Physical Description: At a distance, Geraldine could be described as a normal looking girl standing at 143cm with dirty blonde hair. At a closer distance, one would notice the most key parts of her. Her eyes are rarely if ever visible, always seeming to be shut. Even more noticeable is her two lines of scar that run over her face from the forehead to the lower cheeks, going across her eyes. They always appear as if they are more recent than they are. In the event that her eyes are open, they would look normally brown at first glance, but as "prosthetics" they would look off after further inspection. She sometimes uses a white cane, though this frequency lowers as she spends more time at the school.

Mental Description: Geraldine's mood swings heavily depending on her location. If the area is sufficiently safe/recognisable she is calm and collected. When in less known areas she is more anxious, though her growing sense of independence means she wants to explore when she can anyway. She does not like being overprotected, but she understands the reasoning behind it, especially from her father. She can get tense if she finds out it's a full moon, it's in this she's lucky she can't find out by herself.

First impressions are important for Geraldine, she always wants to assume the best of people she's never met, but that's easier in theory than in practice. She may seem like someone who would be quiet, but in the most literal sense, she can't be with her Echolocation, she is always noticeable.

Biography: Geraldine was born to a half-blood mother and a muggle father. Due to her blood status and her mother's relatively low magical prowess, her family had low expectations of her inheriting magical power and decided to effectively raise her as a muggle.

Her fifth birthday was on a blue moon and she begged her mother to take her out to see it in nature. Her mother relented and the two of them went on their own as her father was busy as a surgeon. It was supposed to be the most beautiful thing she had seen all year, but her memory was stained by tragedy. The two of them were attacked by a werewolf. It's said that Her mother took the brunt of the damage, but the werewolf managed to get two swipes off at Geraldine's face, just barely connecting a claw each time. It could be said that things would have been worse if her mother wasn't a witch, with her power she drove the werewolf away and she was able to carry Geraldine to safety. Unfortunately this took up the remainder of her strength and only Geraldine survived in the end. The magical nature of the werewolf meant that Geraldine's injuries could not be magically healed completely, the most that could be attempted was muggle facial surgery. This surgery was obviously not perfect either. When Geraldine's father found out about the incident, he felt great distraught over not being there for his family, something that occurred due to his work hours, and so he quit his active position, semi-retiring to focus his attention on Geraldine.

Geraldine spent the next six years adapting to her condition, being home-schooled by her father. She knows braille and her hearing has gotten quite better. Hearing experiences of human echolocation, she tried to develop it herself. She still has a way to go.

Her father was naturally hesitant to let her go to Hogwarts. Electronic devices don't work there, she won't have text-to-speech, at least not the way he knows it. Magic got her hurt, but it also kept her alive. Geraldine expressed a bit of a desire to learn healing magic. He knew nothing about magic but it could be easier for her than muggle medicine.

First Instance of Magic: For two years after the incident, her father had been overprotective about letting Geraldine out of the house. The furthest she was normally allowed to go was her backyard, but never out the front door. One day she was frustrated with how dull her environment was becoming. When her father was preoccupied in the bathroom, she went over to the front door. To her surprise, it wasn't locked. As scared as she was about exploring without sight, she remembered all the times she was able to do it before the incident and being older, she thought she could at least handle it. She assumed her dad thought the same and that's why it was unlocked this time.

About fifteen minutes later, her father saw her standing in the front yard. This confused him momentarily as the door was clearly still locked. He went out to get her and asked how she left. She explained how and said she thought she was allowed now. It had to have been magic. Seeing how she didn't maliciously wander off too far, from then on he allowed her out of the house more often over time, never telling her that she was technically wrong at the time.