Forum:Billie Ella Gershwin

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The Sorting Quiz Please Bold Your Choices

1) There are three paths. One leads to a wandering road, another to a lake, and one over a mountain. Which one?

A) None of them, I'm at home reading.

B) Lake

C) Mountain

D) Road

2) Which type of spell is most useful?

A) A Complex Spell

B) A Spell Of Control

C) A Combat Spell

D) A Healing Spell

3) How would you describe yourself?

A) Wise

B) Cunning

C) Hard-working

D) Loyal

4) Someone infuriates you in public. How do you react?

A) Shrug it off.

B) Tell them that they are worthless and to get a life, infuriate them, push them, and storm off.

C) Get up, look at them right in the eye, and walk away like it never happened.

D) They are just joking around.

5) What is most important to you?

A). Grades

B) Getting your way.

C) Life.

D) Friends and family.

6) Give a description of your character's personality. Personality must be at least one paragraph long. Are you noble or sneaky? Arrogant or Humble? Anything about your character that might help the Sorting Hat decide. (Don't worry, you can copy this onto your character page later!) Billie is loyal, and humble, but extremely intelligent. While some in her class may beleive she is too reserved to be smart, generally, she'll have the highest grades and IQ of anyone there. She can be funny and charasmatic, but only if she feels comfortable with the people involved. If not, she will keep quiet, or have an awkward conversation. Yes, Billie is extremely socially awkward, and tends to say the wrong things, but she means well. She's a great friend, and a wonderful Tutor!

7) Write about the history of your character. History must be at least two paragraphs long. How did they grow up? Is there an incident that made them the way they are? etc. (Again, you can copy this onto your character page later!) Billie's history starts with her mother, a muggle named Annette Harrington, who worked at the BBC's office in New York City. Annette had to do many business trips between the states and London's headquarters for the BBC. On one of those trips. she met a handsome man named Carter Gershwin, a resident of the city. They dated, and fell in love. The trip lasted the summer, and by the end, Annette found that she was pregnant. She wanted to stay with Carter, but he warned her that the life he lived was a different one, and would only bring problems to their child. Annette wouldn't listen, so in an atempt to distance her, Carter told her he didn't love her anymore, and tried to shrug her off. Hurt, Annette returned to New York, and gave birth to a baby girl. Because she was such an avid Jazz fan, and because she was still in love with Carter, Annette named the child Billie Ella Gershwin. She prefered that Billie only keep her father's last name.

Billie grew up in New York City, an awkward but charismatic child. While she did socialize and make friends, she prefered reading, writing, and experimenting. In school, while she was in kindergarten,  a kid kept bullying her, making fun of her and mocking her in front of the whole class. The teacher wouldn't do anything. Billie knew the probable cause was that he had a crush, but she didn't enjoy the bullying. So, everytime he would go to tease her, Billie, mentally, pantsed him. Billie wasn't sure what was going on, but she knew it was advantageous. She started experimenting with this mental ability, trying to do the unthinkable with her mind, like levetating books, or turning cheese into a mouse. Billie found that in higher stress situations, the outcome was also higher. She told her mother, who had a hard time processing this, but supported her anyways throughout her experience. Eventually, the boy who teased Billie realized that the pantsing and the teasing came hand in hand, so he stopped. Unfortunately, so did others, and they started paying more attention to her. Kids would call her witch, and her friends abandoned her. Everyone started bullying her, because of her abnormality. Though she knew they were just words, Billie hated the feeling of rejection, and, by accident, started using her new found powers more and more in class. This only lead to more ostrasicizing, and more bullying. Annette had to move her to a different school. Annette wanted Billie to lead a normal life, and live a normal childhood, but the damage was done. Billie became reserved and shy She didn't want to feel the pain of bullying, of losing friends, of rejection. Billie lived her childhood friendless. She had her mother, but at age seven, doctors found that Annette was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. The one bright spot in Billie's miserable, lonely life was her magic. Everyday Billie discovered more about herself, and everday, she set out with a purpose to use this power for good, and maybe, find a way to wield it to save her mother. Alas, this was not meant to be. Annette died of cancer three months before Billie's ninth birthday. During the time before Annette died, she'd written her will, in which she'd entrusted the custody of her only daughter to Carter Gershwin.

