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Jordyn Huntington
((ooc: I wrote her as transferring in halfway through November – hopefully that’s alright. I can always change it to the beginning of the year, if necessary. As well, she’s fifteen years old, but started the year at fourteen (and I seem to recall that students need to be eleven before they can be accepted, so she’d just be on the older end of her year), therefore she’s a fourth year; I think I calculated the year right, but I’m not positive. *cringe* Sorry for being such a pain!))
OOC
Name: Lyssa
Contacts: EzInbox
Age: 16
Code: Rita Skeeter Illegal Animagus
IC:
Full Name: Jordyn Elizabeth Huntington
Nickname(s): Jordie
DOB: September 25, 1993
Year: Fourth
Blood: Half
House Preference: Gryffindor
Why: Jordyn is brave in a sense – she is not afraid to express herself, and enjoys doing things out of the ordinary, especially if they are considered dangerous. She doesn’t really care what her peers think, and while she can sometimes be obnoxious (alright, while she often comes off as obnoxious) she doesn’t try to deliberately be mean to other people. She also views herself as a sort of protector of her friends and family, and will go to great lengths to make sure that people know that if they’re messing with any of her friends or family, they’re messing with Jordie too. Lastly, Jordie is very idealistic, and believes that the world should be a certain way, even though the way she wants the world to be is quite impossible to achieve. This sense of justice was the reason the Sorting Hat decided to place her in Gryffindor instead of Hufflepuff, though it was a very close call.
Physical Appearance:
In a word, Jordyn could be described as unique – something that she tries to be, and feels that she has succeeded at. She inherited her height, and most of her appearance, from her mother, and stands at 5’7’’ at fifteen years of age, and doesn’t think that she’s quite done growing, though several members of her family disagree. It’s more a hope than anything else, and in reality she’s not going to grow any more – with the exception of one last growth spurt at sixteen, where she’ll reach her final height of 5’8’’. She is a long limbed girl, just like the rest of her family, and has finally mastered her limbs, so that she doesn’t appear clumsy but rather graceful and self-confident. She is not an overly thin girl, but weighs in about average at 137 lbs. Most of her weight is situated in her bust and on her thighs, though she does her best to hide the latter. She has developed an adult figure, perhaps at a younger age than most, and is rather curvy for someone her age. As a result, she has been mistaken for someone older than she really is before, and is happy about that – her sister, Jamie, is often perceived as being younger than she is, and Jordyn knows that she’d rather be thought of as older rather than younger. Her arms are long, as mentioned before, and slightly toned as a result of playing quidditch, a sport that she isn’t especially good at but enjoys to play anyway. Aside from quidditch, however, Jordyn dislikes any sort of physical activity, and prefers to curl up by a fire with her sketchbook and some pastels, or a good book.
Along with her height and her figure, Jordyn inherited her mother’s facial structure. Her face could be described as vaguely heart-shaped, with a pointed chin and a widow’s peak hairline. Her cheekbones are high and curved, giving her cheeks a rounded shape that only adds to the heart shape of her face. She has lost all of the baby fat that used to pad her cheeks and chin, and has grown into her nose, which used to be far too big for her face. Now it fits in perfectly fine, much to her relief – she used to hate her ‘beak’, and is glad that it doesn’t dominate her face any more. Her nose is straight and slightly rounded at the end, and all together unobtrusive. Her lips are thin and slightly upturned on either end, so she appears to have a faint smile on her face even when she isn’t smiling. However, it is rare to find Jordyn without some sort of smile on her face, be it a mischievous smile, a happy smile, or a malicious smile. Jordyn is generally a happy girl, and is very expressive, so it isn’t hard to tell when she’s happy – or upset, unfortunately. Jordyn takes great pride in her teeth, which are white and straight thanks to years of braces, and takes very good care of them now, and it shows when she smiles.
