Alice E. Bennet

Alice Eleanor Bennet

Pureblood

Fifth Year

Gryffindor

NICKNAMES N/A AGE/BIRTHDAY Age fifteen December 2, 1927 WAND Ebony, 12”, infused core of siren hair » wand properties: With its dark, luscious wood, an ebony wand proves to be most powerful and resilient. The single strand of a mermaid's hair possesses certain magical properties, most prominently, versatility and enchantment. This unique core enhances charms, spells of transfiguration, as well as spells that involves compelling. APPEARANCE At five feet and five inches, Alice stands shorter than most of her peers, however, not the shortest. She has hopes that older age will grace her with an inch or two more before her development from child to woman ends. As a child, her stature exaggerated her thin form, making her appear bony and frail. In the last year or two, her form has developed a more ‘womanly’ shape, one which Alice has learned to embrace with the grace of a young woman. She was instructed at a young age to “sit up straight!” therefore, she has naturally perfect posture. Her mother’s English/Irish blood blessed Alice with a fair complexion. Other features, namely her petite nose, light hair, and eyes are a result of her father’s Nordic ancestry. With locks like the sun, Alice’s blonde tresses retain a golden glimmer, tumbling down to mid-back. Naturally wavy, her hair allows a versatility many girls envy, by which it can be styled either wavy, straight or curled. Additional features include straight teeth and a small round scar near her left temple. This scar came to existence when her older brother convinced seven year old Alice that magic could make her fly, which promptly inspired Alice to jump from the second floor landing of their childhood treehouse only to realize that... she could not fly. » note on makeup: For everyday wear, Alice stays simple with powder, subtle brown/tan eyeshadow and rosy rouge. Every now and then, she switches her typical pink rogue for a warmer one that pairs nicely with red lipstick. » note on wardrobe: On weekdays, while schools in session, Alice stays in her student uniform. However, her uniform is that of a pureblood’s, or ‘old money’, meaning her white blouse is made of the finest cotton, her grey skirt of the warmest wool, her red and gold tie of the richest silk. Additives to this outfit include invisible pantyhose and freshly polished shoes. On weekends, Alice tends to dress as any other young girl would or, should it be said, any young rich girl would. From blouses and skirts to printed dresses, Alice manages to capture everyday elegance. As for special occasions... the words: luxurious, beautiful and polished befit Alice’s presentation. LISTS LIKES clip-on earrings horseback riding playing the piano singing quidditch running (especially in the rain) defense against the dark arts tranfiguration cold weather & snow professor kettleburn ice skating chocolate frogs her tinderblast broomstick DISLIKES the ignorant & the close-minded hot weather potions bullies lightening & thunder losing a quidditch match extreme blood supremacists romance novels (ugh...) falling off her broom whiners sore losers divination STRENGTHS intuition charm & transfiguration work reliability spunk intelligence problem solver honesty proving a point coordination gregariousness musical talent (piano/voice) WEAKNESSES naive impulsive numeracy/arithmetic vanity self-doubt workaholic potions sweets public speaking balance procrastination GOALS receive all ‘outstanding’ marks on her O.W.L.s to win gryffindor the quidditch house cup to understand potions class FEARS her father losing her brother failing a class heights (except when she’s on a broomstick) MANNERISRM hums to herself twirls her mother’s ring around her left ring finger when anxious when speaking emotionally, her eyebrows tend to ‘talk’ she cocks her left eyebrow from time to time when silently reading or thinking critically, she tends to mouth words MISCELLANEOUS mother’s open-casket coffin (her boggart) eagle (patronus) kuell, her pet short-eared owl seeker for gryffindor member of the slug club (as of the moment, only because of her brother) a formidable opponent in duels initially her family (and family friends) were not pleased to find Alice had been sorted into the likes of Gryffindor PLAY BY Amanda Seyfried THE PLAYER - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - S E R R I N E - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nineteen years of age. My RP experience is running on seven years and I RP cats and for one HP website, many years ago. I stumbled across The Hourglass while browsing through RPG Collection. Lastly, this is my first character.

