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---- Full Name: Daphne Andromeda Kerberyx ----
---- Age: 11 (20/03/2014) ----
---- Height: 5'0 ft (152cm) freedom units! ----
---- Pronouns: She/They ----
---- House: Gryffindor ----
---- Blood Status: Pureblood ----
---- Patronus: TBD ----
---- Wand: 24,4 cm cherry wood and snallygaster heartstring ----
---- Wand Wood: ----

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"The Western wand-purchaser should dispel from their minds any notion that the pink blossom of the living tree makes for a frivolous or merely ornamental wand, for cherry wood often makes a wand that possesses truly lethal power"

---- History/Background: ----

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Before Hogwarts:
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Daphne was a quiet child.

She didn't like expressing much, generally having either an unfeeling expression or a stern one. Her family found it endearing for the first few years, deeming her a grumpy baby until she became older and it started to be seen as disrespect.

Daphne started to adopt a seemingly exuberant, bright personality; always smiling, always laughing, and full of energy. Nobody knew it was a sham, an act. She's never known what it's like to genuinely smile, but that doesn't mean she's unfeeling. No, on the contrary, she felt almost too much. Her feelings bubbled up in her chest and gripped at her senses, but her brain just didn't send signals to express it as most people would through facial expressions. So she constantly forced it to be socially acceptable.

Her mother died when she was around 4 years old due to a cursed blood malediction, and upon her father's emotional distress, her grandmother chose to take her in and care for her at the age of 8. Her father stayed in touch, still caring for her, still providing funds for her, but he figured it was the right action. He was in no place to raise a child.

Daphne has 7 older sisters, but she has a fairly wide age gap from most of them, so she sees them more as aunts. When they lived with her before she moved in with her grandma, they'd take care of her, doing her hair, making her outfits, and teaching her to cook for herself.

One of her sisters in particular, Rose, the third born, took on a motherly approach toward Daphne. When she was still a baby and her mother was sick, Rose would play with her, feed her, and walk her around when she was old enough. Daphne even called her 'Mom' when she was too young to understand what was going on. Due to this, Daphne and Rose still share a close relationship, a maternal bond.

Daphne's grandmother, Vivian, was a renowned Ravenclaw. In her early 80s as of today, she attended Hogwarts when it had a very different atmosphere. She had a bit of a rebellious streak in her teenage years but was now a refined woman, focused on perfection and etiquette.

She raised Daphne with somewhat strict expectations, believing it necessary due to the lack of attention Daphne's skills received as a young child.

Daphne was raised in Vivian's house doing chores, making her own food since she had a distaste for most dishes, exercising, and learning etiquette, table manners, piano, and singing.

Daphne was relieved when she received the letter from Hogwarts; her living situation was suffocating her. Vivian, while genuinely caring for her granddaughter, had numerous harsh and outdated forms of discipline, sometimes projecting her own issues onto Daphne.

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Time at Hogwarts:
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TBD.

---- First Instance of Magic: ----

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Her first experience with magic happened when she was 5 years old: she was angry with her older sister, Julietta, when a pot of ink suddenly splattered on the nearby walls. Julie had asked her to clean up a mess that their other sisters had made and she deemed it unfair, resulting in the anger at her argument being ignored. Julie was in denial about the act at first, momentarily telling herself that she was overreacting and it wasn't an event as significant as Daphne's first instance of magic. The older sister later told their father who was elated at the news.

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