The one facial feature other than dimples (or lack thereof) that Jordyn didn’t inherit from her mother are her eyes, which are a shade of green that is borderline hazel. They are almost literally the windows to her soul, and are her most expressive feature – and, considering how expressive Jordyn is, that is saying quite a bit. They are heavily lashed in a colour that is slightly darker than her chocolate coloured hair, a colour that is almost black. She doesn’t wear mascara, as a result, though she doesn’t wear much make up anyway – just a little cover up and some lip gloss, at most. Her eyebrows are plucked thin and curve unobtrusively over her eyes, and are the same colour as her eyelashes. Jordyn’s hair is her pride and joy. She keeps it cropped short, no longer than an inch at any given time. Naturally it is the same chocolate brown as her mother’s, though she has given it some lighter brown highlights to ‘give it some dimension’. It normally sticks up at odd angles due to her habit of running her hands through it when she’s concentrating, and is at it’s neatest when it’s first thing in the morning – it’s at least combed then. She doesn’t need to put much time into caring for it, though if she’s feeling a little creative (and it’s getting a little long) she’ll put in little plastic butterfly clips and things of that sort.
Jordyn is blessed with a relatively clear complexion, though she had rather oily skin when she was thirteen or so and as a result was rather blotchy. Now that her hormones have calmed down her skin has returned to it’s regular dry self, and she rarely gets zits or blackheads due to it’s dryness and her habit of washing her face twice a day. Her complexion is a pale olive, as a result of her half-Italian blood, and she rarely sunburns. However, she tans rather quickly, and it isn’t uncommon to see Jordyn sporting a dark tan from May through September. During the winter her tan fades somewhat, as she isn’t constantly exposed to the sun, and she returns to her normal complexion. Jordyn is the type of young woman who appears very comfortable with her body – she seems very self assured and confident in her motions. She doesn’t slouch, even when she is feeling upset or depressed, and seems very aware of her movements. She talks with her hands, and her body movements are just as expressive as her face.
Jordyn despises the school uniform, simply because it is a school uniform, and will change out of it whenever possible. Normally she can be found wearing some low rise jeans – ‘artistically’ worn through and the knees and often speckled with paint spots – and a plain T-shirt of some sort. When it’s warm out she’ll exchange her jeans and T-shirts for shorts and tank tops, and during the winter she’ll throw on an old hoodie of some sort. The hems of the sleeves are normally worn through because, despite her mother’s wheedling, Jordyn has the tendency to completely wear her clothing out before she gets new things. If she decides not to wear muggle clothes, which is rather rare as she finds them more comfortable, Jordyn can be found wearing plain robes in various colours, usually bright ones. She doesn’t wear much by way of jewelry – she has an old charm bracelet she borrowed from her mom and has yet to return, and she has her ears pierced so she is usually wearing some small studs of some sort.
Overall, the only reason Jordyn’s appearance is unique is because she chooses to make it so – and it’s mostly her hairstyle, not her clothing choice or her use of cosmetics. If she grew her hair out and actually stayed in uniform all day she’d appear rather average, which is precisely why she doesn’t. She’s no beauty, but has matured – at least physically – to be considered somewhat attractive by some.
Personality:
Jordyn is an outgoing girl through and through – she knows it and isn’t ashamed of it in the least. She finds it quite difficult to remain quiet or still for any period of time, and even when she is sitting ‘still’ she is often jiggling her leg or tapping her fingers incessantly. She is quite expressive in every sense of the word; her posture and facial expressions always give away what she’s thinking, and when she experiences emotions, she experiences them in extremes. Unfortunately, this means that Jordyn is a moody girl, not helped in any way by the fact that she’s still a hormonal teenager. It isn’t uncommon for her to be happy one moment, and then angry the next, and then back to her happy self before anyone can even blink. Little things set her off – perfectionists, being corrected or told she’s wrong, getting looked at as though she’s weird, and things along those lines. She has very little control over her temper, but whenever she does get angry she’ll scream a little bit, and then calm down again. She can’t hold a grudge for the life of her, and gets rather confused when people she’s gotten mad at stay mad at her even after she’s forgiven them. Larger things, like liars or traitors, aren’t forgiven quite so easily, but Jordyn isn’t the type to stay mad at anyone long – she figures that someone could kill her best friend and she’d forgive them sooner or later, which probably isn’t a good thing. She is not only too forgiving, but too trusting; until Jordyn finds a reason not to trust someone, she will trust them almost unconditionally. She considers her friends to be anyone she’s had more than two civil conversations with, and doesn’t understand why everyone isn’t quite so trusting and open as she is. It frustrates her when people don’t believe her straight away, since she rarely lies and does her best to be honest with everyone, even people she dislikes.
