Full Name: Amity Gray
Birthdate: 16 June
Age: 11
Country of Origin: Ireland
Current Home: South Cadbury, Somerset
General appearance:
Height: 150 cm/4 ft 11 inches
Weight: 47 kg/104 lb
Skin Tone: Sallow
Eye Color: Green (sometimes looks blue or grey)
Hair Description:
- Color: Brunette
- Highlights: Brownish-red
- Length: Below bust
- Style: straight with a little flick at the ends
- Worn: down mostly
Special Features:
Piercings: Two ear piercings on each ear
Facial Features: Dimples and freckles
Scent: Apples and Raspberries
Blood purity: Half Blood
Sexual alignment: Heterosexual
Wand Type:
Length: 12 1/2 in
Wood: Hornbeam
Core: Phoenix Feather
Flexibility: Surprisingly Swishy
Personality: She's kind but also cunning and witty. She can return any snide comment with one of her own and happens to have relatively good grades. She is very closed off when she firsts meets someone and will spend some time with them before opening up herself. It's not that she's shy, just cautious.
Background: Amity grew up with her Muggle father and witch mother a village to the north of Dublin City. She was meant to go to Muggle school until her secondary education under her father's conditions, but she ended up being home-schooled because of her Metamorphmagus abilities. She moved to England only a month after her tenth birthday. She received a letter informing her that she had been accepted into school at both Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Cólaiste Naomh Aodhgagán in Ireland. Deciding on the former option (because her Irish language skills weren't very good and she wanted to learn magic), Amity confirmed her acceptance to Hogwarts.
Amity's mother, Vivienne, was worried about what house Amity would be in and tried to make Amity that Slytherin was evil. Amity, however, was very interested in wizarding history and read about the creation of Hogwarts in a book. There she discovered that the four founders of Hogwarts, Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin, were actually friends. This led to her confusion about the house rivalry. She decided she would attend Hogwarts with an open mind and no prejudice against houses.
Amity has spent all her life hidden from Muggles but she now has relatively good control over her special abilities. Just enough to change the colour of her hair or eyes or skin but not enough to completely alter her appearance. She's heard of Metamorphmaguses that were capable of altering their appearance so much that they look and sound just like someone else entirely. She really wants to learn this because she figures it may be a useful skill to have.
Family: Mother: Name: Vivienne Gray (nee Harris)/ Age: 39/ Living or dead: Living/ Blood status or species: Pureblood
Father: Name: Arnold Gray/ Age: 42/ Living or dead: Living/ Blood status or species: Muggle
Pet: (if applicable) Name: Mordred/ Age: 1/ Living or dead: Living/ Blood status or species: Tawny owl
Family Background: Vivienne comes from a long line of Pureblood wizards and was the first to break the line by marrying a Muggle. This means she has very little or no contact with certain members of her family. Amity only really knows one of her aunts who was always very close with Vivienne and stops by every once in a while to keep her sister in the loop.
Arnold's family is very different. They are Muggles but they're very odd Muggles. His parents think of themselves as historians when, really, they're mythologists. He has two brothers much more into physical sciences and a sister who write science fiction novels while juggling an engineering job. Amity has had much more contact with this family who embraced her more warmly than Vivienne's traditionalist family.