Do you have any Marlene McKinnon head-canons?
Hi lovely Anon! So I already answered this a few months ago but no surprise I’m always finding new headcanons so here: ❤︎
・Her middle name was Rose, after her Grandmother (on her dad’s side).
・Her Grandmother was also Minerva McGonagall’s aunt. (Isobel Ross’ sister)
・She was known as: Marley (by her brothers and friends) Mars Bar (by James after he found out it was the name of a muggle candy) McKitten (by Sirius) Petal (by her father) Leeny (by her mother)
・Like James, she was an Aries.
・She was impulsive. She would always act first and think second.
・She’s always over confident, has absolutely no inhibitions and that’s before she starts drinking.
・She loves her big family.
・Her mother was French and her father was Scottish, but she grew up in England so she had an English accent with a slight Scottish twang to it.
・She understood French but she rarely spoke it with anyone but her Mother.
・Her favourite colour was Gryffindor red.
・Her favourite songs were Barracuda by Heart and One Way or Another by Blondie.
・Her favourite singer was Debbie Harry from Blondie.
・She and James grew up together and were best friends.
・They made a blood pact when they were only eight years old that they would always protect one another.
・She and James were born a week apart and when they were younger they would gave joint birthday parties.
・Marlene had never known a world without James in it.
・She was a descendant of Godric Gryffindor on her dad’s side.
・She was the first female beater in Gryffindor history.
・Her lucky number was 3, which is also her quidditch number and birth date.
・Her favourite subject was defence against the dark arts and she was the best in her year.
・She had three older brothers. (For me they are: Matthew, Michael and Mason)
・Her oldest brother, Matthew, whom she was always closest to was killed when she was sixteen, he sacrificed himself to save her and she was never the same after that.
・She was much closer to her father than her mother.
・Her father’s patronus was a lion and her’s a lioness.
・She has a tattoo of a lioness on her left shoulder and one of a rose on her wrist.
・Her brother Matthew owned a ginger cat that was half-kneazle named Lion. When he died the cat belonged to Marlene. After Marlene and the rest of her family were wiped out, the cat was then given to the Magical Menagerie in Diagon Alley. Twelve years later, you guessed it, Lion was adopted by none other than Miss Hermione Jean Granger and would henceforth be named Crookshanks. The reason Crookshanks remembered Sirius so fondly was because he spent so much time with him. That’s also the same reason he knew Scabbers was Pettigrew.
・One time in her fifth year she punched Severus Snape in the face so hard that she broke his nose, it was never the same shape since.
・She wanted to write for the daily prophet because she strongly believed that the ministry was distorting the world’s view on what was really happening with Voldemort. She wanted to be able to report the truth about what was happening to the Wizarding world.
・She and Sirius kept their relationship a secret at the beginning because they were worried about how people (especially James) would react.
・It’s fair to say that when he did find out, he did not react well.
・When Marlene was fifteen, she lost her virginity to Bertram Aubrey who only did it so that he could brag about it to his friends later. Although Marlene would never admit it, she was crushed.
・When James found out he was fuming, so he and Sirius decided to use an illegal hex on him between classes ( Engorgio Skullus). They received a month’s detention afterwards, but both agreed that it was definitely worth it.
☞ And people, that’s why they did it. When Harry is in detention and reads about James and Sirius hexing Bertram Aubrey in the Half Blood Prince Chapter 24, they did it for Marlene McKinnon ❤︎
