Presley Nicholson | First Year | Slytherin

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House: Slytherin
Age: 11
Wand: 25,1 cm hornbeam wood and phoenix feather
School Year: First
Patronus: N/A
Species: Human

History/Background Story:

Born in Bristol to Warren and Brianna Nicholson, the former a greying and contemplating retirement ravenclaw alum who had grown his family wealth triple with his success in magical law and the latter a young, ambitious, slytherin graduate of less than five years when she turned a casual run in with the older man into something more for the sake of social climbing. A handful of years of living in extravagance and then Presley's soon to be status was announced.

Presley remembers her earliest years very fondly. The large age gap, of 27 years, between her parents wasn't something that phased her and she felt nothing but love and adoration from both her parents, Warren had retired and Brianna sought out no reason to find any real work aside from keeping up appearances. Regardless, Presley was a Daddy's girl for sure and spent a lot of time with her father learning about magic, watching him play wizard's chess, and being entertained with little tricks he shared just for her.

Her world was upended completely when Warren passed away shortly after she turned five and much of her father's fortune was declared by his will to be placed into a trust for her. Brianna's mourning period for her deceased husband was short and she was soon selling off what she could, included their home, and moving from their Estate in Bristol to a smaller home in Surrey where she had grown up and was out frequently leaving Presley in the care of her married friends or even on rare (desperate occasions) teenage muggle babysitters while she tried to score her next husband.

As she has grown older Presley has become more aware of this behavior and feels embarrassed by it all and even holds some resentment towards her mother (although she isn't able to name that feeling yet.) The money that has been held in trust for her was what would have been used to pay for proper private tutors throughout her youth; Brianna has never concerned herself with interviewing for excellency as much as she took it as another chance to expand her own dating pool. That didn't stop Presley from taking advantage of the good ones when they were there but she has been through several.

First Instance of Magic:

Being only 5 when her father passed away, she was confused and hurt to see her mother moving on so quickly and spending time with new (and younger) men so quickly. Being invited to spend time with one of them was too much for the young, grieving, girl and insisted to her mother she wasn’t hungry, and was forced to stay at the table anyway to make a good impression.

Not very long after, the man - who’s name Presley doesn’t remember because he never returned - found his chair upended and floating above him just before he went to sit in it and he was face first into his bowl of gazpacho. Presley, who had been on the verge of tears, was now laughing, surprised by the turn of events. She almost wondered if her father had somehow returned as a ghost because it reminded her of the magic he’d used to entertain her with (and it had been his chair). Her mother’s enticing façade turned towards horror and indignation and Mr. Mystery was out the door as soon as he could right his own wand to clean his shirt.