+ optimistic, friendly, trusting, hardworking
There are a lot of rather stereotypical Hufflepuff traits that can be found in Sofia. She’s hardworking and always has been, as a result of her parents’ training when she was younger; they didn’t accept anything less that her absolute best, and Sofia still tries her hardest in anything that can keep her attention. She’s a friendly girl, always happy to chat with anyone, and trusting of nearly everyone she meets. Even as a little girl, she never met a stranger and befriended people wherever she went. Sofia likes to keep a positive outlook; she’s nearly always cheerful and sunny, and doesn’t like to think negatively about anything or anyone.
- absent-minded, pushover, naive, reckless
The biggest downfall of Sofia’s life has always been her absent-minded nature. Whether she was wandering away from her parents when they were out in a crowd or tripping down a moving staircase at Hogwarts, she was frequently in trouble simply because she wasn’t paying attention. If she’s interested in a topic or activity, it has all her focus but otherwise, she’s very easily distracted. And while she’s friendly and trusting, she can be too friendly and trusting, and doesn’t always make the best judgment calls on who she trusts. She’s willing to give anyone the benefit of the doubt. Along with not paying attention, she has a tendency to be reckless and simply act without thinking about the consequences, especially when her friends are involved. She’ll go along with any plan they suggest and deal with the fallout later (it’s a problem for future Sofia, after all).
Sofia thinks her family is made up of the actual best people in the world. She adores all of them, and would do anything for them. Although she doesn’t really play Quidditch (at all, she doesn’t play it at all), she has always loved flying with her papa. She and Victor get up early in the morning and go out and her absolute favorite thing to do is watch the sunrise in the air with him. They’ve had a lot of very important conversations doing just that. With her mama, Sofia loves going along with her to the atelier and sitting. Sadly, she didn’t inherit any artistic ability - well, when it comes to drawing; Sofia can play the piano and dance, which she counts as artistic. But there’s something about the atelier that’s very soothing, and it was common to see her sitting with her books and summer homework over the holidays.
Her siblings though . . . her siblings occupy a very, very special place in Sofia’s heart. They have always been there when she needed them - and as a little girl, Sofia had a knack for getting into trouble and needing her siblings. That lessened as she got older, to a certain degree, but she still does feel that she needs them frequently. Sofia has always appreciated their help, and still usually does, even though sometimes she feels a little smothered by it.
Being sorted into Hufflepuff with Evgenia made it easy for their close bond to continue in Hogwarts and Sofia has always admired and wanted to be like Evgenia. She frequently goes looking for her older sister when they have free time during the school year.
Sofia has a great capacity for love and loyalty, and this is immensely present in her friendships. Once someone earns Sofia’s trust and friendship, it’s nearly impossible to lose it (which can be a downfall at times, if there is someone who doesn’t really deserve such blind affection). She just has a hard time in accepting that friendships might end and she’d rather cling to the old ones than let them go.
She’s made a lot of friends at school though, from a variety of houses and backgrounds. Honestly it’s hard for Sofia to meet a stranger so even with students she doesn’t know very well, she’ll sit down and talk with them and try to make them her friend as well.
But her main group of friends would be the fifth year girl gang. They occupy such an important place in her heart, right below her family (because family comes first, but the girls have become family). She would do anything for them, and although she’s small and seems so happy-go-lucky, can be very fierce in her protection of them if she thinks it’s necessary. But she knows that is true going the other direction as well, that any time she needs them, for any reason, they’ll have her back and be there for her.
IV. Sexuality and Romance
Sofia is a romantic. She watches sappy romcoms, and has a secret collection of bodice ripper type novels hidden in her trunk, and watches all the couples she sees with big eyes. The concept of falling in love is amazing to her and she wants to experience it, more than almost anything. However, she hasn’t really had any relationships like that up to this point, both because it hasn’t worked out and because she’s a little shy about actually instigating anything. There’s also the concern that someone is only interested in her for her connection to a famous Quidditch player. Still, it’s an ambition and she’s trying a little harder to get involved with people over the summer.
Although she hasn’t really spent a lot of time thinking about it, Sofia is pansexual panromantic.
Height: 5′1″ (she keeps hoping she’ll have another growth spurt that seems unlikely now)
Scars: Sofia’s arms and legs are littered with little scars, the results of her many, many accidents as a younger child (or as a fourth year). She had pretty unfortunate luck with falling off things and scraping various body parts and hasn’t quite outgrown that. But some especially noteworthy scars are: the long one on her upper left arm, from falling off a broom when she was playing Quidditch with Victor (the same accident that has soured her on Quidditch since then); several burn marks on her right hand from the time she attempted to bake a birthday cake for Mama without any supervision; and the scar running the length of her right calf, a souvenir from falling down the stairs at Hogwarts as a third year.
Wand: Hawthorn and phoenix tail feather, twelve inches, springy
Class list: Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, Herbology, History of Magic, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Astronomy, Muggle Studies, Care of Magical Creatures, Divination