Edwina Whitehead | First Year | Hufflepuff

Full name: Edwina Whitehead
House: Hufflepuff
School Year: 1^st Year

Age: 12
Date of Birth: April 3^th 2014
Species: Human
Blood status: Muggle-born

Wand: 20,0 cm chestnut wood and dragon heartstring

Physical Description

Edwina is thin and tall for her age. She has white skin, light blonde hair and her face is lightly covered in freckles. She has grayish-green eyes and thin light lips that hide a bit crooked teeth.

Personality

Edwina is restless and chaotic. She just cannot sit in one spot and do nothing.

Edwina does not think twice before doing something. She usually does anything that even relatively looks fun, but it often led her to dangerous situations. One time she fell from the tree, because she wanted to impress her friends and did not know how to get down, another one she fell under the ice, because she thought that it had already frozen enough at the beginning of December, so she was in the hospital for several weeks with a high fever. Her friends call her cool, her parents call it foolishness.

She always tries to be friendly with everyone she meets. She loves making people laugh but on the other side if nobody is laughing she thinks she is doing a bad job. Her biggest fear is quiet. In her opinion, if everyone around is silent it means that something is wrong. In moments like that she goes out of her way to cheer everyone up, even if it is not needed. Because of that Edwina is bad at emotional support and serious talks. She just does not understand what to do or say in response. She will always listen, but she feels really awkward.

Edwina is extremely loyal to her friends and if somebody is rude to them, she will start a fight without thinking. She will not tolerate insults in her direction too, but after a few fights and a bit of scolding from her mother, she at least does not break other children's noses.

Biography

Edwina was born to Claire and Mark Whitehead on April 3, 2014 in Manchester, England. She was an only child, though she really wanted a younger sibling. Her parents loved and cared for her from the day she was born. Sometimes her father's mother, Amanda, paid a visit. Although she had a grumpy personality, she never refused to spend time with Edwina or give her an extra piece of candy before her parents could see it.

When Edwina was just a little girl, she often went with her parents to her mother's hometown, Uppermill, to visit other relatives. It was Edwina's favourite place. Grandparents' small cottage smelled like honey and apple pie and was always bathed in sunlight. All her childhood she was running around through gardens and fields with brown border collie Bennie until the sunset.

Edwina went to an ordinary school in Manchester, but it was evident from the first classes that she was not as interested at math or biology as sports. She liked different activities and was always participating in everything she could. Despite this, Edwina was not the worst in her class. She was a smart child and when necessary, studied diligently, but otherwise she had slightly different priorities.

Her mother was unemployed for a long time, so it was her, who cooked, cleaned the house and brought up Edwina most of the time. She helped her with her homework, but in the process was stricter than usual, so Edwina did not really like that time spent. Since 2023 she had returned to work as an HR-manager in another company.

Her father was a football coach for a local team. He was not really successful, but he liked his job. He was the one who instilled in Edwina a love of sports and constantly spent active time with her. For Edwina's 6th birthday, he gifted her a football, hoping that she might want to pursue this career later. Despite that, Edwina was not interested in football any more than in the other sports.

Her parents bought her phone quite late and most of the time controlled the use of it, so she had a really limited knowledge of Internet. Therefore, she sometimes did not understand what her peers were saying, until her friends explained.

From the first year of school Edwina befriended three kids: Maria Brown, Leo Wilson and Noah Fletcher. The four of them was an inseparable team. Every summer they hung out as often as possible and some teachers did not like them, because they never paid attention in class if they were together.

First Instance of Magic

Since her nine Edwina became a target of bulling from the other pupil - a girl from her class who transferred to their school later, Christy Myers. Edwina and her friends tried to ignore her, but it was not possible to ignore everything. When Edwina turned ten, on her birthday Christy and other mean girls annoyed her all day: pulled on her hair, when teacher was not looking, grabbed things from her and did not give back, tripped her up. Her friends said that that was only to make her angry so she tried to stay calm as much as she could. But when she received a note in her last lesson in which Christy made fun of her mother, Edwina felt like she might explode with anger.

At the same moment, her notebook caught on fire by itself. With the quick reaction of a teacher, a larger fire or injuries to the students were avoided and it extinguished quickly. However, Edwina was severely reprimanded both at school and at home for using a lighter, despite her efforts to convince that she did not have one. Nobody, except her friends, believed her, but either way everybody seemed to quickly forget about the incident and it was never brought up again.