#damn wright

STRENGTH

Not like Julia's delicate though. These arms can hold a hammer and can shoe a horse, work the garden and carry a cauldron, churn butter. It's just these arms wouldn't load coal or round a barrel – or moor a ship, or sucker-punch someone, or barehanded hold a horse in place.

SPEED

Julia isn't very fast either; her legs aren't for sprinting.

STAMINA

Her legs are for treading, hiking, jumping, balancing, stepping, trailing – for long walks. Julia can swim for a relatively long time, too. She's very resilient both physically and psychologically.

She grew up outdoors under the harsh weather of northern seas; she ran around Exeter like it was her personal playground until she started attending the muggle school – and then would help around the house of her adoptive family. She's not going to get tired from a walk across the Highlands or among busy town streets, or from doing some form of – often menial – house labour.

Granted, afterwards, she'd need a day to rest. She hates the creeping sense of the future fatigue.

AGILITY

With all that, Julia is also agile. She might not be strong enough or fast enough; she compensates with dexterity and reaction time, plus, she knows how to land herself and has a good sense of balance.

INTELLIGENCE

I don't know how to best describe it, but she is smart – and that smart, intelligent part of herself scares her as much as it makes people believe she is too cold, too sharp, too much of a shrewd, too direct, too blunt, a know-it-all, too unyielding, too demanding, too lax, too attentive, too uncooperative on the matters of sentiments, too stubborn in questions of attaching values to invaluable things, too reasonable, too unbending.

Julia is intelligent. It is her curse and a burden; she wishes she could possess the patience of Professor Weasley's or Aesop's.

CHARISMA

insert the joke about picking the white marble for tombstones Julia is charismatic in her own right!!

SPECIAL MOVE

Not as much as the move as much it is a passive ability. Her scar; it was left with the Expulso spell. Julia felt it like she was hit with a lightning. Since then, because of the residual magic stuck in her, she's able to sense electric currents around her (like a fox; when I compare Julia to a fox, that's what I refer to, albeit foxes use a slightly different mechanism when hunting – they're able to sense the magnetic field of Earth).

She can foretell the weather and read strong emotions of people.

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She was denied citizenship under numerous – and very strange at that – reasons, as if it was the Ministry's way to tell she was not welcome in this country.

She claimed two adoptions by two different families, proved she went to Hogwarts and had property in Hogsmeade. But being adopted twice by the UK's citizens apparently was not enough.

Her next move was to announce she was going to marry Ms Sweeting. Julia was suddenly denied marital rights unless she'd marry a man.

Her property – the shop in Hogsmeade – was rapidly transferred to the Sharps as her evident status of a nobody would not allow her to have any property to her name unless it's on the lease.

To all her wrathful questions she was said to work a couple of years and not as an independent merchant (that'd count for her licence though), but as a MInistry clerk or as a Ministry contractor 'if her skills would be deemed sufficient enough by anyone in the country, of course'.

Imagine everyone's fury at these ridiculous demands and what toll it took on Julia. She ground herself to a halt – and in the middle of this legal hell, Imelda is being tired of her perpetual exhaustion.

Yes, Julia's situation did cast shadow on Imelda's Quidditch career. Yes, Imelda also chose the worst words at the worst possible time. Yes, they get together at the end, but not by themselves – by the time this break up happens, a lot of people feel like Julia is a canary in the mine.

If she, a dutchie, is booted from the country, what would that mean, the rest – including Imelda's family, Hogwarts staff, members of the Quidditch League – would follow suit shortly afterwards? Besides, what's with people like Poppy, whose parents are criminals within wizUK's jurisdiction? booted, too, because how dare they share blood with some vermin? Julia must stay in the UK.

The scandal that ensued leads to Imelda and Julia getting married and becoming the first page of the Daily Prophet. Julia gets support from the League and Imelda is granted protections and she's a very valuable player as well. They later re-do the ceremony to include Poppy and form a coven – a recognised form of legal relationship under wizarding law. yes i made poly legal no i did not think through poly divorce but i am working on it

If the other was in danger, what would they do? Bonus: how far would they go for the other?

Julia would be absolutely selfless – like she has been since school.

Poppy doesn't know what danger is. Dragons, chimaeras, sphinxes are not dangerous. They are misunderstood. She will tell Imelda to tremble quietly, like Julia.

Brooms can be swung to land hits, too, and Imelda knows how.

As to how far they would go: they're not doing anything too questionable to face gnarly consequences. If we do not count Julia's uncle. He is not welcome at their house, though, and he doesn't like to come uninvited.

They swap bodies for a day! What new things might they learn about their partner’s life, and vice versa? 

