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Post by holly proserpina mcgonagall on Feb 20, 2024 18:21:51 GMT -7
Holly Proserpina MCGONAGALL
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APPEARANCE Holly is on the petite side, standing at 5'3" tall with a thin build. She has fair skin and light brown eyes, and her hair is similarly light brown in color with loose waves, reaching to about her shoulders. She has an angular jaw, pointed chin, and full lips. She has no scars of note, but her earlobes are pierced once on each side. While at work, Holly sticks to wearing the sort of subdued, secretarial clothing that would be expected of her at the Ministry. Outside of work, however, she takes far more risks with her outfits and has no problem with wearing non-magical attire instead of robes. | pronunciation HOL-EE Proh-SUR-pih-nuh Mc–GONE–ah–gul nickname Anything that rhymes with her first name; Holls age & birthday 36 25 July 1992 gender & pronouns Cisgender female; she/her pronouns blood status Half-blood sexuality Pansexual face claim Sophie Cookson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
PERSONALITY Although the McGonagall name might bring to mind certain expectations of academic brilliance, the first thing to know about Holly is that she has never fit those. She genuinely believes herself to be an intelligent person, but the fact of the matter is that she isn't. While she isn't so inept as to do something to get herself killed, the only subject in which she received a passing mark at NEWT level was Transfiguration, and even that one was probably more generous than she deserved to be awarded. With her mundane job at the Ministry of Magic, where she has been in the same position for almost two decades, Holly has consistently craved some sort of excitement. Most of the time, she finds that in physical relationships with other people—not that any of them have lasted for long at all despite her fears of abandonment. She ends up in patterns of behavior that are predictable to everyone but herself: always maintaining that the next person is going to be "the one" for her, falling out of her infatuation, and moving on to the next. Emotionally, Holly can be volatile. She doesn't have a firm sense of self and is prone to ever-changing moods, especially in interpersonal relationships, and can go from idolizing someone to being frustrated or feeling persecuted by them in a very short span of time. At her best, she is outgoing and fun to be around. At her worst, she's likely to lash out, usually against a partner or one of her younger siblings. Holly has had sustained issues with alcohol use, too, beginning in her late teens. Though she isn't physically dependent on alcohol, she drinks to excess when she does drink. She has grown out of the "party girl" stage, in the sense of going clubbing and the like, but she's traded that for getting drunk at more upscale events and family occasions instead. As the eldest of her parents' children, Holly also has some issues with taking personal responsibility for herself and her actions, particularly when she's under the influence of alcohol. She knows that she can fall back on her parents if she needs anything, and she tends to abuse that privilege. Lastly, Holly has a habit of chewing on pens. She switched to using Muggle pens instead of quills out of necessity once, and that was that. (Besides, it's a lot harder to chew on a feather.) ORIGIN & RELATIONS Hogsmeade, Scotland father: Liam McGonagall, Accidental Magic Reversal Squad employee mother: Margaret McGonagall, Accidental Magic Reversal Squad employee siblings: ewan caelus mcgonagall, 35, Portkey Office employee, half-blood juniper minerva mcgonagall, 29, Hogwarts professor & screenwriter, half-blood great-grand-aunt: Minerva McGonagall, former Hogwarts headmistress great-grandfather: Richard McGonagall Jr., deceased HISTORY The eldest of the three children born to Liam and Margaret McGonagall, Holly McGonagall had a solid upbringing in an established magical family. With the Minerva McGonagall as her aunt, there was no telling what she would be able to accomplish. She was spoiled by her parents from the very start, even as they gave her a younger brother, Ewan, not long after she was born. Free-spirited and rambunctious, Holly realized early on that she was going to have to make her own fun. Hogsmeade wasn't full of children except for the Hogwarts students who were occasionally permitted to visit the village, so Holly had to rely on her own imagination. Childhood was an enjoyable time for Holly, and though it was in the midst of the Second Wizarding War, between her youthful ignorance and her inability to put two and two together anyway, she wasn't really affected. The arrival of her sister, Juniper, when she was seven years old meant that she had yet another younger sibling to play with, though Holly really preferred to be the star of the show. Playing house or classroom or putting on performances was more enjoyable with an audience—more of a captive audience, really, because Holly wasn't exactly talented at anything and merely thought she was. As Holly had been born with magical abilities, however, off she went to Hogwarts at age eleven. She was Sorted into Slytherin House on her first evening at the school. While her being ambitious might have put her in Slytherin, she didn't do very much. Transfiguration was the only subject at which she was competitive, and she was perfectly average at everything else. Skating by on her averageness, Holly had every intention of leaving school after completing her OWLs. Her parents insisted that she stay at Hogwarts to complete her NEWTs, though the only subjects she did well enough in to continue taking at NEWT level were Transfiguration and Charms, though she only passed the NEWT examination in the former. Finishing up at Hogwarts with few job prospects, Holly turned her ambitions to partying instead of working her way up the career ladder. She was sure that she could marry rich because of her family name, and she even managed to land her first job as a receptionist at Ogden's Old Brewery. That position only lasted a month, and it was at that point that her parents stepped in and hooked her up with an internship with the Human Resources department at the Ministry of Magic. It was a Ministry role, which sounded impressive to Holly, and the hidden benefit her parents saw was that she wouldn't need to have advanced magical abilities. Holly continued on in Human Resources after her internship came to an end, joining the department's Hiring and Recruitment team. It wasn't strenuous work, and she was competent enough to do what her role required of her. Human Resources wasn't as shiny as Holly first thought, but the good thing about it was that she got to meet a lot of people. Whether at work or out partying, Holly did like getting to know people (intimately, if it happened to work out that way). Ever since, Holly's life has been working in the bureaucratic machine that is the Ministry. She is surprisingly good at her job and appreciates the benefits that come with it—namely, a better look into the dating pool. (Contacting someone by owl isn't particularly hard, after all…) That has been punctuated by a series of failed relationships with anyone she thinks is interested in her, alcohol-fueled missteps, and her swearing to her family that she's only one date away from meeting her soulmate. Again. SITE EVENTS REACTION Since she has worked at the Ministry of Magic for almost twenty years, Holly has seen multiple changes in leadership, countless political crises, and all sorts of other upheavals. This could have made her into an astute political analyst, but she doesn't have that skill set, frankly. The extent of Holly's actual political knowledge is rooted in the procedures she has to follow for work. While she's likely to get frustrated if a policy change affects her job, she doesn't really understand politics at a deeper level, even if she thinks she does. Though she was in Slytherin, Holly isn't inclined towards the Dark Arts. She holds the naïve view that good will win over evil, because so far—in her experience—it has. Despite challenges in the magical world, Holly has never experienced any real hardship, either, so her perception of that is a little skewed. Overall, Holly is the magical everywoman, not actively questioning what the Ministry does or what the media disseminates. With Hogwarts rebuilt, she has no reason for uncertainty about the world around her. She's too absorbed in her own romantic endeavors to care, anyway. WANT AD
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