River Walker | First Year | Slytherin
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Trunk┆ Basics ┆ Family ┆ Home ┆ Significant Events ┆ Threads ┆ Miscellaneous ┆ OOC
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Statistics and Abilities
| stamina ◦ 7 | evasion ◦ 8 | strength ◦ 0 | wisdom ◦ 7 | arcane power ◦ 4 | accuracy ◦ 9 |Known Spells
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River Walker | First Year | Slytherin
Basics
Full name: River Reid Walker
Nickname: none yet – check later
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Date of birth: 19 / 01/ 2013
Nationality: English / Norwegian
Blood status: Pureblood
Wand: 33,9 cm ash wood and unicorn hair
House : Slytherin
Boggart : Aquatic Creature
Background Story:
ReducioRiver was the surprise seventh child of the Murdstone family. A long running pureblood lineage, his closest sibling had graduated from Hogwarts only months before his arrival. While he was somewhat of a shock to a family who had been expecting an empty nest, he was no less loved nor wanted than any of his siblings. Being the youngest child of all adult siblings he was a little spoiled with affection and gifts for the first two years of his life.
The year that River turned three marked a time of absolute change for the family. That was the year that his eldest sister was hexed in a particularly nasty encounter whilst working as an Auror. At first it was thought that with a little time and care she would recover. The re-introduction of a sibling back into the house had not gone smoothly. River had been used to being in his eyes ‘an only child’. Siblings were people who visited with gifts and playtime adventures. A hexed sibling however, drew his mother’s attention away and made him feel excluded and abandoned. Such harsh feelings culminated one day in an almost devastating tantrum from the then toddler.
River had been in the kitchen with his mother, attempting to garner her attention, and not understanding that mixing magical remedies required all of her attention, had a meltdown. The pure emotional force of his frustrations culminated in the fireplace roaring an inferno of flame up the chimney and sent knifes, pans, plates and silverware zooming about the room in a frightening display of accidental magic.
After this incident, it was decided that it would benefit everyone if River was sent to stay with his Great Aunt Agnes while the sister was cared for by Mother. The elderly witch had no qualms in taking the toddler, and so it was that River was sent to stay Mistwood Farm with his Great Aunt for a two week stay.
No matter how one plans, life is always unpredictable and often messy. At least in the eyes of the Murdstone family. Those two short weeks turned to a month, then to another month and before anyone saw it happening, a year followed by another year. Great Aunt Agnes, despite her many decades, had found a sense of peace and enjoyment in the process of sloughing off spinster life and donning a mother’s apron. She found it re-invigorating to be needed by someone on a true reliance level. She seemed to drop decades of age from her face as she engaged with her new charge and a bond between the two blossomed as joyfully as a garden in spring.
River, for his part, never felt any abandonment, nor did he feel punished for his tantrum. Great Aunt Agnes was wonderful and her house was an adventure. His parents often visited, sent owls with letters and gifts and took him out on adventurous trips to interesting places such as the zoo. As time marched forward their visits became less frequent but River was also growing and becoming more involved with his own interests and responsibilities, leaving him no time to dwell on could or should be notions. His Great Aunt taught him emotional control. Her strict, but loving ways, nurtured a stoic self reliance in her young charge that curtailed further fits of emotion.
When he turned five, his Aunt proposed sending him to the small local school near to her cottage. While a muggle school the family had never held any prejudices against those without magic, indeed most members were involved in protecting those without magic from those with. In order to enroll the boy it was necessary for Agnes to adopt River and give him a ‘muggle identity’ much like her own local persona. This meant changing his family name to his Aunt’s chosen muggle name of Walker. Aunt Agnes had, for years, lived in a small village, surrounded by those without magic and had many years before, chosen a muggle surname to better assimilate. She had always likened it to the changes foreigners had made to their names in order to make their life easier in their new country.
River loved many aspects of school. Reading, writing, mathematics, sciences, all of these things he enjoyed. Only one aspect of his time in a muggle school did River not like and that was hiding the truth about his Aunt. It was difficult to keep such a giant secret from his friends. His Aunt grew fantastical plants and nurtured creatures that muggles thought imaginary on her little farm. Fortunately those very few times he had let anything slip it had been when he was still very young and all had been chalked up to imagination and childish play.