Julia feels very sorry for her girlies, they can't sleep on their stomachs. Imelda is also terribly strong for a chubby-squishy person she is. Poppy is super light but these hands are from a bird of prey; no one else could have such a strong grip.

If their partner did something that went against one of their core (likely moral) beliefs, how would they react? 

Imelda's dirty talk is the crime against humanity but alas cold toilet seats or rock solid salt in the salt cellar are also crimes. Julia usually asks what the fuck was that and why did it happen.

Lighter question as relief for some of the others lol: they’re stuck in an elevator together!! What do they do? 

Julia is going insane because lifts cause her nausea and Imelda's jokes would not help and Poppy's stories from work about how she was nigh eaten by a baby dragon wouldn't help either.

Basic Information

Full name: Julia Vivienne Bouwens / Viljormurdottír / Wright / Sharp being of the Dutch-Faroese descent, a Half-Blood, and after two adoptions, she acquired a menagerie of last names. She can add Imelda and Poppy's last names to the roster after they got together. Goes by Viljormurdottír past a certain point in life. Nickname: Julie-bee [1], Princess [2], Wright [3], child [4]. [1] — by Poppy [2] — by Imelda, de Vries, and Maurice [3] — by Vera, Aesop, Imelda, and basically everyone else [4] — by the Ashwinders Gender: female Species: human Date of birth: 22/04/1875 Nationality: Dutch-Faroese She was born on her father's trading sail somewhere in the North sea whilst it had been heading south, to the Netherlands, past coasts of Yorkshire. Blood status: Half-Blood Her father was a muggle seafarer from Faroe Islands, her mother was a Master of Potions of some notoriety from the Netherlands. Wand: Rowan, 10", Surprisingly Swishy.

Appearance

Hair colour: Auburn Hairstyle: Wavy locks, styled to look barely governable. Used to wear long hair, but had to shave it to scalp after had a headful of lice few months prior starting Hogwarts. Eye colour: Grey Skin tone: Pinky pale to sickly pale, depending on the day, time of year, lighting, her well-being, and what she’s doing. Her skin is also quite thin; sometimes it acquires blue-ish tint. Height: around 1.6m in school, 1.8m in adult years. The very last hit of pubescent growth caused her to become few more centimetres taller (however, Nurse Blainly blamed her potions experiments for it). Julia doesn't look particularly healthy because of this change, and it made her susceptant to cold more than she already was. Weight: around 74kg in her 20s. Clothing style: Usual wizarding wardrobe: robes, half-suits, hats. Julia likes to mix them with muggle clothes; she often dresses eclectically. Accessories: Weaves flowers and jewellery in her hair – if she has the time. Other distinguishing features:

Potions lock. A discoloured strand of hair Julia is never bothered to change to its original state because the discolouration was the consequence of constant exposure to potion vapours; the strand has been infused with magic. It reacts with magic. It sits at the front of Julia’s head – very convenient to use.

The crescent scar on the left side of her face. The Ashwinder named Maurice gave it to her around her first week at Hogwarts. Julia thought at first, it was for the kneazle rescue, but it became apparent very soon: the scar made it impossible for her to blend in or hide among crowds.

Personality

Traits: Wisecracking and utterly unbearable with her understanding of this word, Julia can be wry, sardonic, if not downright bratty or sassy, grim, and scarily observant. She prefers to let her whimsy overwhelm her, though, and, generally speaking, her main trait is empathy; its also the foundation for her volition to act on what she presumes is the correct way to resolve a situation. Has mama instincts, in a sense. Brings blankets and hot drinks for the all-nighters in the Common Room. Shushes away the bullies—by all means necessary. Never backs away from the droplets of boiling water when she cooks pierogi. Can talk back at a teacher or at other figures of authority on someone’s behalf – can respectfully, or not so respectfully, disagree. Likes: Pumpkin fizz. Tame cute fairy tale beasts. Potions. Old books. Hoarding pretty items like she's a magpie. Danish pastry. Pester local ornery potioneers for knowledge. Broom races. Insulating homes. Dislikes: Sweets. Loud noises. Back aches. Cold. The tax office. British Ministry for Magic. London. And dragons. Two of her most favourite people are working with dragons and regularly see them, often asking Julia to accompany them. One of these people is married to an entire family of dragon keepers. Julia can never escape her worst nightmares. Good at: Potions. Transfiguration magic. Cooking, tailoring, woodworking, masonry, blacksmithing. Securing deals by accident. Bad at: Astronomy. Charms theory. Family reunions. Holding herself from imploding sometimes. Hobbies: Potions. Broom racing. Tailoring. Book binding. Colouring photographs. Daydreaming about women and writing bad poetry about them. Fears: Abandonment, Rookwood, and her uncle – Reynard de Vries. Ambition: Do everything in her ability to expose Ministry's ineffectiveness in seemingly anything besides very specific research in the 'non-troubled' fields, and to bring order in the school curricula at least on the supplement level. Also, to make enough money to be cut from all monetary obligations or dependencies—or promised inheritances.

