((OOC: Ignore, this is for Fawcett's biography/background information))
Name: Serenity Morwen Fawcett
Gender: Female
Date of birth: April 3rd, 1978
Year: Seventh
House: Ravenclaw
Blood status: Halfblood
Physical Characteristics
The Jane’s Addiction lyric “You messed with the wrong girl/She’s short but she’s fierce” sums up Fawcett (who, perhaps understandably, prefers to go by her surname) perfectly. Fawcett is bantam, measuring in at only 5’2”, but she has a feistiness that exceeds her small size. She has long thick honey-blonde hair and olive skin and brown eyes, which definitely give her the impression of being an “outdoor” rather than an “indoor” blonde. Growing up on a farm, she is rather robust in spite of her lack of height.
In Fawcett’s mind, the world is neatly divided up into girls who choose to be smart, and girls who choose to be pretty. Not that smart girls can never be pretty or that pretty girls can never be smart, but that girls make a choice at some point in their life (either conscious or not) to accentuate one more than the other. As a farmer’s daughter, she is used to doing things for herself and is cynical of girls who have to play the damsel in distress and believe that they can’t do certain things because it’s “men’s work.” She chose to be smart, but considers that to be something of a moot point as due to her appearance she never really had a say in the matter. However, she’s not as unattractive as she thinks. She is rather cute-looking and could even be pretty if she made more of an effort, rather like a certain Hermione Granger, but will humphily tell you that she is the head girl and therefore has more important things to do with her time in those forty-five minutes before breakfast.
Since her upbringing has made her focus on and value the practical, she wears sensible clothing, but takes care that everything matches and is reasonably clean and wears colours that suit her, displaying some vanity. She prefers brown over black, for example, because she believes it makes her hair look blonder.
Background information
“These Ravenclaws will have lightning-fast mental reflexes. Aries is an intellectual sign, but it is also an impatient sign; Ravenclaws who were born under this sign are likely to tolerate no dull wits or stupidity, whether they see this lack of mental competence in themselves (in which case they will berate themselves for not understanding, or give up quickly in frustration without really trying to overcome their difficulty in learning) or in others (in which case they will lash out at the offender with acidic comments and haughty, cutting looks). These Ravenclaws will want to be at the head of the class, dominating other students in their chosen intellectual field, and may be almost as competitive as Slytherins. However, the true aim of every Ravenclaw is knowledge, knowledge, and more knowledge. While a Slytherin might see losing a magical duel or being bested by another student in a DADA class as humiliating, the Ravenclaw will probably just take delight in competition for its own sake, and see defeat as a learning experience.”
Blurb taken from Harry Potter Astronomy.
Fawcett hails from Cornwall, where she is part of a family of six. Her father, Jonathan Fawcett, is a Muggle farmer and her mother, Desdemona Lovegood, is mostly of wizarding descent. Having three very boisterous older brothers, she learnt how to stand up for herself early in life, a skill which will no doubt come in useful during what will surely be a very trying year. At home she speaks fluent Cornish and is proud of her heritage, considering herself to be a Cornishwoman first and an Englishwoman second. In rural families everyone is expected to pitch in and from the age of eight she helped out her father and brothers on the farm, which probably led to her developing such a strong work ethic. Assisting with the family business from such a young age, she isn’t content to sit idle and her housemates may speculate that she doesn’t truly know how to relax.
Her mother’s brother is also the father of Luna Lovegood. She’s rather embarrassed about the infamy her dotty cousin has earned at school, and tries to distance her own reputation for Luna’s as much as possible. However, she takes her job as a prefect, and then Head Girl, very seriously and will doggedly pursue anyone she suspects of running off with Miss Lovegood’s possessions.