During the day he would go to school and of an afternoon he would return home to the chores of his Aunt’s small farm. Agnes provided potioneers and wand maker’s a like with magical ingredients and byproducts of her menagerie. She also used herbal knowledge for those in the village who sought her out. Some calling her the white witch of Mistwood never knowing how close to the truth they were. It was for those muggles, a fairy tale, a little romanticism and no more.
Every year the farm grew a little as Agnes purchased adjoining farmland and set much of it to the regrowth of forest or lake expansion where her creatures would feel more at home and hiding her tilled land with a natural barrier. Along with her farming, Agnes ran a farm stay on her grounds in a pretty little cottage that stood well away from her own. The cottage not only explained her income to the locals but also justified the way she managed to purchase more land.
The year he received his acceptance letter to Hogwarts, was the first that his Aunt’s friend chose not to rent the small cottage. The family had been visiting the farm for decades. A friendship between Agnes and a great grandmother had begun the traditional vacation at Agnes’ farm-stay. This meant that it was the first year since turning eight, that he would not spend the summer months with their daughter, his best and only true friend.
Personality
well mannered
organized
dependable
calm
methodical
pragmatic
perfectionist
stubborn
reserved
River is commonly described as stoic. While not without emotion he is well versed in containing and controlling his feelings in order to evaluate his situation and be more decisive. He utilizes objectivity and rationality in his approach to the world over imaginative fancy. It takes a good deal of cajoling to coax River into play. His drive and perfectionism keeps his attention on work, obligation and achievements first and foremost.
Though not easily befriended, he is both a loyal and reliable friend to those few who break through his barriers. For those few who abuse that trust or make themselves a foe, River has a darker more vengeful nature. While often polite and kind, his control over emotion enables him to be detached from a great deal of empathy and thus to act ruthlessly in pursuit of his aims be they academic or personal.
Drawn to calmer environments he can be sensitive to stress and is somewhat a perfectionist with an application of mind that can only be chalked up as determined ambition.
Appearance:
Although having a slight build, River does not appear overly fragile. His light blonde hair is neatly trimmed but often windswept because of its light wispy nature. This gives his angular features a defined and sharp appearance and drawing attention to the pale blue of his eyes. Despite his youth, his features rarely move to a pure rendition of feeling. Giant smiles and belly laughs are not something the boy engages in.
He is particular about his appearance and attire, ensuring his clothing is neat and orderly at all times. It would be unlikely to find him with his shirt untucked or smudged with dirt. He prefers to wear a starched shirt over modern comfort styles. Always well groomed and manicured he carries himself with a straight backed formality. When reading he is known to wear glasses.
River Walker | First Year | Slytherin
Family
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Agnes Walker
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When a young witch, Agnes made a very good friend of Maeve during her time at Hogwarts. The pair often claimed to be inseparable trouble makers of their era but their school records would beg to differ. Agnes’ idea of wickedness during her youth was having midnight feasts and reading past lights out. Different times, different rebellions.
The friends remained in touch after graduation, updating one another on the events of their lives and the challenges they faced. It was this close friendship and the support it gave her that inspired Agnes to turn her dream into a reality and begin her little farm. Once a year her friend would come to stay for a week or two and the pair would forget that they were no long school girls.
While Maeve went on to marry and have children, Agnes poured her time into her farm of magical plants and creatures. She never felt the need to wed nor to create a family of her own. She was far too busy for that and besides she had Maeve and a sister of her own as enough companionship. It became apparent to Maeve that her children lacked an aptitude for magic. When it was confirmed that the children were squibs Maeve and her husband made the decision to raise them as muggles. Maeve having been muggle born, felt it better not to let her children know what they were missing out on.
Agnes was reticent to lose her friend because of a decision that she could understand. She made the decision then to adopt a muggle identity. Her love of her friend did not diminish because her children were entering into a different world. She and Maeve learned to cast the Muggle-Repelling Charm in order to hide the magical aspects of the farm and Agnes commissioned a new cottage to be constructed for Maeve to stay with her family so that the old friends could still spend summers together.