Academically, Jordyn would be considered below average, though she isn’t a stupid young woman. Her problem is that she doesn’t apply herself to things that she considers to be boring, useless, or a combination of the two. While she managed to scrape by at her old schools, she isn’t quite sure what to expect at Hogwarts, except that nothing will change. She thinks that there are much more important things in life than school – having fun, for instance – and will work as hard as she needs to to get her parents off of her back. She isn’t especially good at subjects that involve lots of textbook reading or concentration, and History of Magic has consistently been her lowest mark since her first year. She finds transfiguration difficult, and thinks that astronomy is just plain stupid (she could be in bed!), and doesn’t put much effort into learning more in divination than she has to. The only two subjects that she can honestly say she enjoys most of the time are charms and herbology, mostly because they both are relatively hands on – the latter more than the former. She dislikes playing quidditch because she is both afraid of heights and doesn’t really want to get that physically active, and much prefers to stick with things such as boating or hiking.
Jordyn often comes off as overbearing; while she doesn’t put much effort into things, she always appears to be throwing herself into them. When she finds something that she enjoys, or something that she considers to be truly important, she really does throw herself into them, without any thought as to the consequences. She does things that she considers to be fun, even if they’re against the rules – pranks, sneaking out after curfew, occasionally drinking, etc. She loves to party, and while she never intends to drink until she passes out or tries drugs, she can still envision herself doing it just to see what it’s like. She’s not the brightest girl and, at this point in her life, having fun is more important than doing well and staying healthy. She likes to try things at least once, in an attempt to see if they really are enjoyable or not, and hasn’t considered the consequences of her actions for over five years. After the fact she realizes how stupid she’s been, usually, but by that point it’s too late. While she doesn’t normally make the same mistake twice, as she learns the first time round, Jordyn will often make the same mistake in a different manner.
A bit of a drama queen, Jordyn likes to be the center of attention, which is part of the reason that she is as loud as she is. It makes her feel important, and she, like most people, likes to feel important. While she pretends that she doesn’t care what other people think of her, she does, and part of the reason she is loud is because it makes her feel more secure about herself. She, like many teenagers, isn’t completely comfortable with who she is, and feels that the best way to counter this uncertainty is to appear confident. The feeling of being important is only an added bonus. Jordyn enjoys creative pursuits, such as acting and, more notably, art. She loves to paint and sketch, and spends hours drawing and painting when she has nothing better to do – and even when she does have better things to do, like homework. Photography is something she has only recently discovered, and it isn’t uncommon to find her toting around a camera with the intent of getting some good candid shots; she prefers muggle photos to magical ones, as she feels muggle photos ‘better capture the moment’. She isn’t involved in any sort of sports, as she’s decided that they expend far too much energy and require too much coordination, so the most she ever participates is to go cheer on one of the other teams.
The true reason that Jordyn was placed in Gryffindor, aside from her utter inability not to do stupid things and stand up for herself, was her sense of right and wrong. While she has no problems breaking the rules, and doesn’t think that doing stupid things is wrong, she wouldn’t ever do anything to intentionally harm someone or hurt their feelings. Any time she does hurt someone, it’s usually in anger – and then she promptly asks for forgiveness – or accidentally. She isn’t very good at reading other people, and as a result often says things that probably shouldn’t be said in the first place. There are very few things that Jordyn considers to be truly wrong, but they’re big things, and morals that she believes most people should have – don’t steal, don’t kill, don’t hurt other people, and most of the time, don’t lie. She will lie on occasion, but she’s easy enough to read that it’s rarely successful, so even when she feels the need to lie, usually to get out of something, she doesn’t do well at it. Jordyn does her best to protect those she truly cares for, foremost, her family and friends. She would be willing to die for any of them, and even some of her less-than-close friends, but has never found herself in such a situation, nor does she ever plan to encounter a life or death problem. It is this blind loyalty and this lack of fear that makes her a true Gryffindor, something that she is rather proud of.
