Forum:Delaney Lavere

The Open-Ended Questions

A. Please answer the following questions as elaborately as possible. (Remember, this part is only a requirement for your third to fifteenth character! However, if you want to have more input on where you character is sorted, then please answer #6!)

1) What would you consider to be your character's strengths, and your character's weaknesses? Elaborate on your answer.

+: good knowledge absorption, optimism, social skills, extroverted -: reckless, clumsy, sometimes unknowingly abrasive, stubborn, can sometimes get too comfortable too quickly with someone and joke before they're ready

2) What goals and objectives has your character set out in their life? Is it to be successful and rich? Is it to find happiness? Why?

She's eleven. Her goals are to have fun, duh. In the long-term, she'd love to have a government role.

3) What's their ideal way of spending a free day? Why so?

Spending the day with friends doing whatever.

4) If your character could only keep 5 possessions, what would they be? Why?


 * 1) Wand - it's her new favourite thing
 * 2) Teddy Bear - smells vaguely of her mother and right now it's her anchor
 * 3) Family photo - similar effect as her bear
 * 4) Heart-shaped locket - a leaving present from her parents

5) What one thing would your character change about the wizarding society? Why?

Let the girl actually, you know, experience it.

6) What house does your character want to be in? What house does your character not want to be in? Why?

Gryffindor, Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw for most wanted - Slytherin for least wanted. She's still young so the gossip she's heard from the few people who have spoken about Hogwarts too upon finding out is extremely influential.

The Sorting Quiz

B. Select the option that best fits your character. (Remember, this part is a requirement for every character you make! Please bold the answers from an IC Point of View, and mark in italics the answers from the OOC Point of View.)

1) Which type of spell is most useful?


 * A. A Complex Spell


 * B. A Spell Of Control


 * C. A Combat Spell

''':D. A Healing Spell'''

2) What is most important to you?


 * A. Grades.


 * B. Getting your way.


 * C. Life.

''':D. Friends and family.'''

3) What would you do if a teacher caught you cheating?

''':A. I'm the person people cheat off of.'''


 * B. I wouldn't get caught; I'm too slick.


 * C. I would deny the accusation until the teacher gives up.


 * D. I would 'fess up, apologize, and accept the consequences.

4) What matters most to your character?


 * A. Wisdom


 * B. Reputation


 * C. Success

''':D. Friendship'''

5) What's the best way to get things done?


 * A. Putting together a qualified team and completing the task efficiently.


 * B. Trick someone else into doing the work for you.

''':C. Get some friends together and lead them in the task.'''


 * D. The right way, no matter how long it takes.

The Character's Background

1) Give a description of your character's personality. 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!) (Remember, personality must be at least one paragraph long for the first two characters, two paragraphs long for the third to eighth characters, and three paragraphs long for the ninth to fifteenth!)

Delaney is a bright and optimistic individual with a presence that has been described by many as lighting up whatever room she walks into. It's often said that it's incredibly hard to remain upset after her attempts at cheering one up. Delaney has an appreciation for the joys in life; she loves spending time with her friends - her extroverted social-butterfly demeanour lending itself perfectly to that - as well as jokes and parties. If there's an opportunity to have fun then Delaney will often be in the front of the queue, or the one generating as much fun as she can.

Delaney is very much what every wizard would imagine a muggle-born to be like when they first come into the world of magic; bewildered and infatuated by it all. Delaney remains very much in the honeymoon phase of finding out about her uniqueness - finding out that things like unicorns, wands, cauldrons and magic in general are all real is amazing to her and, sometimes when she stops and thinks about it, the thought still excites her. Thanks to her general academic nature inherited from always talking to people, Delaney is ready to throw herself into her studies and be the best that she can be.

The biggest issue Delaney has is homesickness. Whilst the whole thing is exciting and, during the day she forgets all about her muggle life, at night she struggles with coming to terms with being away from her parents and brothers - her stuffed animal becoming a crutch to see her through the night. Through this, her teddy bear has become a crutch for all emotions at the moment - sad, angry and scared. All of them can be soothed by the presence of her stuffed animal that still smells faintly of her mother's signature perfume. It's a habit she wants to break out of, but for now she doesn't mind too much.

2) Write about the history of your character. 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!) (Remember, history must at least be two paragraphs long for the first two characters, three paragraphs long for the third to eighth character, and four paragraphs long for the ninth to fifteenth character!)

Based on names alone you could be mistaken that out of Delaney's muggle parents it'd be her father, Reuben Lavere, who had the magical ancestry - even if you were to look at him, the London native held himself in such a way that it'd be hard to not mistake him as a wizard. Unbeknown to him, ideas he spoke about such as unicorns and things you could only see upon witnessing death were real things that his daughter would someday experience. But, ultimately, no. It was Delaney's mother, an extremely ordinary Cape Town woman Khanya Azikiwe, who had the magical blood in her veins and would be where Delaney would inherit them.

Delaney was born the youngest of three with two older brothers. She was, by full admission, an accident. A happy one, but an accident nonetheless - her being seven years younger than the closest sibling whilst her brothers were a year apart only emphasising that. Still, it filled Khanya's heart to have a daughter and her elder brother were fiercely protective of their younger sister.

It was clear early on in Delaney's life that she was an extroverted social butterfly who had an affinity for making friends; everywhere she went she'd try to talk to people and become friends with them. It didn't matter who. The teacher that gave one of her older brother's a detention? She'd try it. The old woman in the supermarket just wanting her bread? Delaney would attempt to bond over the carbs. She even tried to make friends with the figures she saw on the TV, not knowing they weren't talking back at her directly. It was no shock to anybody then that she progressed easily through school both socially and academically. Whilst other students might not have inquired about how the maths they were taught worked or why certain words couldn't be next to each other in sentences, Delaney would always ask, if anything just to have an excuse to talk but the knowledge she learnt would prove to be invaluable.

Delaney was a little late in her magical experience discovery, being around nine. The family of five were out in their garden playing with water balloons, her father being the one to fill up a ton of them and bring them back to the rest of them so they could play. It was on one of his trips back with four dozen or so full balloons that Delaney's excitement got the better of her and all the balloons exploded in her father's hands. All five were shocked but Delaney was convinced she had been the cause of it, comparing herself to Matilda slightly and tried to recreate it. Unfortunately she never could and she got disheartened - that is until recently receiving her Hogwarts letter.

It's a shock to the whole family, but all of them are willing to support her and embrace the new part of her.

3) Write about your character's appearance. What 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!



Her model is Amandla Stenberg.

4) Is your character a Pure-Blood, Half-Blood or Muggle-Born? Do you have any notable magical relations? (Remember, you cannot be related to important Harry Potter characters!)

Muggle-Born.

5) 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 like? Part or half of that magical race counts! (Remember, you cannot have a character with special abilities/of a different magical race as one of your first two characters!)

N/A

6) What year is your character in?

Future First Year.

OOC Questions

C. These do not affect what house you're sorted to, but everybody must answer them!

1) Is this your first character?


 * A. This is my first character.

''':B. No, this is not my first character.'''

 2) If your answer to the previous question is B, how many characters do you have? How many of them are "exotic" (of a different magical race/have a special ability)?

13/2 exotic.