Forum:Gertrude Schmidt

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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!)

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!)


 * Audrick is the one Schmidt nobody knew about - imagine the scandal that sprung when he was discovered. He was the one child given up for adoption, the one that despite it all, still knew whose kid he was, but kept his distance. The one that lived with insecurities plaguing him. The one that never approached his family, but rather was approached by his own niece with the intentions of reuniting.


 * Audrick rose to fame as a quidditch player, snatched up by the Quiberon Quafflepunchers the moment he graduated from Beauxbatons with his adopted siblings. He was a keeper, and most definitely one of the best there were. He went on to play quidditch for years, with a brilliant team supporting him. Amongst those players was French beauty Lucinde Dubois.


 * Lucinde was a woman with brains, beauty and strength. She was one of the Quafflepunchers' beaters, but she aspired to enter the world of politics before it was too late. And that she did. Audrick's career in quidditch grew to an international level when he wa spicked up by the French National Team, whilst his girlfriend Lucinde moved on to a political career when she found out she was expecting her first child.


 * Not wanting birth a child without being married, Audrick was quick to propose. He'd never been in a long-term relationship before Lucinde, so it was quite surprising when the news of their engagement broke out. Audrick was often contrasted to his long lost siblings, mostly because of his surname. There were jokes and theories that he was related to the legendary Derrick Schmidt and, though it wasn't the truth, he was quick to debunk them.


 * They were wed two months before their firstborn was welcomed into the world. It was a boy, but he wasn't the only child Audrick and Lucinde had. It seemed as though having too many kids to count was a habit of the Schmidts', because after Marco Schmidt followed nine more children, within them being two pairs of twins and one set of Irish twins. They had a problem using protection, it seemed, but at least by the time they had Gertrude Belinda Schmidt, they'd learned their lesson.


 * Gertrude has always been an active girl. From attending her father's practice until he retired when she was eight, to picking up quidditch after her first signs of magic, all the way to even playing muggle sports. Gertrude has never been able to sit still, for one reason or the other. She's as chatty as she is physically active, which, you know, sucks sometimes, considering how annoying it can get.


 * She's always had a close bond with most her siblings, there's no denying that. She's always gone out of her way to spend time with them, often getting her mother to drop her off at the small villages beside Beauxbatons to visit them. She's always been a momma's girl, too. The resemblance between them goes to quite the frightening point.


 * Gertrude first got the confirmation that she was, indeed, magic at the age of seven, after she was able to mount a broom and hover around ten feet before she came crashing down. She broke her wrist, but it was worth it. Her father took it upon himself to get his daughter to like quidditch as much as he and his wife did. It wasn't difficult - most of his children breathed, ate and dreamt about quidditch. They lived for the sport.


 * This near obsession is what led them to amass quite the wealth and fame. Nowhere near as the OG Schmidts, but somewhere up there indeed. It's why it was a shocker when Audrick announced he was retiring from the sport. Everyone thought another branch of the Schmidts was over, but, well - they weren't. Audrick had children old enough to play professionally, and he knew some would. There was no doubt. That said, they wouldn't play for the same league he did.


 * Audrick had always wanted to approach his biological family. Always. But apparently he'd been a mistake his parents couldn't afford, and he didn't want to risk meeting them and potentially ruining everything. He was saddened by the news of his brother's death, as well as his own biological father's, and he really wanted to reach out, but then the rest of the Schmidts began to die or disappear, and he didn't want to get his own family involved in that.


 * Audrick's wishes to reconnect with his remaining biological family were answered by the form of a young woman named Blake Schmidt. He knew who she was, of course he did, and it seemed she knew him. Her grandmother had told her, she'd said. She wanted to meet this new branch of her family. To connect. And they did - but then the rest of the world found out about the truth.


 * It was the scandal of the year. With reporters literally camping out of his house to collect his statements, and even bothering some of their kids, he decided a change of scenery was needed. And what better place than the final place his family lived in? Great Britain.


 * Gertrude wasn't pleased with the change. She knew what it would entail and she really didn't want it. With all these changes, her family would most likely be in a permanent spotlight, and she doubted moving would do any good. At least in France she had the comfort of her family. Her friends. Her home. But nope, that was all ripped away when her family decided to move his entire family, and force her to attend Hogwarts.


 * Ugh.

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 FC is Connie Talbot.

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!)


 * Pure-Blood

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!)


 * No

6) What year is your character in?


 * Will be a first next 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)?


 * 12/2