personality Being born into a society where wealth, status, and presentation was of utmost importance, taught Alice simple lessons, such as “sit up straight”, “do not speak out of turn”, and “never mention your Aunt, she’s a blood traitor and a traitor to us”. It was these ideals that led Alice to lead a cultured life, one expected of an heir to an aristocratic pureblood family. After her mother’s death at the age of ten, Alice become introverted, hiding herself away. It wasn’t until she attended her first year at Hogwarts did she unhinge her timid bonds. It took time for her to adjust to being social again and her true traits were still buried deep inside. Now, nearly six years later, those traits are all that Alice is, her sometimes quiet nature lingers, but her detachment has long been six feet under. During her first year at Hogwarts, Alice’s thirst for knowledge proved quite useful as she was introduced to her classes. Diving into her work, she craved only the company of her studies. It was this relationship that established her as an intellectual student. Although she is of an old pureblood family line, her views of herself and her family are quite humble. She believes that she and her family live a privileged life and though other purebloods consider muggles inferior, and even ‘dirty’, Alice simply has no opinion. In her mind, muggles and mudbloods are just other people, people she doesn’t have to associate with, however, when the time arises she doesn’t sneer or turn her nose up, rather, she acts as though they are just another human being. As for her view on purebloods/half-bloods; it is not your blood statue that proves your worth, it is who you are what you do. Within the last year, Alice has lost some of her quiet nature to a more stronger one. From time to time, she has been known to lose her temper, becoming quite a hotheaded and outspoken teenager. When offended or faced with the task of standing up for herself and/or others she is not afraid to speak up. It is at times like this, when her temper gets the best of her and the irrational things she says may not necessarily be true. Since she was young, Alice was always brave, especially with her brother’s dares. This resulted in countless accidents and injuries throughout her childhood. This resilient nature helped Alice when she began her training for Quidditch in her second year at Hogwarts. Since then her bravery on the field has evolved to a more daring nature, bordering reckless. Ignoring the voiced concerns of her captain and fellow teammates, Alice shrugs them off, after all, no pain no game. The same can be said when she speaks up for herself or others. Her conversation and word choice, can become a bit... daring. history » immediate family members: Silas Harrison Bennet • father A man of immense power and riches is a force not to be reckoned with and few dare to cross this man. With a mind as irrational as his desires, Alice fears him and has yet to completely trust him. He has never done a thing other than treat Alice as his only daughter, however, Alice believes there to be sinister side of him, one she has no enthusiasm to meet. Sneaking into his office several nights in a row proved her inclinations true, for she found items she couldn’t discover names or purposes of and, if she did, they were as formidable as they looked. Not to mention receipts for a shop named Borgin & Burkes, one she later discovered was host for the items she found in her father’s office and one with a dark reputation. It scared her as a child and she hasn’t been able to shake the feeling since. Needless to say, she’ll avoid him whenever home and hides the fact she’s discovered his secret adorations... ones even darker than her suspicions. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Helene Ingram Bennet • mother A kindhearted woman, it was Helene who taught Alice tolerance and helped separate her daughter from the other close-minded purebloods. Alice suffered greatly at the hands of her untimely death, but a part of Helene will also be present in Alice, a part Alice holds dear. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Caius Christopher Bennet • brother Age seventeen, Slytherin With an ambitious mind, Caius Bennet strives for a power. Cunning as he is, he can never seem to get what he wants. Always wishing to be the leader, he ends up being the follower, which frustrates him to no end. His father claims that he should take a different approach and become a follower and recently he has done just that. It was Tom Riddle that caught hist attention. Brilliant, captivating and by the far the most charismatic boy Caius has ever had the pleasure to be in company of, he promptly began brown-nosing his way into the Prefect's good graces. Selling himself as useful proved difficult at first, but it seems he finally managed impress Riddle. Alice claims is nothing but a pathetic puppy who follows his master brainlessly. Caius heatedly disagrees. » notable family members: Genevieve Lorraine Spinner • aunt Helene’s younger sister who is considered a blood traitor after marrying a muggle man. She has since been disowned by the Bennet family (courtesy of Alice’s father), resulting in the children never being allowed to speak of her, for she has shamed the family in the worst imaginable way possible. Alice although, frequently writes to her Aunt, without knowledge from her father and brother. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Bryford Bennet • distant relative A researcher and scientist of the magical arts, Bryford Bennet (c. 1800s) was one of the two accredited inventors of the bone regrowth potion, Skele-Grow. Second-born child to Silas and Helene Bennet on the second of December, nineteen twenty seven, Alice Eleanor Bennet was a child born to enormous wealth. A wealth that established a relatively carefree childhood. A childhood brimmed with indulgences, prim manners and soirees that were as tedious as the conversations that came about at said events. As a Bennet, Alice was endowed with privileges many would never have the pleasure of knowing, but with her entitlement came sacrifice. Her future decided, she could never truly be free. She had a name to uphold, a certain society to marry into, and a career that had to offer the highest title. She was never allowed to visit (or look) at what most pureblood families deemed ‘the lower; the lesser’- Muggles, as the rest of the wizarding world came to know them as. Despite her isolation, Alice could not help but wonder what their world was like. How did they survive without magic? Were they really as hideous as she heard them described? Did they have brains as small and as simple as the stream’s common minnow? Much to her father’s dismay, Alice, at a very young age, began to question such things. It was her mother that came to Alice’s aid, answering her questions to the best of her knowledge... knowledge that would, in turn, destroy her. » spring, 1937: It was a scream that awoke ten year old Alice that tragic morning of April fourth. Minutes later, she discovered that a faithful house-elf servant had done the unthinkable. It was the house-elf that cooked the food, the house-elf that delivered a one-person breakfast, the house-elf that poisoned and killed Helene Ingram Bennet. The events that followed were a blur to Alice. She remembers her shared grief with her father and her then twelve year old brother and her father’s determination to see the elf imprisoned in Azkaban. He believed death to be too swift a justice, too much a mercy. With the elf locked away for life and her mother’s grave mounted, Alice lost herself that Spring and it would be nearly another year before she would begin her recovery process. The day Alice received her acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was a day both of anticipation and a certain dread. Alice would began one of many important life milestones... without her mother by her side. What was worst, she would have to face her peers, peers who had heard the rumors and had spread them like wildfire. Luckily, she had her older brother there to cushion the fear. It was in his arms that she feel asleep while on her first journey to Hogwarts, via the Hogwarts Express. Her first year at Hogwarts was spent in solitude, enraptured in books, quills, and school work. She found company in her brother, her studies, and her pet owl, Kuell. It was with the owl her father give her as a birthday present that Alice grew most attached. They formed a bond that would last through many years. In her second year, Alice tried out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team and was pleasantly surprised to find she made chaser. She treated learning Quidditch like any of her other studies and soon proved to be quite a fine player. Along with improving her gameplay, she was also confronted with the challenge of dealing with a newfound social life. It was only after she made a miraculous winning goal during a match against Slytherin did she revive her social life. Finding comfort in her friends, Alice reached new heights by her third year. Through her third and fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Alice grew into herself, both physically and mentally. It was her fourth year that the spot of seeker became available for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Alice promptly tried out and got the position. She still holds the position to this day. It was also during this year that Alice began to separate herself from her brother, for reasons her brother deems ‘selfish’. It wasn’t the fact that he was beginning to spend less and less time with her or the fact that he was suddenly reminding her of her father; it was the fact he seemed to worship the ground that a certain student walked on. There was just something about Tom Riddle that Alice simply couldn’t ignore. It wasn’t his charms, his good looks, his Prefect badge, his academic success, nor the fact that he saved the school from a certain doom. It was much simpler than all of that. Alice’s intuition told her not to trust such a seemingly model student and she suspected it was his perfection that raised the red flag, but another part of her (one that refused to surface) was jealous. This perfect boy has come along a taken one of the few precious things Alice had left. One thing was for certain, she was losing her brother and she found herself throughly troubled by such a thought. As her fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry begins and her brother’s allegiances shifting, Alice can feel her relationship with her brother straining, as if each thread is being pulled thinner and thinner. The question is, can she pull him back? » the truth of Helene’s death: Unbeknownst to Alice, her brother, and all. . . It was Silas who murdered his wife in cold blood. His reasoning was due to the fact Helene had started and held onto a purely platonic affair with a muggle man for years. Silas grew troubled, and even obsessed, with their relationship, scouring his wife’s things to read the letters they exchanged. It was when he discovered a certain letter where Helene was apparently going to take Alice along with her the next time she met up with the man. Silas was unable to bear having a wife who associated herself so deeply to the very thing he and his family for generations had fought against and having the audacity to bring his children into such filth. Driven by irrationality and complete fury (jealousy, too, even though he would deny it), Silas poisoned her food and framed a house elf on his treachery.

