Dove Cullen | Ravenclaw | 2nd year

Full name : Dove Enora Cullen Height : 4'8" Age : 12 years old Date of birth : 2/11/2012 School year : Second year

House : Ravenclaw Accent : A mix of Irish and French, hard to describe when hearing it Species : Human/Wizard born Wand : 34,2 cm willow wood and wampus cat hair Patronus : N/A

𝔸𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖

Dove doesn't have the stereoptypical appearance of an irish girl. Indeed, her skin is quite tanned, she gets it from her father, and her hair is black, and wavy, from her mother's side this time. She's not tall, she was 4.7 during first year, and is now 4.8, but when she looks at her mother, her tall mother, to whom she almost has to break her neck when she has to speak to her, she reassures herself saying that she still has time to grow. And with this small size comes a petite shape, contrasting with her muscular shoulders, indeed she's found of swimming.

ℙ𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪

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Lots of comments have been made about Dove's personnality. Her family has always called her "the shy little Dove", or "the calm of the family". Indeed, both her family sides are like... too noising for her, she likes to stay in a corner of a room, reading of simply being lost in her thoughts. However, even if she knew she was the kind of person to blush when she had to talk, she didn't like people to talk of her like this, even more when she was about to enter Hogwarts for her first year. Everyone acted like she was going to be lost, and unable to talk to people, which of course didn't help for this big event, that was a bit terrifying. She didn't know how to talk to people, how would she manage to make friends ?
But her first year at Hogwarts made her leave her confort place, she forced herself to talk to people. At the end of the year, she found it exhausting, but now, even if she still was "the shy little Dove", she could say that she improved herself, and realized she was able to talk to people, to be nice with them, to trust them and make them trust her.

If your character meets Dove, you might seem from outside she would never speak to you, since she tends to play with her fingers, look down, and retreat into herself. But if no one talks, she can start the conversation. Or if you talk first, she would be eased to answer. Then you'll realise she calm in her tone, and that she always tries to go on your way. Yes, Dove is easily influenced, which can be quite a negative point of her. She acts this way because she's afraid to lose people, or that these ones think she's annoying, or boring.
One caracteristic trait of her personnality would be the fact that she's afraid of heights, due to the fact that, when she finally had the age to walk, her father decided to make her ride a broom, with the idea of making her a famous quidditch athlete. It of course didn't work, and now her daughter doesn't like flying lessons.

𝔻𝕠𝕧𝕖'𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪

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Dove is fluent in English and French, and knows some basics in Brittany's language : breton. She had never met a Muggle during the little amount of life she had lived for now. She knows nothing about them, their world, how they manage to live without magic, which can seem impossible to this little girl who has always lived, and will alway live with it.She spent a very happy childhood, between her stayed at her Irish grandparents, where she learned how to swim, after failing the broomstick experiment with her father, and where she learned interisting facts about magic plants, and muggle ones. Both her paternal grandparents where Hufflepuffs buds, and fond of herbology, which they tried to trasmit to Dove, and it succeeded.

In the other side of the see, in Brittany, she had learned French, how to bake, and basics in potions. Her cousin Eflamm, who has the same age as her, are inseperable, even now.
When her little brother Alfie arrived on the 22nd of March, in 2016, she had met her first Irish friend. Indeed, Dove was quite on her own during all this time, she was to shy to speak to other people, even if they were wizards just like her. Alfie isn't shy like her, he's a joyful kid, always here to talk and exchange with other people. He got very close to Eflamm, which made Dove a bit jealous of him, even if she can hide it well. But this doesn't mean her relationship with her cousin had changed. When she wasn't in France, they would spend each one days on writing super long and detailed letters to send to eachother.
Then, Dove received her letter which invited her to go to Hogwarts. She was afraid and exited at the same time, which she obviously shared with Eflamm. She was nervous everyday, went shopping all her stuff the day just after she got her letter, but then she got better when she arrived into the Hogwarts Express, realising she was about to start a new life, completly different from before.