With her blunt, no-nonsense nature, Fawcett is perhaps not the best of negotiators, but excels at additional responsibilities due to being tough and efficient and fiercely protective of younger students and underdogs. While she generally is rather thick-skinned, certain things do hit close to home. She is rather prickly about her half-blood heritage, not so much that she is ashamed of it in itself, but that she becomes defensive over any implications that she only received the head girl gig because the staff needed a foil for the pureblooded Warrington. And she is more conscious of her appearance than she’d like you to believe. Making a conscious decision not to fuss about her looks is not the same as being completely unaware of them, and jibes along those lines hit her Achilles’ heel as much as the next girl.
Being diligent academically and with her head girl commitments, Fawcett doesn’t have a lot of spare time. When she does, she enjoys playing Scrabble (ooh, how Ravenclawesque) and, oddly, football. During the school holidays she works at her local post office and plays as a midfielder in a Sunday league team. Living in a rural area, she is very practical-minded and can do things that most other half-bloods can’t, such as knowing how to drive (she has an old heap of a car she christened Frank in a moment of creativity) and operating various farm machinery. Being a Ravenclaw, she is not however immune to aspects of dorkiness. An avid fan of the Muggle sitcom M*A*S*H, she religiously tapes the show’s re-runs and has named her cat Radar, displaying a sense of humour and a love of in-jokes that many of her fellow students would be unaware of (Radar and Frank are both main characters on the show). She also plans to take advantage of having her own bedroom for the first time in six years and smuggling her television and M*A*S*H tapes into Hogwarts, where she hopes she somehow can get both to work. This shows a rebellious streak, which while largely suppressed by her prefect responsibilities and Spartan work ethic, can sometimes rise up - such as the incident with the Aging Potion during her sixth year.
Despite her undoubted ambition and thirst to prove herself, Fawcett isn’t quite sure what to do after Hogwarts. Working at the Ministry would be something she could potentially excel at, but she doesn’t like all the propaganda and mixed messages that issue from the office and loathes hypocrisy and spin doctoring of any form. She was planning on working there after taking her NEWTs, not because she thinks she would love the job, but because she believes the Ministry to be a good place to start for an intelligent and hard-working girl. She has since changed her mind and decided to aim for Gringotts, planning to get an “O” in Arithmancy and also to learn Gobbledegook in her spare time, which taking six NEWTs and being Head Girl she optimistically thinks she will have some of. She is taking Ancient Runes, Arithmancy, Charms, History of Magic, Muggle Studies (as she was originally aiming for the Muggle Liaison Department) and Transfiguration.
But her mistrust of the Ministry has to do with something concrete. Sadly, she was rather close to the late Cedric Diggory, feeling as though he was one of the few people who - if not “got” her exactly - at least supported her and her right to be different. She will find it harder still returning to term and not seeing him there.
While Fawcett would not be informed to the extent that Harry and his friends are, due to being Head Girl and a good friend of Cedric’s, Dumbledore may have possibly told her a bit more than what he revealed at the end-of-year speech. He may have told her that the cup was a portkey and that a Death Eater had infiltrated the tournament, but most likely no more than that. She certainly would have gone to him and demanded answers at any rate. And while she has never been a big fan of Harry, particularly when he stole attention away from Cedric by somehow breaking the age line and entering into the tournament (being a prefect she wouldn’t have worn a “Potter Stinks” badge, but would have smiled at the concept), she believes it to be inconceivable that he had any involvement in Cedric’s death.
Additionally Fawcett believes Dumbledore. In her eyes he has no motive to lie and make himself unpopular and no reason to profit from Voldemort being back. If he had really wanted to become Minister for Magic, she reasons, then he could have become one years ago. And since if the tournament is supposed to be dangerous and if her friend was killed by a Blast-Ended Skrewt, then the staff would have just said so. So she covertly supports Dumbledore, but doesn’t really feel like she can do much publicly to defend him with Umbridge there and student opinion so mounted against Harry. Plus she knows that in order to do her job, she has to maintain the respect of students - and that with Umbridge there a strong Head Girl who is in Dumbledore’s corner needs to be present. Therefore she publicly presents a neutral face.