As time has marched onward those first squib children had children of their own and Agnes shared the joy of her extended family despite them not being ‘appropriate friends’ according to her own family. Agnes, though one to follow rules, had always forged her own path in life and as a result was considered eccentric. She reasoned that she was an adult and could do as she pleased even at the risk of being ostracized by those more snobbish members of her bloodline.
As the friends grew older there were discussions between the two. Old resolutions and promises to always be there for one another were extended to Maeve’s descendants. Agnes vowed that she would keep her summer house open to Maeve’s family as long as they wished to come. At the time she never imagined that her promise would continue into a third and even a fourth generation.
When her friend passed away, Agnes grief was so deep that she withdrew from much of her lifestyle. She became reclusive and introspective. Her summer house remained open to her friend’s family but her interaction with them decreased. Though she still loved the family and was interested to watch and see if the spark of magic ever returned, she could not bare to have too close a connection with faces that reflected those of her departed friend. This was how Agnes’ farm became less a part of extended family and more of a vacation venue to the descendants of her friend.
When her nephew approached her some years later with the story of his son and his need to leave the child with her for a brief stay, a little of the light returned to Agnes’ eyes. Although dubious of her nephews motivations, she extended her hospitality and agreed to take the child in. Her nephew had always been one of those to avoid contact with Agnes and the elderly woman would not have been surprised if he spoke disparagingly of her behind closed doors. Despite this suspicion, Agnes agreed to take the child in for a brief stay.
It was not as steep a learning curve as she had expected to take care of a child. Agnes thanked her friend many times in those first days. Her time spent with the children of her friend had educated her in childcare just enough to muddle through and allow a bond between the elder and child to blossom.
When the period of stay was first extended Agnes was surprised to find herself relieved. She enjoyed the company of this small boy as she bustled about the tasks of her farm. He had brightened her days and added an element of play into every moment that pulled her from her mourning. Eventually the extensions of stay expanded so frequently that she demanded that her nephew relinquish the child into her care. She had no intention of being the boy’s primary support to have it ripped away at any moment. Such a thing would devastate both. She demanded that they allow her to adopt the child to secure her own and the boy’s emotional states.
As River grew the elder taught him to curtail his emotions. His first experience of magic had been chaotic and she was determined that he be in control of himself and his magic. This was especially important given that she still had the descendants of her friend visit the farm once a year. Many would consider her a strict parental force in her demands and expectations. Look a little deeper into the relationship and one can see that her strictness is born of her love of the child in her care.
Now that River has gone off to Hogwarts she is somewhat at a loss during her days. She misses her young companion. Though technically her son, she never calls him such but has made arrangements for his future as though he were.
The friends remained in touch after graduation, updating one another on the events of their lives and the challenges they faced. It was this close friendship and the support it gave her that inspired Agnes to turn her dream into a reality and begin her little farm. Once a year her friend would come to stay for a week or two and the pair would forget that they were no long school girls.
While Maeve went on to marry and have children, Agnes poured her time into her farm of magical plants and creatures. She never felt the need to wed nor to create a family of her own. She was far too busy for that and besides she had Maeve and a sister of her own as enough companionship. It became apparent to Maeve that her children lacked an aptitude for magic. When it was confirmed that the children were squibs Maeve and her husband made the decision to raise them as muggles. Maeve having been muggle born, felt it better not to let her children know what they were missing out on.
Agnes was reticent to lose her friend because of a decision that she could understand. She made the decision then to adopt a muggle identity. Her love of her friend did not diminish because her children were entering into a different world. She and Maeve learned to cast the Muggle-Repelling Charm in order to hide the magical aspects of the farm and Agnes commissioned a new cottage to be constructed for Maeve to stay with her family so that the old friends could still spend summers together.
As time has marched onward those first squib children had children of their own and Agnes shared the joy of her extended family despite them not being ‘appropriate friends’ according to her own family. Agnes, though one to follow rules, had always forged her own path in life and as a result was considered eccentric. She reasoned that she was an adult and could do as she pleased even at the risk of being ostracized by those more snobbish members of her bloodline.
