Julianna Hemingway // First Year // Slytherin

full name. julianna hemingway
house. slytherin
age. 12
year. 1
species. human
wand. 21,0 cm rowan wood and phoenix feather

history/background story.
Julianna Hemingway was born to a fairly large family in Inistioge, Ireland. Despite being the child of a pureblood father, Luke Hemingway, she grew up around mostly muggles due to the influence of her muggle mother, Angelica. Due to that as well as the fact that her father avoided using magic since they lived around muggles, she grew up familiar with the concept of magic, but rarely actually saw it in action. Hogwarts will be quite a different experience for her, and the common usage of magic in day to day to life will shock and fascinate her.

Julianna grew up primarily an athlete, playing football and camogie from a relatively young age. On top of that, she attended her local public school, making a few friends. She was however closest to her teammates, out of her many acquaintances. Even to them, however, she was fairly distant, as she was introverted and often preferred to focus simply on giving the sports game her best shot. Her best friend in the entire world was her cousin, Evangeline Hemingway, who lived close to her, and the two spent many long hours together in the small town they grew up in.

Her first instance of magic occurred when Julianna had just turned seven, meaning that instead of playing with the five and six year olds, as she had the year before, she was now going to play football with the seven and eight year olds. Of course that meant she was going from being one of the older, bigger children to one of the smaller children. At the flipping of a season, she went from one of the better players to one of the worse ones, in a change that frustrated Julianna. Soon, inexplicable things started happening. The first, most notable one was during a game where Julianna had just been substituted out. Frustrated, Julianna stood on the sidelines and glared at the girl who had replaced her. Why did that girl, who sucked at the game, replace her, who undoubtedly had talent? Julianna clenched her fists, wishing the girl would be hit by the ball- not enough to be seriously hurt, just enough to remove her from the game. Barely thirty seconds later, the girl who replaced her, while not hit by the ball, mysteriously got a (minor) nose bleed. Though there was no danger to life or limb, any player who was bleeding was not allowed to continue playing, so Julianna was substituted back in, where she managed to score a goal before the game was over. It was only her mother that suspected that the nosebleed might have been Julianna's doing. The other parents remained fortunately quite clueless.

Overall, Julianna had a fairly happy childhood. As long as she was able to excel at her sports and have relative freedom running about with Evangeline, she was happy. Sometimes she could be a wee bit petty, but in nothing serious, and she came to Hogwarts the same bright, happy, but somewhat quiet girl she had been since a young age.

physical description. Julianna is fairly tall for her age. She says she's 4'11, but the doctors aren't sure about that. Maybe 4'10 and a half. She has long dark hair with bangs that somehow manages to stay neat even in the wind and wide brown eyes.