Defense Against the Dark Arts Professorhih_dumbledoreJanuary 10 2008, 20:54:13 UTC
Character Information Name: Claire Frey LJ Username: (if available) clairefrey Age: 32 Birthdate: April 16 1974 Location: Hogwarts Former House: Ravenclaw Occupation: Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor
Bloodline: Pureblood Heritage: English/French Personal History: Claire was born to Frédéric and Anna Frey in 1974, Marseilles, France. Frédéric was a teacher at Beauxbatons and Anna had given up her job as an unspeakable at the British Ministry of Magic to move to France with her husband and raise their daughter while he worked. When Claire was two the family moved to London and her parents joined the Order of the Phoenix to help in the fight against Voldemort. Frédéric remained working at Beauxbatons secretly looking for more followers for the Order. He only came home to London during school holidays. When Claire was five, Anna went back to her job at the Ministry and used the position to keep an eye on the Ministry for Dumbledore. Claire never understood what was going on, all she knew was that she never got to spend enough time with her parents. Unfortunately the time was cut short even further when her Mum and Dad were killed by Death Eaters in the Christmas holidays of 1980. Claire was just six years old. Strangely enough this is when she first noticed her magical ability - she made everyone's teardrops turn to snow during the wake. She was heartbroken and she really didn't understand how to deal with the pain. Her way was to hold back the tears and bottle it all up - to freeze the pain so it didn't hurt anymore.
Her father's sister, Cécile, moved to London to care for Claire. When she was of age, she received a letter from both Hogwarts and Beauxbatons, but it was her parents wishes that she attend Hogwarts, they wanted her wherever Dumbledore was.
She was sorted into Ravenclaw almost as soon as the Sorting Hat touched her head. Her time at Hogwarts was fairly miserable, she was picked on a lot by Slytherins for having parents who were blood traitors (and the fact they were dead was brought up a lot too). It was through these taunts that she started getting rather ambitious about becoming an auror. Not only would she extract revenge on the people who teased her, she could find the Death Eaters who killed her parents and get the best revenge of all on them. Claire graduated from Hogwarts with good enough marks to start auror training. She took a year's holiday in France and then came back to study. Unfortunately, after three years study, she failed the final test and therefore wasn't able to become an auror. This absolutely devastated her, as she had never failed anything before that she had devoted this much time to. She headed down a bit of a shame spiral for a while and in 1996 she got a job in Hogsmeade, working in Dervish & Banges. It was a job that wasted her talent but she did have fun. She especially liked talking to all the students that came through during their Hogsmeade trips.
It was here she was approached to join the order, but she turned down the offer. She realised that while she is against Voldemort and all that he stands for, she isn't a fan of Dumbledore either. She blames him for the death of her parents and therefore refuses to fight in a war that she think is only killing innocent people.
She does, however, feel the desire to do something good for the war and so in 1999 she quits working in Dervish & Banges and decides to study to become a teacher. After teaching Charms for several years at Beauxbatons she decided to apply for a job at Hogwarts for the present school year, not as a Charms teacher, but as the DADA one. She believes it's a prefect way to exact revenge - teach future generations to beat the evil forces.
Re: Defense Against the Dark Arts Professorhih_dumbledoreJanuary 10 2008, 20:57:08 UTC
Personality: These Ravenclaws will have lightning-fast mental reflexes. Aries is an intellectual sign, but it is also an impatient sign; Ravenclaws who were born under this sign are likely to tolerate no dull wits or stupidity, whether they see this lack of mental competence in themselves (in which case they will berate themselves for not understanding, or give up quickly in frustration without really trying to overcome their difficulty in learning) or in others (in which case they will lash out at the offender with acidic comments and haughty, cutting looks). These Ravenclaws will want to be at the head of the class, dominating other students in their chosen intellectual field, and may be almost as competitive as Slytherins. However, the true aim of every Ravenclaw is knowledge, knowledge, and more knowledge. While a Slytherin might see losing a magical duel or being bested by another student in a DADA class as humiliating, the Ravenclaw will probably just take delight in competition for its own sake, and see defeat as a learning experience.
Claire is a tough little cookie. Although she was teased quite frequently in school, not once did she cry or even fight back. When she was young her weapon of choice was to completely ignore people. It wasn't until she gained self confidence after school that she finally had to courage to talk back to anyone that wronged or upset her. And how. She is capable of coming up with cutting retorts and can actually be quite cruel if she puts her mind to it. On the other hand, she now becomes flustered very easily and it is definitely not hard to annoy her. It’s not that she doesn’t have a sense of humour, but she tends to be slightly oversensitive when it comes to personal attacks. She can remain calm around students, she spent years studying them while she worked in Hogsmeade, the best way to deal with a problem student is to not show any fear. But around adults she's not afraid to show her temper.