Gender: Female
Date of birth: April 3rd, 1978
Year: Seventh
House: Ravenclaw
Blood status: Halfblood
Physical Characteristics
The Jane’s Addiction lyric “You messed with the wrong girl/She’s short but she’s fierce” sums up Fawcett (who, perhaps understandably, prefers to go by her surname) perfectly. Fawcett is bantam, measuring in at only 5’2”, but she has a feistiness that exceeds her small size. She has long thick honey-blonde hair and olive skin and brown eyes, which definitely give her the impression of being an “outdoor” rather than an “indoor” blonde. Growing up on a farm, she is rather robust in spite of her lack of height.
In Fawcett’s mind, the world is neatly divided up into girls who choose to be smart, and girls who choose to be pretty. Not that smart girls can never be pretty or that pretty girls can never be smart, but that girls make a choice at some point in their life (either conscious or not) to accentuate one more than the other. As a farmer’s daughter, she is used to doing things for herself and is cynical of girls who have to play the damsel in distress and believe that they can’t do certain things because it’s “men’s work.” She chose to be smart, but considers that to be something of a moot point as due to her appearance she never really had a say in the matter. However, she’s not as unattractive as she thinks. She is rather cute-looking and could even be pretty if she made more of an effort, rather like a certain Hermione Granger, but will humphily tell you that she is the head girl and therefore has more important things to do with her time in those forty-five minutes before breakfast.
Since her upbringing has made her focus on and value the practical, she wears sensible clothing, but takes care that everything matches and is reasonably clean and wears colours that suit her, displaying some vanity. She prefers brown over black, for example, because she believes it makes her hair look blonder.
Background information
“These Ravenclaws will have lightning-fast mental reflexes. Aries is an intellectual sign, but it is also an impatient sign; Ravenclaws who were born under this sign are likely to tolerate no dull wits or stupidity, whether they see this lack of mental competence in themselves (in which case they will berate themselves for not understanding, or give up quickly in frustration without really trying to overcome their difficulty in learning) or in others (in which case they will lash out at the offender with acidic comments and haughty, cutting looks). These Ravenclaws will want to be at the head of the class, dominating other students in their chosen intellectual field, and may be almost as competitive as Slytherins. However, the true aim of every Ravenclaw is knowledge, knowledge, and more knowledge. While a Slytherin might see losing a magical duel or being bested by another student in a DADA class as humiliating, the Ravenclaw will probably just take delight in competition for its own sake, and see defeat as a learning experience.”
Blurb taken from Harry Potter Astronomy.
Fawcett hails from Cornwall, where she is part of a family of six. Her father, Jonathan Fawcett, is a Muggle farmer and her mother, Desdemona Lovegood, is mostly of wizarding descent. Having three very boisterous older brothers, she learnt how to stand up for herself early in life, a skill which will no doubt come in useful during what will surely be a very trying year. At home she speaks fluent Cornish and is proud of her heritage, considering herself to be a Cornishwoman first and an Englishwoman second. In rural families everyone is expected to pitch in and from the age of eight she helped out her father and brothers on the farm, which probably led to her developing such a strong work ethic. Assisting with the family business from such a young age, she isn’t content to sit idle and her housemates may speculate that she doesn’t truly know how to relax.
Her mother’s brother is also the father of Luna Lovegood. She’s rather embarrassed about the infamy her dotty cousin has earned at school, and tries to distance her own reputation for Luna’s as much as possible. However, she takes her job as a prefect, and then Head Girl, very seriously and will doggedly pursue anyone she suspects of running off with Miss Lovegood’s possessions.