Billie spent two months in social services, as they tried to contact her father. Eventually, the found him and managed to corrospond with him, Carter took a plane to New York, and picked up his daughter. This was the first time father and daughter had met. Back in London, Billie asked him many things, like how old was he, what job he had, if he was married, and how he'd met her mother. Carter vaguely told her he worked for "the ministry of magic", but Billie thought he only said this because she was a little kid, and assumed he worked for some agency like the MI6, and couldn't tell her. Carter also told her he lived alone, and gave her a brief summary of how he and her mother met. It wasn't that she didn't know the story, but she wanted to hear it from her father. Quickly, Carter realized Billie had magical abilities, and confided in her that he did too. Carter taught Billie all about the magical world, and began to teach her how to harness her power. Billie realized that Carter wasn't lying when he said he worked for the Ministry of Magic. When she asked which department he worked for, Carter grew serious and said "The Auror's Office". Billie understood this was hard and dangerous work, and realized this may have been the reason he'd abandoned her mother. As time passed, Billie grew closer to her father, and began to appreciate him to a greater respect. When it came time for Billie to go off to magical boarding school (AKA, Hogwarts), Billie grew afraid, her old feeling of rejection coming back. Carter assured her that the kids would be like her, but he agreed that, given her reserved nature, it would be better for Billie to be homeschooled. So, he hired a team of proffesionals to teach her in the art of magic. Billie's curiousity and love for learning grew, and she devoured everything her tutor's threw at her. Her tutors felt that they couldn't give her the first hand experience hogwarts offered that she needed, and she agreed that she wished to know more. At the age of 14, Billie decided that the best thing to do was go to Hogwarts. Carter supported her decision, and, notifying the head master, Carter asked for a transfer to Hogwarts.

8) Write about your character's appearance. How do they look like? Are you planning on using a certain model for your character? If you already have a picture in mind, you can put it here!

Billie is 5 foot 3, lean, but not too lean, with long, black, straight hair and an olive complexion. Her eyes are dark green, and she her eyebrows are upturned. She recently removed her braces, and wears contacts. You can usually find her wearing black jeans and a t-shirt, normally with a New York Rangers jacket that was her mom's.

9) Are you Pure-Blood, Half-Blood or Muggle-Born? Do you have any notable magical relations? (Remember, you cannot be related to important Harry Potter characters!) Half-Blood, and her father works in the Ministry of Magic, in the Auror's Office.

10) Does your character have any special magical abilities? Or special abilities in general (photographic memory, etc.)? Is he or she of a different magical race, such as veela, vampire, werewolf or the likes? Part or half of that magical race counts! (Remember, you cannot have an "exotic" characters as your first two characters!) Not that she knows of.

11) What year is your character in? fourth

Any House You DO NOT Want to Be In? (No Promises, Sorry) Game for all

Any House You REALLY Want to Be In? (Sorry, Again, No Promises) Ravenclaw

Out of Character Questions (These do not affect which House you'll be sorted into)

1. How much time will you have to participate on this RP site? (This does not affect which House you'll be sorted into).


 * A) I have a lot of other responsibilities, and although I really want to be a part of this wiki, there may be days on end I won't be able to participate in anything.


 * B) Although I do have some other responsibilities, and there may be times I'll be absent, I should be able to participate on a weekly basis, around my other schedule.


 * C) I should be able to participate at least some every day.


 * D) I have loads of free time, and don't see participation to be a problem at all.

2. Is this your first character?


 * A) This is my first character


 * B) This is NOT my first character.
 * C) This is my first character on this wikia, but not my first character overall 

3. If your answer to the previous question is B, how many characters do you have? How many of them are "exotic"?

4. Please post your time zone in relation with the UTC time zone (ex. Eastern Standard Time is -4), but if you don't understand how to calculate that then please simply put the name of your time zone below. Eastern Time Zone

Number of A's: This grading period? 7

Number of B's: 1

Number of C's: 0

Number of D's: 0