Template:Guinevere Wells/History

Ever since the young age of five, Guinevere has been taught and led to her coming of age as a prim and pristine young woman. She was taught the ways the daughter of the Minister of Magic should behave, and what the wizarding community expected from her. Her upbringing involved a lot of secrecy. Most of her parents' work consisted of top secret files. With her mother being the Senior Undersecretary and her father being the Minister, nothing less was expected. But this never crossed young Gwen's mind, even as it was tens of hundreds of nannies and tutors raising her. She barely held the company of her parents, and when she did, she was usually scolded for being improper one way or another. She didn't return the scold with temper tantrums - Guinevere was always a respectful girl, even when she was being chided. No, instead, she worked hard to impress her parents. She did, after all, want to follow in their footsteps, and she thought that to do that, she needed to impress them and be on their good list. This proved to be wrong when Guinevere was allowed to be schooled along with the kids of other high-ranking Ministry workers by the Head of the Department of Magical Education herself, and her most trusted colleagues. Guinevere was often pulled to the side, called out on, and teased relentlessly by her classmates. She was far more brilliant than the kids her age, so she was pulled up a year to see how well she did. This was even more motivation for the rest of the ten year olds to pick on her until one day... Guinevere just blew. Anything and everything around her that was made of crystal shattered. She was pulled out of the ministry's minor schooling program that very same day, and none of those kids saw her again. She was punished for her public outburst, given her parents thought that was not how a lady should act. Her little brother - Christian Wells Jr. - could be understood if it happened, but it was utterly unacceptable from a lady such as herself. From that, it was as clear as crystal she would not follow into her parents' footsteps if she continued her ways of working. She had to change, and soon. With this clear, Guinevere did everything thinking about her parents - everything she did was to keep them happy off her back, because it made it easier for her to retreat into her room and keep to herself the rest of the time. In the end, she knew it was very worth it. This is where her ability to detach herself emotionally from people and objects alike originated from. This made it easier for her when her letter to Ilvermorny arrived shortly after her eleventh summer began, and even easier when her parents saw her off to the prestigious magical academy. In her six years at Ilvermorny, Guinevere pushed herself to the maximum of her abilities. She passed first, second, and third year with a breeze. Fourth year passed by quicker than she could imagine. She received perfect scores in all her final exams in all four years. For fifth year, not only did Guinevere become a prefect for her house and lead them into winning the House Cup, she also passed OWLs with perfect scores. It was something unsurprising and expected, but very well received. Everyone knew Guinevere was bright, but they never knew she was bright enough to take sixth and seventh year together. Guinevere Wells proved them all wrong when they said she would fail, graduating a year earlier than intended. The fact that she didn't get attached to anyone emotionally throughout her six years at the school helped a whole lot. She really did push herself to a maximum, because she wasn't out of school for a year when she was already applying for colleges globally. Thanks to the perfect (although basically fake) transcripts they gave her. Perfect attendance, impeccable grades, and quite a list of extracurricular activities. This was of big help, definitely, as many well-known schools accepted her, such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, John Hopkins', and even more outside the nation. However, Guinevere wasn't fond of the idea of studying so far from home, so she opted for attending Stanford. Like in Ilvermorny, Guinevere pushed herself to her maximum in Stanford, surviving off nothing but coffee for days on end to achieve her goal. Her parents had not been pleased to find out she would not be applying for the ministry post graduation. Guinevere wasn't fond of the idea of the media saying she was a daddy's girl, and abused of the power he held. They gave her enough shit as it was. So she decided to do double majors - Political Science and Biology. When she told this to her parents, they took the situation slightly better. At least with the Bachelor's, she could do something with her life in the muggle world, if that's what she desired. They still preferred she joined them in the world of politics, however, but Guinevere knew she just wasn't ready for that yet. She really wasn't. So, Guinevere studied hard in Stanford, even studying abroad, over in Oxford, for two years. Her mother had said that if she was going to study in a muggle university, that she at least completed a semester over at where her mother was raised, by a pure-blooded Uni professor. Relenting, Guinevere managed to do the second semester of third year over at Oxford, where she met the only two people she ever let herself grow close to her dormmates - Madison Ecclestone-Ainsworth and Cathryn de Stella. Like her, they were witches, she found out after accidentally walking in on them using their magic to clean up the room a bit. She was surprised, but it was something well received. It was a pity she had to continue her studies at Stanford, however. When she graduated and got her degree in Biology and Political Science, Guinevere decided she wasn't going to work for the American Ministry. She couldn't take advantage of her father like that. They were pretty fucking pissed to the level that they almost disowned the redhead-gone-blonde, but they came to terms with it. Sort of. They reached a compromise, with Guinevere promising to pursue a career in the British Ministry of Magic, and hopefully reach a high-ranking position.