Ashlyn Morris ♡ First Year ♡ Slytherin

Ashlyn is usually the 'mom' friend while somehow also being incredibly reckless. She cares very easily and very deeply about people, but she also finds herself using that care for to convince people to do things for her.

Although, she doesn't intend to manipulate her friends and family, it often ends up being that way. She will tell a secret she doesn't care about sharing, but then someone will tell her an actual secret. She also has a bad habit of saying she agrees with both people in a fight separately.

But she's always the sunshine girl, unable to stop smiling, so when she does people will often ask her, "What's wrong?", which she hates.

She is also extremely competitive, often without realizing it. When she does something whether for school or for fun, she has to be the best. Oftentimes though, she's not the best, and has to remind herself to chill out.

Ashlyn is the third of three as well as the youngest of the Morris family; her much older siblings as well as her parents have spoiled her throughout her childhood. Ashlyn, as the daughter of notable Purebloods, has never had to go a day in her life without getting what she wants.
Although she is a polite child, she does not take well to being told no. She has also never had any need to get along with other children her age, as she has always had more followers than friends.
Her parents — Erica and Solomon Morris — are rooted in the old tradition of the Pureblood families, often favoring biases over logic. It is quite obvious that both Erica and Solomon treat muggleborn witches and wizards with disdain, while treating muggles as innocent nuisances. The Morris couple are not too outspoken with their beliefs, however it is clear that they are great believers in blood supremacy, and have undoubtedly attempted to pass on this belief to their children.
However, their values might not have completely been transmitted to Ashlyn’s sister, at the very least, as Lydia Morris — age twenty five — is currently engaged to a muggleborn (Thomas Beular). Lydia is still in contact with both of her siblings, but her relationship with Erica and Solomon remains strained. Lydia and Ashlyn, although fourteen years apart, are close, and will often send letters to each other.
Noah, Ashlyn’s older brother who is nineteen, is currently working as a diplomat in foreign relations to America. He and Ashlyn are not as close, as Lydia is with Ashlyn, but they will still exchange letters. Noah’s personal life is not really well-known to the family, so his opinions on blood supremacy could swing either way.
Both sets of Ashlyn’s grandparents loved her and her siblings to death, as they were their only grandchildren on both sides. While Erica Morris (nee Fresner) was an only child, Solomon Morris was not, but his brother Gideon had been disowned years before Ashlyn was born for being gay.
Erica’s parents — Donna and Nathianel Fresner — lived in the house (it was more of a manor or mansion, really) with the Morris’s, so they would help out with Ashlyn’s education before Hogwarts.
Her education consisted of: basic maths, English, history, and of course pureblood etiquette. She was also taught French. Even though the Fresner grandparents helped with a lot of the subjects, Erica and Solomon still got Ashlyn the best tutors money could possibly buy.
Ashlyn, however, hated all sorts of lessons (especially ones that involved sitting still) and would often sneak outside to play around with the other local magical children of the village who she was the leader of. Climbing trees and, in good weather, playing around in the ocean and on the beach were her favorite pastimes along with reading fantasy novels.
It was these novels that often got her into arguments with her grandparents on her father’s side — Jackson and Lana Morris. While Erica, Solomon and Erica’s parents were content to let Ashlyn read muggle adventure books (they were moderates, after all), Solomon’s parents hated the thought of their cherished granddaughter reading such things.
When they visited, they would often try to take away Ashlyn’s books, cousin her to have a rocky relationship with them.
Ashlyn was, it must be said, incredibly reckless. A daredevil at heart. She loved nothing more than to play around outside all day, ignoring her lessons and causing all sorts of trouble, all while befriending stray cats.
Ashlyn was an extremely sheltered child; her parents didn’t feel the need to inform her of the darker parts of the world outside of St Ives, and she felt no need to learn. That’s why when friends who are significantly different from her (in any way) often surprise her. Especially when it comes to money she is oblivious, not realizing how lucky she is.
It is truly curious why she ended up in Slytherin, as she seems more suited to Gryffindor, but only time will tell...

Ashlyn was a late bloomer, not showing a single sign of magic until the first time she broke her arm when she was seven years old. She'd finally figured out how to read, and had decided to bring her book up to a tree, but miscalculated and ended up falling out. She landed on her arm, causing it to break.

But that was not the magic.

The magic she accidentally performed was that when her brother Noah found her, she was in immense pain with a broken limb, but by the time he'd carried her to their mother, Erica, the limb was nearly all healed.


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