Family & Social Standing

Julia has a huge extended family, I will only mention a small handful.

Father: Viljormur 'William' Bødvarrsson. Seafarer. An aspiring merchant. Was fascinated with Vivienne and her family. Mother: Vivienne de Vos* (Vivienne Andrée Claudia Bouwens) is a Master of Potions and a bookwriter (wrote extensively on the topic of Applied Potions in Divination Practices), and also a guerrilla war aficionado. And a terrible alcoholic. * Pseudonym. Was believed to be dead from Rookwood's Gang hands for some years until she resurfaced to silently kill what was left of the gang after it’s demise. Uncle: Reynard de Vries. The patriarch of the clan of traders which includes members of his own family and few smaller trading families from northern Germany, Frisia, Normandy, and Denmark. Killed few English wizarding aristrocrates in pursuit for Rookwood, in addition to killing the Malfoy scion over a historical grievance, and lived to tell the tale. Has a fortune and no heirs, and severe PTSD. Wants to reconcile with Julia but to no success. A goof. Auntie: Annie. Wanted to become a shepherd but ended up marrying a dragon keeper of the McFusty clan from Argyll. Loves her dragons as much as her sheep, but can’t comprehend why hasn’t she seen any dragons back on Faroe. Cousin: A yet to be named young man who killed a few Ashwinders with an axe, swore a vow of silence as a trauma response, and learnt telepathy to let people and fellow kinsmen he is alright. Pet:

Samuel the kneazle. A large sable black kitty Julia saved in her first week of school.

Sliptongue the Common Welsh Green. She doesn't know how.

Other noteworthy relatives: British wizards are aware of her Dutch relatives but rarely speak of her as an association with them. They know and refer to her as that girl of the Sharps: she was adopted by them, and she an apprentice to both Aesop Sharp, Hogwarts Potions Master, and his older sister, Vera Sharp, one of the head constructors at the Diagon Alley’s Construction Bureau and the Builder’s Guild representative at the Ministry for Magic. Social standing: Well-known in the Quidditch business (networking and supply chain), relatively known in the construction business (fastest constructor in all wizarding Britain), and barely known to the wizarding high society. Her family, at the other hand, is as old blood as they give, and are largely welcomed in places Julia might or might have not helped to build, but wouldn’t ever be invited at.

Individual Magic

haven’t touched this section much at all sorry for the silly mistakes and incoherent narration Wand reaction when first held: A surge of overwhelming warmth engulfed her with a strange sense of otherwordly power like a stake fire.

Suddenly, her hand could draw reality and erase it in a matter of fractions of seconds. She could blast to pieces and mend the mess back seamlessly. Bring into existence a spark of light and stomp it and away to its primordial homely voids of nonexistence – only to sparkle back, and forth, back, and sit it at the table corner for eternity.

Julia didn't know was it her intention – or wand's own amazement to finally have an owner it could aim; it has chosen her after all, and Mr. Olivander certainly knew more than her in that regard – and frankly, everyone did; claimed the Day of Connection is as important as the day of baptism, birthday and Christmas.

Did everyone feel the same; that joy, that warmth, as if the Sun had never touched upon her skin ever in her life and a wind never grazed the hairs of her nape until this very second.

Thoughts were filled with prickles of magic like needles, as if the wand sprouted its invisible routs through her veins and rushed to her very conciseness—but stopped as abruptly as it has just been eager to read her mind. Was it the absence of intent that stopped it – or did it feel it, too.

The magic. The ancient fleur of it. The bottomless reservoirs of power and a realisation it has all belonged to it to channel and transform; perhaps it was the reason other wands reacted as violently or cautiously.

Lumos was a simple spell.

The wand produced the most pristine spark Julia had ever seen.

Seemingly responsive of her every command, awaiting as a loyal ally-in-arms; a servant; a menace; a friend; a tool – most powerful and capable of all she had ever touched in her life.

For a moment, the wand and her were mutually curios of each other as a pair of long lost siblings would.