She sometimes takes things far too seriously and she's quite a tough teacher. She won't hesitate to take points off a student for misbehaving, but she's fair and she rewards generously. She makes her lessons fun and as hands on as possible and she's always an enthusiastic teacher.
Physical Description: Claire originally had light brown hair but started a tradition when she worked in Hogsmeade to dye it a different colour so she could surprise the students each time they came to the little town. She has brown eyes, although not the traditional sort, she can't pull off the pleading puppy dog look like other brown-eyed people can. Her height is roughly 5'7" and she's an average sort of build. You can tell when she's bottling in her troubles as her weight fluctuates to either noticeably skinny or noticeably putting on weight. Preferred Body Model: Franka Potente Future Body Model: N/A
If this is your first UK character: Please give us a sample RP, at least one paragraph in length.
Claire smiled softly as she watched the students leave the shop, chattering amongst themselves excitedly. Hogsmeade visits were always a thrilling time not because of the shopping opportunities (there wasn’t that many in actual fact although the sweet shop was always good value) but because you got to go out with your friends with very little teacher supervision. It was fun to look around all the stores but acting like a ‘grown-up’? That was the best bit of all.
The best bit for the store employees was the end of the day. For Claire it was catching the students with ‘sticky hands’. She waved her wand at the pocket of a young boy disappearing out the door and a Sneakoscope came zoomed towards her. The former Ravenclaw caught it with one hand and placed it in a basket at her feet. That was item number sixteen she had reclaimed from kids who thought they were the next François Villon, the famous French thief (and poet).
Re: Defense Against the Dark Arts Professorhih_dumbledoreJanuary 10 2008, 21:00:46 UTC
Likes - at least 15: A good bottle of wine, jazz, lillies, her students, horse riding, practical jokes, encyclopedias, cleaning by hand, ballroom dancing, flavoured ice blocks, sitting by a fire, barbequed food, ghost stories, the French language, scented candles. Dislikes - at least 15: Voldemort, Dumbledore, cheap wine, Valentine's Day, Christmas holidays, ignorance, stupidity, dairy food, pantyhose, being photographed, romance novels, seeing people pick their nose in public, long fingernails, gossip, tabloid magazines. Pet/Pet Name: None Broom: None Wand: Chestnut, 12 and a half inches, unicorn tail hair.
Please either list the NEWT scores or average grade in Hogwarts. If your adult hasn't taken a class listed, just put N/A.
OWL and/or NEWT scores: Transfiguration - O Herbology - A History of Magic - A Charms - O Astronomy - A Potions - E Muggle Studies - A Divination - N/A Care of Magical Creatures - N/A Ancient Runes - A Arithmancy - A Defence Against the Dark Arts - O
Alignment: Claire is absolutely anti-Voldemort but she refuses to blindly follow Dumbledore, so she keeps out of the war.
Name: Claire Frey
LJ Username: (if available) clairefrey
Age: 32
Birthdate: April 16 1974
Location: Hogwarts
Former House: Ravenclaw
Occupation: Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor
Bloodline: Pureblood
Heritage: English/French
Personal History: Claire was born to Frédéric and Anna Frey in 1974, Marseilles, France. Frédéric was a teacher at Beauxbatons and Anna had given up her job as an unspeakable at the British Ministry of Magic to move to France with her husband and raise their daughter while he worked. When Claire was two the family moved to London and her parents joined the Order of the Phoenix to help in the fight against Voldemort. Frédéric remained working at Beauxbatons secretly looking for more followers for the Order. He only came home to London during school holidays. When Claire was five, Anna went back to her job at the Ministry and used the position to keep an eye on the Ministry for Dumbledore. Claire never understood what was going on, all she knew was that she never got to spend enough time with her parents. Unfortunately the time was cut short even further when her Mum and Dad were killed by Death Eaters in the Christmas holidays of 1980. Claire was just six years old. Strangely enough this is when she first noticed her magical ability - she made everyone's teardrops turn to snow during the wake. She was heartbroken and she really didn't understand how to deal with the pain. Her way was to hold back the tears and bottle it all up - to freeze the pain so it didn't hurt anymore.
Her father's sister, Cécile, moved to London to care for Claire. When she was of age, she received a letter from both Hogwarts and Beauxbatons, but it was her parents wishes that she attend Hogwarts, they wanted her wherever Dumbledore was.
