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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2018 23:29:53 GMT -7
hello there, my name is madeleine chevalier but you can call me maddie or mads. i'm a hufflepuff and 16 so that makes me a 6th year at hogwarts. You could say I'm hard working, patient, & loyal but I personally think that I am a social butterfly, influential, and smart. People say I look a lot like amanda steele, but I don't really see it...
madeleine louise chevalier
pronunciation:
mad-eh-lane
nickname:
maddie, mads
age:
16
date of birth:
may 27th, 2008
gender & pronouns:
she/her
blood status:
pureblood
sexuality:
heterosexual
schooling:
beauxbatons transfer, hufflepuff 6th yearoccupation:
future: magizoology
wand:
11 ¼ inches, yew, unicorn tail hair, flexible
playby:
amanda steele
appearance:
5’7”. Looks exactly like playby. Has dark brown/black hair naturally but tries to mask it with a silver/blonde most of the time. Coming from a wealthy family, Madeleine has no problem flaunting it with expensive clothes and jewelry, and doesn’t see any problems with that.
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personality
likes:
clothes, jewelry, cute animals, horseback riding, fire, herself, spending money, herself, being in control, herself
dislikes:
cats (allergic), fall/winter, being cold, dead things (plants, animals, people, cloudy skies, her phone battery), muggles, lack of skill in anything, using absolutes, her older brother
erised:
to work in a purely magical field so she doesn’t have to deal with muggles like her father does
amortentia:
bread, aftershave, orange, furniture polish
boggart:
being a failure, death (being an absolute, which she despises, and would take the form of Émile)
overall personality:
How is Madeleine a Hufflepuff, you may ask? The answer: for all the wrong reasons. The Sorting Hat dug out the core values for a Hufflepuff somewhere in there and aptly placed her without second-guessing itself.
Her need for attention (and being the attention grabber) always lands her with a group of interesting characters. At Beauxbatons, these friends of hers could be backstabbing, lying, witches – but that wouldn’t sway Madeleine’s loyalty to them unless it was something irreprehensible. In her opinion, all magical peoples have a use, and in the case of her “friends” and those she aligns herself with, that use is via subtle manipulation. She’s not afraid to use it on adults either, managing to convince her parents to allow her and her twin to go to Hogwarts. Having a way with people could stem from growing up around the hotel business and watching her father order his staff around, or the fact that she’s a spoiled brat. Because of this, Madeleine has a huge ego and believes that she’s the best thing since sliced bread, a common trait amongst her siblings.
The other common Hufflepuff trait, being a hard-worker, would be passed up just by looking at her normally. When it comes to doing the things she loves, such as taking care of animals or being passionate about opinions, there is no denying that she is hardworking. Just because she grew up with a wait staff and is rich doesn’t make her lazy. Being called so irritates her to no end.
Madeleine is also impulsive, not understanding the concept of holding back or being humble. Because she is used to getting anything she wants, tossing money at her problems is usually the first thing to cross her mind when presented with an issue. Spilled coffee on a shirt? Buy a new one instead of having it cleaned, even if that’s the easier, more logical route. Obviously this is illogical while at school, but it doesn’t stop her from writing home about it and begging for a new one to be sent (the response from her parents always being that she should just clean the damn thing).
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personal history
mother:
Lucy Chevalier, 42, no occupation, pureblood, American, graduated from Ilvermorny (Thunderbird)
father:
Marc Chevalier, 45, Owns a chain of hotels throughout France, both for muggles and magical folk, pureblood, French, graduated from Beauxbatons
siblings:
Émile Chevalier, male, 18, pureblood, Beauxbatons Triwizard Champion, Deceased
pets:
Charles, the Great Dane – at home
history:
Marc Chevalier, a young wizard from France, had just graduated from Beauxbatons when he made a trip over to America to learn the ways of muggle business. Always being extremely interested in how the muggles became successful without the use of magic, he quickly figured out the American way of business, and met his future wife, Lucy. The two of them soon fell in love, and married. For the next five years Marc began to build his new chain of muggle hotels, a more lucrative business than anything he could have done in the wizarding world. He hoped that one day his young family would be able to live an easy life without much use of magic, something he had grown to dislike as he had adopted the muggle way of life. Lucy, on the other hand, wasn’t too keen on giving up her roots. She insisted that their children should be taught magic, and that they needed to go to Beauxbatons in France. Not happy with this decision, but not wanting to hold his family back, Marc and Lucy moved back to his native France where he made a bold business decision: opening muggle hotels that also allowed witches and wizards to attend, albeit under magical lock and key. This way the Chevalier family could be supported in both the muggle and magical world with money.