As the friends grew older there were discussions between the two. Old resolutions and promises to always be there for one another were extended to Maeve’s descendants. Agnes vowed that she would keep her summer house open to Maeve’s family as long as they wished to come. At the time she never imagined that her promise would continue into a third and even a fourth generation.
When her friend passed away, Agnes grief was so deep that she withdrew from much of her lifestyle. She became reclusive and introspective. Her summer house remained open to her friend’s family but her interaction with them decreased. Though she still loved the family and was interested to watch and see if the spark of magic ever returned, she could not bare to have too close a connection with faces that reflected those of her departed friend. This was how Agnes’ farm became less a part of extended family and more of a vacation venue to the descendants of her friend.
When her nephew approached her some years later with the story of his son and his need to leave the child with her for a brief stay, a little of the light returned to Agnes’ eyes. Although dubious of her nephews motivations, she extended her hospitality and agreed to take the child in. Her nephew had always been one of those to avoid contact with Agnes and the elderly woman would not have been surprised if he spoke disparagingly of her behind closed doors. Despite this suspicion, Agnes agreed to take the child in for a brief stay.
It was not as steep a learning curve as she had expected to take care of a child. Agnes thanked her friend many times in those first days. Her time spent with the children of her friend had educated her in childcare just enough to muddle through and allow a bond between the elder and child to blossom.
When the period of stay was first extended Agnes was surprised to find herself relieved. She enjoyed the company of this small boy as she bustled about the tasks of her farm. He had brightened her days and added an element of play into every moment that pulled her from her mourning. Eventually the extensions of stay expanded so frequently that she demanded that her nephew relinquish the child into her care. She had no intention of being the boy’s primary support to have it ripped away at any moment. Such a thing would devastate both. She demanded that they allow her to adopt the child to secure her own and the boy’s emotional states.
As River grew the elder taught him to curtail his emotions. His first experience of magic had been chaotic and she was determined that he be in control of himself and his magic. This was especially important given that she still had the descendants of her friend visit the farm once a year. Many would consider her a strict parental force in her demands and expectations. Look a little deeper into the relationship and one can see that her strictness is born of her love of the child in her care.
Now that River has gone off to Hogwarts she is somewhat at a loss during her days. She misses her young companion. Though technically her son, she never calls him such but has made arrangements for his future as though he were.
Agnes' approach with River
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Agnes is considered a ‘Muggle lover’ by her extended family. Always the eccentric she has always walked to the beat of her own drum. While often excluded from family interactions it was more the result of an understanding that she would not attend rather than because of any animosity between family members. The family had seldom spoken of Agnes when it came to conversations of blood purity. It would be difficult for most to identify her as a part of River’s birth family as she is seldom mentioned and no longer shares the same family name.
While her farm is an expansive property much of it is devoted to forest which is ostensibly (in the muggle world) a nature preserve. It is not, however. While the land does function as a preserve, it is an intended barrier between the functional part of her farm and the muggle world. It is on the very outer edge of her lands that the vacation house exists and that part lays beyond the barrier of the Muggle Repelling charm that rings the magical areas of the farm and the family home.
While it could be considered that the farm is near to the muggle world, it is certainly more removed from the muggle world than other wizarding homes such as Spinner’s End or the Black family home which are both located on muggle streets. The nearest road to pass is Mistwood Farm is well beyond the borders of the lands owned by Agnes, joined only by an unofficial dirt road otherwise considered a driveway which stops at the secondary residence and does not venture to the actual residence of Agnes nor to her true farming land.
Agnes has lived through more than one generation of her late friend’s children growing up. As a spinster who had no personal knowledge of children and one who has little to do with her extended family, she found herself reliant upon the advice and lead of Maeve’s squib now muggle lineage and what she had observed them doing. This resulted in her taking a very muggle approach to River’s upbringing and his interaction with the world.