With her blunt, no-nonsense nature, Fawcett is perhaps not the best of negotiators, but excels at additional responsibilities due to being tough and efficient and fiercely protective of younger students and underdogs. While she generally is rather thick-skinned, certain things do hit close to home. She is rather prickly about her half-blood heritage, not so much that she is ashamed of it in itself, but that she becomes defensive over any implications that she only received the head girl gig because the staff needed a foil for the pureblooded Warrington. And she is more conscious of her appearance than she’d like you to believe. Making a conscious decision not to fuss about her looks is not the same as being completely unaware of them, and jibes along those lines hit her Achilles’ heel as much as the next girl.
Being diligent academically and with her head girl commitments, Fawcett doesn’t have a lot of spare time. When she does, she enjoys playing Scrabble (ooh, how Ravenclawesque) and, oddly, football. During the school holidays she works at her local post office and plays as a midfielder in a Sunday league team. Living in a rural area, she is very practical-minded and can do things that most other half-bloods can’t, such as knowing how to drive (she has an old heap of a car she christened Frank in a moment of creativity) and operating various farm machinery. Being a Ravenclaw, she is not however immune to aspects of dorkiness. An avid fan of the Muggle sitcom M*A*S*H, she religiously tapes the show’s re-runs and has named her cat Radar, displaying a sense of humour and a love of in-jokes that many of her fellow students would be unaware of (Radar and Frank are both main characters on the show). She also plans to take advantage of having her own bedroom for the first time in six years and smuggling her television and M*A*S*H tapes into Hogwarts, where she hopes she somehow can get both to work. This shows a rebellious streak, which while largely suppressed by her prefect responsibilities and Spartan work ethic, can sometimes rise up - such as the incident with the Aging Potion during her sixth year.
Despite her undoubted ambition and thirst to prove herself, Fawcett isn’t quite sure what to do after Hogwarts. Working at the Ministry would be something she could potentially excel at, but she doesn’t like all the propaganda and mixed messages that issue from the office and loathes hypocrisy and spin doctoring of any form. She was planning on working there after taking her NEWTs, not because she thinks she would love the job, but because she believes the Ministry to be a good place to start for an intelligent and hard-working girl. She has since changed her mind and decided to aim for Gringotts, planning to get an “O” in Arithmancy and also to learn Gobbledegook in her spare time, which taking six NEWTs and being Head Girl she optimistically thinks she will have some of. She is taking Ancient Runes, Arithmancy, Charms, History of Magic, Muggle Studies (as she was originally aiming for the Muggle Liaison Department) and Transfiguration.
But her mistrust of the Ministry has to do with something concrete. Sadly, she was rather close to the late Cedric Diggory, feeling as though he was one of the few people who - if not “got” her exactly - at least supported her and her right to be different. She will find it harder still returning to term and not seeing him there.
While Fawcett would not be informed to the extent that Harry and his friends are, due to being Head Girl and a good friend of Cedric’s, Dumbledore may have possibly told her a bit more than what he revealed at the end-of-year speech. He may have told her that the cup was a portkey and that a Death Eater had infiltrated the tournament, but most likely no more than that. She certainly would have gone to him and demanded answers at any rate. And while she has never been a big fan of Harry, particularly when he stole attention away from Cedric by somehow breaking the age line and entering into the tournament (being a prefect she wouldn’t have worn a “Potter Stinks” badge, but would have smiled at the concept), she believes it to be inconceivable that he had any involvement in Cedric’s death.
Additionally Fawcett believes Dumbledore. In her eyes he has no motive to lie and make himself unpopular and no reason to profit from Voldemort being back. If he had really wanted to become Minister for Magic, she reasons, then he could have become one years ago. And since if the tournament is supposed to be dangerous and if her friend was killed by a Blast-Ended Skrewt, then the staff would have just said so. So she covertly supports Dumbledore, but doesn’t really feel like she can do much publicly to defend him with Umbridge there and student opinion so mounted against Harry. Plus she knows that in order to do her job, she has to maintain the respect of students - and that with Umbridge there a strong Head Girl who is in Dumbledore’s corner needs to be present. Therefore she publicly presents a neutral face.