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Vital Information
Nuala McDermot is a Muggle-born witch of Irish and African descent. She is the fifth child in her family, and the youngest daughter of the late Turlough McDermot and Ginika Martins.

Life Before Hogwarts
"Do you really think I look like her?"

- Nuala McDermot

"You look the most like her. Even more when you smile."

- Sinead McDermot

Nuala's family is lively and large. She has four siblings; Lorcan, Sinead, Maeve and Ronan. Each one of them her elder by at least three years. She was the last one born, and she also happens to be the smallest one Turlough McDermot and Ginika Martins ever made. People in Nuala's family tend to be big. Her father was a tall man, quite close to 7 feet. Her mother was a bit of same at 6 foot 2 inches. Her brothers and sisters make her look like a dwarf as she was barely able to crack 5 feet before she was ten years old. She has always looked forward to literally growing up, and getting taller. It happened to be one of the first goals she ever set for herself in life.

The McDermot family suffered a terrible setback when Nuala's mother and father died. Poor Nuala, she was still a baby when it happened. She and her siblings were orphans, her parents passed in their sleep leaving her eternally fearful of something that should be so peaceful, and something she has learned people can often take for granted. She does not sleep much, when she does happen to fall asleep it is only because she has been awake for some many hours she can no longer force herself to stay up. Because of the painful loss she and her siblings went through she has both trust, and abandonment issues. Nuala never had the chance to know her mother and her father like her siblings did. She is so fearful she will someone else important to her that she clings to her siblings, and her friends as if her life depends on it.

The eldest of the McDermot children; Lorcan and Sinead, took responsibility for their younger siblings; Nuala, Ronan, and Maeve. Stepping into their parents shoes by becoming the mother and the father they all lost. Lorcan secured a well paying job working in Management consulting. Sinead took a lower paying job as an IT Director giving her the time that was needed to be responsible for what transpired at home. Together Lorcan, and Sinead were able to provide a living wage for the family that was close to what their parents had. It was not the same, but at least they were comfortable. They were not homeless, and they never went hungry. That of course did not mean life was easy for them. Lorcan and Sinead were always contending with social workers who expressed concern over them taking on such huge roles. Maeve, Ronan, and Nuala did not help matters by frequently getting in trouble at school.

Her sister's told her stories about their mother, and her brothers told her stories about their father. She does not remember her parents, she wants to have stories of her own. She can make believe all she wants, but it always feels like she is lying to herself. She thinks she has a few memories of each of parent, some of her mother's face, her eyes mostly, and a memory or two of the smell of her father's favorite cologne. Nothing she can remember is she sure is her own memory. Everything she knows is something she heard from one of her siblings. She knows that Lorcan likes to use a little bit of the same cologne, she has always known that smell, earth, woody, aromatic warm spicy smell. She knows that she, and her sister's have her mother's eyes. She can see them staring back at her whenever she looks in the mirror.

It was not something she meant to do, at least that was what she told Sinead when she was asked. She was so overwhelmed with emotion trying to tell the difference between Sinead's face, Maeve's face and her own. How would she ever know if those eyes staring at her were her mother's? She was so frustrated, so annoyed and jealous. She balled her little fists and jumped down from the lid of toilet tired of staring at the face they all shared. The face of the mother she never got to know. She let out a grunt, as she landed she heard a crack. She looked up to see that mirror was broken. She never touched it, but it looked a lot like one of her little fists were the cause of the damage. Nuala looked down at her hands to make sure, and saw nothing. She slipped out of the bathroom hoping to ignore it, too bad for her Lorcan was not willing to do the same. It came as a great shock to them that Nuala was a witch. Not one of her siblings had magic, if they did they sure were not using it.

When they learned the truth about a lot of the unexplained incidents all connected to Nuala from an unexpected visitor it came as a great shock to them that Nuala was a witch. It would not change the fact that she was still their little sister, and they were going to whatever they had to do to support her. As far as she knew not one of her siblings had magic, and if they did they sure were not using it.



Gryffindor
Nuala was Sorted into Gryffindor house, she was over the moon, it is the same house one of her only friends at Hogwarts is in. She is not sure she belongs there yet, but she felt like she would be welcome with open arms.

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Personality
Exuberant - Devoted, Prudent, Neurotic, Overwrought

Nuala is playful, she loves nothing more (her family excluded) than she loves to have fun. She is disturbingly affectionate, and frustratingly kind. She likes to laugh, and she is always smiling. Nuala is a dancer, she finds rhythm in everything, she loves to keep on m o v i n g, and she hates to be still. She is constantly worried something terrible will happen to one of her siblings, or her friends. She tries not to let darkness take her down. She does not pretend that she has not experienced irreplaceable loss, she knows that now she can see the bright spots a little brighter, and the dark spots a little darker because of it.

Appearance
Skai Jackson

Nuala has a round shaped face beautiful rich brown skin, and a creamy dark complexion. She has short, dark hair, and big brown eyes. She has a cute, tiny, nose, a little bit wide it sits adorably proportionate to the size of her lips. Nuala takes after her mother, but she does share a few select features with her fathers as well.

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