When she agreed to take on the child permanently, Agnes again sought the advice of her friend’s child. She learned that she ought to solidify the arrangement if she chose to take the boy on permanently to protect her heart from the family simply choosing to just take him back on a whim. Agnes agreed that this was a very good idea. Having no idea how to achieve this, Agnes sought out the advice of an old school chum who, unbeknownst to her, was a little less scrupulous than she may have wished when it came to legal matters. Her friend manufactured a muggle birth certificate from the stolen identity of a deceased muggle infant born the same year as River. This manufactured information was used to formally adopt River through the muggle courts and which became in the process a formalised legal identity as the child’s name was changed to ‘Walker’ at that time.
Where it came to immunisations and education, Agnes again followed the advice of her friend’s child and the officials that somehow had wormed their way into her life. If it came to any official wanting a home inspection or visit with the family, Agnes used the secondary building on her property as her ‘home’ in order to appear perfectly muggle born and normal. Over the course of two months, River was caught up on his vaccinations and then followed the same vaccine regime as his muggle peers through the school.
Should any person or institution need to contact Agnes for any matters related to River, her contact information has always been routed through her friend’s second squib child, Charlie, who lived in the village. While he had no magic of his own, he knew a little about the wizarding world through his witch mother and shared a friendship with Agnes who had always been a part of his life. Though he was now elderly he had access to a telephone and a computer, which made him the ideal person, in Agnes’ opinion, for a secondary contact. The beauty of her ‘preserve’ meant that she could claim that cell phones simply do not get coverage in the valley and as she is often out in the expanse of the property, a land line is useless. As such, contacting Charlie is a more reliable route to get in contact with her and she had given him the permissions required to make decisions on her behalf where it came to an emergency where River was concerned.
When it came to education, Agnes had no time to spare to educate a child. The farm required a great deal of her time and energy and she was not the youthful woman she once was. She also felt it would behove the child not only to formulate friendships but to put into practice the control of emotion that she rigidly instilled into him. In her opinion, the boy needed to control his emotions in order that he grow into a self reliant, well rounded individual. School would require the boy to not only control his emotions but also his actions. It would educate him not only in the fundamentals (reading writing and arithmetic) but also about the muggle world and break down any blood purity nonsense that his parents may have instilled into his thinking. In Agnes’ mind it was all beneficial in a rapidly changing world. She also felt it highly unlikely that any accidental magic from the boy would be greater than any muggle born child’s magic. Indeed, in her day, muggle borns had been thought to have greater magic so surely it would be fine.
River could walk from her farm to the road where the muggles ran a bus line to the village and should River ever need access to a computer for homework or need to go to the venture to the library, Charlie would be there to help despite his seventy odd years of age. River never did formulate the friendships that she had hoped for him however. Surrounded by elderly people and a magical home, his affect was off putting to his peers. They had found him strange and largely avoided him. This was a fact Agnes would never discover however as Charlie never raised the concerns of River’s teachers with Agnes. Since boy seemed happy enough and never complained about bullying or isolation, Charlie made the decision not to meddle.
Had anyone asked Agnes, she would have shared her thoughts on Muggle kind. Muggles (in her opinion) were rapidly changing. From the days when no one had a television to a time they carried cell phones they had changed a great deal faster than Wizarding kind. The changes she had witnessed through her contact with her friend’s children (and in smaller part their descendants) made her feel it imperative that her young charge learn all about Muggles and their technology.
Muggle and Wizarding folk alike, often referred to her as a little nutty or a conspiracy theorist. Agnes holds a firm belief that muggle technology poses a greater threat to the wizarding world than most would care to admit. It has progressed exponentially since the arrival of home computers and brought with it a greater use of electricity. She can remember a time when there were no cell towers, less power lines and less muggle population. Electricity interferes with magic, (hence her forest borders) and muggle populations are growing thus spreading electricity like a virus throughout the country. Agnes believes that this could in time weaken magic over all and leave the wizarding population vulnerable to a re-occurrence of history. She fears that tensions will rise between muggles and magic users again and should a war break out her young River would certainly be caught up in it. The best way to protect him is to educate him in those things she cannot (the muggle world) and give him access to those who could be a threat in the hope it will give him foresight into any impending danger. Her choice to send River to muggle school has never been a simple act of altruism.
