Character Name (First and last name): claudia kerr
School Year or Adult Level: first year
House: hufflepuff
Link to Encyclopedia: meow

Reason for Reapplication: i went very inactive (october...) due to ooc reasons (finishing college, uni applications, etc) and lost the love for writing. after a lot of consideration i have decided to return to claudia as i miss her story and what could've been. since she's missed a LOTTT of school time including graduation, i was wondering if i could fix that with the following story:

claudia manages to stay under the radar in the start of her first year, not really making any friends and handling her werewolf transformations poorly. she is just beginning to ease into her new life as a wizard when she gets urgent news that her guardian micaela, her aunt's partner, has been critically wounded after one of her routine potion experiments went wrong. she is then immediately pulled out of school by aunt naomi, and spends her time either at home, learning that is it quite hard to be homeschooled by a depressed person, or at the hospital. micaela thankfully recovers, but claudia decides to stay out of school longer. she says that it is because she wants to stay with her, but really she is starting to enjoy not having to conform and make friends. her guardians respect this wish and continue to home school her for a bit, but decide that she would be better at hogwarts, with claudia making her return for her second year.

STATUS: Approved, Silas, August 3
Please note that in order for her to be a second year, you'll need to apply for the advancement program.

Character Name: Mathias Pride
School year or Adult Level: 6
House: Slytherin
Link to Encyclopedia: Link
He got married to Winnie Harper and was named heir-apparent, finally gaining the surname Athanatos. Changing name to Mathias Athanatos. Link

STATUS: Approved, Lear (Aug 11)

STATUS: Approved - Jessamine, 14^th August 2025

STATUS: Approved - Jessamine, 14^th August 2025

Character Name (First and last name): Juliette Lovelace
School Year or Adult Level: First
House: Slytherin
Link to Encyclopedia: x

Reason for Reapplication: I created Jules last year and then promptly dipped from site and never roleplayed her, but now I'm back and hoping that this time it'll finally stick. I plan on applying for the Advancement Program and this is the IC reason to explain why she was held back. I also have OOC permission from Lexie's writer (Ivy/Stella Bianchi) to write this:

One weekend in early October, Jules, her father and her siblings were going on a day trip to Brighton. Halfway there they got into a car accident; a car had ran a red light and sped into the side of them. It was a terrible wreck, the car had been totalled and no matter how quickly the emergency services had gotten to the wreckage, they were only able to pull out Jules, her father, and her younger sister, Clementine. Her twin sister, Lexie, and younger brother, Nathaniel, had died at the scene. Juliette was pulled out of Hogwarts because of this and spent the rest of the school year at home, struggling with her grief and trauma. Her mother, Corinne, flew back to England for the funerals and stayed for a few months after, putting her career in America on hold as they tried to heal as a family. As the new school year quickly approached, Arthur enrolled Jules in summer school so she could catch up on what she missed in first year and could return to Hogwarts for her second year.

STATUS: Approved, Samuel, 15th August
Please note if you wish to be Year 2, you'll have to go through the advancement program.

STATUS: Approved, Sage, August 17th

STATUS: Approved, Silas, August 19

STATUS: Approved, Sage, August 20th

Character Name: Stella Bianchi
School Year or Adult Level: Second year
House: Gryffindor
Link to Encyclopedia: click here!
Reason for Reapplication: Changing Stella's mother's maiden name from Parisi to Cavaleri and clarifying that this side of the family is Sicilian (southern region of Italy). The original surname was previously mentioned in my backstory and Seer application but has never been roleplayed.
I'm reapplying to change this as my friend Thea's new character (Esme Hestridge) is related to Stella through the maternal side of her family and mentioned that they are Sicilian. This was flagged by the validation team as there was a noble Sicilian family with the surname Parisio in the 13th century; I did not realise this when picking a name for Stella's mother's family, and also have not previously mentioned them being Sicilian on site which is why it hadn't been flagged already.
As Sicily is such a unique region of Italy and I have already used traditional Sicilian first names for many of Stella's family members, it does not feel culturally appropriate to change the region they are from. Hence, I was hoping to change the surname instead. Added the edited version of Stella's backstory as well as the Seer app under reducio, with the changes in bold.

Reducio

Stella Valentina Bianchi was born on a chilly Monday morning in London city, the last of Antonio Bianchi and Concetta Cavaleri's five children. Both of her parents hailed from respectable Italian pureblood families, and for a while the family had lived in rural Tuscany, Antonio's birthplace and the location of his childhood home - although summers drew them south to Sicily, where Concetta's family roots ran deep. However, when his work as a seasoned Auror led to a lucrative job offer with the British Ministry of Magic, they made the move to London. Although the Bianchis have since returned every summer without exception, Stella was born after the move, and it’s their house in Kensington that she calls home instead.