She was sorted into Ravenclaw almost as soon as the Sorting Hat touched her head. Her time at Hogwarts was fairly miserable, she was picked on a lot by Slytherins for having parents who were blood traitors (and the fact they were dead was brought up a lot too). It was through these taunts that she started getting rather ambitious about becoming an auror. Not only would she extract revenge on the people who teased her, she could find the Death Eaters who killed her parents and get the best revenge of all on them. Claire graduated from Hogwarts with good enough marks to start auror training. She took a year's holiday in France and then came back to study. Unfortunately, after three years study, she failed the final test and therefore wasn't able to become an auror. This absolutely devastated her, as she had never failed anything before that she had devoted this much time to. She headed down a bit of a shame spiral for a while and in 1996 she got a job in Hogsmeade, working in Dervish & Banges. It was a job that wasted her talent but she did have fun. She especially liked talking to all the students that came through during their Hogsmeade trips.
It was here she was approached to join the order, but she turned down the offer. She realised that while she is against Voldemort and all that he stands for, she isn't a fan of Dumbledore either. She blames him for the death of her parents and therefore refuses to fight in a war that she think is only killing innocent people.
She does, however, feel the desire to do something good for the war and so in 1999 she quits working in Dervish & Banges and decides to study to become a teacher. After teaching Charms for several years at Beauxbatons she decided to apply for a job at Hogwarts for the present school year, not as a Charms teacher, but as the DADA one. She believes it's a prefect way to exact revenge - teach future generations to beat the evil forces.
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Claire is a tough little cookie. Although she was teased quite frequently in school, not once did she cry or even fight back. When she was young her weapon of choice was to completely ignore people. It wasn't until she gained self confidence after school that she finally had to courage to talk back to anyone that wronged or upset her. And how. She is capable of coming up with cutting retorts and can actually be quite cruel if she puts her mind to it. On the other hand, she now becomes flustered very easily and it is definitely not hard to annoy her. It’s not that she doesn’t have a sense of humour, but she tends to be slightly oversensitive when it comes to personal attacks. She can remain calm around students, she spent years studying them while she worked in Hogsmeade, the best way to deal with a problem student is to not show any fear. But around adults she's not afraid to show her temper.
She sometimes takes things far too seriously and she's quite a tough teacher. She won't hesitate to take points off a student for misbehaving, but she's fair and she rewards generously. She makes her lessons fun and as hands on as possible and she's always an enthusiastic teacher.
Physical Description: Claire originally had light brown hair but started a tradition when she worked in Hogsmeade to dye it a different colour so she could surprise the students each time they came to the little town. She has brown eyes, although not the traditional sort, she can't pull off the pleading puppy dog look like other brown-eyed people can. Her height is roughly 5'7" and she's an average sort of build. You can tell when she's bottling in her troubles as her weight fluctuates to either noticeably skinny or noticeably putting on weight.
Preferred Body Model: Franka Potente
Future Body Model: N/A
If this is your first UK character: Please give us a sample RP, at least one paragraph in length.
Claire smiled softly as she watched the students leave the shop, chattering amongst themselves excitedly. Hogsmeade visits were always a thrilling time not because of the shopping opportunities (there wasn’t that many in actual fact although the sweet shop was always good value) but because you got to go out with your friends with very little teacher supervision. It was fun to look around all the stores but acting like a ‘grown-up’? That was the best bit of all.
The best bit for the store employees was the end of the day. For Claire it was catching the students with ‘sticky hands’. She waved her wand at the pocket of a young boy disappearing out the door and a Sneakoscope came zoomed towards her. The former Ravenclaw caught it with one hand and placed it in a basket at her feet. That was item number sixteen she had reclaimed from kids who thought they were the next François Villon, the famous French thief (and poet).
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Dislikes - at least 15: Voldemort, Dumbledore, cheap wine, Valentine's Day, Christmas holidays, ignorance, stupidity, dairy food, pantyhose, being photographed, romance novels, seeing people pick their nose in public, long fingernails, gossip, tabloid magazines.
Pet/Pet Name: None
Broom: None
Wand: Chestnut, 12 and a half inches, unicorn tail hair.
Please either list the NEWT scores or average grade in Hogwarts. If your adult hasn't taken a class listed, just put N/A.
OWL and/or NEWT scores:
Transfiguration - O
Herbology - A
History of Magic - A
Charms - O
Astronomy - A
Potions - E
Muggle Studies - A
Divination - N/A
Care of Magical Creatures - N/A
Ancient Runes - A
Arithmancy - A
Defence Against the Dark Arts - O
Alignment: Claire is absolutely anti-Voldemort but she refuses to blindly follow Dumbledore, so she keeps out of the war.
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