BANNER BY SERRINE

TEMPLATE BY FEDORA @ CAUTION 2.0 AND A THOUSAND FIREFLIES

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DISCLAIMER: this was a sample from 2008 and I can assure you my writing has significantly improved since. I only used this because I have nothing else to offer due to the fact it has been awhile since I’ve role played. If you would rather me write something completely new, let me know and I’ll be happy to comply!

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”It’s alright darling. There is no need to cry.”

Celena frowned at this and didn’t reply to the woman. That’s what everyone kept saying, she did not feel the need to cry. Not yet. She was expecting the man she looked up to as hero to walk through the front door and make a funny joke, just like he always did. Then he would take her in his arms, ask her how her day went and tickle her until she cried silly. She stood by the door waiting. She took care in looking around her surroundings.

There were women dressed in fancy black dresses, their distressed faces hidden behind a veil of black netting. They were crying. There eye makeup smeared by wiping their eyes with delicate white handkerchiefs, their husbands standing by them, with grim and somber expression playing across their faces. They were all looking into a long rectangular oak box, laying on a large table that was covered with a white tablecloth. The box had an eerie feel to it, a feeling that made shivers go down her spine and made her cling to Lucinda, her cat, who has content in her arms.

Celena noticed for the first time her mother was crying. She was surrounded by a group of women, all crying. Some patted her on back, while the others stroked her hair. My mother looked up and met her eyes. In a moments time she had straightened up, wiped her eyes and excused herself from the group. She came to Celena with a sad smile on her face. Celena didn’t like it.

”Do you want to go and see your father?” She asked.

”Where is he?” she glanced the box on the table.

Her mother pointed and her fears were confirmed. After letting Lucinda down and taking a deep breath, she held her mother’s hand as they headed towards the eerie box. She couldn’t see in, so after climbing on a nearby table chair, she wasn’t prepared for the scene she was about to witness. She took in a sharp breath. There was a person lying in the box with their eyes closed. It must be father’s brother… She looked at her mother, she was crying again. She looked back at the man in the box, and saw he wasn’t breathing. Celena realized with horror father didn’t have a brother, it was her father laying in the box. She knocked over a nearby glass of water. Hearing it shatter, the sound only complimented her anger and confusion. Her mother was trying to calm her down, restraining her, saying quiet things to her, but Celena couldn’t hear, she didn’t want to listen.

After wrenching away from her mother, she ran to her room, shutting the door and locking it. She hurried over to her bed and collapsed face down on it. She looked up to see a picture of her and father on her bedside table. Without thinking, she flung the picture frame across the room. She heard again, the sound of glass shattering. She felt her eyes begin to sting and seconds later she was sobbing, letting the tears run freely. She got up and walked over to the smashed picture, removed it from the debris and stared it for sometime. Only when Lucinda brushed against her side, did she look up from it; she laid down on the wooden floor, hugging the photo to her chest. She now understood why all the women were crying, and she felt her father’s presence in the room. She knew now that he wasn’t coming back.

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Hello there Serrine, and welcome! There were just a few problems with your application that we found, but if you could fix those then we’d be more than happy to accept you. I know it looks long, but overall your application was wonderfully put together. (:

You had a contradiction with these two quotes- so you’d need to solidly establish when she began playing Quidditch.

Tom Riddle is, like you mentioned before this quote, the perfect student. The only one who really saw through his act was Dumbledore. There have been more than a few cases in profiles of students who are suspicious of Riddle, and that is just not canon compliant. Her not trusting him because he seems too perfect would work fine, but we’d appreciate it for you to remove this further insight into his character.

Your RP sample is mostly in third person, but there are certain parts in the first person as well. We require everyone to post in the third person, because it’s easier to read and it keeps things consistent. But there are no worries about it being a while since you’ve RPed- we’re glad you’ve chosen to restart with us!

I’d also like to hear just a bit more about why she was chosen for Ravenclaw house. Right now, she seems more like a Gryffindor, being dominated by a hotheaded, daring and brave nature, and often procrastinating on her work.

Finally, you’ll need to tone down her brother a bit. He “was born to lead the wizarding world” and “has taken hold of most of his peers, with few enemies.” He sounds like a copy of Tom Riddle, and is an original character, not one of the first Death Eater canons. You’re more than welcome to have him support Riddle and be a part of his Knights, but currently he sounds too similar to Riddle, and too much of a perfect badboy.

Once you’ve made the appropriate edits, please post here again. And if you have any further questions or comments, don’t hesitate to let us know!

I believe everything is as it should be now. Once again thank for the lovely criticism. After all, it's not like I can go to just anyone and ask their opinion with this lol Also, I decided to put her in Gryffindor because to be honest, I was just to content with her personality and since Gryffindor seems to fit appropriately... so be it! Is it alright that she is now seeker for Gryffindor? I checked to confirm the position it was open.

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Great job touching this up! Alice will be a great addition to Gryffindor house! So, welcome, and we’re glad to have you!