Her childhood was a happy one; she wanted for nothing and was showered with love by her doting family from the minute she was born. Like her siblings, Stella attended weekly ballet and piano lessons, and was homeschooled by tutors who taught her arithmetic and magical history alike. She was often taken along to pureblood events, and hence her parents also instilled in her the importance of proper etiquette, allowing Stella to grow up into a well-mannered and amiable girl.

Stella's siblings were also crucial to her development. There was Elio and Francesca, a pair of twins five years her senior; Giulia, who taught her how to play quidditch; and Carlotta, the closest to her in age and her favourite. It was one of Lotta’s shenanigans that led to Stella’s first instance of accidental magic at the age of six, with the former dyeing both her own hair and her little sister’s bangs an atrocious shade of green; overnight, Stella’s hair had inexplicably reverted back to its original dark brown. (Carlotta's hair, unfortunately, did not.)

Being the youngest of five meant that Stella was left behind in London while the rest were in Hogwarts, and for most of her life, she remembers hearing about her siblings’ adventures and wanting nothing more than to join them. By the time her acceptance letter finally came on her 11th birthday, she’d been brimming with excitement and longing for five years. For Stella, Hogwarts was what she’d been waiting for her entire life - a place to prove herself just as capable as her siblings.

Reducio

The Bianchis had little record of any Seers in their bloodline, with the exception of one: Alessandra Bianchi (née Vannucci), a Venetian pureblood who married into the family in the 1500s, and whose work as a Naming Seer went unnoted for the most part. With her own family barely believing in the credibility of her prophecies, it cannot be said that they assumed the Seer gene died out; rather, they hardly believed it was there in the first place. But powerful or weak, believed or not, it didn’t matter– Alessandra’s skill was real, and her genes continued to be passed down to her children and her children’s children and so on, with the gifts (and curses) of a Seer laying dormant for centuries on end. Stella’s father, Antonio Bianchi is one such carrier of this gene…

…as is his wife, Concetta Cavaleri, who comes from a long line of witches and wizards where the Seer gene has been rare, but not completely unheard of. It is unclear when this particular talent entered into the Cavaleri gene pool; however, it was first documented around roughly 300 years ago in one Fabrizia Cavaleri, and has since appeared erratically in her descendants, sometimes skipping two or three generations before showing up again seemingly without rhyme or reason. The last known Seer was Concetta’s great-grandmother’s sister (Stella’s great-great-great-aunt), Vincenza Cavaleri, who had worked as a well-respected Consultant Oracle in Italy until her death in 1998. As Vincenza never had any children, it was concluded that the Seer gene died out with her.

Thank goodness for that, the Cavaleris would say, because it was viewed as more of a curse, hindrance, and embarrassment than a gift in spite of Vincenza’s achievements, and those of the Cavaleri Seers before her. Their opinions on Seers had been greatly soured by one of Vincenza’s prophecies, which had indirectly led to the death of her sister Fabrizia (Concetta’s great-grandmother), the intervention of which only led to its fulfilment. A young Vincenza had foreseen Fabrizia badly Splinching herself when Apparating to work, and trusting her sister, Fabrizia had taken a broom instead, only to fall in a sudden windstorm and leave her two children orphaned. It was not Vincenza’s fault, but led to her gradual estrangement from the family nonetheless, as well as the development of a deep mistrust held towards Seers.

Furthermore, there was the underlying sense that the presence of the Seer allele was… a stain on their perfect genetic record, if you will. Not that anyone would ever actually say that out loud in public– and certainly not the Cavaleri family, which was typically so outwardly progressive in wizarding politics. And yet it was there, in whispers at family functions and side glances at Vincenza’s portrait, the lack of enthusiasm for Divination in spite of the undeniable presence of Seers in their family history, the aversion to tarot cards and astrology and anything that relied on chance and a world they could not see.

Regardless, with Vincenza’s death, it seemed that their discomforting prejudices held towards Seers, especially for the corruption of their family tree, would be laid to rest for good without ever being fully brought to light.

It was something akin to irony, or perhaps a humourless joke played by the fates, that the stars aligned for Stella Bianchi, the apple of her grandparents’ eye, to be the first Seer in three generations. Neither Stella herself nor her family have discovered that she inherited this trait yet, but there have been small incidents and flashes of intuition that she’s chalked up to dumb luck thus far. Things like guessing the correct answer on a multiple choice test, or instinctively moving out of the way during family games of Quidditch to avoid being hit by a rogue Bludger. A abnormal amount of coincidences, that’s for sure, but she never thought anything of it, and neither did her family, in spite of everything they knew about Seers.

After all, people only see what they want to see, and no one wanted to see Stella’s luck for what it truly was– the gifts of a Seer.

STATUS: Approved, Aston, August 22

STATUS: Approved, Cirrus Nam, August 25th 2025