In summary, Jordyn means well, but she doesn’t always go around the proper way of expressing herself. She likes to try new things, no matter the consequences, and this desire has gotten her into trouble several times in the past. Her priorities in life are on having fun, not on doing well in school and life now so that she can have fun later; she thinks for the moment, and this prevents her from seeing to the future. She thinks that people she get what they deserve, and doesn’t hesitate to be the one to give it to them, even if it isn’t their place, and is intensely loyal to those she cares about, to the point of being self-sacrificial. She is outspoken and expressive, and isn’t afraid of much besides heights. Jordyn’s a good kid, but her priorities just need to be straightened out; her parents just hope it’s sooner rather than later.
History:
Jordyn Elizabeth Huntington was born on September 25 to Brianne and Christopher Huntington, a young Canadian wizarding couple who were living, for the time, in Ottawa, Ontario. They had been married for nearly five years before they decided to have a child, and by that point they were rather well off. It also helped that Brianne was the daughter of a rather influential Minister for Magic, and he loved to dote on his daughter, despite her protests. Christopher, on the other hand, was muggle born and raised, and had been perfectly content to settle down with a low-level job at a Canadian branch of Gringott’s bank. He still made a rather decent sum, and between his salary and Brianne’s parent’s gifts, they had managed to purchase a large house and settle down comfortably. They decided that it was a good time to have children, and so along came Jordyn.
From a young age their eldest daughter was a bit of a drama queen. She would throw little tantrums about the smallest of things – her cereal was the ‘gross’ kind, or one of the children at preschool had made fun of her. She was a little spoiled in her young age due to her family’s wealth and grew quite used to being treated like a princess for the first few years of her life, so when she didn’t get something that she wanted, or the other children at school didn’t do what she wanted them to do, she got rather upset. Her parents thought that it was simply a phase, and didn’t do much to let her know that she wasn’t the center of the universe. They thought that their daughter was perfect, as many parents do, and didn’t see why she couldn’t have as much as she wanted, whenever she wanted. After all, they could provide, so why wouldn't they?
Unfortunately, it made the transition between only child and eldest child much more difficult.
When she was five, Jordyn noticed her mother starting to get larger around the stomach, but didn’t really pay much mind to it until she was lying next to her mother one day, her head resting on her stomach, when she suddenly felt something against the side of her head. It took quite a while for her to finally understand that her mother was going to have a baby, and that the baby was inside of her mother at that very moment, but once she understood, Jordyn was quite upset. After all, she didn’t need a sister! Her parents had her, so why would they want another child? She was jealous of the baby even before it was born, and when young Jamie finally did come home from the hospital, Jordyn was convinced that it would have horns, a tail, and a little pitchfork already in it’s hand.
Needless to say, she was quite surprised when she found out that the baby didn’t come in the form of a little devil, but rather looked something like one of her dolls, only pudgier. She had no idea what to make of the thing, and avoided Jamie for quite a while until Brianne realized what was happening. It was at that point that she decided to divide her attention equally; Jordyn didn’t get the same amount of attention as she had before, but she couldn’t say that her mother loved the baby better either. It took her quite a while to adjust to being one of two children, but by the time she started grade one at the local elementary school she was even starting to love the baby. Of course, it was at that point that things started to get a little strange.
Jordyn had always known, on a certain level, that her family was different from most families. All of her friends could say that their father was a doctor or a lawyer, or even a sales person. Her parents, on the other hand, had jobs in organizations that she knew weren’t even known about – she wasn’t stupid, after all, and her parents had said that she wasn’t to bring up her parent’s line of work. Their home was normal enough, though there were little things that she noticed were different from a muggle perspective – her mother didn’t chop the vegetables for dinner by herself, for instances – but at the age of six she didn’t really register things like that as odd. Everyone was different, after all, and at such a young age she could easily be dismissed as imaginative. When things started to go her way, however, she knew that it wasn’t normal.