And then, nothing – nothing sharp anymore. Only calm and steady, like a promise never to let go or away. Boggart: Kelpie -> Victor Rookwood -> Reynard de Vries # Julia used to fear kelpies after her father died.# Victor once was very close to reveal who Julia really was—a long lost daughter of his prey, enemy, and an impossible prize that he couldn’t let live on her own. Such talent ought to work in his favour, not oppose hi,! A promise that man had was too alluring, yet he knew Julia would never agree to have anything from him his hand, he did not feel hesitation to disclose her every last bit of her biography. He was perfectly aware it's her old wound and her weakest spot – and a rupture of her backbone. Julia did not know who de Vos was, but missed her mother Vivienne terribly, and he knew it. # Reynard nearly killed her; refused and dismissed the thought and Julia’s own word that she was indeed Julia (pronounced Yulia*), his niece, and not a conveniently shaped impersonator. Patronus: Rattlesnake. Animagus (regardless of if able to transform): Magpie. Polyjuice: Liquorice. Amortentia: It smells to her like the brisk air of winter – it invokes the ache for the warm embrace at a cosy house filled with scents of pastries and flowery ghost of a smell of Poppy’s pomade. It is love as a feel and experience trapped in a bottle as Julia remembers it, and she hates that potion for how *exploitative* this potion is, for how truly evocative – if that word is even applicable – it draws images in her head, and that drinking it will never bring these musings to life. That being said, one sniff at amortentia means Poppy is dealing with an especially clingy Julia.

What Could’ve Been Without Magic

Even if Julia was never to wield magic, her family had a place for her nonetheless.

She could stay in the Netherlands or move to Denmark, or to anywhere she could want, but she would have a job, a family, a future secured within the both worlds, because it wasn't magic that had to circulate in those veins – it was the skill and family business first and foremost.

However, Rookwood Gang's activity and its strive to steal wizarding children and children of magical descent to use their resource for automated thievery from everyone for the benefit of an one unsavoury man – Victor Rookwood – brought this prospect to ruination.

Julia’s family fought back.

So they killed her father when Julia was 7.

The gang created a rift between her mother and her, in a sense, too.

Vivienne, engrieved, wished to hide Julia until her 11th birthday somewhere safe – in England – supposed the gang was too busy with the Continent to sail home even for Christmas.

She hid Julia for years, but after no letter from Hogwarts arrived (neither did the letter from other schools), Vivienne lost hope. Her child was not magical; Hogwarts, Aurors, not even herself could protect Julia under the magical law – and chose being effectively a nobody in a foreign country, Vivienne jeopardised Julia’s class privileges. She wasn’t a scion to an immense wealth and status associated with it anymore – she was a regular, ordinary muggle girl with a few skills and talents that did worth something but only so much in contrast to what could have been.

Vivienne staged her own death from the scarlet fever (so her 'corpse' couldn't be exhumed) and fled the country, leaving Julia to a family of Exeter merchants – the Wrights – whom she bewitched rather than befriended, and convinced to sign up Julia for a kind of descent muggle school.

Vivienne’s plan never included the possibility Julia could come to magic late. She assumed Julia was either a squib, or non-magical at all. So it would go like this:

Julia would be found by the rest of the family after she would receive Vivienne's wedwand on her 17th birthday – to prevent the Trace from catching on the magic of her wand.

Vivienne hoped, by that time Rookwood Gang would become no more slain either by her own hand, or Reynard’s, and they could be reunited thereafter.

Until then, Julia had very scarce and sparse memory of her life before her 7th birthday, and she didn't remember much of anything from that point on besides the Wrights and Exeter.

But.

Julia gets enlisted to Hogwarts shortly after her 15th birthday, and she receives the wand on her 16th birthday as a gift from her adoptive parents (they sensed Julia is not coming back to Exeter and wanted her to have her things at where she was).

The plan went awry – and wait, it gets worse (c). Vivienne had never contacted Reynard: she hoped he was less devastated about her vanishing and she supposed he could never hurt Julia.

