Nellie Elswood | First Year | Hufflepuff

Basic Info

Full Name: Noelle “Nellie” Paige Elswood

Age: 11 years old

Birthday: December 3rd, 2014

Year: first year

House: Hufflepuff

Blood status: Muggleborn

Gender: female

Wand: 29,0 cm blackthorn wood and phoenix feather.

Biography: Nellie had a pretty alright family life, if you were ever to ask her about it. She grew up in a sort of weird situation, her family wasn’t exactly poor, but they weren’t really comfortable or rich either, they were maybe a little bit below comfortable living. Not really comfortable but not really poor. She had her mum, a woman named Rose Elswood, then she had her dad, a man named Gage Elswood. Nellie remembered growing up that she constantly felt like she had to compete with her siblings, her sister, Ruby, and her brothers, Arthur and Charlie. Ruby was a bit younger than Nellie by about a year while Charlie was about three years younger, then Arthur was older by six years. Arthur wasn’t particularly the smartest, while Nellie was pretty well academically so her parents focused on him in that area, then her younger brother Charlie was often more favored as the youngest in the family and often got whatever he wanted. Meanwhile Ruby was often favored since she was more ‘well-behaved’ when Nellie was younger since Nellie would get jealous and act out for attention. However, she eventually grew into her responsible, mature, sweet, and well-behaved self once she made more friends.

First instance of magic: Nellie’s first instance of magic was when she was six. It happened one day at a birthday party for her neighbor, the adults had been talking in the front yard laughing over wine while the kids were playing games in the backyard. They had all been playing hide and seek, Nellie had hid in the best place she could find nearby. Which was.. well.. just a thick-ish tree. She desperately hoped and prayed nobody would find her while she hid. Eventually.. someone did. Or rather, she thought they had. They instead walked right past her while she was right in front of them. She was very confused. Maybe just thought they were jokingly going past her. The truth, however, was that Nellie had turned invisible. Nobody knew though since nobody saw, obviously, and Nellie didn’t think of it like that. She just happily ran to her parents and told them about how she’d won hide and seek since she hid really well. Nobody suspected anything out of the ordinary really, just had a few kids accusing her of having hid inside the house, which was against the rules. They got over it, though.