At first it was little things, like the schoolyard bully wouldn’t notice her, even though he liked to pick on the little first graders. Her homework didn’t get dirty, even when her backpack fell in a mud puddle and everything else got soaked. She fell off of her bed, but it didn’t hurt much. However, things started to get really obvious when, one day, she was sitting in the kitchen pouting because she wasn’t allowed to have any more chips for an after school snack, and the bag of chips suddenly appeared on the table across from her. She was seven at the time, and her mother wasn’t surprised – she’d been expecting a sign of magic for some time, since both of Jordyn’s parents were magical to a certain extent. She had been expecting the signs a little earlier, but since she wasn’t especially versed in how early signs of magic appeared, hadn’t worried too much – though she had been having nightmares about one of her children being a squib. While her strongest point of magic was divination, she rarely paid attention to her dreams, though the nagging feeling hadn’t left her and she had been getting a little worried, just because of the nagging feeling. She was simply glad that Jordyn wasn’t a squib, and instantly began looking into magical schools with her husband, while Jordyn went back to her elementary school thinking that things were the same as they always were.
She did alright in school, but somewhere around the age of nine she discovered art and after that point her grades began to slip as she focused on her drawing and painting instead of her math and english. Her parents were disappointed, but no matter what they said they couldn’t convince her to work harder, and eventually took a step back, with the hopes that she’d get back on track herself. Needless to say, Brianne and Christopher weren’t the most responsible of parents, but simply did their best to make their children happy and pass their morals and values off to them along the way. This probably wasn’t the best for Jordyn, who had already begun to go through her ‘rebel-unique’ stage, and she was quite determined to do whatever she wanted, because she thought that she was mature enough to handle her own decisions.
Jordyn found out that she was a witch the summer before she turned twelve – and needless to say, she was more than a little shocked. Before she could really understand what was happening, she was packed up and sent off to a boarding school a province away, not to the junior high that she’d really been planning on going to. She was a touch angry at her parents for not telling her that she was a witch – or that they were magical too – but that anger quickly died when she found out what she could do with magic. For a short while, she was so fascinated by the classes at her new wizarding school that she actually got high marks, but then her attention drifted off again and she returned to her usual, below-average standards. She made friends among her peers quickly, and had established herself as a loud, outspoken girl before Hallowe’en that year. Needless to say, she was quite settled in before the end of September of her first year, and found that she was looking forward to six more years of study, almost eagerly.
It was at the start of her second year that her parents announced something that shocked the entire family – especially Brianne’s side of the family. Jamie, Jordyn’s younger sister, was a squib; they’d done some research and had quickly realized that despite Jamie’s age, eight, she had yet to show even a hint of magic. There was still hope, of course, but it was quickly dying. Jamie was devastated, to say the least, as were her parents. Jordyn, on the other hand, wasn’t sure how she felt; as much as she disliked her sister, she wouldn’t wish something like that on the younger girl. It was a way for her to be different from Jamie, and since her parents had begun to compare the two girls – Jamie was “much more intelligent, athletic, and introverted” – she knew that it was a way to prove to her parents that she could do something that Jamie couldn’t. However, she didn’t want something so horrible to happen to her sister, and almost felt as though it was her fault. After all, she hated her sister, and if she’d managed to make things happen unintentionally with her magic before she started her schooling, couldn’t she do the same thing after she started schooling? The feeling of being guilty was at the back of her mind for the rest of the term, especially after her mother’s side of the family blamed Christopher for Jamie’s ‘condition’; after all, he was muggle born – he was the bad blood! Jordyn thought it was stupid, but she was too young to protest and be taken seriously, something that frustrated her to no end.