Years at Hogwarts

Fifth year

Best subject: Potions & Transfiguration. Julia has a very steady hand and she isn't prone to experiment until she knows enough. Besides, she enjoyed cooking; potion-making felt the same except less predictable. Although she didn't know a lot at first and had to rely heavily on what Sharp and others could provide, managed to pass the O.W.L. with flying colours and not forget what she had so painstakingly studied over the course of this tumultuous year. It only meant she was set for more work, though. Naturally gifted with Transfiguration. Non-verbal form impressed the examining committee so much that they nearly offered Julia a job without waiting for her grade to be finalised in their heads. Favourite subject: Potions, DADA, Beasts. Favourite teacher: Professors Garlic and Sharp. Worst subject: Astronomy. Too much theory, too much practice, and Julia had time for neither. She passed only because and thanks to 1) her reads on cosmology and its relation to potion-making, 2) remembered a few things about stars from what her father used to tell or sing her (he did that in Faroese; Julia weeped trying to translate or play match-the-word). Least favourite subject: History of Magic. Least favourite teacher: Professor Shah. Julia deemed her demands unreasonable for a student of her evident lack of knowledge. Julia could try and pull of something if she would've been a third or a fourth year but being in her fifth, she had barely any time for something as complex and unyielding. Not to mention she had Charms and DADA to sit through and learn as much theory as she could. Quidditch: nan but she loved broom racing. Friends: Poppy, Imelda. Natty, Everett, Garreth; Danny @catohphm Amara @boxdstars Aubrey @thriftstorebabayaga mentioned. Hogsmeade: Absolutely in love with the hub of capitalism village and was glad to secure a shop with the home security pre-installed. Christmas holiday: Was too busy doing everyone's bidding (didn't regret Natty's and Poppy's one bit) and the Third Trial to celebrate. Other: Was adopted by Sharp by the end of the year. Sharp was once hinted at the fact Julia had nobody to legally protect her, considering how the Wizengamot looked at her; they could become hungry vultures soaring over her dying body one day, and that day could come rather fast if she’s all alone. He also learnt about Vivienne, Ancient Magic, Ranrok, and basically everything he could about Julia not to become her confidant. So he became. It was his duty. Julia hated duty, pity, obligation, debt, and other words Sharp tried to use to describe his need to help her; Julia was nevertheless adamant that he was letting his cop to talk to her – and willing to be needlessly formal about it – and not his real self: the blunt and awkward mancoward he really was. All that was better than to watch such a brilliant student wane and wither, Sharp thought.

Sixth Year

Best subject: Potions & Herbology Favourite subject: Herbology Favourite teacher: Professor Sharp Worst subject: Charms Quidditch: After its reinstatement around the latter part of the 1890/91 school year, Julia was flung on the Pitch by Imelda went for the tryouts and was selected as a substitute for the Seeker position for her House’s team. During the events of the sixth year, Julia had to eventually claim the position – for the Hogwarts School Quidditch team, that is. She was one of the fastest flyers in the entire school, and some believed she could secure Hogwarts a victory in the interschool Quidditch games during the Triwizard Tournament. Friends: The same roster + Amit and Leander. Poppy becomes her Very Official And Not Secret Girlfriend around the end of the 5th year and Imelda has a secret massive girlcrush on her starting… at some point in the Autumn. Hogsmeade: Began to work as a shopkeeper. Her licence, which she acquired during the summer break with a little help from the newly found family, allowed her to sell basic ingredients, non-alcoholic potion bases, simple remedies and other silly small things. Certain Mr Pippin and Mr Teasdale weren't happy but their irritance was the only thing Julia faced from them. She was taught methods of The Fair Competition TM. Christmas holiday: Missed Exeter dearly but was afraid to go there because of the scar. Everyone was also unavailable for the holiday so she thought she'd spend it in the castle – just like the last year, but in lonely silence. She was almost ready to accept it until Aesop noticed she was sulking in the corner of his class and was willing to stay after class more often than usual. So he offered to visit a few places during the winter break – including Exeter and Vivienne’s grave (at this point in the story, Julia doesn't know she is alive, and Aesop only suspected as much; he found it hard to believe, that a mother would just… leave her child stranded like this, he was in denial and didn’t want to emburden Julia with any of this). Other: Her uncle nearly kills her around the last Quidditch match between the schools. Julia won that match. However, besides other things, Imelda’s girlcrush drama had been brewing, and finally escaped containment after that match. Julia’s catch was front page material; she stole everyone’s attention by: sliding few long meters on the slippery grass on her back holding the snitch in her whitened grip. Julia didn’t want that fame. If not for Imelda, they wouldn’t be able to end the match just in time to claw the victory score at just 10 points difference. And yet. Imelda scolds Julia for being such a princess who knows not a single truly bad day in her life, besides the obvious, and can’t even acknowledge something has been wrong in that press conference. Julia, upset, leaves the Pitch to spend some moments alone and to ugly cry. Imelda felt like an idiot at first. Then Imelda felt like a murderer after she learnt her hysterical demeanour lead Julia to the deathtrap. They did mend the friendship and all afterwards, but what happens with that drama is, essentially, Julia broke the silence by scaring the entire hate campaign shitless with her candid regret to have ever risked her life for such a vile, presumptuous, and cruel lot that took it upon themselves to spoil the blood of her dear friend over something they had not a iota of an idea about. These words weren’t met cordially and kinda burnt the bridge between Julia and professor Weasley, because her words were an indirect attack on her pupil management.

Seventh Year