Agnes is considered a ‘Muggle lover’ by her extended family. Always the eccentric she has always walked to the beat of her own drum. While often excluded from family interactions it was more the result of an understanding that she would not attend rather than because of any animosity between family members. The family had seldom spoken of Agnes when it came to conversations of blood purity. It would be difficult for most to identify her as a part of River’s birth family as she is seldom mentioned and no longer shares the same family name.
While her farm is an expansive property much of it is devoted to forest which is ostensibly (in the muggle world) a nature preserve. It is not, however. While the land does function as a preserve, it is an intended barrier between the functional part of her farm and the muggle world. It is on the very outer edge of her lands that the vacation house exists and that part lays beyond the barrier of the Muggle Repelling charm that rings the magical areas of the farm and the family home.
While it could be considered that the farm is near to the muggle world, it is certainly more removed from the muggle world than other wizarding homes such as Spinner’s End or the Black family home which are both located on muggle streets. The nearest road to pass is Mistwood Farm is well beyond the borders of the lands owned by Agnes, joined only by an unofficial dirt road otherwise considered a driveway which stops at the secondary residence and does not venture to the actual residence of Agnes nor to her true farming land.
Agnes has lived through more than one generation of her late friend’s children growing up. As a spinster who had no personal knowledge of children and one who has little to do with her extended family, she found herself reliant upon the advice and lead of Maeve’s squib now muggle lineage and what she had observed them doing. This resulted in her taking a very muggle approach to River’s upbringing and his interaction with the world.
When she agreed to take on the child permanently, Agnes again sought the advice of her friend’s child. She learned that she ought to solidify the arrangement if she chose to take the boy on permanently to protect her heart from the family simply choosing to just take him back on a whim. Agnes agreed that this was a very good idea. Having no idea how to achieve this, Agnes sought out the advice of an old school chum who, unbeknownst to her, was a little less scrupulous than she may have wished when it came to legal matters. Her friend manufactured a muggle birth certificate from the stolen identity of a deceased muggle infant born the same year as River. This manufactured information was used to formally adopt River through the muggle courts and which became in the process a formalised legal identity as the child’s name was changed to ‘Walker’ at that time.
Where it came to immunisations and education, Agnes again followed the advice of her friend’s child and the officials that somehow had wormed their way into her life. If it came to any official wanting a home inspection or visit with the family, Agnes used the secondary building on her property as her ‘home’ in order to appear perfectly muggle born and normal. Over the course of two months, River was caught up on his vaccinations and then followed the same vaccine regime as his muggle peers through the school.
Should any person or institution need to contact Agnes for any matters related to River, her contact information has always been routed through her friend’s second squib child, Charlie, who lived in the village. While he had no magic of his own, he knew a little about the wizarding world through his witch mother and shared a friendship with Agnes who had always been a part of his life. Though he was now elderly he had access to a telephone and a computer, which made him the ideal person, in Agnes’ opinion, for a secondary contact. The beauty of her ‘preserve’ meant that she could claim that cell phones simply do not get coverage in the valley and as she is often out in the expanse of the property, a land line is useless. As such, contacting Charlie is a more reliable route to get in contact with her and she had given him the permissions required to make decisions on her behalf where it came to an emergency where River was concerned.
When it came to education, Agnes had no time to spare to educate a child. The farm required a great deal of her time and energy and she was not the youthful woman she once was. She also felt it would behove the child not only to formulate friendships but to put into practice the control of emotion that she rigidly instilled into him. In her opinion, the boy needed to control his emotions in order that he grow into a self reliant, well rounded individual. School would require the boy to not only control his emotions but also his actions. It would educate him not only in the fundamentals (reading writing and arithmetic) but also about the muggle world and break down any blood purity nonsense that his parents may have instilled into his thinking. In Agnes’ mind it was all beneficial in a rapidly changing world. She also felt it highly unlikely that any accidental magic from the boy would be greater than any muggle born child’s magic. Indeed, in her day, muggle borns had been thought to have greater magic so surely it would be fine.
