what is this reality if not writing poetry, annoying my twin brother, reading, sneaking into the kitchen to bake late into the night, band practice after classes, lunch on the lawn, sleepovers in the astronomy tower, taking care of plants with neville, parties every saturday, summers in italy, and cocteau twins records spinning all afternoon while i study?
ravenclaw princess? that’s ravenna nott that is!
ravenna magdelena nott was born march 1, 1974, in sicily, italy alongside her twin brother, theodore. at the age of five the two began to possess abilities similar to those of their grandmother, emily freshwater. things would randomly happen when they didn’t mean for them to. films played when theo hadn’t touched the remote, bubbles overflowed during ravenna’s baths when their mom would step out to get a towel, and toys would move on their own like they’d been enchanted. the truth was that their parents, annelise and hayden, knew they were going to be special before they were ever conceived. in fact emily had told them herself. emily had always been strict about who annelise dated, but when hayden came into her life, emily was thrilled. when annelise asked why she told her it was their fate, but annelise wasn’t thrilled. thrilled wasn’t even in the top fifty words she’d used to describe hayden. years later when the enemies turned to lovers annelise finally understood. but who knew the twins being special meant doing wandless magic before they’d ever been to school? emily did! she just might’ve left that part out when telling annelise and hayden… oops?
now at the age of twenty in 1994 you can find ravenna running to greet her friends before boarding the train while spending the whole time eating treats and talking about her summer. at the castle she gets called out by dumbledore for talking while he’s making his speech then she devours dinner before heading off to bed, but not to get much sleep because she’s too excited for the day to come. before she leaves her room she makes sure she has everything she needs and is prepared to fill her journals with notes.
she studies in the library multiple times a week and sometimes for hours on end. she and hermione granger are obviously the best of friends and have been ever since first year when the two were fourteen. her other friends consist of harry potter, ronald, ginny, fred, and george weasley, luna lovegood, isla lestrange-riddle, jennifer huh, neville longbottom, blaise zabini, pansy parkinson, cedric diggory, cho chang, dean thomas, and seamus finnigan. all of which are her own little family when she’s at hogwarts. if not in the library she’s found lounging in the common room reading or talking with friends, in the kitchen baking, or in her room watching a movie, listening to music, or once again, reading. her favorite classes are herbology along with history of magic and charms, but if she could spend the whole year in the library learning about the origins of spells, lesser known witches and wizards, or about spells that’d you probably never use but someone somehow created, she would.
her mornings are slow and filled with coffee and snuggles with her cat, millie, needing to perfect her outfit even though it’s going to be hidden under her robes for most of the day, and going to breakfast with her friends. her afternoons are filled with laughter on the lawn and watching first years try out their brooms for the first time. her evenings are filled with dinner and calculating how many points are needed to beat the other houses, and journaling before bed. and who might she be journaling about? certainly not the boy she met in vienna over the summer.