is up with all these ridiculous things happening at this school? It's like Professor Dumbledore is specifically trying to make our lives more different. Like I really wanted to deal with a bunch of stupid babies screaming all the time. Whatever, at least there's a dance coming up, and then break.
Speaking of the break, if you can see this then you're invited to my party. My parents already gave the okay, and they'll be going out of town that night so we can do whatever. There's no theme this time, I'm taking a break on theme parties after some idiot took my "Magical Creatures of Western Australia Wearing Pinstripe Suits" theme a little too literally and set loose a bunch of Billywigs. It was really fucking lame trying to round them all up afterwards, and I found another couple of those tiny pinstripe fedoras under my trunk yesterday. Ugh.
Anyway, you'd better all come.
Sample Interaction Post in Third Person: “Did you pick up the butterbeer?” Julie asked, crossing her arms and tapping her fingers impatiently. The party was in five hours, she had a lot of preparations to finish up, and the people helping her were totally incompetent. It was pretty much impossible to get everything ready for one of her parties without help, though, so she’d had to find some people, and now they were annoying her. “I should’ve asked Wallace to get it, but that drunk homosexual would probably have brought Firewhiskey instead.”
Not that there was anything wrong with that, but they were at school, and Julie couldn’t keep throwing parties if people got drunk all the time. The staff would get upset or something, although really, at least they’d be doing their underage drinking somewhere safe instead of out wandering the streets like some idiots.
A passing student caught her eye - wasn’t his father some big name in cauldron-making? “Hey,” Julie called out, “are you coming to my party?” He looked like kind of a tool, but who knew, maybe he was cool underneath. Anyway, if he was rich, he probably had a bunch of suck-up friends hanging around him who’d come if he came.
At his startled nod, she grinned slightly and turned back to the student she’d been bitching at - no, talking to - before. “Fine, whatever, go get it right now, just don’t fuck this up. We can’t have a party without butterbeer.” That would just be stupid. She watched them scuttle off, and turned to make sure everything else was running smoothly. This party was going to be the best, she was pretty sure.