River could walk from her farm to the road where the muggles ran a bus line to the village and should River ever need access to a computer for homework or need to go to the venture to the library, Charlie would be there to help despite his seventy odd years of age. River never did formulate the friendships that she had hoped for him however. Surrounded by elderly people and a magical home, his affect was off putting to his peers. They had found him strange and largely avoided him. This was a fact Agnes would never discover however as Charlie never raised the concerns of River’s teachers with Agnes. Since boy seemed happy enough and never complained about bullying or isolation, Charlie made the decision not to meddle.
Had anyone asked Agnes, she would have shared her thoughts on Muggle kind. Muggles (in her opinion) were rapidly changing. From the days when no one had a television to a time they carried cell phones they had changed a great deal faster than Wizarding kind. The changes she had witnessed through her contact with her friend’s children (and in smaller part their descendants) made her feel it imperative that her young charge learn all about Muggles and their technology.
Muggle and Wizarding folk alike, often referred to her as a little nutty or a conspiracy theorist. Agnes holds a firm belief that muggle technology poses a greater threat to the wizarding world than most would care to admit. It has progressed exponentially since the arrival of home computers and brought with it a greater use of electricity. She can remember a time when there were no cell towers, less power lines and less muggle population. Electricity interferes with magic, (hence her forest borders) and muggle populations are growing thus spreading electricity like a virus throughout the country. Agnes believes that this could in time weaken magic over all and leave the wizarding population vulnerable to a re-occurrence of history. She fears that tensions will rise between muggles and magic users again and should a war break out her young River would certainly be caught up in it. The best way to protect him is to educate him in those things she cannot (the muggle world) and give him access to those who could be a threat in the hope it will give him foresight into any impending danger. Her choice to send River to muggle school has never been a simple act of altruism.
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River Walker | First Year | Slytherin
Home
Mistwood Farm is a place of two identities.
Outwardly it is a small farmhouse set back from the road. A place that was perhaps once upon a time a thriving farm but has been set to grow into dappled oak forest with thick underbrush. Once tilled lands appear to have been returned to woodland while the old farmhouse, now restored and freshly painted is seldom used by the owner. Mostly people know it as a quiet place that the occasional vacationing family rents for a brief holiday.
The truth however is very different. The beautiful forests near to the summer house are the edge of the actual farm. Should any hiker choose to attempt the steep hills that rise from the creek bed they would find themselves confounded as to why they were attempting such a thing and have a sudden flash of urgency for some forgotten task far from the area. This is because, if not a magically inclined person, they have run into a Muggle repelling barrier that surrounds the wizarding farm hidden by the forest.
To get to the real farm one must traverse up the steep hills of the creek bed before venturing through the wild complex tangle of thickly growing trees, bushes, vines, flowering plants and fungi. Beyond all of this the traveller is greeted with a landscape of pasture and ploughed fields alike. Within those well maintained borders, fantastical creatures and magical plants are grown and cared for under the watchful gaze of the farmer. By far the plants out number the creatures for this mid sized farm.
Agnes Walker did not establish the farm. Certainly she has changed it and the crops it bares but the farmhouse and out buildings have stood many centuries. She purchased her land from a wizard who, the last of his family, was glad to sell to a like minded young witch. That was over half a century ago now and the lands about have expanded with a number of purchases of neighbouring fields. All those near to the sight of Muggles, set to forest regrowth so that a thick barrier bars prying eyes.
The main house has stood since the Tudors ruled the land and it has grown a little over time with the addition of an extension here and there. Where it once had only two rooms above a lower floor meant to house cattle and the like for warmth, it now boasts of a clean kitchen and cosy bedrooms with glazed windows and warm hearths. It is perhaps a darker home given that the windows are smaller when compared to modern windows but comfortable no less.
Image an amalgamation of images from Unsplash - Not to scale
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Role play events that impact the character enough to change who he is or how he reacts to another character.
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Alias: River is fine or Quill (Discord name)
Owls: open
Discord: open
Activity: Evenings most days.
Thread status: New player levels of open
Post length: I am a large poster but I'm happy to mirror my partner if large posts intimidate you. It often depends on the scene.
Post speed: Most of the time I can manage a daily post if life is kind.
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