Live Makela | Hufflepuff | First year

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(in chronological order; summary under title in revelio)

First Year

Reducio

Watering the plants - start of year, ongoing, Hufflepuff dorms
A Simple Evening Chat - dinnertime 22 February 2023, ongoing
Just a Little Help - 2:57 PM 20 May 2023, ongoing

Second Year

Self

History:
Live was born to parents who are members of a commune centered around preserving and advancing various art forms. Her parents taught her the art of prose for the first few years of her life, but that never interested her. Instead, she spent her time converting dialogue between and novel-form prose written by members of the commune into screenplays. Another couple with a child they found equally disappointing offered a swap, which Live’s parents readily agreed to. She spent the rest of her time in the commune relatively undisturbed and ignored by the adults except when they were assigning chores or homework. The child who took her place with her parents, Sadie, was also the only other child, and while neither of them liked each other, they became best friends because they had no options.

Reducio

Live’s parents, Iris and Thomas Powell, ran into each other at Hogwarts while skipping class. Thomas was making an effort to hide, but Iris was sauntering around without care. Her snake smelled a fellow delinquent and lead her to Thomas’s closet. Iris and her snake’s parseltongue, and the conversation in English between Iris and Thomas that followed, alerted a prefect to their location, and both were given detention. They bonded over shining trophies and complaining about the school and became close friends.

Thomas’s disinterest towards learning made him an outsider among his Ravenclaw peers. He told Iris he wanted to join a commune made up of outcasts after graduation. Iris wasn’t sure if she wanted to follow him until her parselmouth identity was revealed and she became an outcast as well. Iris began bullying another parselmouth, Cathal Day, during her second year at Hogwarts by giving her snake messages to say to him, but she wasn’t caught until four years later, after Cathal made a friend and showed the friend Iris instructing her snake. Iris was understandably ostracized because she was using her ability to torment someone else, but she wrote to her parents that she was being ostracized solely because people found out she was a parselmouth, which further cemented her parents’ views. While Iris’s actions were well-known within their circles and many people tried to help Cathal, Cathal and his friend remained outcasts and ended up joining the same commune as Iris and Thomas.

Neither of Live’s parents wanted children, but Iris’s parents desperately wanted more parselmouths in the world. They argued that if parselmouths kept on refusing to reproduce, the world would be even more overrun with normal people than it already is, and it is their responsibility to lessen the prejudice parselmouths experience by creating more parselmouths. They were able to convince Iris and Thomas using their wealth, which was instrumental in purchasing land and supplies for the commune. Live was named by her grandparents and uses her grandfather’s last name. At her grandparents’ request, a plaque with Live’s name on it was built and serves as a bench along a path to the square.

Live's parents were relieved to learn that she inherited the ability because she was able to converse with Iris's snake, but they did not tell her about her heritage. Her parents’ initial motivation for keeping it a secret was that they wanted to hide the extent of their grandparents’ involvement and just be regular, loving parents to their child. When Live was two, a schism occurred because a portion of the commune members, lead by Cathal, wanted the commune to have a purpose beyond being a place for people to do nothing all day. Cathal bribed Iris and Thomas, the most charismatic couple in the commune, into being the figureheads of the art therapy faction, and although at first they faked it for the position, they ended up falling in love with the art of writing prose. Live didn’t cross their minds much after that.

As parselmouths were a significant minority in the commune, Live thought they were commonplace, and it was not until Iris brought up her version of how she became an outcast, and Live questioned how she was able to do it for five years without anyone else understanding the snake, that Live learned it was a rare ability. Only the people in the commune were aware of her ability because she rarely left the place and was carefully supervised and painfully shy outside the commune.

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,,,,,,Thomas Powell,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Iris Powell,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Linnea Salmi,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Mr. Makela,,,,,,,

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,woah, the colors are back!:
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Sadie XXX