𝔽𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕚𝕔

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This was something Dove will never forget, even if it happened when she hit her fourth birthday. Both her Irish and French family were here to assist this big event, which turned out to be unforgettable. Even the cake, a breton one filled with blackberry jam, with different scones around it with lots of icing sugar on it, will stay into Dove's mind, since this powdered sugar made her sneeze on her birthday cake.
We could think "what a disgusting memory", but in reality, this sneezing made the impossible being possible : the breton cake and all its scones started flying, as if gravity stopped existing for them, for at least ten seconds, after it fell down on the table, in a total silence. No one knew what to say, even little Dove, it was so unexpected, but then everyone started to cheer the four years old, a picture that will stay forever into her mind.

ℍ𝕖𝕣 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤' 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪

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Robyn Fustec originaly comes from France. She was born here, grew up here, had her first instance of magic here, but at the age of nine, the Fustec family went Ireland for three years. Therefore, Robyn and her twin sister, Nolwenn, had been registered to Hogwarts, and had spent their first year there. Robyn loved it, she had made an amazing friend, who is still hers now, contrarly to Nolwenn, who had had a quite bad experience. They were sorted into different houses, Slytherin for Robyn, Hufflepuff for Nolwenn, so they hadn't been too much together during this year.
A decision had been made : Robyn would continue her studies at Hogwarts, while Nolwenn would go to Beauxbâtons. She was returning to Brittany during the holidays, and spent lots of her free time sending letters to her family, and mostly to her twin, to whom she was afraid to loose their bounding.
It didn't, even if they still live tons of kilometers apart, they talk to eachother all the time, when they find it, and Dove had come to her aunt's house a hundred times, at least, playing with her cousin Efflam.
Her father, William Cullen, who prefers to be called Will, has always lived in Ireland, in a quite big cottage not far from Cork. It is near a lake, where Dove loves to swim in when she goes to her grandparent's. He was sorted into Ravenclaw, and met Robyn at Hogwarts when they both were in fourth year. It seemed to be a real love at first sight, since they are happily married now.
It was hard to make a decision whether they should live in France or in Ireland, they originaly came to France, living for a moment not far from Dove's mother house. Dove was born in France the 2nd November in 2012, and spent the forst three years of her life there, before going back to Ireland because her parents had found a cosy hoise in Cork's border. Moreover, Dove's mother wanting her daughter to spend beautiful yeaes at Howgarts, just like she did.

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔽𝕦𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕔 𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪

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Her mother is called Robyn, and comes from an old magic Breton family : The Fustec. During Middle Ages, the family lived in a small village : Kermenieg, surronded by woods. Fustec means cooper. Indeed, they had a good reputation among the muggle inhabitants of Kermenieg for their mead, which was, according to old books, the best of the region. This protective cover helped her for their wizard business : potions. An old legend said that they helped little elves who were living in the woods, known as "korrigans". These elves were mostly known for their numerous pranks, such as challenges started for people who were disturbing them. The wizard family were concocting them magic beverages so they could live easier in the forest, among more dangerous magics creatures, who would have killed them without the help from the Fustec. This alliance between the Korrigans and the family left them in peace, and the elves could help them find ingredients for their potions. Nowadays, the village doesn't exist anymore, and the family is split in different places all around France. Of course, no one knows if the legend is true, but old books telling the story exist in all different Fustec houses. Dove's grandparents, as well as all her ancestors, have stayed in Brittany, in a peaceful house located in a village called Botlézan.
Even if the Fustec are now divided into different families all around France, those who stayed in Brittany still have a very well reputation among breton wizards, still asking potions from them. Dove's grandparents had to go to Ireland when Robyn was nine years old, because someone asked their help for Korrigans who apparently succeeded to go there. They had to stay for three years, before finally coming back to their cosy house.