Her third year began all too soon, in Jordyn’s opinion, and summer didn’t last long enough, but even so she found herself back in school with her wizarding friends. Her summers were spent with her muggle friends, who just thought that she was at some creepy boarding school in Manitoba because her parents wanted her to do better in school. She began the year as she began every year, but with one addition – a small film camera that she’d gotten as an early birthday present from her friends. She quickly discovered how much fun photography was, and learned how to develop her pictures so that they moved as well as the muggle way, and began to experiment with different styles. She had a great time with her camera, so much that her parents and teachers threatened to confiscate it if she didn’t bring her marks up. She grudgingly did so, but she didn’t have enough self control to do it by herself and so lost the camera around Christmas time, only to have it returned in June. That angered her, but she couldn’t stay angry for long since she did understand their reasoning. Marks were important to them, even if they weren’t important to her, and she figured that it would be smartest just to please her parents and her teachers, if only to get them off of her back. It was flawed reasoning, but it worked well enough, so no one bothered to correct her.
She started her fourth year with the same expectations as she’d started the previous three years, but things suddenly changed around Hallowe’en. Her father had gotten the transfer he’d always wanted, to the Diagon Alley branch of Gringott’s, and her mother had recently lost her job as a reporter for the small local wizarding paper, and had nothing tying her to Ottawa. That meant that they’d be moving – no matter how much Jordyn screamed and shouted. Her father arranged the school transfer, to Hogwarts, and she was simply informed that that was where she’d be going for the rest of her school career. While neither of her parents had attended the school, they had heard good things and told her as much. That didn’t impress Jordyn in the least, since she couldn’t see how she’d do better at Hogwarts than at her old school, but since she had no choice she packed up and reluctantly arrived at Hogwarts on November 15, 2008.
RP Sample:
“I hate you!” The scream echoed throughout the kitchen and before either of her parents had time to respond Jordyn flew from the kitchen and stormed up the stairs two at a time, grabbing the banister in order to keep her balance as she hurtled around a sharp corner. It was just a few steps to her room, where she flung open the door and then slammed it shut behind her before throwing herself onto her bed, taking deep breaths as she tried to stop herself from sobbing loud enough for her parents to hear. It was hard though, since all she really wanted to do at that very moment was throw something across the room, or break a window, or something; they couldn’t do this to her, and she wanted… Well, revenge didn’t quite seem to fit, but that was the closest word that she could think of.
It wasn’t fair! They couldn’t just expect her to pack up and move, not now! She was just settling into the new school year, and she had friends here, and – London wasn’t even close by! It was across an entire ocean, for God’s sake! Jordyn sniffled, rubbing her face with the back of her hand, and stared up at the stipple ceiling above her. The bright green of her room was normally enough to cheer her up, and that was it’s intention, but at that very moment she felt as though she’d never be happy again. It wasn’t fair! She knew that no matter how many times she told herself that, though, it wouldn’t become any more fair, nor would the facts change. Her family was moving to England because her father – the idiot, she thought fiercely – got himself a transfer to the London branch of Gringotts. Her mother didn’t have to worry about transferring from one position to another because she’d just been laid off, which was why her father had accepted the position in the first place. If Jordyn’s mother had still been working he probably wouldn’t have jumped at the chance, but since he didn’t have to worry about uprooting her, just his children, he hadn’t hesitated for nearly as long. The money was better over there, sure, and it was the job he’d wanted for ages, but…
Jordyn sighed and sniffled again. She didn’t want to move, and while she wished that she got everything she wanted, she knew that she didn't. She just wished she could get this thing – she didn’t want to leave any of her friends at school, nor any of her muggle friends from elementary. Sure, Hogwarts was a great school, but it wasn’t her school. Plus, she’d not only have to deal with a new school, but also an entirely new group of people, all with funny accents. Actually, I guess I’d be the one with the accent, She thought rather miserably, and rolled over so that she could bury her face in her pillow. She knew that she’d get over it soon enough, and figured that she’d settle into her new school quickly, but that didn’t stop her from being angry. Things were going perfectly well where she was. Why did they have to change everything on her all of the sudden?
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