Eloise Shields//First Year//Ravenclaw

Having sneaked out early in the morning as Eloise had begun to do in recent weeks, she made her way over to Clonea beach where she enjoyed searching the rock-pools. Hoping and leaping across some of the larger rocks and cliffs in the dark Eloise got to a particularly high point before finally slipping. The fall was further than she had realised and she had failed to notice how high she had managed to climb, falling over 30ft into the rocky waters below. Under those waves and rocks she remained, and as the sun finally rose that morning (some 15 minutes later) she finally emerged from the sea unscathed and somehow entirely dry.
Not that anyone would believe her, but she knew that she should be dead, and that something very unusual had happened to her.

Eloise's family may seem even unto themselves to be entirely muggle, yet even they are now aware of the whispers of magic in the family past. None of the immediate family, however, have any inkling of how far that magical rabbit-hole goes. Several generations past the Eloise's maternal family were what could be known in muggle parlance as a coven. A collective of family witches who worked together in personal magical research and pursuits. All Hogwarts educated of course, but highly solitary, focusing primarily on herbology, potions and astrology. It is this last line, a form of divining through astrology, which made them unique as a family, being more adept than most at the art - their herbology worked to improve their potions which in turn was used to supplement their abilities to read the stars above and their own latent divination magics. Eventually, the family was driven out, not in some big last stand, but simply through the passing of time, more and more they were pulled away by love or wanderlust, and the coven passed out of all memory, the latent magical capacity passing out of family lore.

As for Eloise's paternal line, magic was almost entirely non-existent. The gene for the Seer trait simply passed into the family tree through a marriage between one of her great great ancestors and a traveling wizard from the north of England. Why he was there, and where he had come from are lost to history, but regardless, the Seer gene entered the paternal line here and remains to this day.

Regarding the trait itself, it would hardly even present at this age but as Eloise goes through Hogwarts it will begin to present as bad dreams at first, nothing too unusual, before later in her final few years by changing the pigment of her hair and developing into full strength Seer abilities, which she will have to come to respect for what they are and deal with the fear and stress that these visions may bring her. Merlin only knows it is going to be hard enough to pass her O.W.Ls as it is, before you add in the added visions.