Soon after moving back to France, Lucy became pregnant with their first child, aptly named Émile after Marc’s grandfather. Two years later, what was supposed to be a second child, ended up being two more: a girl, Madeleine and a boy. Elated at having two more children, Marc did his best to grow his business so that Lucy and his children could live an easy life. The next 11 years were odd for the Chevalier children. They were meant to act like muggles when the hired help was around or when they were in public, but also uphold their pureblooded heritage when at home or with other magical families. Madeleine knew that they were better than those they served; her problem was that they were at the beck and call of people lower than her family. Muggles. At a young age, she found it ironic that in order to sustain their lifestyle, they had to take the money of the inferior. Not only that, the things she liked the most in life came from them. Feeling like she was used by this, her hatred for the family business and her parents’ lack of understanding only grew more and more.
Aside from the deep-seated disdain for muggles and the hotel industry, life was pretty fun. A lot of things could be done with the influx of money from her father’s company, like shopping sprees or buying expensive pets. Horses, to be exact, and quite a few at that. While her brothers had the family dog, Charles the Great Dane (whom she loves dearly as well), her mother enjoyed taking her to the stables and showing her how to take care of the horses. Madeleine’s passion for animals started with her sixth birthday and her first horse, and only continued to grow. Taking care of the horses was the only independent action she knew, everything else being set in front of her on a silver platter, sometimes literally.
Émile left for Beauxbatons first, a whole two years ahead of the twins. Those should have been agonizing years spent waiting to attend school, but Madeleine found that she enjoyed the attention placed on her. With the oldest gone, she became a real princess. This manifested until it was time for her to go to school, and her arrogance knew no boundaries whilst at Beauxbatons. There were others like her and her brothers, like minded and wealthy. They were her people. Becoming very cliquey quickly, Madeleine finally found her true calling.
site events reaction:
Fast-forward a few years. Fifth year. Émile left for the Triwizard Tournament being held at Hogwarts with a select group of other seventh years. Madeleine didn’t think much of it, her older brother’s competitive spirit making the summer before intolerable whenever around him and the letters to her after he was crowned the champion for Beauxbatons only making it worse. There was some merit to his abilities, with a victory in the first task and second place in the second. A disappointing loss in the third task meant he failed himself, the family, and Beauxbatons. Somewhat furious that Émile had gotten everyone’s hopes up that he could win the tournament, the news of the terrorist attack on Beauxbatons and Durmstrang as they left Hogwarts left Madeleine devastated. Almost all of the seventh years that had traveled to the English school were dead, including her brother.
She had expected the rumored Purifiers, a group in London that had made the French newspapers the previous year and whose core values she agreed with, to claim responsibility for the attack, but they didn’t. It was someone else.
Convincing her parents to allow her and her brother to transfer to Hogwarts for their final two years of school was difficult at first. Madeleine wanted to see what Émile had seen for himself in his last year alive and walk in his shoes. There was pushback at first, until news broke that Ilvermorny, her mother’s alma mater, had their own problems and all of the students were being sent to Hogwarts for the foreseeable future. It provided an opening in her mother’s defense, and Madeleine made it out that she wanted to study with the same professors that her mother had, and that it wasn’t inherently Hogwarts’ fault for the death of her brother and classmates. If anything, more students, professors, and security at the English school would make it safer than Beauxbatons would be.
Somehow, it worked.
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alias
name:
COLIN!
age:
23
time zone:
est
reference:
been here for a bit
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