The Basics

Full Name: Ellen Thomas
House: Ravenclaw
Age: 11
Wand: 27,2 cm cherry wood and dragon heartstring
Patronus: Not applicable until 6th year
Species: Human

Personality

Positive Personality Traits

• Clever. Ellen is a clever young woman. She's often getting herself in trouble and she always manages to use her cleverness to her advantage, in the sense that as a kid she would often use her father's weakness to her crying to get away with things.
• Persistent. She's also not one to give up easily. Whether it comes down to her studies or some personal goal she wants to accomplish; unless she sees it through, she won't stop trying until she gets what she desires. This has been a point of frustration for her parents before Hogwarts.
• Sociable. Ellen is a generally friendly person and likes to talk with people. She likes to think of herself as easy-going and an easy conversationalist. Her bubbly nature and constant smiles seems to help with that, she believes. If she sees someone alone or a small group of people sitting silently, she'll often approach them and just start a random conversation whether that be at the mall or at school. Or now, within the halls of Hogwarts.

Negative Personality Traits

• Procrastination. Despite her persistent nature however, she is prone to procrastination however. Often leaving things to the last minute if she decides they're not important. Especially when it comes to homework or similar boring things.
• Impulsive. Ellen is very Impulsive. She likes to think of herself as put-together and settled, but she follows whatever fancy comes to her mind too quickly for that to be the case. Whether it be an impromptu baking session in the middle of the night just because she feels like it or reading an interesting book for an entire night and coming to regret it in the morning.
• Impatient. If Ellen wants something, she wants it done yesterday. Although she can grasp that important things take time and effort to learn, she would love nothing more than to bypass all of that and have it at her fingertips already. It is little wonder thus, that she's so eager to be at Hogwarts. To learn all the magic that her parents do on a day-to-day basis.

History

Early Childhood

Ellen's early childhood was as normal as any muggle. Her parents having a great deal of interest in the muggle world, and seeing the incredible advancements they were making, thought it best if their daughter was ingrained in both worlds, so as not to feel alienated when she would eventually be plunged into society and deal with muggles. Thus, she went to an ordinary muggle kindergarten. Where she would play and sleep with normal humans, and for the longest while knew nothing of magic.

As she grew older she saw her parents using magic more and more within their home. Waving around their little sticks and making things move around the air. Her father even changed their ordinary chess set into a Wizard's Chess set, playing often with her when she was free, teaching her strategies. She noted how they stopped doing using magic whenever one of their neighbours came to visit for tea, and her father put away the Chess set. She didn't question it at first, merely found it curious. And because her parents never really talked to her about it, she thought it was some great big secret. That her parents were some sort of secret prince and princess with magical powers whose identities needed to be kept secret.

But true to form, Ellen could barely contain the secret. While out playing with one of her friends one day at the park, at the age of seven, she told her closest friend a secret. That her parents were really faerie royalty in disguise. And how they would wave around faerie sticks and make things move. Her friend was in wonder. The next day, her friend's mother came over and told her parents the most fanciful story she'd heard from her daughter. And Ellen recognized the hidden fear and anger in her parents' posture.

They told her about themselves then. That they were magic users and that she could never, ever speak to normal humans about it. That it would get her and her parents in very big trouble. And to never use it in front of them either. That was the last time she spoke about magic to her muggle friends.

But she wanted to learn about magic. And thus her parents told her about Hogwarts, each of them spending a night telling her of all the crazy things they got up to in their youth, and how they learned magic and how some of the people they knew were probably professors there already. They told her she would go there when she reached eleven. And she wished she was eleven already.

Later Childhood to Present

Ellen graduated primary school with no incidents. But she was begging to feel a certain distance to her friends by the time summer was rolling around, knowing that she would be leaving her friends behind. Her parents did what they could to reassure her, telling her that she would be making more friends that would better understand her at Hogwarts. But for a child at her age, her current friends were the only ones that mattered. And she wished they could be magical like her.

And in an effort to make up for the time she would be away, she began hanging out with her friends more frequently. Her parents giving her the space to do so, and the money to go all over London. Visiting shopping centres, going on tiny sprees, and having fun. She thought of it a lot like the last time, in a very long time, that she'd get to be a part of that world and she wanted to enjoy it. Even sneaking into a concert at one point.

One evening, while sitting in a booth at an under-18 club in West London with her friends, they began talking about the middle schools they would all be going to. And all of them, save Ellen, were planning and discussing which were the best and which ones had the cutest boys. When they noticed she was distinctly silent, she only said she was being sent off to a boarding school out of London. And noting her sadness, they stopped the discussion and instead danced the night away, truly making it something she would remember at her time in Hogwarts.

She'd been around magic her entire life. Her parents cast it all the time when they were home alone and no muggles could see them. But, she could never do any magic herself, her mother reassuring her that her magic would manifest sooner or later. And then it did. One day, while reminscing on leaving her friends and being far away from home, she decided to distract herself by playing a game of Wizard's Chess with her father, who was had a fondness for the game. And since she'd played with him on-and-off over the years, she'd gotten decent enough that her father became more serious during that one particular game. And she was behind in points, her king checked and the only possible move she could do was to sacrifice her knight, a piece she needed in her strategy to win. Her frustrations mounted, so much so that the Rook checking her king burst into tiny pieces.

Her and her father hadn't played for some time after that. Then, the letter arrived. And her mother went ecstatic. Throwing a small, but very celabratory party at their house. A party which she distinctly noted as being for her mother rather than for herself since she was largely relegated to watching after the kids while her mother and the adults drank in the kitchen. But she didn't mind. She was too focsed on what Hogwarts would be like. How it would look. And how the people would act. Then, before she left, her father gave her a new chess set as a way to remember home when she felt alone at school.